HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Why aren’t you keen on the history if it was one of your favorite trips?
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 2 days ago:
“your”?
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
I’ve heard the drives crap out. I’m not a PS2 gamer or expert, just wondering.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 3 days ago:
Was the serious disease a lack of money?
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
Do PS2s even work anymore?
- Comment on Remember the past 5 days ago:
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
“Awe”?
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
Wait, can I still play Skate or Die! on my Commodore 64?
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
🤯 😭
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
I’m perfectly safe, and as usual, all I ask is evidence, not scare-mongering. Are you saying that if I stay with Win7, Russians will transmit themselves under my bed through my ISP?
Give me an example of a “less safe” website or application on Windows 7.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
Yes, thank you, I am telling you it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
That’s right. As long as I don’t actively download things and run them blindly, I’ll be fine. My herd immunity consists of adblockers, hosts file, and a managed router.
The only thing that will change the equation is when, inevitably, my little refurbished bargain 15 year old laptop will finally crash too often and become tiresome to use, and/or software I want to use forces win 11 for no reason. An example is KiCad, an electronics schematic and PCB design suite that does nothing fundamentally different than OrCAD did on a 386 40 years ago. Why it forces you to use Win 11 now is utterly mind-boggling to me, but I also grow tired of constantly having to find ways around artificial constraints.
And I wouldn’t mind a new monitor too.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
Out of Elon’s 35 or so kids, some will have been Bokanovskied into Epsilon Pluses, just enough to push a broom.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
They’re not doing it out of spite, most plastics can’t be recycled, not the way aluminum can (ha).
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
Well, it’s still a question that needs answering. I’ve been running Windows 7 non-stop for years. The only reason it crashes is because the hardware is failing. Computing isn’t as complex as biology, for example, a program running on my laptop doesn’t reproduce and evolve and then send out floppy discs into the atmosphere where other computers breathe it in.
It’s still relatively simple and deterministic. So, show me a URL that I can click on that will demonstrate all these threats I keep hearing about. Show me a link explaining these “vulnerabilities” that doesn’t end in “the user needs to install and run the malware in the browser.”
You guys are so certain it’s everywhere, should be easy. Which part of TCP/IP is sending me code that Windows 7 will then execute?
Waiting! Or maybe you’ve made this your entire identity and feel threatened by a simple question? You should be happy to hack my poor old Windows 7 with a simple URL?
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
Sure but it’s a 5 foot ceiling. Like Alfred Jarry.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
Impressive. That much stupid in such a compact and misspelled sentence.
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 1 week ago:
Was he senile?
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
I agree, all I ask is you show me one in Windows 7. Send me a URL that when I click it my bank account is emptied immediately.
All these threats people see are always something you actively install or are involved in, or some sort of social engineering scam. Even Windows 17 can’t help you with that.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
In case I want to use a OS that still works, as opposed to the user-hostile resource-depleting exhausting visual messes like Windows 11?
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
normal course of browsing
This is a browser security and PEBKAC error, nothing to do with Windows 7. You’ve simply proven my point that all these attacks are installed and run by the user. If they’re tricked by the site, that’s not on Windows 7.
Your AI generated summary, again, lacks evidence. I asked for a site, or a source where what you claim credibly happened, not just repeating the same myths in a circular series of arguments.
" via User Execution. By clicking “allow” on browser push notifications"
Which is what I said: “the only way to get this malware is to actively download it and install it, yes?”
So you agreed with me on all points, why write so much, though? A simple “yes” would suffice next time. Or “HugeNerd, as usual, is correct and his Windows 7 machine has been running 24/7 for months uncompromised through the miracle of using a hosts file, managing his router, and using his tiny old brain.”
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
Using an adblocker solves that. Not sure how that is specific to Win 7. Hacked websites? Name an example, source it. Difficulty: not from a movie with a skull and crossbones laughing on my screen. None of these hacker fantasies happen in real life. You do have a big hosts file and manage your router, yes? Give me a link to a “hacked website” (F! U! D! Oh my!) right now that I can click on and will install malware on my Windows 7 PC.
Simply untrue. Hollywood fantasies.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
Hm, I’ll see what I can do about that. I have a Value Village rescue PC that will soon be set up.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
Please describe the nature of this risk, and explain why I don’t have any of them?
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard that the last time I said I till use 7, six months ago. Still waiting for that malware. You understand the only way to get this malware is to actively download it and install it, yes?
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 2 weeks ago:
Look, if living in a densified treeless hellscape of concrete towers that all look the same, filled with 350 sq. ft. windowless suites furnished with sawdust furniture, that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make for the ruling class to continue living well.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
Can I run Windows 7 in a VM if I am forced to use 10 or 11 somehow?
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 2 weeks ago:
It’s like a bulleeeeeeet in the neck when all you needed was a fork
- Comment on What even is money at this point 2 weeks ago:
“behavior”.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 2 weeks ago:
No that’s rich people’s feelings.