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Yeah, I don’t let anything that has to be cracked out of an isolated VM until it’s VERY clear that nothing untoward is going on.
QEMU has proven perfectly lovely for a base to use for testing questionable software, and I’ve got quite a lot of VMs sitting around for various things that ah, have been acquired.
There is nothing like interacting with real people to show you how unreal, unproductive, and honestly uninfluential the chronically online environment is.
This: the internet is fake bullshit from start to finish.
At this point, staying online feels a lot like making a choice to be miserable and have shitty mental health.
And yes, I’m aware the irony or whatever of someone posting that online, but my online footprint has gone from your usual corporate media shit down to… uh, Lemmy.
Which is not by any means perfect, but it’s a lot less fucking awful than what Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Reddit are trying very hard to do to you.
Mine? Mine? Mine? Mine mine mine mine.
I’m not saying it is or is not a false positive, so please read the rest of my comment with that in mind.
But, that said, this is not new: AV has triggered on cracks and cheat software and similar stuff since forever.
The very simplified explanation is that the same things you do to install a rootkit, you do to cheat in a game with or crack software DRM.
Bigger but, though: cracks and game cheats have also been a major source of malicious software for just as long, so like, it’s also entirely likely that it’s a good catch, too.
Or maybe I don’t buy enough?
I dunno, I’ve just kinda changed what games I play to things that appear to also be the same kind of stuff that Epic is making deals to give away for free?
Also, in fairness, I do buy the occasional game for console even if it’s available on PC as sales permit, but we’re talking a game or two a year at most.
Shit’s frozen, but it’s been an excuse to take care of house projects that have been sitting around for the last two years.
Though, that’s just me avoiding job hunting because I’m torn between going to live in a box on a beach never to be seen again or getting another job.
Both have merits, but fucked if I’m not very much thinking beach bum.
But old hardware of around those specs are still pretty easy to find at least in my area for 200 euros for a full system.
It’s a little more expensive here in the US, for whatever reason.
But, still, 200 euro is a marked difference from how it was not that long ago, where I’d show up to pick up one old Dell, and would forcibly have to refuse to take the other 20 with me, even though they were being offered for free.
My favorite bizarre thing was a G4 Cube on Craigslist for $20. I was all over that, and went to meet the dude at the storage locker he had it at.
Dude then offered me 6 G3 iMacs, and 5 G3/G4 towers along with the Cube for the same $20. I sure as heck took it all, but that’s absolutely not a thing that happens anymore.
Now it’d be a couple hundred for the Cube, and they’d try to sell each other mac for $150 on top of the Cube’s price, or like, more, if they just look at eBay listings for the pricing.
I’m certain that new retro stuff will stop being more than old computers sooner than I’d like, since you’re right about the upgradability and, well, the charm. A shiny metal box is nice, but I’m a fan of ugly beige things that are 6 different shades of beige and beep and whirr and make all sorts of annoying noises.
It’s expensive, but I mean, this whole hobby has gotten kinda absurd.
It’s not that much more than buying, say, a 1ghz p3 system, a decent sound card, a gotek, a working cd-rom, and a sd->IDE adapter at this point. (You need to skip out on the fancy metal case and such, but still: that’s not a functional option, just cosmetic.)
And, bonus, you’re not dealing with 25 year old hardware, with all the gonna-end-up-breaking that comes along with that.
I mean, I have two “primary” gaming computers: a 7700x with a 3080, and a 1ghz P3 dell with a Voodoo 5 and a proper (8830) Vortex 2.
…the retro PC is the more valuable one these days, which strikes me as just bizarre.
100% behind anyone who is going to make usable retro computers that don’t involve having to spend usable retro computer money on decades old stuff that may or may not be working in a couple of years.
+1 for Frigate, because it’s fantastic.
But don’t bother on an essentially depreciated google product, and skip the coral.
The devs have added the same functionality on the GPU side, and if you’ve got a gpu (and, well, you do, because OpenVino supports intel iGPUs) just use that instead and save the money on a coral for something more useful.
In my case, I’ve both used a coral AND openvino on a coffee lake igpu, and uh, if anything, the igpu was about 20% faster inference times.