Oh neat, that’s cool but one benefit I have found from thingiverse’s age and the fact that people would have to actively go delete their models is I have found mods for old 3d printer hardware I’m trying to keep alive that their creators have left the hobby (did it in highschool never owned a printer is what I guessed) that are still useful. If they had self hosted their models they would be gone, and I don’t know a good way to search all various self hosted stuff for models

Yeah around the same time as those fbi ones there were ones like that but they generated new ones with randomized names trying to hide. I think

In my looking at stuff like ipads, apple will only help you if you have proof of original purchase. Being a 2018 that’s probably long gone even if they didn’t steal it.

Around 2013-2014ish when the fake FBI viruses when commen, I worked at a tech help desk at my university fixing student computers.

We didn’t have a bootable virus scan avaliable but I discovered it you ctrl-alt-deleted you could tell the system to log out, it would close everything and log out.

but if during a split second when the device was turning on before the virus blocked the screen and actions you opened a word doc or something,

then when you logged out it would close everything (including the virus’s window that was blocking the screen) but the word doc and ask if you wanted to save the document first. By hitting cancel it would stop the logout completely and we could run the various virus scans to get rid of it.