Source: u/Tiger_man_ on Reddit
Kinda surprising nobody thought to make a lightgun version of xkill. At least, a few minutes of searching and I can’t find anything
How did this picture happen
This is so absurd, fancy outfit, hair, gun, computer
Art.
A little googling and I’ve come up with that the name of the woman is Eve Astrid Andersson (now a director at Google) and this was essentially a series of photos taken at her work at the time as a joke.
All the people saying she looks like Scully and her surname is pretty much the same as the actress who played that character? This idea practically fell into the laps of the people behind these photos.
Frankly, I would not be surprised if she had it as an office nickname before this even occurred to them.
Yeah, this picture got me wondering whatever happened to Scully (the actress).
Gillian Anderson was in the reboot, she’s alive (and still pretty hot imo).
I thought it was Scilly from the X-Files at first lol.
Edit: Scully
Same.
That was probably the intention. X-Files was at its height of popularity around this time (assuming 1997 by the Mac model and OS 8).
This image has been floating around Lemmy for the past week or so. One of them appears to have an original timestamp/watermark from like 1998.
Is that really a Mac though? Looks like a pc running a Netscape browser and some AOL garbage.
Can’t find a copy of the screen but it literally says “Apple 8” on the screen… NB Mac OS 8 came out July 1997.
It’s definitely a Mac. I remember that case from middle school. Apple computers were huge in education in the 80s/90s. It was their staple cash cow back then before Jobs came back and they started chasing Starbucks-guzzling hipsters.
I’m not sure what the exact model is, but it’s probably from the Performa or Power Mac 5000 or 6000 series. It’s low-res so it’s hard to read, but the text next to the floppy drive says “PowerPC”, referring to the CPU family used in Macs in that era.
The screen looks like Mac OS 8. It’s so low-rest that it’s kind of hard to tell, but the menu bar at the top of the screen is clearly from Mac OS. Could be 7.5, but I’m guessing 8 since that’s what’s shown in the web browser.
I think the left screen is showing Windows. Again, super low-res, but those look like Windows 95/98’s blue window title bars and gray task bar at the bottom.
Looks like a 1990s corporate training video.
There’s one more…
https://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thtablrtsuyc1.jpg
Looks like one of those images that’s a old as the internet. Mac OS 8 on the screen was released in 1997, and this looks like a pretty late 90s type of photo. The 90s were wild when it came to things like someone taking photos, being then developed, scanning them, putting them online, etc. Stuff like this was the foundation of early memes and websites.
And that is, as far as one can tell from an image, an actual gun as I doubt an airsoft manufacturer would bother with the gas block or dust cover.
Skully finally noticed the ghost in the machine and decided to do what Mulder couldn’t.
I miss xkill after my recent switch to Wayland. I have yet to find a replacement.
Does CTRL-ALT-ESC still work in Wayland (assuming KDE, might be desktop dependent)
Yep, works in KDE.
Doesn’t do anything on GNOME/Wayland for me.
“Press “Reset” with your Freedom Finger”
Should be pointing at the monitor. Xkill only stops showing the process, it doesn’t kill it.
