McAfee
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Eh, I assume shit like this is made by some unpaid intern, not the main software developers. But yeah it still says something about their adherence to quality.
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Eh, I assume shit like this is made by some unpaid intern, not the main software developers. But yeah it still says something about their adherence to quality.
This comment would have failed qa too, tbf
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This comment would have failed qa too, tbf
lol, totally fair. And fixed. Typed too fast while walking out the door.
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My favorite part of this is that the single-choice circular option control is (or used to be) called a "radio button". I wonder what fraction of people today have any idea why it's called that. I guess we're lucky it's not called a "light switch button" since it's been 80+ years since light switches were like that.
Ask me about the "high beam switch" lol.
tell me about the high beam swirch please
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My favorite part of this is that the single-choice circular option control is (or used to be) called a "radio button". I wonder what fraction of people today have any idea why it's called that. I guess we're lucky it's not called a "light switch button" since it's been 80+ years since light switches were like that.
Ask me about the "high beam switch" lol.
Why call radio button
What about high beamers
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I will always despise McAfee. When I would get home from middle school and want to play Oblivion or the Sims 2, at some point, 15 minutes into every gaming session it would always pop up a Window and crash whichever game I was playing.
McAfee was just as much a danger to Kvatch as Mehrunes Dagon was.
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My favorite part of this is that the single-choice circular option control is (or used to be) called a "radio button". I wonder what fraction of people today have any idea why it's called that. I guess we're lucky it's not called a "light switch button" since it's been 80+ years since light switches were like that.
Ask me about the "high beam switch" lol.
High beam switch on the floor is superior to all other high beam arrangements. Got a '98 truck and have seriously considered putting it there, shouldn't be that hard to do.
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tell me about the high beam swirch please
They used to refer to women with erect nipples appearing through their blouses as having their high beams on, because the old-style floor switch for the high beams was a little cylinder that resembled an erect nipple.
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They used to refer to women with erect nipples appearing through their blouses as having their high beams on, because the old-style floor switch for the high beams was a little cylinder that resembled an erect nipple.
You went all out and I love you for it.
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Why call radio button
What about high beamers
Radio buttons are named after the physical buttons that were used on old radios to select preset stations.[3][2] When one of the buttons is pressed, the other buttons pop out while leaving the pressed one pushed in.
From wiki
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So you didn't know what you were doing but installed Linux because that was easier than managing a pirated windows copy 20 years ago. lol
I ran game servers under Linux 25 years ago. Linux back then was not easier than managing a pirated windows copy. I would say someone without internet access and problems with pirated windows could've never managed Linux 20 years ago.20 years ago it was so easy to pirate windows that the worst thing they would do to you is put a small translucent text in the bottom corner of the screen and say the version was pirated. They would also refuse to ship their bloatware through patches — but would still supply the security updates (the only ones that mattered). Then the geniuses decided to remove desktop background (turning it black). That’s about the time I realized I didn’t want a background anyways because it just made my screen too bright.
If anything Microsoft encouraged and made it easier to pirate with every release of windows XP, which was the last version I seriously used.
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I remember when McAfee first came out. They posted a free version to all the pirate sites everywhere and anywhere they could. Once everybody got hooked on it, cause it was actually somewhat good back then, they went to a pay model. Sleezy but effective.
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They used to refer to women with erect nipples appearing through their blouses as having their high beams on, because the old-style floor switch for the high beams was a little cylinder that resembled an erect nipple.
yea not sure I vibe with that lol
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I remember when McAfee first came out. They posted a free version to all the pirate sites everywhere and anywhere they could. Once everybody got hooked on it, cause it was actually somewhat good back then, they went to a pay model. Sleezy but effective.
1988 is long before 'pirate sites everywhere*'. They might have done that at some point, but the product would have been around a decade old or more.
*Yeah software piracy has been a thing for a long time, but I don't think McAfee was going around dialing every BBS it could find just to spread the program, the users were happy to do that themselves.
