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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

This is the most tech-illiterate comment I’ve ever read

Just because you’re not “noticing any issues” doesn’t mean your system isn’t infested like a zombie’s gangrenous asshole

Even if you’re on an isolated network, not installing any applications, and you keep your browsers up to date: you’re not receiving mitigations for hardware-based exploits (like SPECTRE and RowHammer)

I strongly urge you to wipe that drive clean and change all your passwords if you’re using that system for anything other than the screensaver