Something like that.
Perhaps he tried to crawl into the dinosaur to take a sick selfie, and *then* dropped the phone, it slid into the hind leg, and then he obviously had to get it back.
I can see how alcohol and "trying to be funny at 3:00 am" were the start of this disaster.

I don't think this deserves a Darwin Award, tbh. Phones are expensive luxury items. I can see why he'd try to get his phone out of the statue. How he dropped his phone in there is another question, judging by the photos of that statue, he must've tried to take a picture of the inside of the dinosaur through its mouth or something.
But as for the retrieval attempt: I think this is kinda reasonable. If he had dropped his wedding ring or something into it, he'd probably try it too.
So is it really stupid? I don't know, I've seen much more stupid stuff that either worked out or not and turned into an actual Darwin Award thing.

Is it funny though? There is some dark humor in it, but a lot comes from the wording of the tagline. It's not hilarious, though.

I always viewed MS-DOS as more of a disk-loaded firmware. This was especially evident when programming in 16-bit DOS. Many of the calls were to the BIOS.
Most of the power of MS-DOS (especially the post v3.0) comes from the utilities packed with the OS, rather than the Kernel and command interpreter. In some ways, MS-DOS can be considered a bootloader, too. Some "Booter games" took advantage of this in the early 90s.

Just as old OS-es like this it is also worth studying old boot loaders. Recently, there was someone that made a bootloader game (Tetris).

In any event, open-sourcing old software like this, also ensures them being archived for posterity. The Computer History Museum, has tons of old code and just data in their archives, not just machines and books in paper format.
Also, although unlikely, there might be concepts hidden in the code, which might need to be re-discovered!

I was never a fan of that vloging/streaming subculture. It is a very profitable one.

In any event: I can now fully understand my aversion towards said content creators.

I imagine the future Windows will be "technically free" as in free of charge.

It'll be a basic OS/Firmware with an appstore and pretty much everything else running in the cloud.
Windows products are already aggressively moving onto the cloud, Office 365 comes to mind. It'll essentially turn the OS into something like Android, with applications only being installable from a centralized app store-like thing - and in no other way.
I wouldn't be surprised, if Microsoft does some sort of deal with hardware manufacturers to essentially lock the OS to the hardware or vice-versa.

Granted, the concept isn't new, and I'm a little surprised why they haven't done this years ago. After all, Adobe has been doing this for years now. I believe a subscription model (for instance a monthly license subscription or a subscription to the app store) is more sustainable for Microsoft, than actually selling the OS and requiring activation. I dislike that concept I guess, but that's where it all seems to go towards.

I guess Windows users will have to get used to essentially do OS leasing, rather than buying a software product. Fits with where Microsoft wants to go, though.

As I understand it, when the open source version gets adopted by a voluntarily group of individuals that keep developing the open source version, it might be forked pretty soon, so nothing of value would be lost.

As for the commercial version, that is probably gonna end like many other Oracle products, that got forgotten. I'll linger around in Oracle's inventory, but nobody will care much about it. Also, the fork might overshadow the commercial version in a couple of months, since performance tunes, are not exclusive to Oracle programmers...

It's out of question, that this will kill Java as preferred language in academia and science.

But who cares, really? There are other languages, that would be a more than adequate "replacement" - if I may call it that - for Java.
So professors will have to teach Python in university, how is that something bad?

Java was chosen a few years back, because it was modern and cross platform, but that is Python as well. I also suggested using Lua in academia. For teaching programming and data structures, this is arguably one of the favorable languages.

I'm a Perl developer, so I'll wait and see what happens with Perl6...

I remember what I've gone through, when working with documents, where compatibility to Microsoft Office is needed.
OO.o was not really an alternative, I've had the best results with Abiword, when using Word documents.

Is it realistic to search for a complete office suite like MS Office? Wouldn't it make more sense to collect different applications that perform in their task the best?
Like, Abiword is a contender to Word, Gnumeric to Excell, etc...

I cast Lua at your PHP and Ruby shenanigans!

Nope. You've never seen those Anime/Manga people I assume.

What Ubuntu is reaching out to, are 16.000 mostly obese, antisocial men (and a few women), that dress like their favourite character, even though they should weigh about 1/4 of their actual weight to even resemble their characters physique!
Yes, they're clueless, but what you're referring to, are hipsters. People who have sexual fantasies with drawn characters, and spend all day watching Anime and reading Manga are "oh-so-creative"? Some of them doodle, but once they're told their "work" looks like a drawing of a 3 year old that suffers from ADHS, they stop.

Alright, I am Into Anime and Manga, but I keep it in secrecy. I don't want to blend with what Ubuntu is reaching out to right now.
I don't really like the Idea that they're forcing that subculture into Ubuntu. It looks like they're trying to hop on that OS-tan train, that Microsoft is riding on right now.

But metrosexuals, is not what they're gonna get!

Not a heatsink, but there are the thermoelectric generators. To describe them in the most basic way: They're the opposite of Peltier-Elements. The convert heat into electricity.
You could use the 'waste heat' for a secondary power generating unit.