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If I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone but there'd be signs (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

Reminds me of stupid me after I received a ginormous family inheritance I went through a phase of buying every stupid little thing that I would've never bought before. It was sometime around the implosion of the John McAfee empire debacle I was vaguely aware that something was going awry with him & the company but I was lost in my own little world buying post-it notes at a Staples store.

At the checkout counter the employee brought my attention to a small display of heavily discounted McAfee antivirus software something-something for only $5 and all my conscious brain knew at the time was

"Wow, didn't that used to cost $40-$75? and McAfee has been in the news lately. I have no idea what's going on but yes I will pay $5 for this thing." πŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

It was completely useless and I doubt I ever took it out of the package before eventually throwing it away.

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This comic is so old that at some point someone added Rage Comic faces on top of it, and that on itself must had happened more than 15 years ago.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago

Meme and a history lesson, A+ post everyone.

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

And ofc after that someone sloppified the Rage Comic version. You see the modified versions more often than the original.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aww man - I just found out that one of the hospitals I work for has an active license for WinZip...

In the scale of dumb things to waste money on, WinZip is about as low as it gets (esp. in healthcare!), but still - it's not like the poor bastards had any to begin with!

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could've just used 7-Zip

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

I know, right? I can't wait to get some creative control in their SOE and fix things...

Someone, somewhere has a little fiefdom of stupidity, I'm sure of it.

[–] mrsemi@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago (2 children)

my company still purchases 3 billion WinRAR licenses every year

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 4 points 15 hours ago

Three Billion?????? 3,000,000,000 licenses?

[–] Klear@piefed.world 22 points 2 days ago

Yeah, mine too.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In b4 the "my company still purchases 3 billion WinRAR licenses every year" comments.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aww…

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha, I was an entire hour ahead of them.

[–] mrsemi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not only that I copied it verbatim from your comment!

Plagiarized, even.

I'll wait to hear from your lawyers.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But comment was not in before the 3 billion comment?

[–] mrsemi@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I literally copied it from his post.

And now you learned that your client does not sort comments by time.

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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you WinRar for all your years of service. I eventually bought you, because of your value as a product, but to make an arrangement like ours, possible for other companies and group to try. Here's the product, if you like it, give me some money. Fairest deal you'll ever make.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Have you heard of 7zip?

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

As someone who also bought a WinRAR license ages ago: yes and I hate 7zip's UI with a passion. Sorry, I'll stick to WinRAR which suits my needs just fine.

[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Do people even still need to use WinRAR? I mean, the rar format isn't even that prevalent anymore, not even for piracy stuff.....

It was useful 20 years ago, but like, most OS have native support for it now, making it even further useless to download a WinRAR.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Which OS has native rar support?

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

3 years ago Windows added native support for RAR and 7z formats IIRC
Idk if Linux has any but i doubt it has

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Linux does not have native rar support.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 0 points 13 hours ago

Yeah as i suspected, i was almost sure about RAR because of licensing issues

[–] Toasticus@piefed.social 37 points 2 days ago (7 children)

7-Zip has long replaced WinZip and WinRAR for me.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use peaZip because I'm a hipster

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I use PeaZip because it's the only thing I've found that can handle the ancient ACE archive format.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I thought everyone used that. Why bother with Winrar?

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it’s mostly out of spite.

[–] brambc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For me it’s nostalgia…

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[–] chefdano3@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

WinRAR supports compression and extraction of all types. If you have winRAR, you can make a .7z and a .rar and a .zip and .gzip and .iso and a .tar and a...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 2 days ago

I haven't used WinRar since I discovered 7zp hella years ago. Not only is 7zp 100% free, it's faster and has better compression than WinRAR.

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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In ancient times, 2010, I actually bought Winrar. I wanted to support the developer. Even back then as a child, I found it so cool that someone would give me a very useful tool like this for free, with an infinite free trial. And then I found out about FOSS, after that my mind was blown.

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Fuck yea. Be the change you want to see!

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure this guy makes a fuck ton off winRar

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, it's kind of a racket. The license popup is there to let people know that, hey, technically you have to buy this... but they don't care if Joe Blow buys it, it's free for you, you single-serve mother fucker. A company, though? A company has to buy a copy for every user, and that adds up.

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

It also acts as a training system so that workers are more familiar with it already, when they have to use to at work. It adds value to their product that everyone is familiar with it already so companies don't have to train them to use it.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Rocket jump made a whole skit about this exact thing.

https://youtu.be/lX_pF03vCSU?is=G75-A5rJfu_hIqN2

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

CEO: Holy fuck, those are numbers?

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