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[-] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 54 points 23 hours ago

When you see a cmd window or two flash into and out of existence after trying to open something:

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

The amount of legitimate software that's just batch scripts is pretty amusing. I always make sure to read and understand what it's doing in that case, though

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

My elderly parents both have laptops with Windows 11 (don't @ me, they can't possibly learn a new OS at this point). Every once in a while they briefly throw up like 100 cmd windows. I have no clue what they are.

[-] tmyakal@infosec.pub 3 points 5 hours ago

Not sure what you're calling elderly, but my FIL turned 70 this year, and I just set him up with Mint a few months ago. Dude is loving it.

  1. Linux would kill her. Dealing with Windows and iOS is enough pain for her.
[-] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 16 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

My work PC does this every time I turn it on. After 2 years it still gives me that jolt of "oh shit".

[-] RidderSport@feddit.org 3 points 16 hours ago

Same, and I have no idea what that is

[-] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

Probably some GPO deployed script your admins configured at boot to tweak some registry nonsense or other corpo-spyware related crap.

[-] RidderSport@feddit.org 7 points 11 hours ago
[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago

Stop spying on yourself!

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