vanished

I guess the fact they never sold very many has come back as a blessing in that this payout is quite low as a result

It will still show ones that it doesn't recognize (have an app associated with for opening)

Video files are not executables, they cannot run commands.  The only explanations I can think of is a) it wasn't a video at all and you got fooled, or b) it was an intentionally malformed video file designed to harness a vulnerability in a particular player or codec.
 
Also, just an edit for additional information to clear up some confusion we've seen both in the thread here and behind the scenes: helping with piracy is still not permitted on the forum.  Advocating piracy is still not permitted on the forum.  We're past that point though.  OP did something, and has moved on.  This discussion is about general safe computing practices - how to spot and avoid malware, which is good advice in general and nothing specific to piracy.

I have a lot of reasons, or at least a couple very significant ones.  It's not so much that I love Windows though, just that these things are unique to it (afaik), at least for now.  If other systems picked them up though I'd definitely be down to switch.  I'll try to list things in order of most to least important but it may not be perfect.
Application support.  So many things run on Windows, and many of them only on Windows.  That's not a pro of Windows or a knock against other OSes per se - it's nothing inherent to Windows really, more of an indirect benefit - if devs chose to release their apps for other OSes, then they'd have better support too.  But, the fact remains that it's true at least for now.  Yes, many apps are cross platform, or have "alternatives" on other OSes, and as a fallback you can always run Wine or a VM, but it's definitely not the same.  Cross platform apps are the best and I wish more were.  Alternatives are often not nearly as good as what Windows offers though, and as for Wine and VMs, the way normal people do it (a VM on a host OS, not launching everything straight from hardware with dedicated pass-throughs), there is a mild if not significant performance hit, and that's to say nothing of the fact that if you're using a VM, you're still using Windows anyway. Hardware support.  Obviously crushes Mac OS at this, but compared to Linux even, it supports a wider range of things, and a wider feature-set of each of them.  I've run Windows and Linux on quite a few machines in my years, and never once have I discovered an ability to do more with Linux than I can with Windows* (exceptions listed below).  With Windows, it always feels like the hardware is fully supported, where as with Linux, I've often felt like I'm getting some subset of the total due to janky drivers, etc.  Whether it's missing certain hardware accelerations, bluetooth, wifi, trackpad, touchscreen (though in this case technically the hardware works, software just doesn't use it well), etc. Linux lets you turn the backlight on laptops down as low as you'd like, even totally off.  With Windows, it's often capped to a minimum brightness that's still quite high. In the "enthusiast" or "maker" space, Linux totally crushes Windows at this.  Never mind running on a raspberry pi, it will run on literally anything you can imagine and desire.  Windows cannot.  But, this is a personal list and I've never come up against this myself.  In my experience, doing normal things on a normal computer, Windows wins. GUI Comfort.  Microsoft has put a lot of effort into adding creature comforts and quality of life improvements into Windows to the point where to go back to something like Windows 7, Mac OS, or Linux, etc. feels like going back in time.  No single thing on its own is that big of a deal, but they all add up.  Specifically, things like these: OneDrive integration.  It's really fantastic.  Everything on OneDrive appears to be on your computer, whether it physically is or not, and these "phantom" files can be accessed seamlessly as if they actually were local - in the event that anything tries to, they will be pulled down automatically in the background.  No seeing something different locally to what's actually stored.  No having to sync it all - pick and choose which files are local and which are not at will, and at random.  No having errors when you try to access something that's a placeholder and not local. Search - Now, compared to Mac OS, this is nothing special, and in fact potentially a big loss, but compared to Linux, at least for the average person, this is an enormous victory.  I know the find command is very powerful but I don't want to spend 12 hours learning how it works, I just want to list all files recursively in a directory that match a certain filename pattern, are over a certain size, and more recent than a certain date.  This is a 2 second task on Windows, while on Linux, this trivial, mundane, routine little task is literally impossible, again, unless you're a master of the command line, or happen to know a file browser or search tool that I've not recently used.  Apparently it never occurred to anyone working on things like catfish, thunar, nautilus, etc. that people might actually want to search for files, and thus that search should exist, and actually work. Task bar - it's easy to forget about this, but compared to something like the Mac OS dock, or the way certain Linux DEs handle windows and navigation, it's really just the best.  Nearly unchanged in 25 years and I think that says something - they got it right the first time. Snapping windows to the side of the screen when you drag them there, and having them remember their original size when you unsnap them, and automatically offering what to snap in the remaining space, and being able to do it with corners as well as just sides, and being able to resize both windows at once when you do have things snapped Snipping tool - just win + shift + S, drag over the area of the screen you want, and paste when ready.  No saving, opening programs, etc. Integrated notifications ("action centre") that handles everything, rather than every program doing its own thing. It's just more consistent and reliable than anything I've found on Linux.  Maybe not a pro over Mac OS, but Linux for sure. Now with all of that said, there's plenty I hate about Windows and it's only fair to include these things:
Poor performance, particularly on slower hardware - this one needs some extra clarification.  While there's certainly been times when Windows ties or beats the performance you can get on Linux, there have always been, and remain times where Linux absolutely crushes Windows in general usability (app loading speed, etc.), and even beats it in gaming performance in some cases.  And let us not all forget that prior to SSDs being a thing, it was normal procedure to have to reinstall every year because the OS had ground to an absolute halt for god only knows what reason - a problem not shared by other OSes at the time or currently, even when running on HDDs. Questionable privacy practices In recent years (with Windows 10) they've made large changes to the Settings menu (trying to replace control panel), which I think are good at heart and maybe in time will be great, but for the moment, and for years now, have been and remain a huge pita and a downgrade.  On top of that, a lot of the new UWP apps ("Photos", etc.) are bloated and featureless, even if they look more sleek than their older counterparts.  But, at least the option to still use the old stuff remains. A $100+ OS coming preloaded with ad shit like Candy Crush... really? In more recent years, questionable update procedures.  I personally haven't ever had an issue, but it's well known that many people do.  In my books it's actually better than 7 though because now it asks when to schedule the reboot for instead of pestering you every 4 hours. Integrated GUI + OS.  Linux (and maybe Mac?  idk) wins here big.  In the unlikely event that something hangs badly enough to take down the entire graphical system on Linux, you can just kill it and relaunch without actually affecting the underlying OS.  With Windows, that's a hard reboot, unavoidably.

