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OK, ok. ok, the title was just I joke, I always knew Macs could get crapware. But now my families computer and now I have been summoned to deal with it. They told me it started just today after they had downloaded something, so I restored it to early in the morning 2 days ago since no changes had been made that were important. I have this one down OK though, thank god. I myself don't usually deal with stuff like this, so I have no idea how to deal with it in any other way. Anything I should try in the future should it happen again?

 

#Pcmasterrace

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

- Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture Science, in Portal 2

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OK, ok. ok, the title was just I joke, I always knew Macs could get crapware. But now my families computer and now I have been summoned to deal with it. They told me it started just today after they had downloaded something, so I restored it to early in the morning 2 days ago since no changes had been made that were important. I have this one down OK though, thank god. I myself don't usually deal with stuff like this, so I have no idea how to deal with it in any other way. Anything I should try in the future should it happen again?

 

#Pcmasterrace

You mean #Unixmasterrace (covers Mac OSX, iOS, Android and all of the Linux distros).

           .;ldkO0000Okdl;.                michael@SUSE-BlackBox
        .;d00xl:^''''''^:ok00d;.            OS: openSUSE 20260405
      .d00l'                'o00d.          Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.19.11-1-default
    .d0K^'  Okxoc;:,.          ^O0d.        Uptime: 2d 21h 52m
   .OVVAK0kOKKKKKKKKKKOxo:,      lKO.       Packages: 6556
  ,0VVAKKKKKKKKKKKKK0P^,,,^dx:    ;00,      Shell: bash 5.3.9
 .OVVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKk'.oOPPb.'0k.   cKO.     Resolution: 3840x1080
 :KVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKK: kKx..dd lKd   'OK:     DE: KDE
 lKlKKKKKKKKKOx0KKKd ^0KKKO' kKKc   lKl     WM: KWin
 lKlKKKKKKKKKK;.;oOKx,..^..;kKKK0.  lKl     GTK Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
 :KAlKKKKKKKKK0o;...^cdxxOK0O/^^'  .0K:     Icon Theme: breeze-dark
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   'kKAVOxddxkOO00000Okxoc;''   .dKV'       GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (radeonsi, navi22, ACO, DRM 3.64, 6.19.11-1-default)
     l0Ko.                    .c00l'        RAM: 13127MiB / 48094MiB
      'l0Kk:.              .;xK0l'          
         'lkK0xc;:,,,,:;odO0kl'             
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#Different things are better for different situations master race.

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Prometheus (Main Rig)

CPU-Z Verification

Laptop: 

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Intel Core i3-5005U, 8GB RAM, Crucial MX 100 128GB, Touch-Screen, Intel 7260 WiFi/Bluetooth card.

 Phone:

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TruPureX, Asus Zenwatch 3.

 Game Consoles:

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Softmodded Fat PS2 w/ 80GB HDD, and a Dreamcast.

 

If you want my attention quote my post, or tag me. If you don't use PCPartPicker I will ignore your build.

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You mean #Unixmasterrace (covers Mac OSX, iOS, Android and all of the Linux distros).

Fine let me refraise that. #Macsareanoying.

I actually happen to have an ANCIENT macintosh centris 610. LOL

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

- Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture Science, in Portal 2

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I'll stick to mac, thanks.

How can you tell it's malware anyways?

Words on any page being highlighted and then advertisements, clicking on anything resulted in a pop up to a site that my computer is outdated and unsecure.

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

- Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture Science, in Portal 2

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Fine let me refraise that. #Macsareanoying.

I actually happen to have an ANCIENT macintosh centris 610. LOL

Oh I know Macs are annoying, had to deal with overheating iMac's and MacbookPro's when I was at school (they were full of dust).

           .;ldkO0000Okdl;.                michael@SUSE-BlackBox
        .;d00xl:^''''''^:ok00d;.            OS: openSUSE 20260405
      .d00l'                'o00d.          Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.19.11-1-default
    .d0K^'  Okxoc;:,.          ^O0d.        Uptime: 2d 21h 52m
   .OVVAK0kOKKKKKKKKKKOxo:,      lKO.       Packages: 6556
  ,0VVAKKKKKKKKKKKKK0P^,,,^dx:    ;00,      Shell: bash 5.3.9
 .OVVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKk'.oOPPb.'0k.   cKO.     Resolution: 3840x1080
 :KVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKK: kKx..dd lKd   'OK:     DE: KDE
 lKlKKKKKKKKKOx0KKKd ^0KKKO' kKKc   lKl     WM: KWin
 lKlKKKKKKKKKK;.;oOKx,..^..;kKKK0.  lKl     GTK Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
 :KAlKKKKKKKKK0o;...^cdxxOK0O/^^'  .0K:     Icon Theme: breeze-dark
  kKAVKKKKKKKKKKKK0x;,,......,;od  lKP      Disk: 13T / 22T (60%)
  '0KAVKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK00KKOo^  c00'      CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core @ 16x 4.55295GHz
   'kKAVOxddxkOO00000Okxoc;''   .dKV'       GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (radeonsi, navi22, ACO, DRM 3.64, 6.19.11-1-default)
     l0Ko.                    .c00l'        RAM: 13127MiB / 48094MiB
      'l0Kk:.              .;xK0l'          
         'lkK0xc;:,,,,:;odO0kl'             
             '^:ldxkkkkxdl:^'    
 

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Oh I know Macs are annoying, had to deal with overheating iMac's and MacbookPro's when I was at school (they were full of dust).