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This is one of the many reasons why I dumped Windows and moved onto to Linux about ten years ago. I don't have that much money and back then I constantly budgeted what I had to pay for .... I wasn't going to spend hundreds on Windows, then hundreds more on subscriptions for things I could get for free in the Open Source Software realm where viruses and security were almost nonexistant. As soon as I dumped Windows, I no longer had to pay for the OS, the office suite, the image editor or the security software. I've saved so much money over the years.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Even nowadays if you don't play any games (most people actually), I get the same set of features with a $100 computer and Linux than a $1000 gaming beast on Windows 11 sold in specialized stores. People are fucked with that and they don't know it.
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Radio buttons are named after the physical buttons that were used on old radios to select preset stations.[3][2] When one of the buttons is pressed, the other buttons pop out while leaving the pressed one pushed in.
From wiki
TIL! I'm a dev so I know what they're called but I never bothered to check why that is
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yea not sure I vibe with that lol
Thank you. I’ve been told “your headlights are on” and it’s a pointless and embarrassing thing to say to someone. Nipples get hard in the cold, they get hard from friction against fabric (note to those who need to hear it: NO, HARD NIPPLES DO NOT MEAN AROUSAL I’ve met men in their 30s that need to be told that, so let’s nip that rumor in the bud right now… pun partially-intended.)
The point is, it’s automatic and involuntary, so calling attention to it (even as a quiet aside) is beyond useless. I hope more people are like you, because personally I can’t wait for such “headlights” comments to end.
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Thank you. I’ve been told “your headlights are on” and it’s a pointless and embarrassing thing to say to someone. Nipples get hard in the cold, they get hard from friction against fabric (note to those who need to hear it: NO, HARD NIPPLES DO NOT MEAN AROUSAL I’ve met men in their 30s that need to be told that, so let’s nip that rumor in the bud right now… pun partially-intended.)
The point is, it’s automatic and involuntary, so calling attention to it (even as a quiet aside) is beyond useless. I hope more people are like you, because personally I can’t wait for such “headlights” comments to end.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]That's awful - I'm sorry you had to experience that.
Yea absolutely, it's just a normal bodily reaction. I'd be lying if I said I don't notice it when women/female-presenting people don't wear a bra, but there really is nothing to it. I moreso welcome it because I feel like it's a way for them to reclaim the stigmatisation that comes with "revealing" their bodies. Of course without blatantly pointing to it - who am I to comment such a thing?
Thank you, I'm trying my best :). I guess such comments and analogies are a product of their time and should be left there. I feel like we've made so much progress collectively as a society, with exceptions proving the rule, that such comments, derogatory or demeaning language in general, don't usually show up that much in daily conversation and shouldn't overall. Then again, my view is likely skewed because I'm barely around men and most people I am around are also very much left-leaning just like I am, so the language we use is very considerate and thought out, if that makes sense.
Now that I talk of it, a thing that's been grinding my gears recently is that so many people on here seem to be ok with using the r-word in regular conversation. "R-word" this and "that's so r-word of you" that - like, why? It's just so unnecessary. Same goes for the f-word (gay slur). I thought we've been past this already?
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1988 is long before 'pirate sites everywhere*'. They might have done that at some point, but the product would have been around a decade old or more.
*Yeah software piracy has been a thing for a long time, but I don't think McAfee was going around dialing every BBS it could find just to spread the program, the users were happy to do that themselves.
It was a BBS back then. John McAfee wasn't known to be a raging psychotic douche then either.
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1988 is long before 'pirate sites everywhere*'. They might have done that at some point, but the product would have been around a decade old or more.
*Yeah software piracy has been a thing for a long time, but I don't think McAfee was going around dialing every BBS it could find just to spread the program, the users were happy to do that themselves.
Mcafee came out in 87. I am almost 70 so it all blends together. I had an Apple BBS (The ASCII Exchange. Manuals only) then I switched to PC at some point. Guess it could have been BBS’s.
I remember that people would stash pirated software on unsuspecting businesses computers default FTP etc. and post the address. What I can’t remember clearly (aphantasia) is which medium.
