• SSTF@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That is painfully accurate.

    I still vividly remember when I was young that my dad blamed any and all computer problems on the fact that I downloaded Steam on the family PC. Couldn’t possibly be because of the 20 “free” “antivirus” programs he downloaded.

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      1 year ago

      Had someone complain to me why their home PC was running impossibly slow. Long story short, they had paid versions of McAfee and Norton running at the same time as Stopzilla

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I used to leave a dod window open to an SSH shell. My mom was convinced it was going to get us hacked.