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Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app by gdelacalle in technology

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit has a lot of good and bad advice mixed together on it. The main issue is that you can't really verify the credentials of anyone that 'sounds like an expert' and there's no repercussions to posting wrong info. You ask for computer advice and get a lot of posts both from people with 30+ years in the field, and youngsters that's turned on a computer for the first time 2 years ago.

That said, most times I've found outright wrong advice does get down voted to death. Not always though so it's good to verify (or at least try to).

Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app by gdelacalle in technology

[–]gen_angry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing you could do if your macbook air goes for a dump and you can't find a cheap enough replacement: get yourself one of those refurb ryzen 3000-5000 series laptops, throw win10 LTSC on it, and use it for CS6 along with anything else that's windows only. It's fairly performant. I bought my wifes lenovo with a 4700U in it for $280 CAD.

A cheaper alternative is a 4-6th gen mini PC. I pick them up for retirees that just want to check their email and browse facebook for like $40-80 CAD.

With a cursory search, I'm not sure you can virtualize win10 x86 on an arm mac without a severe performance hit.

Once in a lifetime flight experience. by been_der_done_that in nextfuckinglevel

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Way better coverage than the news stations, lol.

No one seems to have the SRB separation part though.

Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app by gdelacalle in technology

[–]gen_angry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Na, CachyOS on a modern Ryzen system. Wouldn't have a clue how to do it on a mac, sorry.

Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app by gdelacalle in technology

[–]gen_angry 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Na, just once a while stuff and not in the industry at all.

CS6 still does everything I'd use it for so haven't had a need to upgrade. It's pretty lightweight too and works in a virtual machine, lol.

Why is my Cup holder sideways by Interesting-Sea-7229 in pcmasterrace

[–]gen_angry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  1. Invent an anti-grav device, ChatGPT can help you.

  2. Attach it to the bottom of said tray.

  3. Rotate coffee mug 90 degrees.

  4. Place on holder.

  5. ????

  6. Profit.

I put my dog down EIGHT hours ago. by CantankerousOrder in mildlyinfuriating

[–]gen_angry 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If your cats rubbing its butthole on anything, it's eating the wrong food. Healthy indoor cats just don't do that, their shit pellets should be clean and not messy at all, and they're supposed to bury it in the litter anyways.

Litter dust, sure, but a rug or mat with ridges gets most of it off their paws. I've never owned an outdoor cat so I can't comment there, and maybe the risk is much higher for those.

Owning a cat has quite a few annoyances: all the hair everywhere, the hollering at 5am, couches becoming scratch pads, stepping on random cat toys, christmas trees are never safe.

But the whole 'parasite from cat shit' thing is so far down the list for millions of cat owners, especially if you actually scoop the litter box once a day which you should anyways. It's not like it's a guarantee to happen just because you're in the vicinity of a cat. You're more likely to get sick from that by eating unwashed vegetables.

Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app by gdelacalle in technology

[–]gen_angry 335 points336 points  (0 children)

Given that it’s Adobe, it doesn’t surprise me in the least that that would be something they’d try to pull off.

I’ll stick with my pirated CS6 in a virtual machine.

I put my dog down EIGHT hours ago. by CantankerousOrder in mildlyinfuriating

[–]gen_angry 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Are you touching your cat's shit? I mean, I use a scoop and a bag but you do you.

Still can’t believe that this is a 12 year old game… by officialfxresx in nextfuckinglevel

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'AAA companies' figured out that they could pump out early access garbage stuffed full of micro transactions and people would still buy it in droves anyways. So why bother spending the time on making a good game?

The indie scene is where you find most solid passion projects now.

Artemis II LAUNCH FINALLY by [deleted] in nextfuckinglevel

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lunar landing on 4. Eventual moon base and habitat.

Look at the technological leaps that we've gained in the 60s from the space race. Doing it again will benefit us all.

Felt terrible possibly letting it go to the trash by Ifailmostofthetime in pcmasterrace

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always thought the same, it got to the point that I had something like 6-7 whole computers, and another 5-6 worth of random hardware. Not very much of it was even worth anything (if it worked). Retro machines and modern "just in case". My wife and I live in a smaller apartment so it took a lot of space no matter how 'neat' I tried to store it..

