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My motorola is good But they got bought out by the chinese so their support is going to suck now. And their hardware is getting shittier too
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stealie72 posted:I don't get how Motorola is still in business in a world of samsung, apple, LG, and to a lesser extent HTC. They aren't really. Cellphone Motorola got spun off from Motorola proper a few years ago, then Google bought it, then Lenovo bought it, and they're probably going to reduce it to a brand name soon
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AMD was a good, cheap alternative to Intel, now it's trash. AdBlock was good, now it's a resource hog that constantly begs for money. Some video card assembly companies were good, now they're known to make shoddy products. Avast antivirus was decent, now it's horrible. Things change rapidly with hardware and software, the things everyone was recommending last time you checked might turn into things you should avoid at all cost.
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Unguided posted:AMD was a good, cheap alternative to Intel, now it's trash. AdBlock was good, now it's a resource hog that constantly begs for money. Some video card assembly companies were good, now they're known to make shoddy products. Avast antivirus was decent, now it's horrible. It's a pretty safe bet that most free software that was good and useful 5+ years ago is now loaded with malware and would like to enhance your web surfing experience with injected ads and search bars
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Unguided posted:AMD was a good, cheap alternative to Intel, now it's trash. AdBlock was good, now it's a resource hog that constantly begs for money. Some video card assembly companies were good, now they're known to make shoddy products. Avast antivirus was decent, now it's horrible. Ublock origin is the superior adblocker on Firefox right now
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Feb 21, 2016 19:04
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Aleph Null posted:I've bought AMD for my personal computers for 20 years. I remember being so stoked about the Athlon and then about x64. I even had some of the official, metal AMD Inside! stickers. They were on fire! Like Intel a few years earlier, AMD made a bad CPU design decision and took too long to get a mediocre product out the door, and is now slowly playing catch-up. Unlike Intel, AMD can't just drown problems in literal mountains of cash. yogizh posted:AMD will rise from the ashes with their 32-core processors that will be used in consoles, because SONY is too loving greedy to use serious hardware. Hey now, at least game developers might be forced to finally let applications scale over multiple cores properly 
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Feb 21, 2016 19:08
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Aralan posted:It's a pretty safe bet that most free software that was good and useful 5+ years ago is now loaded with malware and would like to enhance your web surfing experience with injected ads and search bars Remember when sourceforge was actually a trusted source for software downloads and not a malware delivery platform?
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Feb 21, 2016 19:11
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vyst posted:Ublock origin is the superior adblocker on Firefox right now This is true, AdBlock went to hell since Google was pretty upset about the whole concept since half of Google's revenue comes from the ad words. So Adblock took a offer they couldn't refuse from Google to whitelist stuff like the adwords
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Feb 21, 2016 19:26
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etalian posted:This is true, AdBlock went to hell since Google was pretty upset about the whole concept since half of Google's revenue comes from the ad words. Does ublock origin manage to block youtube video ads like AdBlock Plus? That's one of the most important things to block for me.
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Feb 21, 2016 19:30
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blowfish posted:Does ublock origin manage to block youtube video ads like AdBlock Plus? That's one of the most important things to block for me. Yes
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Feb 21, 2016 19:33
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Good, installing it now.
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FishionMailed posted:Yeah I gladly pay a little more for 21 and up only, alcohol, nice rear end seats, and assigned seating. My friends all saw the new Star Wars in a regular style theater and showed up 5 hours beforehand to make sure they got good seats. loving scrubs. it's only like $4-5 more anyway. Sounds like some of the new theatres you see popping up in the more progressive towns like Seattle, New York, and SanFran. Go to any one of those towns, you can find a theatre featuring hardcore gay sex, and the staff doesn't get uptight over mobile devices and angry HJ's
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Yeah ublock is dope It's funny how anytime a really good product like that comes out you know they're gonna sell out eventually and go against what the whole point of the program was Like I remember all those good free PDF readers I've been using over the years that just slowly turned to poo poo and the free spyware cleaners that eventually add spyware themselves, etc I can't think of any other good examples but yeah
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Feb 21, 2016 20:02
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utorrent was once like 25kb, then it presumably got acquired by the russian mafia
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God damnit that was the other example I couldn't think of! I remember that whole scandal where it was installing spyware and the dude took all the pertinent screenshots and they still lied through their teeth about it You guys remember that lame rear end Facebook alternative that was popular for a month that took pride in not being ran by a corporation and having no ads and data mining etc. I wonder if they sold out yet
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blowfish posted:Like Intel a few years earlier, AMD made a bad CPU design decision and took too long to get a mediocre product out the door, and is now slowly playing catch-up. Unlike Intel, AMD can't just drown problems in literal mountains of cash. Has AMD put out anything decent since they stopped making the Athlon chips? I used one of their X3 chips for a while before putting money down on an i5. X3 was pretty crap.
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Feb 21, 2016 20:10
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Happy Bear Suit posted:utorrent was once like 25kb, then it presumably got acquired by the russian mafia qbtorrent is the successor to the lightweight BT client throne
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blowfish posted:Like Intel a few years earlier, AMD made a bad CPU design decision and took too long to get a mediocre product out the door, and is now slowly playing catch-up. Unlike Intel, AMD can't just drown problems in literal mountains of cash. Its not really a matter of 'let', effectively using that many cores is hard. Google Amdahls Law. Hence why its a scrub tier strategy compared to making individual cores fast!
