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Delay may be reduced by modifying/adding string pref general.useragent.override.youtube.com on about:config page and setting it like so: Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:6.0) Goanna/20230219 Firefox/42.0 PaleMoon/32.0.1 I think the main thing is that it contains an ancient Firefox version along with a string it doesn't recognize so it's not 100% sure you're on old Firefox and won't show unsupported browser page, but the rest of their spaghetti code will go through faster that way (or you're being served a faster version, IDK).

Ha, the one I'm writing from now has only 2 GB of RAM minus 256 MB taken for video RAM. The other machine I have has 4 GB. Work laptop has 12 GB, but that doesn't count since it belongs to the company. On-topic, there's also Product Key Scanner by Nir Sofer.

It was a slow weekend. I saw a Zastava 750 today when I took the dog for a walk. Cute car! Got 32-bit Debian 11.6 with KDE installed on my laptop last week and finished with post-install stuff yesterday, now just wandering on the internet aimlessly. Tick tock goes the clock...

I had it too about a year ago, spent little over a week in the room to not infect anyone else. It was like mild cold. The good part, it was also like getting gratis leave from work!

In defense of @NotHereToPlayGames, I think he meant if there is anything useful in this thread that isn't in the list in the first post, it is likely to be missed, eg. Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3, which I brought up years ago. Though this program is EOL since, so it cannot be run on any OS unless you have it activated since activation server was online or you're in possession of a bypass for its licensing system (or are willing to figure it out on your own), which cannot be discussed here.

I've come to the conclusion about my parents due to few times when there were some LGBTQ related news, there were either sounds of disgust or negative remarks and me thinking back then c'mon, none of them killed your dog or something. It'd be weird if I was anywhere on that spectrum, one problem I'll never have, but, strange to think about all sorts of things that people have to (or don't have to) deal with. I had to search for a bit for me to click that it was really hinting towards ecological accident. I've got a haircut by a guy one or two times, nothing shocking, just different feel, that one guy worked in the salon I visit for a relatively short time and I always signed up for the first free term, so whoever gave it to me got to work on my hair. There were two women and a man, now it's just two women. Thanks for the laugh about dental hygienist visit!

My parents are homophobic. A bit disturbing coming from your own family, but that's what humans tend to be good at. Hate, hate and more hate. Why aren't we extinct yet?

It's a profitable industry, you know, eg.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Modern_Warfare_II_(2022_video_game) Like arms industry, what better time for it than now? And the pretenders that are supposedly for peace are happily prolonging the suffering. One thing I heard about one of the programmers that used to work where I work, he had to get drunk 3 times a week to keep his sanity. At the end of the day, we all do what we have to do to get by.

Maybe if I ever get too bored.

"This device working properly" only means that the device driver is loaded and doing whatever it is supposed to be doing. The disk had trouble reading data in the past and it's possible that some files have been altered since.

So I've read, but didn't feel like trying it. And I deleted the other, bad one.

I meant people who use Chrome. Firefox won't die as long as it's distinctive from Chrome in one way or another that some people would find useful. And I don't think fork(s) that try to preserve its initial philosophy will die either. Same way desktop Linux doesn't die. Low market share, but so what? It has its audience.

I work where one of those fancy corporate database connected applications are developed. Windows 7 is not supported (but still works), no support for company's old programs (no staff that would know them either) and said programs are basically EOL rather than just EOS due to licensing system they use. No one gives a damn.

Reason being, they've sold their soul to Google. R.I.P., @NotHereToPlayGames. It would, multi-process web browsers are major resource hogs. Feodor2 probably doesn't rebase DLLs? That would help with RAM consumption in multi-process mode.

Not sure why it behaves like that in this case in particular since data is supposed to be flushed to disk eventually anyway if it's enabled. I leave that turned on as the performance hit without it is horrible. Yeah, AFAIK writing to the bad sector remaps it. I also have a problem with my data disk, 17 bad sectors, not sure how to go about it. I was going to make an image of it and rewrite it to strengthen the magnetic records before I noticed the problem, it's over 10 years old at this point, bought in 2010 I think, now this is stopping me, dd probably won't like the bad sectors, few days ago I rescued one of the files (it was downloaded from the internet so nothing lost), but original just couldn't be read, got CRC error from Windows. I'm not sure how to check which files are bad, would 7-Zip let me know if I just select the folder and initiate checksum calculation? Do I start copying to another disk with Robocopy to check? Thinking of giving Ddrescue (Wikipedia) a spin eventually, but I currently have zero experience with that program.

Hey, chin up, this forum's not too bad I think. The outside world is much more terrifying.

I haven't a clue what's it like on the "other side". There were few occasions when I detected a slight hint of envy from some of my co-workers for being single. Bruh', all you had to do for being single was literally "nothing". It wasn't my habit in the past. These days, life's just rough and I'm lost. No one to talk to IRL. Venting online doesn't help much, even of some of us are able to relate to each other, we're still powerless to help each other or ourselves.

