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The message comes from Gitea. The workaround for the problem (missing SubmitEvent) is supposedly implemented, that's why there's a warning. Although the question is whether the discussed failure is related or not.
Hm, Moonchild crew migrated from GitHub because it (the web interface) didn't support their browser (maybe there were other reasons too), now they use Gitea to host their source code repo which also expects stuff missing from their browser.
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LOL, calm down!
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10 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:
Or what do you think?
I think we don't really know the real troubling factor and just speculating so far. If you force affinity to one core, then OS will schedule that program on that one core, so theoretically, things wouldn't be able to truly run in parallel in that program. Regarding 32-bit and 64-bit, they're just 2 modes and the OS must setup things for 32-bit programs, so I guess 32-bit context is as real as on 32-bit CPUs. That one core on multi-core CPU will obviously be different than the core of other single-core CPUs, but I guess you could say the same for different single-core CPUs.
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No idea, but I didn't manage to reproduce on my machine, I tried forcing Mypal 68.14.0b on single-core, kept multi-process enabled, couldn't break uBO 1.57.2.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4VCf_J338
Interesting, and there's me taping the old phone together.
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Sorry for the senseless bump, but I'm a bit anxious about the day the trusty old Xperia E3 breaks, it's already banged up somewhat since clumsiness is in my crappy genes...think I've improved slightly in the course of the last decade, but the damage is done, mostly just the case and damaged camera lens (another even more stupid accident that at least wasn't entirely my fault) which I eventually recently lost...had it taped on (didn't retape in time) so at least there was some hard cover on when camera wasn't in use, I don't use the camera for anything interesting...
I don't know, I just like my old stuff. If I could go back in time and get the old one as factory new... At workplace for work stuff, my department got smartphones recently, Samsung Galaxy A15. I think I'd rather have another old banged up Xperia than one of these modern bricks for personal use. I know software support is going bye-bye one by one...ugh...
Wish I had the idea what to get when the day comes.
On 9/19/2022 at 6:25 PM, jaclaz said:the one I have is the King Kong Mini
Did you order it directly from https://shop.cubot.net/?
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12 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:
Maybe, this multi-process mode is not compatible with every hardware?
Some bugs could look like that in practice. One program I work with at my workplace had an issue in the past where a specific function caused the crash, we noticed at some point during diagnosis the customer is using single-core CPU. It crashed on our test systems as well when we ran the program with affinity set to 1 core.
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15 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
Win7 required a registry hack to power down the USB port when the device connected to that port was "removed" via built-in removal.
Google it, hundreds of articles on it.
Might be, I said I don't recall exactly, just seem to (mis?)remember that LED on USB flash drives always powered down on my Windows systems (if this is any indication), but it's been a while since I've actually used Windows 7 specifically and don't have a usable Win7 install at hand to test. Win7 was my main OS in the older days.
I wanted to point out generalizations may not be 100% accurate. For example, if I "eject" my phone on XP x64, it still charges. If I do that on Win10, charging stops.
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19 hours ago, j7n said:
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.
True. You fix those with an USB cable and typing strange commands in console.
Strange things are always encountered when deviating from official or just being on too old. I deleted Android Auto as it seems to be a dead end on an old phone. Maybe not if you're hacking wizard. Maybe I should buy an iPhone next time?
Noticed on APKMirror Google's apps' version histories are absolutely insane.
I'd say both email and smartphone already form a master key these days.
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9 hours ago, Amigafever said:
Update: perhaps we should contact AdGuard to provide compatible filters.
There isn't anything they can do I think, old uBO simply doesn't have the function for removing parameters from URLs.
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I don't recall Windows 7 not powering down USB device on eject. Maybe it was some strange chipset driver?
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5 hours ago, j7n said:
Gingerbread 2.9
That would be (Android) 2.3.
I still have a Samsung Galaxy Mini, sitting unused in a drawer, half physical buttons broken with a battery which depletes in half-hour or so.
It was upgraded to Android 4 something unofficially. Latest Android 4 is also pretty much dead.
I wanted to try Android Auto on a newer phone (unofficially upgraded to Android 7.1.2) some time ago, not because it is something I really need, just curious as the new car came with Android Auto support. Turned out that software also comes with expiration date. Can't even use an older version of the app. Searching "run android auto on older phones" returned practically nothing.
Late edit: I've got a hitch to experiment with this again, actually got further this time with one of the latest versions that could still be run (7.4.620993), made it to the main interface somehow, not sure if adding Android Auto to MagiskHide was the key (hiding root access from it). Android Auto wants oversized Google App to run, we'll see if the phone is still usable with it installed...had to do the dance with deleting whole Dalvik cache (which AFAIK isn't even Dalvik on Android 7 but the folder is still called like that) to force install Google App along with updated Maps on very size limited internal storage.
Did experimenting with Android Auto before rebooting, which is a bad idea when I've just nuked the cache... Later when I rebooted the phone, it took a while, but it didn't get stuck and still have little breathing room on internal storage. Still have to check if it even works in the car...
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4 hours ago, Dave-H said:
Back on topic, has anyone else using Thorium noticed it sometimes not loading web fonts?
I noticed it on Google Street View.
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22 hours ago, 66cats said:
Don't think most people who run XP/Vista today do it out of practical considerations/because their HW can't handle a later OS. For me, it's more like running a vintage car as a daily driver -- impractical, hard to explain the appeal, but fun nevertheless.
Vintage vehicles don't have Google's software on-board, modern ones may do.
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I've got better things to do than figure out what every site's inline script I visit does.
