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The least "Genuine" hardware I've ever seen and it's named "GenuineOEM" (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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Working on a machine that BSOD'd 3-4 times a week, couldn't find much wrong but then I saw this. An NVME drive from a company named "OEMGenuine".
Their website 404's, waybackmachine says it was last cached 2 years ago, and even then it was a broken Godaddy landing page.

Found in a Thinkpad purchased from Amazon, sold by a third-party reseller who "upgrades" the devices before reselling.

Machine seems just fine/stable with a credible drive in it.

What's the craziest shady "brand" name you've seen in the wild?

EDIT: NEW Discovery! One of the ancient waybackmachine cached pages previously redirected to oemgenuine.NET! It's shoddy as hell but the .net domain is still visible today! oemgenuine.net

"OEMGenuine.com" brand, seems to have previously sold ripoff / sketchy computer parts.

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[–] 34 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Huh, who'd of thought Genuine Leather would branch out into the tech industry.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I love the genuine naming scheme for scams like this. If something is genuine it doesn't need to be labeled as genuine. You don't order a "genuine" burger from a restaurant, you don't buy a "genuine" BMW from a dealership, you don't get hired by a "genuine" company...

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Intel has been identifying their chips with "Genuine Intel" for quite some time, that brought the term into the IT zeitgeist.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I'm not sure that "AuthenticAMD" is any better. There's probably an entire table of words like this that we should be wary of.

    That said, this took me down a small rabbit hole of CPUIDs. I want one with "AMDisbetter!" Or "CyrixInstead"

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think it was cheese nips that had “Real™️ Cheese” on the box where Real is the company name.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Real_Seal

    The Real Seal appears on products that are made with 100% U.S. cow's milk

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "100% US" will never cease being funny to me, the US is a fucking continent! Imagine if we in europe had "100% european milk!", only place you wouldn't see that seal is like, greece and bulgaria because they might import turkish milk..

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I once had a zune that looked like a zune, used the zune software on windows to load mp3 but it was like 1/5 of the price. It was quite buggy but the og zune also was. I'm convinced it was a knockoff but it didn't felt bad. I lost it when someone broke into my car and stole it along with a nice jacket and a rubber chicken.

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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have a friend who once brought back an "iPhone" from China for laughs.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    This reminds me of my last company's DNS management site, aka "secureserver.net"

    Felt like I was getting phished every time I logged in

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    • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Assembled in Mexico?

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