this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2024
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I remember seeing the reveal for this bizzarely marketed abomination live with my college buddies. Never laughed harder during a product reveal. Musk bragging the windows were bullet proof before promptly breaking a window while demonstrating was comedy GOLD.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I lost it when they broke the second window right after. It reminds me of the demo Bill Gates did where he got a BSOD.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hadn't seen it before. Thanks for the reference.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They handled that so well. The "moving right along" and "that must be why we're not shipping W98 yet" are the correct responses to this, instead of being sure it's not real and throwing another ball at the window. Admittedly, they didn't really have a choice to go again. It would have taken several minutes to reboot probably.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I wonder how many people were fired for that snafu.

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