And Then You See 'Getting Windows Ready'

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAUMA of Windows API development summed up in one tragic epiphany! 😱 That moment when you wake up in a cold sweat with the horrifying realization that the documentation is your MORTAL ENEMY. It's like being told the cake is chocolate but biting into raisin instead! The poor soul tried using RIDEV_NOHOTKEYS flag with Raw Input because the docs SAID SO, only to discover what every Windows developer eventually learns through blood, sweat, and keyboard smashing - the documentation is where dreams go to DIE. It's not a bug, it's a feature...of the documentation itself! 💀

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When someone says "VLC deserves a statue," they're being sincere about honoring the free, open-source media player. But the reply takes it literally by joking that traffic cones (which look exactly like the iconic VLC logo) are actually "VLC statues" found on roads everywhere. This is peak dad-joke territory in the tech world. The VLC player has earned genuine respect for refusing millions in ad revenue to stay true to its open-source, ad-free principles – while simultaneously being represented by the most mundane object in existence: an orange traffic cone.

Behold, the digital graveyard of Microsoft's design choices! What started as innocent recycling bins has culminated in the prophetic vision that Microsoft Teams will be our ultimate trash receptacle by 2025. The evolutionary leap from functional waste basket to "that app where your boss forces you to have awkward virtual happy hours" is simply *chef's kiss*. Remember when we just deleted files instead of scheduling meetings about them? Good times. The 2015 trash icon was the last pure one—simple, functional, not trying to integrate with your calendar or suggest emoji reactions to your garbage.

Ah yes, Microsoft's subtle propaganda equating open source with communism—because sharing code is clearly a gateway drug to full-blown Marxism. The irony is delicious considering Microsoft now claims to "❤️ open source" while historically viewing it as an existential threat. Nothing says capitalism like paying $7.5 billion for GitHub, the world's largest communist code repository. In Soviet Russia, code commits you!

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