What I do: I download a fan control program, then I run it at full burn ahead for a few minutes. CLEANS OUT A SHIT TON OF DUST. I do this every month-ish. The first time I did it, my temps went from around idling at 50 to 30. However, as you might guess, it is quite loud.

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

- Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture Science, in Portal 2

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Words on any page being highlighted and then advertisements, clicking on anything resulted in a pop up to a site that my computer is outdated and unsecure.

RIP. Alteast it's solved now. I'm still glad I threw windows off my SSD and installed Yosemite. God how I've missed mac

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RIP. Alteast it's solved now. I'm still glad I threw windows off my SSD and installed Yosemite. God how I've missed mac

Yeah I find macs are great a lot of the time. But when they hit problems, they are a lot harder to troubleshoot since the MAC comuntiy is much smaller. My sisters Macbook Pro got stuck in a recurring Kernal Panic while stuck in a bag and sounded like a jet engine when she got back to her dorm. I figured out it was a software issue in 5 minutes when it took a tech shop. 1 hour. :P:) I IS AWESOME!!!

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

- Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture Science, in Portal 2

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Sophos if you are worried about it happening again. But you really don't need it since there are only like <3 pieces of wild malware for OSX right now

Why do I get the feeling that's because they were the only successful bits of malware.....

           .;ldkO0000Okdl;.                michael@SUSE-BlackBox
        .;d00xl:^''''''^:ok00d;.            OS: openSUSE 20260405
      .d00l'                'o00d.          Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.19.11-1-default
    .d0K^'  Okxoc;:,.          ^O0d.        Uptime: 2d 21h 52m
   .OVVAK0kOKKKKKKKKKKOxo:,      lKO.       Packages: 6556
  ,0VVAKKKKKKKKKKKKK0P^,,,^dx:    ;00,      Shell: bash 5.3.9
 .OVVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKk'.oOPPb.'0k.   cKO.     Resolution: 3840x1080
 :KVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKK: kKx..dd lKd   'OK:     DE: KDE
 lKlKKKKKKKKKOx0KKKd ^0KKKO' kKKc   lKl     WM: KWin
 lKlKKKKKKKKKK;.;oOKx,..^..;kKKK0.  lKl     GTK Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
 :KAlKKKKKKKKK0o;...^cdxxOK0O/^^'  .0K:     Icon Theme: breeze-dark
  kKAVKKKKKKKKKKKK0x;,,......,;od  lKP      Disk: 13T / 22T (60%)
  '0KAVKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK00KKOo^  c00'      CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core @ 16x 4.55295GHz
   'kKAVOxddxkOO00000Okxoc;''   .dKV'       GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (radeonsi, navi22, ACO, DRM 3.64, 6.19.11-1-default)
     l0Ko.                    .c00l'        RAM: 13127MiB / 48094MiB
      'l0Kk:.              .;xK0l'          
         'lkK0xc;:,,,,:;odO0kl'             
             '^:ldxkkkkxdl:^'    
 

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Sophos if you are worried about it happening again. But you really don't need it since there are only like <3 pieces of wild malware for OSX right now

I was thinking about that, since my school uses that program

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

- Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture Science, in Portal 2

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Yeah I find macs are great a lot of the time. But when they hit problems, they are a lot harder to troubleshoot since the MAC comuntiy is much smaller. My sisters Macbook Pro got stuck in a recurring Kernal Panic while stuck in a bag and sounded like a jet engine when she got back to her dorm. I figured out it was a software issue in 5 minutes when it took a tech shop. 1 hour. :P:) I IS AWESOME!!!

Besides that, reaching 100 degrees celsius isn't uncommon with a macbook. (Luckely I've sold mine by now)

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Besides that, reaching 100 degrees celsius isn't uncommon with a macbook. (Luckely I've sold mine by now)

I didn't intend for this Topic to go here, but what do you guys think of the apple watch and new macbook? Since everyone in my town HAS to have the newest tech, I am wondering how on earth they will be able to regulate how kids use the apple watches (kids already have them BTW)