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etalian posted:So Adblock took a offer they couldn't refuse from Google to whitelist stuff like the adwords edit: just installed uBlock and those ads aren't appearing. good riddance Adblock you won't be missed
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Y-Hat posted:is that the reason why all those clickbait ads about cheap razors and whatnot on numerous websites don't get blocked on Adblock? yep. adblock is basically taking payments to whitelist ad services and poo poo. it's really bad. install ublock everyone. Also there are a lot of other little filters you can subscribe to that aren't subcribed by default, like fanboy annoyances and other anti-adblock warning filters that i'd recommend you subscribe to, it's under Settings - 3rd Party Filters. I pretty much just checked most of them without a problem.
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Feb 21, 2016 22:31
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wow my chrome browser is moving a lot faster as well. i highly recommend ublock
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:It's funny how anytime a really good product like that comes out you know they're gonna sell out eventually and go against what the whole point of the program was It's probably because the sad truth is that people making altruistic programs that do useful poo poo out of the goodness of their hearts still have to eat and pay bills, and they can't devote thousands of hours upgrading their software without getting paid at some point. And even if they can, chances are some greedy gently caress or multiple greedy fucks will pounce on the Good Free App and offer a ton of money to the programmer who will immediately sell it off for a ton of money. The greedy gently caress(s) will then make a ton of money for the first few months until everybody gets fed up with the adware and spyware and then they'll migrate to another program that's similar but ad free. Then the cycle repeats.
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Feb 21, 2016 22:41
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Buncha nerds in this thread! Speak English nerds! 
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King of Bees posted:Buncha nerds in this thread! Speak English nerds! أنا لا أفهم
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King Vidiot posted:It's probably because the sad truth is that people making altruistic programs that do useful poo poo out of the goodness of their hearts still have to eat and pay bills, and they can't devote thousands of hours upgrading their software without getting paid at some point. And even if they can, chances are some greedy gently caress or multiple greedy fucks will pounce on the Good Free App and offer a ton of money to the programmer who will immediately sell it off for a ton of money. The greedy gently caress(s) will then make a ton of money for the first few months until everybody gets fed up with the adware and spyware and then they'll migrate to another program that's similar but ad free. Oh you better believe I'd sell out for enough money as well. It's just that with programs like that it's not a matter of if but when
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Good bye Adblock, hello UBlock
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Feb 21, 2016 23:43
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It even exists for Opera, nice.
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Thank you for the uBlock recommendation. Any recommendations for a tracking blocker besides Ghostery? Do I even need a tracking blocker with UBlock?
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Johnny Aztec posted:Has AMD put out anything decent since they stopped making the Athlon chips? I used one of their X3 chips for a while before putting money down on an i5. The current thing (zen iirc?) would have been good two years ago. See: playing catch-up after spending too much time on a failed product (bulldozer/piledriver/...).
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I like the idea of a list of cool programs to have since some of us are stuck in 2008. I have ublock, qbtorrent, what else is a good thing to have? Is AVG still a cool and handsome?
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Business Gorillas posted:Is AVG still a cool and handsome? http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/12/google-slams-avg-for-exposing-chrome-user-data-with-security-plugin/ Short answer: hell no. In terms of real-world use, there is no better antivirus than any other. Use Windows Defender because it's free and drastically less likely to contain dumb exploits but don't expect it to be a holy grail. Your best defense against malware is by avoiding untrusted attachments and not downloading shitware from poo poo places. Avoid in-browser Java and Flash if you don't need it. [Note: if you need it you're either in an enterprise environment and not in charge of these things, or you don't actually need it]
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Business Gorillas posted:Is AVG still a cool and handsome? The general consensus is Microsoft Security Essentials, if you're on Windows, is good enough for antivirus these days. Antiquated programs derail chat: Has CCleaner been depreciated?
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Business Gorillas posted:I like the idea of a list of cool programs to have since some of us are stuck in 2008. Honestly Microsoft Security Essentials is just as effective as any of the free av programs with less adware and bloat
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etalian posted:HTC is pretty hosed at this point too $800 for their VR, which they are staking the company on
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Also I need to know of the anti- anti-adblockers.
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Necc0 posted:Here you go, OP: It's amazing coming back to this 6 years later. Nothing has changed.
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Business Gorillas posted:I like the idea of a list of cool programs to have since some of us are stuck in 2008. There was a good thread for a while with this kind of poo poo in one of those tech subforums no one uses. We should remake it.
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Yelp is firing all their Literary Science majors, their research department is probably next.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:God damnit that was the other example I couldn't think of! I remember that whole scandal where it was installing spyware and the dude took all the pertinent screenshots and they still lied through their teeth about it it wasn't just any ol' spyware, it was a bitcoin miner 
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Fiend posted:Yelp is firing all their Literary Science majors, their research department is probably next. biggest problem, like all tech companies, is they hire like 10x the amount of people they actually need to keep things running in the black. once they downsize back to a reasonable state it's fine.
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