A lot of it is non-free JavaScript (like Richard Stallman puts it), so you could say it's oppressive in a way. But you either trust the sites or you don't and I still have a little bit of faith, if I didn't, my existence would be completely unbearable. My brain only has limited capacity, so there's a lot of free code out there that I have trouble understanding as well. If regular expressions aren't your thing, Proxomitron won't be either.
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1 hour ago, AstroSkipper said:
The JavaScript command
Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone;leads in New Moon 28, Serpent 52 and Firefox ESR 52.9 to the same, wrong output (or should I say the same, currently wrong output?
) under Windows XP:
"Etc/GMT-1"
Firefox works as expected here.
5 hours ago, Ben Markson said:So now the question is, where is Serpent getting the "UTC" string from and why doesn't it get "Europe/London"?
Here, I get the same as @AstroSkipper, so "ETC/GMT-1".
Edit: Serpent 52 also shows correct output when run on Windows 11.
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I also observe the problem with
new Date().toLocaleString();
with the clock lagging behind by one hour in Serpent 52. XP x64, usual settings for Slovenia, so GMT +01:00 + auto adjust for DST. I do use registry hack for the OS to interpret CMOS clock as UTC time, although I guess I'm one of the few that do, from which it seems fair to assume it's likely not related.
Pale Moon on Win11 shows actual current time for my location.
Also still lagging by one hour when called like this on Serpent:
new Date().toLocaleString('sl');
New Chromium backports (Supermium and Thorium) seem to behave as expected on XP in that regard.
I haven't checked Firefox 52.9 yet.
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18 hours ago, UCyborg said:
Right now, Win10/Win11 with all the background processes still have SIGNIFICANT advantage running Chromium on my (aging) hardware.
That said, I could live with it when it comes to general browsing where it's not the end of the world unless you're too picky, but when it comes to heavy stuff, including Google Street View...well things like that could be the the reason to take Chrome, unless you already use it as main browser, I still prefer the alternatives in general, despite their flaws...
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It seems there's something about memory compression in Win10/11 that keeps some of those values down (I disabled it recently for testing). Physical memory usage didn't increase much with opening that Reddit page, maybe 100 - 200 MB.
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On 4/18/2024 at 3:09 AM, j7n said:
These sites are real pigs: YouTube, HDtracks and new Discogs (contains a mandatory YouTube window).
I was just scrolling through one comments page on (new) Reddit and it made private bytes figure of palemoon.exe in System Informer go up by about a gigabyte (Win11, 32-bit Pale Moon 33.0.2), same in page file window of System Informer. Not sure I saw that gigabyte anywhere in Task Manager, at least it wasn't under any paged category.
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I don't know what uBO users at large value as super important, there are a lot of under the hood changes, one of the things that stood out to me were filters using $removeparam, AdGuard URL Tracking Filter list uses those exclusively for removing tracking parameters from URLs when navigating web pages. Number of changes, including this one, come from later versions that saw much code cleanup, meaning, in layman terms, you can't copy-paste code directly from web extension. There's loads of now closed issues that were opened once for the extension... Also newer versions have some code parts written in WebAssembly for performance reasons.
Anyway, don't look at me for big updates, I hate programming...maybe I'll still try to get some of the easier stuff into the old extension, not right now though as I'm not in the right place mentally.
The older I get, the more software seems like politics. A bunch of bickering how to achieve certain result...
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14 hours ago, XPerceniol said:
Requires a lot of patience.
13 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:Bingo!
While it is a great thing for Supermium and Thorium to bring "cutting edge" browse-ability to XP, it is clear that XP is quickly quickly quickly becoming something only seen in RETIREMENT HOMES.
You know, where the user has 40 minutes to perform what would only take 4 minutes in Win10.
I think I'll try either browser on XP again next time when/if GPU acceleration makes a comeback. Right now, Win10/Win11 with all the background processes still have SIGNIFICANT advantage running Chromium on my (aging) hardware. Though you could also say XP hasn't seen significant changes in over a decade.
But in either case, latest Chrome and retro don't go together too well. It's a bit like trying to get Grand Theft Auto V going on PlayStation 2. I wouldn't expect much on very old computers.
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13 hours ago, XPerceniol said:
Yes, My Dell Dimension 3000 also has serial ports and a floppy drive.
Actually, mine just has a floppy connector, I don't have any actual floppy drive available anymore.
But you can put FreeDOS on USB flash drive and browse mostly simple web sites with Links as there's a network driver available that actually works with onboard NVIDIA Ethernet adapter (on ASUS M3N78 motherboard). It's pretty quiet in DOS though. Last time I played with it, there was a newer audio player available which name I don't recall that was supposed to work with Intel HD Audio compatible sound chips and even port of Quake II game to DOS (called Q2DOS), also claiming being able to output sound through those, though the latter only detected the chip name, both programs were silent.
13 hours ago, XPerceniol said:Sorry about the edits and that fact that I only replied to parts of your posting, but my mind is clogged up for some reason today.
Yeah, I also write as much it comes to me.
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14 hours ago, George King said:
Fully updated Windows is always key, specially in XP days. I can't uderstand why a lot of people ignoring UpdatePacks and they crying and complaining. It's still same after another 10 years.
System requirements mention XP SP1. SP1! Where are those days... 99% of developers wouldn't even mention it as it's usually support nightmare (dealing with updateless OS). But number of people seem to have weird beliefs about updates, thinking they're smarter running without them and expecting everything to run smoothly regardless.
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MyPal 68
in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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Multi-process won't work as designed then.
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/07/11/firefox-nightly-out-of-process-web-extensions/
And potential compatibility issues with extensions, eg. https://github.com/hackademix/noscript/issues/148