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Crushable Object posted:Since Intel bought McAfee has it become any less awful? No, McAfee Anvirus still is a crock of poo poo, and you should immediately https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
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WhyteRyce posted:A crazy murdering drugged out ex patriot said it was giving him a bad name I didn't know he was in the NFL  The word is "expatriate". Coming from the Latin root word "pater" meaning "father" as in "fatherland". I would imagine most expatriates were never patriotic. This has been your pedantic language update for the day.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:I didn't know he was in the NFL Blame one hand swipe typing on a tablet with autocorrect
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cisco privilege posted:Not sure about the other Intel mobile stuff, but they make some socs for phones like the RAZR-I which had better battery life than the RAZR-M base model somehow. The Dell Venue 8 7000 looks pretty slick. It's Android instead of dumb Windows, has a great screen (2560x1600  ), and it's $50 cheaper than the ipad mini 3 (and 1.5mm thinner  ).
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You can find them in some ~$100 Android tablets which work perfectly fine as a "here take this and play Toca Town on that and give me back my phone" device
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There's these $45 Android tablets coming out now that cost less than those LCD photo frames that were so popular about a decade ago as Christmas gifts, not sure what the value is in a market that's low-margin that's mostly disposable products rather than something higher value like iPhones and flagship compute devices?
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Apr 8, 2015 21:47
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But could those photo frames spy on you or present you with the latest ads???
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Pretty sure you can just copy the files locally and take them off wi-fi, but point taken. You can root these tablets too probably and just run something you trust more than the stock OS.
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Apr 9, 2015 04:22
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You could do that, or you could just buy a tablet that isn't a piece of poo poo designed to serve malware.
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I got a $20 Chinese tablet with an Allwinner soc to be my daughters "play your junky games on here with no wifi/internet enabled so you don't go buying poo poo via IAPs" and it's not even fit to be a photoframe. The drat thing randomly factory resets itself every day or two
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cisco privilege posted:You could do that, or you could just buy a tablet that isn't a piece of poo poo designed to serve malware. Use them as a literal photo frame.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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WhyteRyce posted:I got a $20 Chinese tablet with an Allwinner soc to be my daughters "play your junky games on here with no wifi/internet enabled so you don't go buying poo poo via IAPs" and it's not even fit to be a photoframe. The drat thing randomly factory resets itself every day or two Consider that a feature, and not a bug.
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Crushable Object posted:Since Intel bought McAfee has it become any less awful? Just go with a good free AV [mse, avg, whatever] + common sense when browsing. MacAfee EPO was ejected from my workplace recently for deciding to eat a few webservers one night.
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I swear the only reason why McAfee is on so many computers at this point is because it comes (or at least came) in your Comcast internet package
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Also flash player has it selected to install by default.
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Potato Salad posted:Just go with a good free AV [mse, avg, whatever] + common sense when browsing. MacAfee EPO was ejected from my workplace recently for deciding to eat a few webservers one night. Most free ones aren't any good though. If you look at comparative reviews from the big testing labs Microsoft in particular last I checked only has about a 70% success rate - the top grade ones are at something more like 99%. MacAfee is definitely total poo poo though. Norton performs really well, despite what neckbeards stuck in 2001 will tell you, although it can be very aggressive if you tell it too and bring up more false positives. Kaspersky also consistently rates at the top.
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The Lord Bude posted:Most free ones aren't any good though. If you look at comparative reviews from the big testing labs Microsoft in particular last I checked only has about a 70% success rate - the top grade ones are at something more like 99%. MacAfee is definitely total poo poo though. The comparatives don't seem to hold much similarity to real world usage though.
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The Lord Bude posted:Norton performs really well, despite what neckbeards stuck in 2001 will tell you, although it can be very aggressive if you tell it too and bring up more false positives. But it.....a......--hmmmm. I need to go re-think my opinions.
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Hey, remember that time that AV Comparatives habitually refuses months to years of Windows and other software updates that Microsoft and everyone else on the Internet relies on to block the stuff that's patched already? I mean it's better than the old "Windows 7 SP1 never Windows Updated ever" but it's still pretty bad. And that time that AV Comparatives habitually assumes a user so dumb and spiteful that you're probably threatening national security by giving them a mint-in-box iPad? Yeah those are standard operating procedure (Flash Player 12 wtf and they don't even BOTHER accounting for Chrome). You can ask them yourself. Not a surprise when you check out who their grant money comes from. Also I never see discussion of how anyone handles CVEs, either damning or exonerating. The recent spat between Google and Microsoft is revelatory (and probably capable of inducing crippling depression in the IT Crew here) and they have the least to gain by sitting on vulnerabilities. This discussion seems to happen in every SHSC thread. And it seems to go the same way in every SHSC thread. EDIT: Simply by being here and typing in the manner of someone who has heard of English grammar and style selects yourself as someone who Probably Knows Better than most Internet users, and you're probably fine with Microsoft AV (and actually keeping your software actually up to date, and with the sad state of the Web these days probably ad-block) - or whatever thing filters files entering and exiting Mac/Linux hosts or guests - unless you go out of your way to live dangerously. Stubborn family members are going to require training or iPads, in case-by-case measure. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Fajita Fiesta posted:Adblock is the best antivirus It has recently been usurped by ublock which does the same thing but with way less page lag and resource usage, but yeah.
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Daviclond posted:It has recently been usurped by ublock which does the same thing but with way less page lag and resource usage, but yeah. What if we're not using Chromium on Linux Mint 64?
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Daviclond posted:It has recently been usurped by ublock which does the same thing but with way less page lag and resource usage, but yeah. Weird things are happening with the ublock project.
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Panty Saluter posted:What if we're not using Chromium on Linux Mint 64? It's also excellent on Firefox
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Panty Saluter posted:What if we're not using Chromium on Linux Mint 64? It's in the Chrome webstore?
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Instant Grat posted:It's in the Chrome webstore? Twice even. Open source drama is the best, especially if it involves forks 
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The resource usage comparisons are nice but I think I'll stick with ABP because it doesn't seem to be semi-abandoned.
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I don't know if uBlock even needs much in the way of updates at this point. It seems to be entirely stable, and most of the work comes in keeping the filter lists updated which is handled separately.
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That's true but if you don't have someone watching and plugging holes it's only a matter of time before a dedicated malcontent finds an exploit.
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That's the thing though, all it does it strip out HTML based on regular expressions pulled from a filter list. There's not exactly a lot of complexity to take advantage of there; the largest vulnerability is the filter list itself, and if that's compromised it doesn't really matter what ad blocker you use. I can see updates for small performance tweaks and fixes for edge cases, but I think all the core functionality is solid.
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Is my i5 constantly running at the turbo boost speed while I'm playing games? Its on the stock cooler.
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If it needs to, yea. If the game is GPU limited (Many are, depending on your resolution) it might not be.
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Prorat posted:Is my i5 constantly running at the turbo boost speed while I'm playing games? Its on the stock cooler.
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Speaking of corechat from the other day, I saw a meme the other day titled "multi core performance on PC games". I wish I could find it again. It was a photo of these guys digging a hole with shovels. The only one actually digging was labeled Core 0, and Cores 1-7 were all sitting around watching.
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It should have been Core 3.
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Core 0 needs to be doing the task at hand, core 1 keeping tabs on the street traffic, and 2 and 3 managing networking aka dicking around on their smartphones.
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canyoneer posted:Speaking of corechat from the other day, I saw a meme the other day titled "multi core performance on PC games". 
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