Adding to @VistaLover's thoughts on off-topic, sometimes there are posts that are related in a way to the browsers, eg. extensions' specifics, which would probably be better off in separate topic for organization's sake. But I get it's convenient to just post here. By the way, YouTube still functions in vanilla Chromium 55, this version is from December 2016, at least as far as playback goes. The reason for me pointing out this particular version is that I simply had that version installed on the laptop with the old Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation, which I haven't used in a long time.

It did break up the monotony a bit.

I guess sometimes something just snaps in one's mind and then things are never the same again. I'll never understand how these so-called loners get to the point of reproducing. What a paradox. I tried mIRC a very long time ago, just out of curiosity, was in elementary school period, didn't stay there, only remember one short convo with someone that was just messing around. If there was more, it must have been even more pointless so not worth memorizing. Dating sites? What are those (rhetoric question) ? I know a place on Reddit where loners who would like to be with someone vent. Sad, that situation is one of many forms of suffering. I only use Skype to annoy my co-workers, haha. While job keeps me busy, I'd prefer something more pleasant in its place, but what can ya' do?

I had better luck in high school (until it fell apart, I will say it was nice 'till it lasted). There was no one in college. But then I'm also unapproachable, tend to stick to some corner to be on my own, have big doubts about trusting others and finally, just don't appear at the right places (and at the right times). I also avoid social media (Facebook/Twitter kind). I remember bit of high school when the reason I made FB account was to be in the group with classmates for an occasion someone posted something useful for exams. Back then that site at least made more sense design-wise (later they just implemented mobile design on the desktop, everything was so big, zoomed-in and...no idea what's it like today). But besides that group where I lurked, I was like: "The heck am I supposed to be doing here?" I only remember people there posting all kind of random stuff. Nowadays job keeps me busy for the most part, but these thoughts still creep-in in free time. Currently, I just live with them 'cause what am I supposed to do? I just continue to do whatever I feel confident about, which isn't much, but I have to get through the day somehow.

I held back as I haven't a clue how comfortable folks here are about those themes. I guess it's irrational since they could see right away if they followed the link. Is there still hostility between Moonchild and roytam1? I meant to refer to the fact that they couldn't cooperate in the same way Moonchild cooperates with other developers since Moonchild wouldn't want the platform to cater to the lowest common denominator. I do agree there's no harm in roy doing his own thing. I don't follow closely so I've no idea if roytam1 sometimes also makes pull requests to the upstream when it come to common, not platform-specific code.

@mina7601 Should've figured... I think it wasn't meant to be taken as seriously. I'll take some silly and ridiculous over vileness and hostility that has been appearing throughout the world and history. This person I mentioned, we used to chat every day. Now it's just history. Was about your age then. Continuing... ...this was one of a kind thing that happened once and it seems it won't happen again. Personal interactions with others...is a mystery to me...how you start it, what you say, how to keep it going...I mean it happened ONCE that I seem to have got it right...but that was then, the combination of circumstances that just happened to work I guess...these days I doubt my understanding of definition of "friendship". Just a thought about these online-only interactions...I think they work for exchanging ideas and such, but at least to me, this artificial layer between us just doesn't feel right, even though some say they have online friends. I'm the last guy to ask for advice on these matters, but on feeling bad about disappointing others and such, if it's any consolation, some of us out there may have bizarre mental brakes (or anxieties, if you will) and may not know how to respond in certain cases.

Something in your immediate environment or the world in general or both? The 1st could come down crashing at any time, so...but that article...what does it mean nothing would change if one won the lottery?? Well, that was one example of a bigger event. For me at least, I can imagine it would certainly give some space to breathe, could move away, build a house done right the first time...throw some current anxieties out the window...maybe figure out some new interests. Though it could bring new anxieties and some people crash harder than they ever did before in the end. It's the sad fact that money corrupts, but without it, you're pretty much screwed. Getting used to being worse-off? Ugh, I'd rather not, but it's all random, a Russian roulette, no pattern, just life throwing rocks at you. My father passed away as well. He was a workaholic and distant. It was weird, we were like two people that just happened to live under the same roof. There was also drama due to the way he functioned, rather anti-family. I kept myself out of it, which thinking about it now, was a bit frustrating to the rest of the family: "Why he never says anything?" I guess things were a bit better in my childhood, but, it was strange, he was a backbone of the family, but lacked that personal side of a "real" father. It was difficult for me to even talk to him. There was never a deep conversation between us, not once. I'm close to my mother and my brother's the funny guy of the family. There's no one outside the family though, hence I concluded 3rd point as lacking. There was one person I kept in touch with for over a decade, but it seems he has decided he doesn't want anything to do with me anymore. Seems to be an ordinary weekend, I've caught up a bit on the sleep, went for a walk, drove to the library (not for me, though, at least not for the books, just to go out), going to watch some quiz on TV and then, I dunno...probably waste some time on computer, listen to some same old tunes, scroll on Reddit... I'm thinking I should replace Linux distro I have on the laptop, it's an old Ubuntu version, forgot which one, must be 7 years old by now. Maybe tomorrow if don't procrastinate again. I'm thinking of Debian, supposedly one the last big distros available in x86 flavor. I haven't dribbled much with Debian before, might be interesting.

Radically different philosophies. Moonchild needs someone to advance the browser, not keep it in early 21st century.