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

- Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture Science, in Portal 2

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#Linuxmasterrace

Linux/Mac OSX = Unix, so #Unixmasterrace

           .;ldkO0000Okdl;.                michael@SUSE-BlackBox
        .;d00xl:^''''''^:ok00d;.            OS: openSUSE 20260405
      .d00l'                'o00d.          Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.19.11-1-default
    .d0K^'  Okxoc;:,.          ^O0d.        Uptime: 2d 21h 52m
   .OVVAK0kOKKKKKKKKKKOxo:,      lKO.       Packages: 6556
  ,0VVAKKKKKKKKKKKKK0P^,,,^dx:    ;00,      Shell: bash 5.3.9
 .OVVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKk'.oOPPb.'0k.   cKO.     Resolution: 3840x1080
 :KVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKK: kKx..dd lKd   'OK:     DE: KDE
 lKlKKKKKKKKKOx0KKKd ^0KKKO' kKKc   lKl     WM: KWin
 lKlKKKKKKKKKK;.;oOKx,..^..;kKKK0.  lKl     GTK Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
 :KAlKKKKKKKKK0o;...^cdxxOK0O/^^'  .0K:     Icon Theme: breeze-dark
  kKAVKKKKKKKKKKKK0x;,,......,;od  lKP      Disk: 13T / 22T (60%)
  '0KAVKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK00KKOo^  c00'      CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core @ 16x 4.55295GHz
   'kKAVOxddxkOO00000Okxoc;''   .dKV'       GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (radeonsi, navi22, ACO, DRM 3.64, 6.19.11-1-default)
     l0Ko.                    .c00l'        RAM: 13127MiB / 48094MiB
      'l0Kk:.              .;xK0l'          
         'lkK0xc;:,,,,:;odO0kl'             
             '^:ldxkkkkxdl:^'    
 

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Linux/Mac OSX = Unix, so #Unixmasterrace

NO

LINUX =/= OSX

 

OSX IS LIKE A CHEAP CHINESE KNOCKOFF; LINUX IS > EVERYTHING

 

CAPS LOCKS!!!

Want a good game to play?  Check out Shadowrun: http://store.steampowered.com/app/300550/ (runs on literally any hardware)

 

another 12 core / 24 thread senpai...     (/. _ .)/     \(. _ .\)

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I didn't intend for this Topic to go here, but what do you guys think of the apple watch and new macbook? Since everyone in my town HAS to have the newest tech, I am wondering how on earth they will be able to regulate how kids use the apple watches (kids already have them BTW)

The Apple watch and the new macbook pro is slightly comparable to beats. Besides that the new macbook is extremely inconvenient with its single port, and Apple took "overpriced" to a whole new level with that macbook. The watch is still too expensive, but a nice and beautiful (subjective) accessory.

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NO

LINUX =/= OSX

 

OSX IS LIKE A CHEAP CHINESE KNOCKOFF; LINUX IS > EVERYTHING

 

CAPS LOCKS!!!

CAPSLOCK TOO!!!!, AND NOOOOO.

           .;ldkO0000Okdl;.                michael@SUSE-BlackBox
        .;d00xl:^''''''^:ok00d;.            OS: openSUSE 20260405
      .d00l'                'o00d.          Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.19.11-1-default
    .d0K^'  Okxoc;:,.          ^O0d.        Uptime: 2d 21h 52m
   .OVVAK0kOKKKKKKKKKKOxo:,      lKO.       Packages: 6556
  ,0VVAKKKKKKKKKKKKK0P^,,,^dx:    ;00,      Shell: bash 5.3.9
 .OVVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKk'.oOPPb.'0k.   cKO.     Resolution: 3840x1080
 :KVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKK: kKx..dd lKd   'OK:     DE: KDE
 lKlKKKKKKKKKOx0KKKd ^0KKKO' kKKc   lKl     WM: KWin
 lKlKKKKKKKKKK;.;oOKx,..^..;kKKK0.  lKl     GTK Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
 :KAlKKKKKKKKK0o;...^cdxxOK0O/^^'  .0K:     Icon Theme: breeze-dark
  kKAVKKKKKKKKKKKK0x;,,......,;od  lKP      Disk: 13T / 22T (60%)
  '0KAVKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK00KKOo^  c00'      CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core @ 16x 4.55295GHz
   'kKAVOxddxkOO00000Okxoc;''   .dKV'       GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (radeonsi, navi22, ACO, DRM 3.64, 6.19.11-1-default)
     l0Ko.                    .c00l'        RAM: 13127MiB / 48094MiB
      'l0Kk:.              .;xK0l'          
         'lkK0xc;:,,,,:;odO0kl'             
             '^:ldxkkkkxdl:^'    
 

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Linux/Mac OSX = Unix, so #Unixmasterrace

 

They not THE SAME, they are derived from unix. In my opinion linux does a way better job of it, since it actually leaves the user in charge of what's happening.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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Just tell them to think twice when the thing asks for an administrator password and all will be fine.

I cannot be held responsible for any bad advice given.

I've no idea why the world is afraid of 3D-printed guns when clearly 3D-printed crossbows would be more practical for now.

My rig: The StealthRay. Plans for a newer, better version of its mufflers are already being made.

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