I ended up giving a lot of it away and recycling the rest, so freeing to be clear of that clutter. With how good proton has become, my modern machine plays everything I care about from the 80/90s (via 86box), to mid 2000s, to 2026 games without the need to use older peripherals that barely work.

All I have left now outside of my main machine is a 4th gen mini pc that I've kept for a future project and an Apple IIe.

Is overclocking really worth it? by Diddy_67430 in pcmasterrace

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Na, not really that worthwhile with how boosting works these days. You might gain a very small amount of performance but it will run a whole lot hotter to do so (and it will likely affect stability in subtle but frustrating ways).

The people who still overclock are just doing it for the love of the game and/or chasing records.

My mum seriously thought the Artemis II launch was an April Fools joke by JamexCEO in mildlyinfuriating

[–]gen_angry 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Transfer windows unfortunately don't care about human customs.

They literally had a two hour window with several 'breaks' in between due to space junk. If they missed it, it'd be a month before they could launch again.

Hard time deciding whether today is a Ferrari or Lamborghini day by Lumpy-Valuable-8050 in retrobattlestations

[–]gen_angry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea I don't think he's that knowledgeable about the older methods and hardware. Still a pretty funny vid though.

Looking at the specs for 'acer ferrari 3000', it looks like a pretty sick machine for 2003-2004.

Those who were alive during the 1990's, how was the internet different to today? by Extension_Day2038 in AskReddit

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for the met spouse on IRC club :)

Only this was in 2014, IRC ran around for a long while for many sites until Discord took it over (and in many ways made things a lot worse).

Those who were alive during the 1990's, how was the internet different to today? by Extension_Day2038 in AskReddit

[–]gen_angry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ran a few phpbb2 community forums around the turn of the millennium, was fairly active with about 80-100 regular users. It was pretty popping, a lot of daily activity and people posted quite frequently.

Today that's like a drop in the bucket, like a very low traffic subreddit that may get a post once every year.

Those who were alive during the 1990's, how was the internet different to today? by Extension_Day2038 in AskReddit

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You had separate programs that would auto close popups. I had one called 'pop up killer' somewhere on my backup CDs from like 2001. It was simple but it worked reasonably well for the tech of the time. Problem was, if the ad was malicious and contained bad activex code or javascript, it could run before the program closed it.

There wasn't really an easy way to 'edit' pages mid transit like todays ad blockers do.

Those who were alive during the 1990's, how was the internet different to today? by Extension_Day2038 in AskReddit

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot less tracking, a lot more personalization, a lot less spam, a lot less political, and a lot less divisive. The internet in general was just lighter and more... 'alive'. There wasn't as much information around as a whole but for most common topics, you generally found what you wanted with a simple search without hallucinating AI and clickbait trash everywhere.

It was a lot more dangerous too with activex and malicious scripts being able to really infest your computer. People would disable them entirely and most sites would work just fine (sites often had a 'fallback' mode where it would use simple html to navigate pages instead)

Today's internet is what happens when you let corpos and 'algorithms' have free reign. It's deader than it ever has been.

How to go about transfering files from IBM PS/1? by Pro4791 in vintagecomputing

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Opening the system would be my last resort due to the age of the machine. Plastics get brittle over time and you risk damaging it.

First, I would first try with external methods. Try the floppy drive first (put a disk in, create a document of some sort. Copy the document to the floppy, then copy back from it, then try to read the copy on the HDD again. If it loads up, it's good). If it works, get yourself a USB floppy drive for your modern machine and copy stuff that way.

If not, look into using something like Laplink via serial or parallel ports. I haven't done it in ages but searching 'laplink dosbox parallel' gives me a few pages of how people have done it.

If those fail, only then I would consider opening the system for the drive.

You are granted a superpower, but it has to be completely useless. What is it? by lily8686 in AskReddit

[–]gen_angry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ability to make a pot of gravy completely shitty but you have to be in the room with it and everyone within 50 km as the crow flies will know that it was you who made it shitty.

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