6mo ago

No common rube

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Took my freshly re-cobbled together computer to local computer guy after an upgrade with hand-me-down parts. He asked what was wrong and I said there was an alarm for the CPU fan, and that I'd torn the case open and hooked a second fan into the CPU fan connection and it also didn't work, and the I plugged the CPU fan into a different connection and got it working, so by elimination I was pretty sure the fans were good and the connection in the motherboard was bad.
He seemed mildly amused/impressed by my spiel. I'm not really a computer person, but swapping out parts to narrow down the source of the problem seemed logically basic.
I ended up chilling with him while he worked on things. He found WinZip on my desktop and let out a "whoa retro." which hurt me deeply.
- I’m not really a computer person
  Yes, you are.
  seemed logically basic
  See. You are.
  
  winzip
  
  Yes, retro.
  Did it display the payment nag screen ironically or seriously?
  
  You thinking of WinRAR? I always assumed that was for enterprise use and they knew everyone was content to be nagged.
  
  That's exactly what it's for. If you use it commercially without paying winrar will come for you, but as a personal use case it's just ad ware. You get the product, and deal with their ad every boot. You could pay for it, but it probably the least annoying ad on the internet right now.
  
  And we've all moved to 7zip now anyway. Half expecting to be told that's outdated now too.
  
  I've thought about it, because I almost feel a little guilty. I've used WinRAR for a decent chunk of my life, across a multitude of systems.
  I still haven't, but I think about it sometimes when I see the window.
  
  Did they ever come for anybody though?
  Enterprises are very averse to risks, and it's very cheap, so it's a non-brainier. But I'm not sure there's any actual enforcement there.
  
  I remember hearing that they have gone for companies before, but that was a while ago and, ya know, just something I read that may or may not be particularly accurate.
- If you are messing around the inside of a desktop pc, you are already more of a computer person than the average person.
- Use 7zip
- 🤓

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