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The main thing I miss about "older" goods was the in-built design decisions, for repair-ability. I think, by the time I was born, food stuff had already started declining in quality. There was already information that farming soil was nutritionally depleted, in the 1940's. Clothing was certainly still better, but likely worse than what had previously existed. One of the more notable tragedies is the decline in vehicle quality. If I could pick the era of quality, for a vehicle, it would probably land between the 40's to the mid or late 70's (something with a manual transmission). I think Amazon, as a focus for product decline, high-lights some areas of well deserved and needed attention. There are variables, existing in that scenario, that really only apply to Amazon. I think Amazon's methodology is just one example, of over all trends. In some markets there is very little option, for quality. In others, quality is only advertised/available where it is likely to be afforded. It seems to me that the decline in quality is an attempt to retain spending; this in the face of climbing inflation. If quality products replaced affordable ones the state of things would be more apparent, to the common individual. Instead, we see an increase in housing, some foods, energy, and transportation. With this increase we also see an increase in wages (depending on where you live), but this increase is "not" proportional to market inflation. There are different methods of offsetting (at least perceptually) the disproportional increase in these financial variables. At the grocer, consumers may have noticed the increase in meat and egg prices (maybe a little with dairy). But, that increase does not enough express the actual inflation versus quality of product ratio. The quality of the meat and eggs has decreased, while their price still increased. If you look outside, of the common grocer, these products are even more expensive; in the case of meat four times higher, when previously being nearer to equivalent. The increase in the cost of oats, as another example, is less dramatic. But that cost is offset by methods of growing. The use of pesticides is increased, to speed up the oat drying process. By this practice, the yield "per season" gained enough to offset the consumer unit cost. It kinda looks like (despite making more money, by transitioning to inferior products) that the overall goal is to slant consumer perspective, on the actual state of inflation. Some product actually remains at stable prices, helping secure a perspective of stability. Gasoline is a great example of this, as it's pricing gets lots of attention.

I think that you are right about HKCU settings should go to HIVEDEF.INF, and not to HIVECLS.INF. I must have misinterpreted these instructions. Here is an extract: As you can see Hivecls.inf creates Classes in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. here are the RunOnce entries in Entries_NetMeeting_DeleteAddon.ini that reset driver signing to the default of warn at the last reboot: [EditFile] HIVECLS.INF,AddReg,Addline1 HIVECLS.INF,AddReg,Addline2 [Addline1] HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce","DriverSigning",,"reg add ""HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Driver Signing"" /v Policy /t REG_BINARY /d 1 /f" [Addline2] HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce","DriverSigning2",,"reg add ""HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Driver Signing"" /v BehaviorOnFailedVerify /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f"

Don't have a good proxy to test right now It's just that the previous version for Vista posted in this thread stopped working with you tube at all a few days ago and this new one works again

The newest versions of Vxkex Next has introduced experimental support for Win8/win8.1. 最新版本的Vxkex Next已经实验性引入了对于win8/win8.1的支持。

Yes regular chromium without compatibility patches. Just tested Ungoogled Chromium 142.0.7444.58 and it works. Google Chrome should work too (when installed somewhere else and copied over), but it's spyware (installer even more so) and I don't want to even test it.

Hi, Microsoft Update Restored is still a work in progress, due to Microsoft killing the official V6 website. If you right-click on the page, you should see "errorinformation.aspx", but the page is trying to retrieve resources from Microsoft (which now no longer exist). We're working on a solution to MU being so picky. For now, you can use Windows Update V5 or V6, which will provide you with the exact same updates, the only difference being that those two sites work. What if the user wants to use Windows Update instead? That's exactly what this project is about... Litteraly having to visit the Windows Update website after installing. We rely on Microsoft's servers, updates are served the same way and come from the same source. Both ways of updating Windows are valid, but it's to the user to decide how they want to do it.

Support for EJS is now implemented in yt-dlp master branch. https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2025.11.01.082330

Anyone know the reg key to disable compact mode in the address bar? I have a custom msstyles.

Does it work with proxies?

Is it normal Chrome, not Supermium?