Video files are not executables, they cannot run commands.  The only explanations I can think of is a) it wasn't a video at all and you got fooled, or b) it was an intentionally malformed video file designed to harness a vulnerability in a particular player or codec.
 
Also, just an edit for additional information to clear up some confusion we've seen both in the thread here and behind the scenes: helping with piracy is still not permitted on the forum.  Advocating piracy is still not permitted on the forum.  We're past that point though.  OP did something, and has moved on.  This discussion is about general safe computing practices - how to spot and avoid malware, which is good advice in general and nothing specific to piracy.

I have a lot of reasons, or at least a couple very significant ones.  It's not so much that I love Windows though, just that these things are unique to it (afaik), at least for now.  If other systems picked them up though I'd definitely be down to switch.  I'll try to list things in order of most to least important but it may not be perfect.
Application support.  So many things run on Windows, and many of them only on Windows.  That's not a pro of Windows or a knock against other OSes per se - it's nothing inherent to Windows really, more of an indirect benefit - if devs chose to release their apps for other OSes, then they'd have better support too.  But, the fact remains that it's true at least for now.  Yes, many apps are cross platform, or have "alternatives" on other OSes, and as a fallback you can always run Wine or a VM, but it's definitely not the same.  Cross platform apps are the best and I wish more were.  Alternatives are often not nearly as good as what Windows offers though, and as for Wine and VMs, the way normal people do it (a VM on a host OS, not launching everything straight from hardware with dedicated pass-throughs), there is a mild if not significant performance hit, and that's to say nothing of the fact that if you're using a VM, you're still using Windows anyway. Hardware support.  Obviously crushes Mac OS at this, but compared to Linux even, it supports a wider range of things, and a wider feature-set of each of them.  I've run Windows and Linux on quite a few machines in my years, and never once have I discovered an ability to do more with Linux than I can with Windows* (exceptions listed below).  With Windows, it always feels like the hardware is fully supported, where as with Linux, I've often felt like I'm getting some subset of the total due to janky drivers, etc.  Whether it's missing certain hardware accelerations, bluetooth, wifi, trackpad, touchscreen (though in this case technically the hardware works, software just doesn't use it well), etc. Linux lets you turn the backlight on laptops down as low as you'd like, even totally off.  With Windows, it's often capped to a minimum brightness that's still quite high. In the "enthusiast" or "maker" space, Linux totally crushes Windows at this.  Never mind running on a raspberry pi, it will run on literally anything you can imagine and desire.  Windows cannot.  But, this is a personal list and I've never come up against this myself.  In my experience, doing normal things on a normal computer, Windows wins. GUI Comfort.  Microsoft has put a lot of effort into adding creature comforts and quality of life improvements into Windows to the point where to go back to something like Windows 7, Mac OS, or Linux, etc. feels like going back in time.  No single thing on its own is that big of a deal, but they all add up.  Specifically, things like these: OneDrive integration.  It's really fantastic.  Everything on OneDrive appears to be on your computer, whether it physically is or not, and these "phantom" files can be accessed seamlessly as if they actually were local - in the event that anything tries to, they will be pulled down automatically in the background.  No seeing something different locally to what's actually stored.  No having to sync it all - pick and choose which files are local and which are not at will, and at random.  No having errors when you try to access something that's a placeholder and not local. Search - Now, compared to Mac OS, this is nothing special, and in fact potentially a big loss, but compared to Linux, at least for the average person, this is an enormous victory.  I know the find command is very powerful but I don't want to spend 12 hours learning how it works, I just want to list all files recursively in a directory that match a certain filename pattern, are over a certain size, and more recent than a certain date.  This is a 2 second task on Windows, while on Linux, this trivial, mundane, routine little task is literally impossible, again, unless you're a master of the command line, or happen to know a file browser or search tool that I've not recently used.  