What's your latest tech purchase?

[plastiscɧ]

I thought Norton was the virus

guys. this company is the biggest on the market.
this kind of programs you got into trouble with years ago were illegal, cracked, hacked, versions.....
what else do u expect then?

this agumentation is kinda childish today.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

guys. this company is the biggest on the market.
this kind of programs you got into trouble with years ago were illegal, cracked, hacked, versions.....
what else do u expect then?

this agumentation is kinda childish today.

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I have only ever used malwarebytes and CCleaner never any anti virus(if Malwarebytes is classed as anti virus, not sure) and have never had any virus. Maybe i am very savvy, not sure, but never needed one. I always feel it's in their interest to make you feel like you do or they would be out of buisiness. I only ever heard bad things about norton, never any other, hence my comment.

 

[P4-630]

guys. this company is the biggest on the market.
this kind of programs you got into trouble with years ago were illegal, cracked, hacked, versions.....
what else do u expect then?

this agumentation is kinda childish today.

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Norton no longer belongs to Symantec.

However I have no issues using Norton though.

 

[Fangio1951]

Has anyone ever thought about anti virus companies employing (Of the records) hackers to generate viruses/malware, so as to keep anti virus companies in business ??

 

[seth1911]

guys. this company is the biggest on the market.
this kind of programs you got into trouble with years ago were illegal, cracked, hacked, versions.....
what else do u expect then?

this agumentation is kinda childish today.

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Yeah for sure im in a few ways in the scene (p2p, FTP) and i never need more than the MS defender or on Linux the ClamAV,
but for sure u need Norton, Kaspersky, Avira etc. cause u think ure safe.

Just let me say LMAO (snake oil) Yeah you pay 1 cent (till 80€) for an abo over a year for nothing

 

[plastiscɧ]

Norton no longer belongs to Symantec.

However I have no issues using Norton though.

It has remained the same company;

Under pressure from some major shareholders, large parts of the company, including the Symantec brand name, were sold to Broadcom Inc. for US$10.7 billion on 4 November 2019. The consumer business with the Norton brand as well as LifeLock remained with Symantec Corporation, which subsequently renamed itself NortonLifeLock Inc.[10] At the same time, the headquarters were moved from Mountain View, California to Tempe, Arizona.

Has anyone ever thought about anti virus companies employing (Of the records) hackers to generate viruses/malware, so as to keep anti virus companies in business ??

this would not be the only economic party which is doing this.

Yeah for sure im in a few ways in the scene (p2p, FTP) and i never need more than the MS defender or on Linux the ClamAV,
but for sure u need Norton, Kaspersky, Avira etc. cause u think ure safe.

Just let me say LMAO (snake oil) Yeah you pay 1 cent (till 80€) for an abo over a year for nothing

Defender?? oh ye best software...

Maybe I should ask him ( @lexluthermiester ) to explain the defender to you in more detail...

 

[phill]

I think we should move on with posts about Norton and all of that... After all, we could do with some tech purchases I think instead

 

[plastiscɧ]

I think we should move on with posts about Norton and all of that... After all, we could do with some tech purchases I think instead

agree technically!

Silverbead

Thermal Glue Adhesive
best!​

had no heatsink left over..

 

[ThaiTaffy]

They come in 2 different size's
Standard is 12.5mm for older laptops
Newer (Slim Laptops ) are 9.0mm

Of Course they can be used as a Boot Drive
its just a Bios Setting
Just set the Bios to boot from 2nd Sata Drive (detected in Bios of course)
Your need a OS pre loaded on to the Drive or your have to install one by enableing Boot from USB ( in boot order preference ) and installing OS from Flash Drive.

No really it doesn't work I'm not using in a laptop it's fitted to my 1u server no matter the settings on the drive caddy or bios the drive isn't recognized, though considering it was £2 I can't be to angry with anyone but myself for buying cheap crap.

 

[15th Warlock]

Got the parts to upgrade my rig to Alder Lake, an i9 12900K and an Asus ROG Strix-A D4. I have been holding off on going to Windows 11, but I will upgrade to it for this new build.

 

[Mussels]

guys. this company is the biggest on the market.
this kind of programs you got into trouble with years ago were illegal, cracked, hacked, versions.....
what else do u expect then?

this agumentation is kinda childish today.

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Nortons and Mcafee both used that technique and only ever became "popular" because big OEM's forcibly preinstalled them.

Companies like HP, Dell etc got paid by them to preinstall the AV with a trial period.