It was said with honesty. You see, Amazon would simply fail within the closed pre-1991 Era Western World. With the demands and quality expectations of the Western population, no one would buy Czech Republic's Czechoslovakian flammable Skodas or their disgusting cosmetics that smells like hell, no one would buy the other overpriced, utter crap they sell at Amazon. But with the influx of the Eastern populace that came to the West after the fall of the wall, it all changed, the demands overall have lowered because they are fine with their crappy goods. Do you remember the goods we had before 1991? Again, as an American, you would probably not completely understand. The US goods weren't that fantastic to begin with, so sorry. I was very little in the 90s, but I still remember.

It's all very confusing since you made several topics, but all relating to just one paid, the same, subscription. Yes, Vista is not a broken operating system. And I'm referring to the Haswell patch, under the same subscription. But it doesn't fully work, you wrote yourself. So having no DRM isn't anything fantastic, DRM would simply fail. Looking at your testings, it's more like vapourware at this point.

Welcome, I once twice had a case where Win7 would BSOD until I replaced it, but Memtest86+ found no errors. Manufacturer: Kingston, Taiwan.

Just tested on Vista seems to work well

Here is another test version, using the PR fork with EJS support (also works on Vista). Instead of Deno, Windows 7 (and Vista) users can install QuickJS.

Yes, but you must do it manually.

Fix what? Second System is not a fix and Vista (sp2) is not a broken operating system. And if you are referring to Haswell patch, it's a completely different product just under the same subscription

@roytam1 I have a build of Firefox 31.0a1 working with Visual C++ 2008. The build works on Windows XP RTM, but crashes in Windows 2000 due to missing uxtheme.dll. https://github.com/ClassicNick/gecko-vc9-dev/releases

Hi, Please, is there a way to get csmwrap work from a usb key with a dos 7 (or freedos) also on the usb key? I would like to use it in this config on a UEFI class 3 laptop. Thank you!

You can pin them.

When using taskbar plumpness, the corner radius does not match the system tray flyout with the selection box.

LOL, I love it (for an America). It still needs work. When I am tired, the punctuation gets much worse. You're speaking my language, now. American English enunciation is a crime to competency. The destructive evolution of defining specific words, in the U.S., is also awful; but that is a newer development.

Thanks! GoldMemory listed a substantially larger range.

Thank you too for the interesting conversation, for an American, your English is rather good. One (logical) reason could be to make an attempt to jointly prevent the French, or the Dutch, from overtaking the young, newly formed country in 3 days. But if the Brits knew how their sacred language will be uglified by the Americans, the deal would be off. P.S. A good observation,

Well, it is nitpicking at this point (on may part); but it still would not prevent Global Governance. You can still run different petri dishes under different rules, and be under the same umbrella of Governance. You can even have stand-offs and wars between them. It would probably work way better, than moving everything to the exact same culture of rule (Open Global Governance). There is a/some history of aristocrats and rulers fearing their own public, more than an invasion. As terrible as it may seem, there is a sound logic to sending males to battle other males (a less powerful public, during times of native unrest [especially if wishing to implement radical change]). While this it is really unlikely to have been the case "extremely" often, you can bet it has been used as a kind of population control; acts of straight out genocide being more documented. America has a pretty strong heritage of having running the Brits out. But, in reality, there is documentation of sizable British forces still being present there, after America won its independence; not long present, but enough to raise questions for some. While I won't say the whole thing was a sham (not nearly well enough informed to deny or support it) you can see the "liberation" of America being a pretty huge selling point, to get plenty of folks risking everything to develop an undeveloped territory. A large quantity of people failed, in the process of developing America. People seeking freedom of religion, freedom to develop experimental utopias, and other enamored by escaping the oppression of their native lands. There is a good chunk of that freedom that has since been revoked. For example, many delighted in the idea of allodial titles; a privileged mostly enjoyed by kings. As the government developed, this type of ownership ideal really kinda disappeared, and is now similar to what is available in many other countries today. This is "JUST" an example; so please, no one run with it as some kind of conspiracy theory. But it does show how blood and bullets could be considered cheap, when your philosophy is that you own it all anyway. What is harder to own, is the beliefs of the people. But, there is a large amount of documentation showing that great progress and success has been had there, for a very very long time. That aside, thank you for reminding me about "Checkpoint Charlie". I had fun distracting myself by digging into different aspects of it; as is available on the web, anyway. I could really easily agree with you about "Open Globalized Governance", as opposed to just the idea of a "Functional Globalized Governance". The latter likely only to be entertained speculatively (by the public), while for former being something likely quite obvious to the inhabitants thereof.