Apparently it never occurred to anyone working on things like catfish, thunar, nautilus, etc. that people might actually want to search for files, and thus that search should exist, and actually work. Task bar - it's easy to forget about this, but compared to something like the Mac OS dock, or the way certain Linux DEs handle windows and navigation, it's really just the best.  Nearly unchanged in 25 years and I think that says something - they got it right the first time. Snapping windows to the side of the screen when you drag them there, and having them remember their original size when you unsnap them, and automatically offering what to snap in the remaining space, and being able to do it with corners as well as just sides, and being able to resize both windows at once when you do have things snapped Snipping tool - just win + shift + S, drag over the area of the screen you want, and paste when ready.  No saving, opening programs, etc. Integrated notifications ("action centre") that handles everything, rather than every program doing its own thing. It's just more consistent and reliable than anything I've found on Linux.  Maybe not a pro over Mac OS, but Linux for sure. Now with all of that said, there's plenty I hate about Windows and it's only fair to include these things:
Poor performance, particularly on slower hardware - this one needs some extra clarification.  While there's certainly been times when Windows ties or beats the performance you can get on Linux, there have always been, and remain times where Linux absolutely crushes Windows in general usability (app loading speed, etc.), and even beats it in gaming performance in some cases.  And let us not all forget that prior to SSDs being a thing, it was normal procedure to have to reinstall every year because the OS had ground to an absolute halt for god only knows what reason - a problem not shared by other OSes at the time or currently, even when running on HDDs. Questionable privacy practices In recent years (with Windows 10) they've made large changes to the Settings menu (trying to replace control panel), which I think are good at heart and maybe in time will be great, but for the moment, and for years now, have been and remain a huge pita and a downgrade.  On top of that, a lot of the new UWP apps ("Photos", etc.) are bloated and featureless, even if they look more sleek than their older counterparts.  But, at least the option to still use the old stuff remains. A $100+ OS coming preloaded with ad shit like Candy Crush... really? In more recent years, questionable update procedures.  I personally haven't ever had an issue, but it's well known that many people do.  In my books it's actually better than 7 though because now it asks when to schedule the reboot for instead of pestering you every 4 hours. Integrated GUI + OS.  Linux (and maybe Mac?  idk) wins here big.  In the unlikely event that something hangs badly enough to take down the entire graphical system on Linux, you can just kill it and relaunch without actually affecting the underlying OS.  With Windows, that's a hard reboot, unavoidably.

It is a thing for sure, but I'm not sure how much this is behind the shift in mentality.  I am just guessing, but I would attribute it instead to improvements in software, particularly in Windows.  What I'm getting at is there are two main ways malware can attack you - either you willingly install and run it, like what happened in this thread, or it makes its own way in by exploiting vulnerabilities in the system, network, web browser, etc. like "wannacry" and other worms or "drive-by" infections.  The former can be protected against simply by avoiding dangerous areas and having common sense, the latter cannot (though it may still help).  I think the reason some people may not value AV software as much any more is, while of course it would protect you against either type, people are more confident now that they can avoid the first kind on their own, and as for the latter, I think they are much less common these days.  Windows in particular used to be basically a meme for how weak it was in this regard, and while I feel like it may still be partially true on some level, it certainly has come a long way compared to Unix based systems to the point where iirc this factor wasn't even mentioned in the TQ on why Windows gets infected more.  Certainly install base has always been a part of it and still is, but yeah.

I'm not sure I understand.  If you mean store code in video formats then yes, as mentioned this is similar to tape tech from decades ago.  But video decoders are not in the habit of interpreting their output signal as instructions and running them so you can't run code stored this way by just watching the video.
 
Considerations for storing code would be that it has to survive the compression process, so you will not get perfect RGB data on a pixel by pixel level.

