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I thought it'll be something more shocking.

My model came with dedicated OTA (Over The Air) update partition, it's occupied by TWRP recovery now, I never saw the original OTA update function in action. Though from what I've seen with newer phones, they tend to go smoothly in general, and I guess it's fine if you like the experience as manufacturer came up with. There are apps that I do update (manually). The few that might need Google's Play Services are actually happy with an older version of it. I keep Play Store disabled, otherwise, this one likes updating Google's core components regardless of the auto-update setting. Auto-update of Google's stuff can be messy with low storage capacity. Still learning new things after almost 10 years of ownership. I had no idea these things have software switch to disable charging. While I'm careful that I don't keep the battery at 100% for too long, some hours have been spent at that capacity. Someone seems to have really put a lot of work in Advanced Charging Controller. And I only got to know about it in 2024. Looks like I'm not updating Chromium (WebView) anymore. For Android 7, it ends at version 119. It's been a while since any phone I had was actually off, but if I recall, plugging them in then would only show the battery icon, I don't think the full OS booted in that case. Without charger plugged, nothing would ever show on the screen.

That appears to be a property accessible by websites to set text which shows on the status bar. I don't think anyone really uses it since status bar has come out of fashion. Maybe on some old websites? It's been a while since I messed with actual Firefox, so can't say if the scripts for bringing the status bar back (which are browser-specific thing and not something web developers deal with) also make the property serve its purpose. The property seems to work on Pale Moon at least unless you disable that function in status bar's settings, in which case setting the property won't affect text on the status bar.

SELECT originkey, SUM(LENGTH(value)) AS total_size FROM webappsstore2 GROUP BY originkey ORDER BY total_size DESC;

Because it doesn't support FinalizationRegistry that the website uses. Maybe other things as well.

Maybe CuteMouse.

Hm, should've put an /s. It wasn't meant to be a serious remark. Although everything eventually comes to an end. But parts of Windows are seriously questionable and one wonders what goes through their minds. Not just Windows. My bank figured they should replace a working mobile app with a new one. I had to set the profile image (on the website) to be able to get past login code entry screen. Yes, you have a profile picture in there, that's new. And before anyone thinks of social networks, we have those pictures in Windows XP as well. The thing was crashing with out of memory exception, because it is using one of the memory hungrier methods to load picture in Android...I think...at least that's what I deciphered from logcat and a bit searching on the internet, I forgot the details and didn't save the log. The default picture was 900x900 in size. My screen is smaller than that and the way it was displayed in the app, it is much smaller. Dedicated image viewers have no problem loading and displaying much larger pictures on the same device. As mentioned, solved that by uploading a smaller 500x500 picture on the website, then realized the app is as terrible UI wise as reviews on Google Play suggest it to be. Very poor use of screen real estate. And the old app is blocked now.

Thanks, I might give it a go some time in the near future. Building on Debian/Ubuntu does look straightforward according to published instructions, should be applicable to Raspberry Pi OS, although there's a question about the state of ARM support in the codebase. I stumbled upon a post by Moonchild few years back that support is supposed to be there and they do provide official Mac OS binaries for ARM, although Mac's ARM is supposedly its own thing, which they might have addressed at the later point, when standard ARM support was already there.

Is it just me, or are the forums rather inefficient communication medium? I feel like almost every time I post something on another forum with much more traffic, my topic immediately gets left behind. Sometimes you may be lucky to get a response if the right person just logged in at the right time, but generally, the forums look like a complete mess with topics popping up all the time.

Bet they wouldn't like Linux either (or some other Unix-like OS). But what else is there? I know, throwing the computer out the window!

Aye, though I've unlocked the bootloader on my Sony not long after I bought it (and voided the warranty). No regrets!

Looks like a Windows Forms app using the old WebBrowser control, uses Internet Explorer engine that's installed with the OS. We did stuff like that back in high school when starting out with GUI programs written in C#. It was good for the fundamentals, getting familiar with form editor in Visual Studio and event driven programming. But it's not an Internet Explorer fork, you can't fork proprietary closed-source browser. Replacements for WebBrowser control these days are Edge WebView2 or CEFSharp.

