UCyborg

@msfntor Where do you keep finding all these thing you post? Regarding the last one, it's terrifying how meat sacks we're trapped in can fail us at any time.

I still fancy Aero era aesthetics, so my system looks similar to this. Precisely, most GUI controls use images exported from Win7's default Aero theme (so have rounded buttons among other things), but I use square window caption buttons, using an image that someone posted few years back in Aero Glass subforum. I think DWM expects those to be certain size. I remember sagorpirbd's theme also using a huge image for window borders, which technically isn't required, so I replaced it with a smaller one from another theme that has square (non-rounded) window borders. It's needed to have that white line around. It's a lot of clicking to replace all the images, and to make the whole thing proper, a number of images would have to be redrawn in a bigger size to properly support higher DPI settings that Win10 supports, but not Win7. Not good with drawing. I managed to do few simple ones like some arrows, which is just some lines. I resized the rest with an algorithm in Paint.NET (or was it GIMP, I know I toyed with both) and didn't dare to look how it actually looks in practice, it introduces blurring, so quite unprofessional. The linked themes from sagorpirbd's are for older Win10 builds and glitchy on newer ones as Windows' msstyles files weren't designed to be an universal format, for that, I presume a dedicated skinning application would be required. I guess it can be OK if you don't upgrade OS often and can live with some limitations that come with editing msstyles.

Apologies, it's VP9 in the browser. I guess the app defaulted to h.264 and I thought I was checking in the browser, which was a while back. It's possible that user agent doesn't determine anything except default setting whether to pick mobile/desktop site. Search for any Android user agent, eg. https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent/android.

Indeed, light GUI doesn't help if videos don't play smoothly. I'm a minority with my 8 years old smartphone, but in my case it's h.264. I think most mobile users access it via dedicated app, though it probably doesn't make a difference by default, compared to the mobile website. From a bit of searching, selected codec is device dependent. It wouldn't surprise me if AV1 is picking on steam (wasn't sure how to put it, hopefully it's understandable) on smartphones since saving bandwidth is one of the key characteristics and you usually don't have unlimited data through mobile carrier. Also considering the short time most people keep their smartphone for. https://bitmovin.com/av1-playback-support/ The thing with browsers forked from older Firefox, at least Pale Moon or more accurately UXP platform, AV1 support is disabled by default, but even if you enable it, it won't work on YouTube, though it may work on other sites (I only remember encountering test site to test AV1 support). I believe not working on YouTube is the result of the browser not doing something that mainstream browsers do and I seem to remember reading Pale Moon folks disabled it due to other more problematic issues related to it (would have to dig out that thread on their forum to know the specifics). Same, but it's also important to look at the platform (UXP), upon which application (Pale Moon) is built, The whole thing was forked off Firefox version that is indeed old, but there was some work put into it so the resulting browser is not old, looking at the age at least and it does things these days old Firefox didn't. It's just not enough for a number of messy websites. If you want an extreme example...Links...not old, but good luck using it in practice. Best case you get a readable site with images and messed up layout. Bonus points if you can do some interaction. I've read you can actually post on this forum with it.

Some time ago, Windows bugged itself with time and qwinsta is showing two sessions in a "Down" state. There are also associated csrss.exe processes that can't be terminated even when running under system account (access denied error). Running rwinsta on those sessions is not effective. Any other tricks?

True, it doesn't have that option, you get 60FPS if available. Yup, also would be interesting seeing someone duplicate YT's stats for nerds. I wonder about the percentage of YT users whose hardware actually runs AV1 at decent resolution well in the browser.

And I'm posting CPU % from Win10 in a thread where most post about legacy OS experiences. OK, I dusted off XP installation today, relative difference is about the same I think, though the process CPU usage % is a bit higher. Maybe just Win10 taking more for itself or other under-the-hood differences causing different readings, though I did run the browser with above normal priority, so it was the only process with higher priority on both systems. Who knew, Pipe doesn't work on St52 from January 2022 because of one of those famous JS operators. I updated St52, still have to bring my extensions' settings and user scripts on par with Pale Moon on Win10, but that's for another time. Interesting how some of these front-ends for YouTube are less backwards-compatible than actual YouTube. I'll write remaining thoughts in the following days, really have to sleep now. Good night!

I recently bought a SanDisk 128 GB flash drive, it came formatted with FAT32 file system, with SanDiskMemoryZone.apk (Android app) + PDF about it in the root directory. I reformatted it to exFAT on Windows 10 through Explorer, works fine on Windows XP besides all newer OS. Since you have Linux, maybe you can show us some information from GParted or some other utility, both device information and partition layout, perhaps we can spot something fishy.

