A friend of mine when I was 12/13 downloaded some hacks for Combat Arms (a free FPS back in the day) and made his windows unusable (with "noob" as the time).
Good memories
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First thing I do is unhide file types now since I grew up in the limewire era.
The fact that Windows hides file extensions by default is just absolute insanity to me.
It fits the overall spyware OS thing though.
Another fucking stupid default
It's fine for the type of user windows is targeting by default.
Most people don't give a shit if it's xls, xlsx, xlsm, or xlsb, so long as they can open it in Excel and punch in numbers, and there are mechanisms to prevent these people from getting infected easily.
You make a good point, I just hate it. I feel like there's a lot of examples where this is more relevant but admit I'm struggling for examples (TXT, log, inf, etc) by really it's only video files bay have quite different content of structure despite the same extension - this is why everyone uses VLC because it handles everything you throw at it
Another is not underlining the keyboard indicators.
These were both on by default in the early releases of windows (far as i remember) and some bunch of smooth brains decided to remove meaningful information from the interface. It should be clear and detailed in a user interface, not implied
Yeah it's honestly way more likely for someone to change the file type and break the file while renaming it, than it is for malware to get past Defender.
Undo?
So dumb that windows hides the file extension as default.
Especially since it only associates by file extension.
I feel like that's long been a trend- instead of trying to lift users up and educate them, let's just give up and hide things.
It's really easy to over estimate the Windows user base. I have a family member who has gotten so pissed that the start menu moved from the left to the center that she refuses to use it. Functionality is more or less the same but apparently that's enough for her to not want to use Windows 11.
And no she won't use Linux.
She hates when Facebook changes it's UI and stopped using that a few years ago (probably a good thing).
I have a family member that's similar - they get really mad at inconsequential changes on the computer. But they also refuse to learn anything, so they're just mad all the time. They also treat their phone like a capricious deity- they're afraid to touch anything.
On the other hand, I have another family member that spends a lot of his time tinkering with linux. Years ago I got fed up fixing his windows machine I slapped xubuntu on his machine, and he took to it. He's done several updates and fresh installs since.
Both of them are retired, so it's not like they're hurting for free time.
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When i was a windows user, setting it to show file extensions was one of the first things that i would do after a installation
Same, and honestly I didn't even think about security, I just need to know if this file will run on my [phone, xbox, zune, etc]. Do normal humans just not need to know whether this file is Airplane.1980.720.x0r.avi vs Airplane.1980.720.x0r.nfo vs Airplane.1980.720.x0r.srt?
Who was downloading 720 resolution videos on Limewire?
Tbf, windows still defaults to hide file extensions (which is what I was responding to, not limewire specifically, especially since it still applies to torrents today), at least last time I checked. If they finally changed that, it was too recent for comfort.
One of the first things I have to change on any PC I get my hands on. Same as mouse acceleration.
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When I was a kid I visited my grandparents and since there was still only Internet Explorer on their terrible computer I decided to install Firefox.
Unfortunately the computer power supply died right after I did.
Therefore my Firefox installation was determined to be the root cause of the computer being ruined.
So yeah, Firefox apparently kills power supplies in some folklore.
And that's what the fire in firefox means
When I came home for summer break after my freshman year of college I had to use my mom's car to get around. Well my mom is the absolute worst person when it comes to auto maintenance. The 3rd day I was home and driving her car her engine blew a piston rod because the piston ceased in the cylinder. Turns out my mom never changed the oil. Like never ever. But because it happened while I was driving it was all my fault. I "must have been racing or doing something that caused the problem". 25 years later she still thinks it was something I did.
When I was buying my last car I overheard a couple huffing and making a big show of walking out over the trade-in offer they were given for their vehicle. The sales person responded they could have offered a lot more if the oil had ever been changed in the vehicle
My mother is like this but worse. Some sort of tech in the house doesn't behave as she expects? It's obviously caused by that time I used it 3 months ago. It doesn't matter that it worked just fine between then and now, everything is my fault.
I can't wait until she's finally dead.
I never fell for mp3.exe, but I did install Real Player and use the built in browser once.
I learned how to remove a Trojan virus that copy pastes itself into a few directories before mom got home from work at 9 years old.
People wonder why I know so much about computers, a large part was fucking up the expensive family PC repeatedly.
I feel like that's the case for a lot of our generation
How times have changed. I used to have print outs in my filing cabinet with virus removal guides from all the various times I contracted digitally transmitted diseases online.
That's how we all learned it back then. Shear necessity.
Most boomers were too far into old age to learn it effectively. X and Z were raised in it. Now the tech has changed dramatically and you don't need anywhere near the skill anymore, there's a lot of younger generation that have no clue again. They can run the shit out of an iPad though.
No need to be suspicious, it's just a self extracting zip file. Convenient and downloads faster!
It flashed a command prompt, that's how you know it worked!
Limewire is the new beans on Lemmy or something? This is the 7th Limewire post in 2 days...
Lemmy is in danger of growing stale. We're taking it to strange new places.
Mate, you've only been here for 14 days.
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rick_astley_never_gonna_give_you_up.mp3.exe
Ahh limewire the virus sharing program
I repartitioned the hard drive to install Linux.
Unbeknownst to me, my brother had stored the photos he took of our grandparents 50th wedding anniversary on that drive. There was no backup.
There are two types of people who do back ups:
- the paranoid
- the experienced
It's only paranoia if it's unwarranted.
My favourite was when people would then use limewire to pirate limewire pro and double up on the malware
I still remember bricking my mom’s gateway computer while downloading eps of love hina, blade 2 soundtrack and next door Nikki videos off of limewire…sorry mom.
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