john's probably rolling around in his grave right now, but it isn't because he's upset. he's just fucking the dead hookers down there
I highly recommend looking up the video where John McAfee explains how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus!
dude, you gotta put the link in when you say stuff like that!
My favorite part of this is that the single-choice circular option control is (or used to be) called a "radio button". I wonder what fraction of people today have any idea why it's called that. I guess we're lucky it's not called a "light switch button" since it's been 80+ years since light switches were like that.
Ask me about the "high beam switch" lol.
High beam switch on the floor is superior to all other high beam arrangements. Got a '98 truck and have seriously considered putting it there, shouldn't be that hard to do.
tell me about the high beam swirch please
They used to refer to women with erect nipples appearing through their blouses as having their high beams on, because the old-style floor switch for the high beams was a little cylinder that resembled an erect nipple.
You went all out and I love you for it.
yea not sure I vibe with that lol
Thank you. I’ve been told “your headlights are on” and it’s a pointless and embarrassing thing to say to someone. Nipples get hard in the cold, they get hard from friction against fabric (note to those who need to hear it: NO, HARD NIPPLES DO NOT MEAN AROUSAL I’ve met men in their 30s that need to be told that, so let’s nip that rumor in the bud right now… pun partially-intended.)
The point is, it’s automatic and involuntary, so calling attention to it (even as a quiet aside) is beyond useless. I hope more people are like you, because personally I can’t wait for such “headlights” comments to end.
That's awful - I'm sorry you had to experience that.
Yea absolutely, it's just a normal bodily reaction. I'd be lying if I said I don't notice it when women/female-presenting people don't wear a bra, but there really is nothing to it. I moreso welcome it because I feel like it's a way for them to reclaim the stigmatisation that comes with "revealing" their bodies. Of course without blatantly pointing to it - who am I to comment such a thing?
Thank you, I'm trying my best :). I guess such comments and analogies are a product of their time and should be left there. I feel like we've made so much progress collectively as a society, with exceptions proving the rule, that such comments, derogatory or demeaning language in general, don't usually show up that much in daily conversation and shouldn't overall. Then again, my view is likely skewed because I'm barely around men and most people I am around are also very much left-leaning just like I am, so the language we use is very considerate and thought out, if that makes sense.
Now that I talk of it, a thing that's been grinding my gears recently is that so many people on here seem to be ok with using the r-word in regular conversation. "R-word" this and "that's so r-word of you" that - like, why? It's just so unnecessary. Same goes for the f-word (gay slur). I thought we've been past this already?
That bothers me too. Unlike some of the nonsense that’s becoming common here lately, the R-word slurs have been going on since before the past few waves of Redditors arrived - it’s homegrown ableism farmed right here on Lemmy.
I appreciate all the rest of your comment too. I am on a short break at work and can’t respond to all of it, but I will wanted to say that I’m glad to hear your input.
No worries. Much love 💜
Why call radio button
What about high beamers
Radio buttons are named after the physical buttons that were used on old radios to select preset stations.[3][2] When one of the buttons is pressed, the other buttons pop out while leaving the pressed one pushed in.
From wiki
TIL! I'm a dev so I know what they're called but I never bothered to check why that is
I will always despise McAfee. When I would get home from middle school and want to play Oblivion or the Sims 2, at some point, 15 minutes into every gaming session it would always pop up a Window and crash whichever game I was playing.
McAfee was just as much a danger to Kvatch as Mehrunes Dagon was.
I remember when McAfee first came out. They posted a free version to all the pirate sites everywhere and anywhere they could. Once everybody got hooked on it, cause it was actually somewhat good back then, they went to a pay model. Sleezy but effective.
1988 is long before 'pirate sites everywhere*'. They might have done that at some point, but the product would have been around a decade old or more.
*Yeah software piracy has been a thing for a long time, but I don't think McAfee was going around dialing every BBS it could find just to spread the program, the users were happy to do that themselves.
I remember all those years ago reading my first EULA for some software I bought. It mostly explained how the software company provided no reparation or responsibility for the software that they created and sold. It was then I decided I was gonna pirate if they were gonna be so sleazy.
Don't admit that you read one too much. A court case was recently decided where EULAs are basically no longer enforceable, because the judge ruled that "no one actually reads those things because you made them too long."
Have not read one in over 20yrs and retired now.
Makes sense. I have experienced disk utilities that ruined the file system, and of course there was really nothing I could do about it. I think that was also McAfee (But might have been Norton - I was desperately switching between all of them that day)
Mcafee came out in 87. I am almost 70 so it all blends together. I had an Apple BBS (The ASCII Exchange. Manuals only) then I switched to PC at some point. Guess it could have been BBS’s. I remember that people would stash pirated software on unsuspecting businesses computers default FTP etc. and post the address. What I can’t remember clearly (aphantasia) is which medium.
It was a BBS back then. John McAfee wasn't known to be a raging psychotic douche then either.
Eh, I assume shit like this is made by some unpaid intern, not the main software developers. But yeah it still says something about their adherence to quality.
This comment would have failed qa too, tbf
lol, totally fair. And fixed. Typed too fast while walking out the door.
In case anyone cares, those are called radio buttons.
Hmm, I always thought they were radial buttons.
The third option seems appropriate. After installing McAfee, my PC got infected by McAfee :P
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