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advice needed (aussie.zone)

Hi, I’m not a coder etc but I’m not a complete noob with computers.

My FIL has apparently been scammed / hacked by some shithead (according to wife) who has apparently managed to get control whenever he turns his laptop on. I don’t know much more than that right now. The situation is pretty shityy because the poor old man lost EVERYTHING in recent flooding; all possessions, personal documents etc. He was given this laptop to help him get his life back together, personal admin etc.

He’s actually an OG coder and mathematician but is old enough to be vulnerable to the crap that these scum pull on the unsuspecting.

I’m wondering if there’s a way (rubberduck?) to quickly delete teamware etc as soon as the pc boots. Not sure how much admin control he has anymore.

Is there a safe mode (?) way of getting back control / kicking external admins?

Many thanks for any advice.

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Interwebs ELI5 (aussie.zone)
submitted 11 months ago by Lophostemon@aussie.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Could someone explain why we can’t just plug the average PC etc into a ‘raw’ internet line (like just entering a house) and have a mini modem on the motherboard do the translation work?

I know there’s a limit to IP addresses, and that it’s maybe easier to have a little box do the work where it enters a building.

… but apart from that?

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 221 points 11 months ago

You know… in all my time upon this earth, I cannot look back and think of a single instance where I thought: “Gosh, this advertisement which has inserted itself in between me and the desired content has actually made me want to go purchase that product.”

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 68 points 11 months ago

Mmmm. What fun. Stewing in a disease-ridden floating money-sponge for three years. Marvellous.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 46 points 11 months ago

I really hope this works. Also: banning water-intensive farming in dumb places might help.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 48 points 11 months ago

0 times. It’s likely a joke by a student specialist.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 142 points 1 year ago

The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.

The modern game and all its hideous capitalist/ classist cultural connotations is fucked.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 43 points 1 year ago

Yeah, poor guy. I can’t be easy to be named after a foul mixture of shit and cum.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 58 points 1 year ago

The right wing orthodox settlers are indeed really fucking annoying to witness from the outside. It must be beyond infuriating to be their victims.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 45 points 1 year ago

When does political showboating become treason?

For instance, if you were to sabotage someone’s car brakes “as a prank” or perhaps even “to make a point” (about some stupid shit, who knows?) and that car failed to stop and killed somebody… you be charged with murder or at least manslaughter.

TFG is sabotaging the genuine security readiness and functioning of the military of the ENTIRE USA because he has some retarded “culture war” excuses.

Being a blockage for a couple of weeks…? Maybe valid political theatre.

Doing this shit for months and months?!?! That’s beyond criminal. That’s straight up treason.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 66 points 1 year ago

Yes! I’m confused! Hawley has always been a shithead. What’s changed!!?! I’m not complaining, just curious… and a little suspicious.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 103 points 1 year ago

Surprisingly accurate.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 112 points 1 year ago

I was described to someone, right in front of me, as “…the sort of person who educates people involuntarily.”

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 56 points 1 year ago

Welp…good lucky with that other guy, whomever that might be.

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New Lemmy user here. I have two points of improvement I’d like to note, but am not sure where the actual ‘responsibility’ lies.

  1. It would be great to be able to mass-block communities from lists, rather than tiresomely do them one -at-a-time from ‘All’.

It would also be useful to see the list for subscribing, as I don’t know what’s out there until I see it. Sometimes I can’t think of something to search for until I see it.

Perhaps this lies more with individual apps/ clients rather than the Lemmy ecosystem…?

  1. May I suggest that communities entirely consisting of bots re-posting Reddit links is, uh, unhelpful?

Anyone?

(BTW I’m sorry that I posted this also a reply to an earlier post. I cannot figure out how to delete it.)

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