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That's close to the situation that I described. Proton and Tuta relatively new services. One signs up them for free to solve a need, and then forgets about them (because they are slow, the security need has passed, or they made a radical change). After some time I don't remember anymore what I used to sign up. I did use Proton once for a sensitive thing, and it was quite impossible with RoyTam'š browsers. I'm vary of trying to upgrade a smartphone to new Android. It's not a PC where I can insert a boot CD and fix it. Even if 4 would work, that is still old. I tried to use Telegram on it, which at its core is just a text chat, and the old versions wouldn't work. Authentication would also come as some app with requirements for new OS and SSL.

On almost every forum or forum-like website we need an e-mail. Using it we can change passwords almost unrestricted, in rare cases there might be a secondary security question (your pet's name). Some websites now enforce a password change every once in a while. Even some simple discussion boards. The e-mail is assumed to be much more trustworthy than whatever else that is password protected, and access to the e-mail is set in stone. But that is not necessarily true. We can forget the password to it just the same. Increasingly often an e-mail is just a website, and not something tied to my person. Back when Google was still young and brown, I used to juggle a few accounts there to access to some stuff that had "X per user". Over time the site became bloated as it is, and I let those accounts lapse from my memory, and maybe from their cloud. My ISP decided to discontinue its e-mail service in favor to a freemium bloat site. If I had quit my contract with the ISP, I would likely lose access to the e-mail within some period of time. (This didn't happen, but it should be expected.) Even before Baidu came to be, I used a mail server provided as a public service by my city council. It was free of ads, had POP access, simple web UI, and a decent amount of space: 5 to 15 MB. No need for more for plain letters that will be retrieved regularly. But people eventually expected more. And the city repurposed the domain to create some modern app service. They did give us an advance notice. But there are hundreds of internet sites that I can't remember to reassign. Some software or video game support site that I may need once a year. They keep chugging along just fine, until years later they decide it is time to up the security game and reset the password. Like the almighty Discogs. They have some money element to them because, besides ripping metadata, you can also trade records. I can't even recall which of the above options I used for signing up to it 12 years ago. I was without Internet for for about two years. When I returned, I used my old ISP e-mail to reset a whole host of sites. (It was old school and managed by the admins manually.) If one were to hack it, they could do that too. Because it unexpectedly is the "master key". I suspect that the smartphone might become the "master key" in the future. What if that fails or is lost? Or more likely deemed obsolete and unsupported. I have a Gingerbread 2.9 something smartphone, and I can do zero current "apps" on it. And it is younger than WinXP.

I haven't caught that moment. If I did, I might have a clue what caused it. If the scale was linear (excluding that it stops at 1), then a rating of 11 would put the counter at 76-82 thousand, which is over the 16-bit mark. The other values of seeks/errors done are happily holding 34 bits, and the temperature is two fields packed with something in bits 37-33. High-fly writes (0xBD) also seems to top out at 1. It seems to be a strict statistic, but hasn't caused problems yet.

You can use XnView Classic to browse images. In the Thumbnails view use Tools... > Search... > Include subfolders. Once the search is complete, click browse to see thumbnails in a flat list that spans multiple directories. The program has limited editing & batch conversion functionality. It is a respected graphics tool with a long history. I'm not familiar with Picasa.

My oldest disks now have 140,000 hours. The counters for ST2000VN and ST200VX have reset again! You can see that the current percentage rating is 86 and the worst it has ever been is 11. They don't seem to want to enter a leaderboard? The error count is from a bad cable (ST3320) and use of the HDAT2 tool (ST2000) where DMA was not correctly implemented.

Yes, almost always, when a site is rewrited fro the ground up today, it will make use of bulky scripts, and often appear as an "app" (maybe with a loading bar). To find something to download from a site like YouTube, I usually still need to open it to list the content. The titles don't always have unique keywords that will return the entries via Google search. I like how YouTube-DL has become smart now and can follow the Google redirect from search results. But if I want to read the text, for example, on an e-mail site like Protonmail or Discogs, then I need to browse it normally.

These sites are real pigs: YouTube, HDtracks and new Discogs (contains a mandatory YouTube window). Discogs announced with great fanfare how the dynamically loaded discography list would deliver an improvement in speed. What I used in the past to disable the embedded YouTube doesn't work anymore. Listening to 10x transcoded music is the last thing I want to do. New Moon is sitting with memory use oscillating between 1 gig and 2.5 gigs. I didn't think it could go over 2 gigs in 32-bit but apparently it can do large address. Nothing we can do about it I guess, but I want to express my frustration and disappointment. https://i.imgur.com/cnFBsY0.png

I can't make a print screen of an image that is bigger than the monitor, excluding toolbar space. Those are the ones I'd be most interested in saving. And there would be loss of quality from repeated encoding. I remember when website authors intoroduced the trick where the image wasn't its own element, but a background color defined in Style tags. Nothing could download it without digging through the cache. Eventually Firefox added support for it. But they have new tricks up their sleeve. If I click on Tools -> Page Info -> Media, I can download the image from there. It has a HTML extension. On other webpages with a large number of linked resources this is inconvenient.

When I try to save a album artwork from Rate Your Music, I get a text file saying; "Your export could not be completed because your browser is blocking scripts from Google (reCaptcha). Make sure to either whitelist Google scripts to run on our site or disable the related browser extensions that are blocking it." For example, here. (Any artwork is the same.) https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/kylie-minogue/kylie-7.p/buy/ 1. Click view cover art. 2. Solve the captcha. 3. Artwork is loaded. 4. Right-click to Save Image As. 5. Get the error "coverart_2.jpeg". They seem to have some kind of "hook" that runs on saving and does the switch. It is stupid because the image is loaded to the computer already, but cannot be saved. Such hooks should not be allowed, and image saving should be made more resilient. I've seen something simular on other sites, where the status bar gets busy when I do a save. And the image is reported as being 0 px.

YouTube comments have stopped crashing. I've not changed the New Moon version nor rebooted the PC.

With undemanding games you get more fps, and can increase the resolution, until the GPU is fully utilized. Your screenshot of Most Wanted shows 71 fps and 68%. Maybe you can limit the framerate. Back in WinXP times people without a gamer setup migh have gotten 30 fps, 800*600. Some of the earliest "modern" passive cooled video cards had the heatsink loop around the edge to catch some draft above the board.

Upgrade to another video adapter that has a fan. Jerry rig a case fan onto the heatsink (will be louder). Does the case have a good airflow? Problem is that the video card's heatsink in down in a pocket, so air will mostly go over it. I don't think the silent cards are meant for demanding gaming, but for a quiet movie theater PC, where the load is lower.

They changed something recently. It used to work, but I had to do the captcha every day. All I changed on my end is updated New Moon to the latest version.

Can't enter with Opium / Chrome 107. This browser actually works. There is a long pause before the next checkbox appears.

I can't enter Fanart.tv, which is perpetually protected by Cloudflare, using New Moon 28. The captcha checkbox can't be dismissed.