When You're The Admin But Windows Disagrees

OMG, the eternal prophecy of "Linux on desktop" is basically the tech world's equivalent of waiting for your crush to text you back! 💔 These time travelers thought they'd witness something REVOLUTIONARY only to discover they've landed in the ENDLESS VOID where Linux desktop domination is still "coming next year" for the 8,472nd consecutive year! The year of Linux desktop is simultaneously always approaching and never arriving – it's basically quantum computing for operating systems! Meanwhile, Windows users are just sipping tea and watching the show continue for another millennium.

That's the Portal cake logo with "The MSRP is a lie" repeated like a dystopian mantra. Graphics card prices haven't been this fictional since cryptocurrency miners were building rigs in their mothers' basements. Manufacturers slap on MSRPs that belong in fantasy novels while retailers mark them up to "market value" – which is corporate speak for "whatever desperate gamers will pay." Nothing says "modern computing" like needing a second mortgage for a GPU that'll be obsolete before you finish paying it off.

Ah, the golden era when PC gaming marketing was about as subtle as a segmentation fault. Back when 3dfx was convincing teenage boys that graphics cards weren't just for rendering polygons, but for rendering your social life too. Nothing says "I'm a serious developer" like choosing hardware based on its alleged ability to help you see human anatomy rather than its floating-point performance. The true ancestor of today's "but can it run Crysis?" mentality – except with extra cringe. The PC vs Console war's awkward puberty phase, preserved in all its embarrassing glory.

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The corporate escalation from digital to physical threats is just *chef's kiss*. Top image shows a bootleg Windows 7 on a USB stick labeled as "anti-piracy software" - the irony being it's clearly a pirated copy with Chinese text. Below we have actual naval weaponry labeled "anti-piracy hardware" - because apparently when software DRM fails, the next logical step is literal cannons. Microsoft's evolution from "please don't copy our software" to "we have weaponry and we're not afraid to use it." The software industry's final form isn't better code - it's maritime warfare.

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