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  1. UCyborg
    I'll cancel the internet subscription before they get me to use Chrome 127. I've gotten rid of both Supermium and Thorium, still too many Google's fingerprints all over the place, think I'll just use Firefox as a backup until that browser is ruined completely too.
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    How do you do that?
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    Even in the best scenario, it seems I would need a more decent soldering iron to hope to be able to get even a single capacitor off board. If I learned anything from this and the initial enthusiasm to do something on my own and investments that I put into it, is that in these cases, I'm better off with the good old "throw it away when it's dead" approach.
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    I see a bank's MFA app encrypting its files to make them unusable when moved to different computer the same as a web browser encrypting its files to make them unusable when moved to a different computer. You don't even have to move them, just start over with a new Windows install and they're useless.
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    Modern web sucks with constant reliance on new bells and whistles. Slightly off-topic, but I encountered another oddity with self-compiled build of Pale Moon on Raspberry Pi 5, enabling subtitles on https://piped.video/ makes the browser get stuck with full CPU core utilization. Then go ahead and try being @roytam1 and roll your own builds.
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    Oh, so this is where Moonchild crew is going (regarding AVX builds)! https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-x86-64-v3-Experiment https://www.phoronix.com/news/RedHat-RHEL10-x86-64-v3-Explore BTW, H.265/HEVC video codec was brought up a while back, the only browser with working implementation that doesn't require GPU support for it I found is Thorium.
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    Because it's more of a nuisance than genuine security feature. To me, it's the same s*** most banks are pulling off with convoluted ways to lock access to one's account/banking services to one device. And how are we more "secure" for it?
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    Not strictly related, but I remember panic about simulations of black hole they were doing at CERN that wasn't literal black hole, but some people believed it'll make a black hole that will eat the Earth. That was over a decade ago. I wonder if anyone thought about the digital junk. All the stuff that's kept on our storage devices and in data centers. Some say we should think about that as well. Also, what about celebrities and other rich people? How terrible is the average nobody in comparison? Maybe we're still terrible in numbers. But we don't fly around in private jets at least. I don't know, the more I think about it, the more I'm lost in the maze. Hey, anyone ever told you if all people were like you, everything would collapse? So on one hand, you can be an average stupid c0ns00m3r, buying junk you don't need and polluting the planet. On the other hand, you can be humble and then you come out as selfish communist and anti-capitalist. "All businesses would collapse if everyone was like you!" Nothing makes sense.
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    Aw c'mon, another site all over the place due to the notorious new popular way of doing CSS, techradar.com. https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/android-15-could-tell-you-how-long-your-phones-storage-will-survive-for Well, what I picked up from the article and another place is that due the older eMMC standard, I probably have no way of telling the state of internal storage of my smartphone that is in its 10th year.
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    Yes, well, @AstroSkipper likes UXP browsers very much and they don't encrypt their databases.
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    @D.Draker Sure, but it gets kinda old since MS in the forum name (Microsoft) is much larger term. OK, this might actually be more important on XP x64, I bet Chromium calls infamous SetProcessDEPPolicy on XP x86, which doesn't exist on x64 XP (different branch). But if it does not call it appropriately on XP x86, does the OS get out of the way and enable it with the right flag in the .exe? What you see below isn't the default state on XP x64: I made a jump to the data section where I put a NOP instruction and tried to execute it. Prerequisite: Otherwise, no access violation.
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    Isn't this enabled by default unless you go out of the way to turn it off? Every program these days is compiled with NX Compat flag. This particular feature of the CPUs is ANCIENT at this point. The only people that turn it off have issues in their head (IMHO).
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    Maybe I'm the only one doing regular things (web, videos, music, occasional (re)programming, games). Seeing IT from different perspectives has taught me worrying about software bells and whistles too much is unhealthy and in the end you die anyway.
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    And you want a medal for it? You think that makes you special?
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    Isn't this encryption thing Windows only? I'm almost sure you can move Chromium based browser profiles around on Linux by default. Almost because last time I tried it was with Edge around version 94 era and I just replaced the distro (Arch-based -> Debian-based) on the same machine and kept Edge's profile folder from somewhere under .config folder. Likewise, there's no registry on Linux, so how do extensions' settings survive there? No Thorium at hand at the moment, but I tried getting rid of Supermium's registry key, launched the browser, extensions and their settings survived. Just the picture showing the extensions so I don't have to write them down.
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    This PreferenceMACs key is the strange one, extensions' data it holds are all binary, but it's always brought up when profile migrations are brought up. I don't know about registry in general either, I prefer a static set of programs for main Windows install so things don't get deleted constantly from registry. It would be interesting to have some reproducible way to "gunk it up" to make computer slow. There's a lot of snake oil out there for registry, "leaving it alone" works for me, I only mess with it if I know about some user program's setting I want to change or if I want to alter Windows behavior in some specific way. I definitely never went out of the way to block programs from writing their stuff there if that's how they were programmed. I ran NTRegOpt every once in a blue moon, but the impression I got was that in my case fragmentation was always low and not worth the bother. Windows itself (re)writes stuff there all the time, can't say if it really makes things slower with time.
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    All I get from e10s on Serpent are bugs, random extensions not working, can't even use Actual Window Manager with the browser on XP, just makes basilisk.exe stuck with full CPU core utilization.
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    Sometimes I wonder what people that frequent this forum actually do on their computers besides running new browsers on ancient Windows versions or trying to run ancient Windows versions on even more ancient hardware or more modern hardware.
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    It was more of a philosophical question concerning the crazy rate of changes to the code.
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    He just came up with that abbreviation several days ago. Yeah, not obvious unless you follow the posts here religiously. Moz would've been more obvious since that is the abbreviation Mozilla uses in their code. Well, at least my brain quickly associates Moz with Mozilla, mo could be the cow mooing.
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    You'd need Vulkan driver by AMD, Nvidia or Intel for it. No such drivers exist for XP AFAIK. Is there even a single OpenGL 4.x game for Windows XP out there? OpenGL 4.5 is available on XP with recent enough Nvidia drivers, at least in theory. These projects are focused more on providing legacy D3D support where it's not available (eg. Linux) or where there might be quirks in native implementations (modern drivers on modern Windows), if you run XP, chances are you have period correct hardware with good support for those APIs.
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    There is a build of KMGoanna from 2020 that runs HexGL smoothly on Windows XP when you set both WebGL and webpage compositing to use OpenGL. I've not seen another build like it since. Admittedly, I haven't checked any of 2024 builds yet. Maybe it's old Mozilla bug, but I haven't checked any old Firefox versions. The issue seems to crop up in recent SeaMonkey builds as well, but they've fallen quite behind the Moonchild's crew.
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    Official build of PM 33.0.0 from January 2023 renders this correctly, roytam1's builds from that time do not. So rather than new Googlism it looks more like an old roytam1's bug. One of those that go on for years! Same for wrestlingforum.com.
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    This branch is 1256 commits ahead of, 36159 commits behind chromium/chromium:main. What does an average Joe get out of those commits?
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