Part of my stylesheet dealing with reputation system on MSFN: @-moz-document url-prefix("https://msfn.org/board/topic/") { .ipsReact { display: none; } } @-moz-document url-prefix("https://msfn.org/board/profile/") { div.ipsReact_reactCountOnly { display: none; } } @-moz-document regexp("https:\/\/msfn\.org\/board\/\??(?:&?[^=&]*=[^=&]*)*") { li[data-blocktitle="Popular Contributors"] { display: none; } div.cWidgetContainer:nth-child(1) > ul:nth-child(1) { transform: rotate(180deg); } div.cWidgetContainer:nth-child(1) > ul:nth-child(1) > li { transform: rotate(-180deg); } } The order of elements on the sidebar is also changed so Topics comes first.

Must have been 9 years since I was in the cinema last time. Seems too much bother these days, I resort to torrents at the odd time I feel like watching a movie. The list from recent years is short, I watched The Matrix Resurrections (2021) in 2022, Storm of the Century (1999) in 2020, The Matrix trilogy (1999, 2003), Idiocracy (2006) and A Quiet Place (2018) in 2019. There are 2 quizzes and 1 satire on local TV channels that I do watch on the more regular basis though.

I'm not a coder either. I was more enthusiastic about it when I was younger and free from having to work for a living. Hacked up some stuff together, some published, some not. I find the whole thing rather boring these days, takes forever to get anywhere. I don't have forever anymore and I'd rather not be glued to the screen 16 hours a day. Feature requests? Yeah, I'm sick of those at work. Number of bizarre ones among them. I'm not in a position to implement them or decide whether they get implemented, I'm just a messenger. I'm feeling more disconnected from IT as I get older, wondering a lot of time what's the point of it all. A browser is a browser, a text editor is a text editor, a toaster is a toaster. People seem to be making an elephant out of everything. Why bother? An EMP blast can send everything to kingdom come in an instant.

2 ways come to mind: Hold Alt and type 32 on numeric keypad. On-Screen Keyboard, which comes with Windows. There are also tricks involving remapping one of the existing keys to Space, but I haven't dug into specifics of those.

As a new owner of Raspberry Pi 5, I shall demand an arm64 version with utmost stubbornness! Oh, who am I kidding, I know nothing will happen unless I try to do it myself...

I don't know, I have it on December 2023 cumulative update level, with ExplorerPatcher activating the old Win10 taskbar. Mentally exhausted...

Guess it reflects the state of modern crazy society.

I don't really have to use it either, must have been curious, so I put it on the smaller partition I have for testing Windows versions I don't daily-drive. Been' using it for a while, with the usual tweaks, switching back seemed to be too much bother. I hide Windows versions from each other, just in case, the Flintstones way, manually changing partition type with Linux's fdisk. The few programs I use work as usual. Not being able to drop files on taskbar programs' buttons is annoying though.

Asked around a little and got things cleared up regarding connections to the PCB. Those wires employed on the picture up there, they totally slipped by me, the method is described here. Another good solderless method would be press-fit headers. Just putting male headers in the hole wouldn't make a good contact. I didn't know we have a bunch of plain pin headers available at my workplace, the coworker from production said it was not a problem for him to solder them on my router, so I got that done in no time. Then I got a Raspberry Pi 5 and related accessories, set it up, got a look around the Raspberry Pi OS a bit, tried a bit of web browsing, put on Visual Studio Code, first time trying the latter and finally, I believe I have, at least in theory, a working version of tjtag-pi, my version is not published anywhere ATM, but generally it can access the router's CPU and flash memory over JTAG port, adapted to work on the new Pi, with the help of WiringPi library. I added one new function in the latter, which should flip the states of certain GPIO pins at once, or at least should happen a bit faster than the sequential way offered by the library, I basically just wrote a function that takes bit mask of pins to be set/clear, to closely emulate the GPIO pins maniupulation code of tjtag-pi. Whether this is necessary or not, I have no way of testing or otherwise knowing whether sequential flipping is really incorrect or just slightly less optimal, it's not a long intensive operation. But I've read about "bit banging", which is how communication is done through JTAG, that generally when it comes to bit banging, timings matter. Just in general, but in the case of these routers...the program has an option to wait between changes/reading of pin states, though judging by the comments, it was just a workaround for flimsy physical connection to JTAG port. As it turned out... ...I realized after trying another good working power supply, which compared to the other two, has a LED and it was blinking as well when powering the router while it should remain lit, that means only one thing, short circuit. So guess in best case scenario, only capacitors are faulty and in the worst case scenario, something else is fried. Ehhh... Oh well, I've got a working Raspberry Pi 5, so that's something.