Businesses, schools etc got their bulk bought machines at a discount - but then had to pay on top for the Antivirus.
But oh wait, that preinstalled one? Big business gets a massive bulk discount, so accounting says lets just use that.

Average joe goes to work, see's that it's in use and checks the retail price - oh wow, it's expensive! So if work uses it despite that price, it must be because it's good...

 

[micropage7]

I use these at work and they are really good, realiable and really good priced.

At the moment because can be a bit hard to get I use the TeamGroup Classic CX SSD's really good with small SSD cache.

yeah, so far it's pretty good especially when in here the price of any components getting stay high

 

[lexluthermiester]

agree technically!

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Silverbead

Thermal Glue Adhesive​

best!​

had no heatsink left over..

Now THAT'S a thing! You should post this over in the Ghetto Mods thread, it'll fit right in!

 

[cst1992]

Average joe goes to work, see's that it's in use and checks the retail price - oh wow, it's expensive! So if work uses it despite that price, it must be because it's good...

Businesses wasting money is nothing new.

Just that Joe himself shouldn't install it just because his office does.

But then, not a lot of people do. Mostly Joe installs a bit of software because Steve did and thought it was OK/good/great.

 

[plastiscɧ]

Average joe goes to work, see's that it's in use and checks the retail price - oh wow, it's expensive! So if work uses it despite that price, it must be because it's good...

I totally agree with ur post! BUT:

We have the yr. 2021, almost 2022, Joe should better use his brain and get information about his environment and its dependencies about certain influences and what they mean.
Maybe hes uses internet... or just a newspaper (books).
Then this should not happen... (the consume-victimisation)

I recently bought an official 2021 Office Pro plus [M$ price: 450$] for 24,99€ in Dubai.
So..?

 

[cst1992]

I recently bought an official 2021 Office Pro plus [M$ price: 450$] for 24,99€ in Dubai.

Official? The key might be suspect. Are you sure it wasn't a "volume" key?

 

[plastiscɧ]

Official? The key might be suspect. Are you sure it wasn't a "volume" key?

nope. i have a receipt about the purchase and a taxnumber.

and the name of the reseller and his company

on the other hand; i really do not care what the arabs do in the rest of the time.

none of my business - EU and closer East are different parts of the world. even in law.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Just got a set of these for £25 a stick from CEX. bumped straight up to 3200, reckon they'll do 3600/c16? Mine are the 3000mhz ones, but i reckon there is no difference twixt these and the 3200's
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/team-group-t-force-vulcan-z-ddr4-3200-mhz-cl16/

 

[cst1992]

£25 each for 2 identical sticks is a good deal. Here we have to spend £60 for a single 16GB stick, or £30 each for two separate identical sticks, or up to £90 for a kit. Used to be cheaper but the semiconductor shortage has jacked up prices for all but the most basic of RAMs.

Talking about either 3200 c16 or 3600 c18 sticks here.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

£25 each for 2 identical sticks is a good deal. Here we have to spend £60 for a single 16GB stick, or £30 each for two separate identical sticks, or up to £90 for a kit. Used to be cheaper but the semiconductor shortage has jacked up prices for all but the most basic of RAMs.

Talking about either 3200 c16 or 3600 c18 sticks here.

aah yeah i meant 3600c18 They should do i reckon.

Ram would not do 3600c18, but that could be down to my current ryzen 5 2600x/b450 board

 

[seth1911]

i wanna a new CPU cause its to slow for RPCS3, but i couldnt cause no money left.

 

[P4-630]

i wanna a new CPU cause its to slow for RPCS3, but i couldnt cause no money left.

With what GPU can you compare an A10 7870K APU?
Maybe you can get a dedicated RX 570 or something like it?

 

[oxrufiioxo]

New monitor...... That I guess isn't really a monitor

Anyone else using one of these as a monitor, what should I expect?

 

[Valantar]

New monitor...... That I guess isn't really a monitor

Anyone else using one of these as a monitor, what should I expect?

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Great picture quality, huge size, potential for burn-in depending on your use case (but no guarantee of it, also some mitigations) and a lot of annoyance over time that it doesn't turn automatically on and off like a monitor? I don't have one, but those seem to be the general opinions and experiences around the interwebz.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Great picture quality, huge size, potential for burn-in depending on your use case (but no guarantee of it, also some mitigations) and a lot of annoyance over time that it doesn't turn automatically on and off like a monitor? I don't have one, but those seem to be the general opinions and experiences around the interwebz.

I got the 5 year replacement warranty just in case so that mostly removes my worries for burn in.... This will mostly be used for media consumption games/movies/youtube. I will keep all the mitigations on regardless.