I absolutely love the way Windows computers show up as a beige low-budget monitor with a BSOD. I wonder how they show up these days - I no longer have Windows boxes on my network.
They still show up that way, same with linux servers running Samba.
To be completely honest, the joke is getting a little bit old. They could at least update the graphic. But Windows has not been that crashy since Windows ME.
Maybe they could update it with something that pokes fun at how much Windows spies on you by default.
The old text to speech voices are still around in Sequoia. Some have been changed to a generic "my name is x". But most still make their fun little jokes.
Found in the voice over utility app.
Accessibility > Voice Over > Voice Over Utility > Speech > Add Voice
They are probably talking about the company as a whole. Back when there were easter eggs and the UI was more raw, yet more "approachable".
I stopped using Apple Macintosh OS after Snow Leopard, aftger they started making it more difficult than necessary to access the full power of the Unix underpinnings. In some way, I miss Macintosh OS 7.5, 8, and 9 more than OS X.
I'm sure there's lots of creative people there, but unfortunately they work for a company that seems to determined to just keep going back to the well over and over
As mentioned in yesterday's article [0], they can't be used because they haven't been mapped to a Unicode code point:
> (A note on most of these characters is that they don't actually map to any defined Unicode code point; they are unconnected glyphs. Font Book will show them but you can't really copy them anywhere. A tool like Ultra Character Map will let you at least grab a graphical representation and paste it somewhere, as I have done here.)
You can open them in a tool such as FontForge and force an encoding. You might need to add some padding at the beginning so that you get the symbols on a usable range.
I was honestly surprised at how much older hardware is even in the newer SF Symbols library. When I saw my first iPod in there, I couldn't help but shout it out in my app... https://eph.me/pt-easter-egg.jpg
Readit News
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2025/08/mac-history-echoes-i...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819962
To be completely honest, the joke is getting a little bit old. They could at least update the graphic. But Windows has not been that crashy since Windows ME.
Maybe they could update it with something that pokes fun at how much Windows spies on you by default.
Found in the voice over utility app.
Accessibility > Voice Over > Voice Over Utility > Speech > Add Voice
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk
I stopped using Apple Macintosh OS after Snow Leopard, aftger they started making it more difficult than necessary to access the full power of the Unix underpinnings. In some way, I miss Macintosh OS 7.5, 8, and 9 more than OS X.
Not a standalone monitor, but eMac. 2002, with the last revision first released in 2005.
> (A note on most of these characters is that they don't actually map to any defined Unicode code point; they are unconnected glyphs. Font Book will show them but you can't really copy them anywhere. A tool like Ultra Character Map will let you at least grab a graphical representation and paste it somewhere, as I have done here.)
0: https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2025/08/mac-history-echoes-i...