Look here to see what's available beyond the land of official vendor's offerings. Be sure to carefully study the installation procedure for whatever OS you'll pick and backup everything on the phone before you get to it as data wiping will be unavoidable.

Drivers are complicated, especially graphics drivers, I'm happy if I can mod an program easier that doesn't run in the kernel. Multi-monitor setup is useful, thumbs up in any case if you can get it working. I'm just used to working in modern environment, while having old enough hardware that has full driver support for XP and since I still mess with XP occasionally, I merely wanted to point out there are some things about XP nobody talks about. Though it's also true there are crazy things you can do in XP that you can't do in newer versions anymore, eg. locking primary surface with DirectDraw to render something directly on the desktop. And the audio stack and related capabilities exposed through DirectSound, which still has HAL layer in XP. Creative's sound cards 3D mixing and audio effects (EAX) are exposed through it, though I've never owned a more complicated sound card, just simpler onboard stuff, still, one of those had some limited capabilities, enough to make Interstate '76 freeze entirely when you clicked something menu, which made DirectSound 3D Buffer, if hardware buffer could be created, it caused an issue, though I haven't investigated why software buffer worked and hardware one caused freezing. Though there are number of other issues with that game, but that's one of the the first things I noticed all those years ago, coming from Windows 95 to XP. That was a different time. I seem to recall @Tripredacus mentioning something else nice about the audio stack, something about outputting sound simultaneously, don't recall the details. Maybe he remembers.

Lot of buggy code in some old games, seems to be the major reason for not working or not working well, I used to write patches for some of them. I still think XP sucks in graphics department, even with a working graphics driver. Dual monitor? Yikes, can't have a Direct3D render smoothly on non-primary display. Even with just one screen, s***'s just often laggy and overdrawing each other when multiple windows are involved. Bleh.

Ugh, I see it's possible they could've taken out another component. https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubleshooting-hardware-devices-and-electronics-theory/troubleshooting-designing-networks/35202-linksys-wrt54gl-v1-1-bad-capxon-caps You'd think the modding guides for this router would warn about it: "Before you do anything, might as well replace those". By plugging onto a serial port with USB to RS-232 TTL converter, it could be seen if the console says anything, maybe erase NVRAM as well while plugging onto JTAG port would allow to re-install the bootloader. Apparently you can do the latter with Raspberry Pi, the older method is crafting special JTAG cable to plug onto computer's parallel port. My computer has that port, but this method doesn't seem worth the bother while Raspberry Pi looks interesting for other uses. Regarding pin headers, I was looking at these: https://www.digikey.si/en/products/detail/samtec-inc/pht-112-01-l-d/19020741 https://www.digikey.si/en/products/detail/samtec-inc/pht-110-01-l-d/10218549 One for JTAG (marked JP1), one for serial ports (marked JP2, I know only first row would be strictly needed, but what the heck), if headers are really needed to make good connection with jump wires and if I'm even looking at the right ones?? I realize replacing caps would make sense if the device still works in the first place, where soldering is unavoidable. The whole thing is mostly about satiating my curiousity at this point.