Video files are not executables, they cannot run commands.  The only explanations I can think of is a) it wasn't a video at all and you got fooled, or b) it was an intentionally malformed video file designed to harness a vulnerability in a particular player or codec.
 
Also, just an edit for additional information to clear up some confusion we've seen both in the thread here and behind the scenes: helping with piracy is still not permitted on the forum.  Advocating piracy is still not permitted on the forum.  We're past that point though.  OP did something, and has moved on.  This discussion is about general safe computing practices - how to spot and avoid malware, which is good advice in general and nothing specific to piracy.

Isn’t this a retoast from a few years ago? 
 

I've been dealing with that all summer.
 
Not even just people with IT experience, but lacking people who can't wrap their heads around stacking boxes in reverse numerical order.

Not just infrastructure but often the actual people doing the job as well.  Turns out there actually is value in knowledge, experience, attention to detail, etc. and farming the operation out to the lowest bidder with none of those attributes isn't a good move in the long run... who would have thought    (again not saying that's what happened here, just my stories)

Because IT infrastructure is usually seen as a waste of money.
 
That is, until something breaks and a company loses millions of dollars in operational hours. And even that gets blamed on IT people instead of the jackass who denied the upgrade or additional redundant hardware install.

Correct btw, hyperX uses an awkward pinout (People try plugging their ModMic into that jack often and it doesn't work because of this).

There's some threads on Reddit you can find where people have modded their headphones / cables that have the proper pinout, unfortunately I can't seem to find them right now, but they're out there.

I guess the fact they never sold very many has come back as a blessing in that this payout is quite low as a result

I guess the fact they never sold very many has come back as a blessing in that this payout is quite low as a result

"I don't like the way this report sounds, could you re-word it in such a way that it is not so alarming. Also it would be best if the summary of the report aligns with my vision of how things should be".

I guess the fact they never sold very many has come back as a blessing in that this payout is quite low as a result

I guess the fact they never sold very many has come back as a blessing in that this payout is quite low as a result

Don't even justify his response with a defense. Your work requires no defense.
 
That's like someone going out of their way to go into a Comic Book store and telling the owner "I guess some folks like comics. Not me though. Someone, probably into this."
 
It just makes no sense. The owner wouldn't need to defend comics. He'd just be like "Okay.. well... see ya".
 
If you can, just delete the comment. If you can't - report the comment to whatever moderator team there is, and say it's "off topic, or not relevant".
 
If you're stuck with the comment, go with a positive response - not one designed to piss him off (Because the last thing you want is him spamming your images with more stupid comments).

Cool I'll see how it goes. Don't want to sync too much money into an older laptop. Was just on vacation and thought it would be nice to have for the next time I go out of town.  

I doubt it would make a big difference.  Web browsing is still relatively lightly threaded, and your i5 apparently boosts to 3.3 Ghz, which is pretty decent.  Unless the i7 you're looking at is as much or more, you probably wouldn't notice a big difference for that purpose.  Other tasks, and maybe even general usability, perhaps, but I would be reluctant to promise any big change in web browsing.

Odds are very good that the hisssssss the OP is talking about is the noise floor of the mic or the mixer.  Too much gain and/or too much amplification of a mic with a high noise floor is going to bring that hissssssssss right out for everyone to hear.  Isolating the mic isn't going to help.
 

One hundred percent on the nose.  Even with expensive consoles (eg: my Mackie DL32R), there's no magic that can be done to suddenly make you "sound better".  Things can be isolated, EQ can be added or subtracted, etc.  But if the starting point is a weak or tired or quiet voice, the product out of the mixer isn't going to be much better.  And the more you try to amplify it with hardware or software, the worse it's likely going to sound.
 
Start powerful.  Right from the belly.  Sit up straight and don't slouch.  Hell: stand if you can!  Don't yell at the mic, but tell it.  You're not having a phone conversation with your best friend.  You're barking orders at an audience.  Tell them what you want them to hear.
 
Once you get that technique down, and it can take a lot of practice, specially if you're a soft-spoken person like I am, then you start playing with hardware and software settings.  Start with more, and then use the tools to shape it down to what you need.  Not the reverse.

Well in that case then maybe his review is more reliable

 
Looks the same to me though
 
Well generally they do 4.2 - 4.3 all core at stock from what I've seen, but manually pushed here he got it up to 170 W, which is still only 227W scaled up to 16 cores in theory.  Also, in this case wall power doesn't matter, it's actually what's coming right off the chip, since we're only measuring power for the sake of getting a sense of heat.  But if if this was wall power then the chip would actually be less not more since wall power is always greater due to PSU inefficiency.