You, sir, are defying laws of physics. My test was VP9, 1080p@60FPS, I'd say % are hovering between 28% and 37% for Piped and between 36% and 47% for YouTube. Got an old quad-core from AMD (Phenom II X4 920 with slightly bumped frequency - 3 GHz). Also our configs on YouTube differ. Interestingly, that older script you suggested some time ago - YouTube CPU Tamer, can't say it still reduces CPU usage, adds a bug with spinning circle if you switch away and video starts again and you come back to it.

I've had the impression over the years that there's less interest for theme making. I guess frequent updates could be a discouraging factor. Interestingly, using Win11 RTM based visual style file doesn't seem to be causing apparent issues on Win10 versions down to 1809. Edit: I forgot, there is another forum focused on such themes - Virtual Customs, maybe you can dig up something there.

This year just keeps being awful. Had no idea of the weight of the baggage he was carrying. May he rest in peace.

I'm most happy right here in silence with my peace Lilly. The weekend was peaceful (and rainy). To be fair, some customers are OK, but they seem to be a minority. @msfntor That site where the images originate shows "access denied" page here.

Oh I'm aware, I stuck with desktop site to be able to tinker with it with other scripts. BTW, the preference for mobile/desktop site can be stored in a cookie with a bunch of other data, user agent just establishes the default selection. I put together a script some time ago to switch between desktop/mobile, this one still works. https://gist.github.com/UCyborg/754fe319866a7f126ec1d074ed922b37/raw/YouTube_layout_config.user.js I can sort of work with regular YouTube desktop site as long as I don't use it on my low-end laptop and don't do multiple YouTube tabs.

After a good night's sleep, I see what the issue is. That link is not direct, but goes through another site, should read like: https://img.picturequotes.com/2/52/51597/how-i-feel-when-my-computer-is-broken-quote-1.jpg

Forget YouTube, try Piped - https://piped.kavin.rocks/ - one of the alternative front-ends. If you'll wait for official YouTube site to work smoothly on UXP, you'll probably wait a looooong time in best case scenario and TBH, you can feel the YT interface being a bit of a slug even on Chromium on newer computers.

I actually said that an image in one of your other posting showed as blank, not that your entire post was blank. And I already saw the image by my little element inspecting. I bet it's one of uBlock Origin's default filters, at least it was in my case.

Since mentions of alternative front-ends for sites like YouTube, Twitter, Reddit etc. are appearing randomly on the forum and finding them again is a PITA, I'm leaving a link here with a list of such sites. https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

Me too, I have to suffer their nonsense for a living, just so I get some €€€ to not suffer even the worse fate.

I just thought it'd be interesting to read about alternatives. And it just shows who/what's popular at that particular point in time. Guess you can look back, but I don't know, doesn't seem like the intuitive way to search for topics of interest. You inspired me to look into the CSS of the "Popular Contributors" leaderboard on the main page and came up with: li.ipsWidget_vertical[data-blocktitle="Popular Contributors"] { display: none; } Turn off reactions display/reaction button display in posts: .ipsReact { display: none; } "!important" may be added next to "none", may prevent the display of the element in the future if it ever gets other value for display property with an update and there's no other breaking change.

18 years, 4 months, 9 days Yeah, I do wonder if paid forum software is a bit of an overkill, considering some members here are not far away from wanting it to be viewable on Commodore 64. But yes, not sure phpBB does some of the stuff other software do, like live notifications. I saw XenForo even updating time of the last post when you're viewing list of threads without having to refresh the page. Some features might be available on multiple forum software and configurable. Pretty sure the forum would disappear or something if he wasn't. It's interesting - I have the impression he's not interested in most stuff posted here. I did read about another forum, specifically oriented towards Windows XP and some guy runs it just to provide a place for others to discuss, but has no interest in Windows XP himself. I don't recall the forum name...is it possible it's the same one you're visiting?

Presumably (don't quote me on this!) it's used for capturing video off webcam. https://support.google.com/meet/thread/157845243/i-need-help-with-camera-failed-in-google-meet?hl=en Maybe, judging by one answer there, Media Foundation is default for newer OS and DirectShow may be used by default on older Windows OS. I don't know whether it falls back to DirectShow when the flag is enabled and MF isn't available. Edit: Well, that would be logical, but need an actual webcam or maybe some software that makes a virtual capture device to test. I seem to remember DxTory making one, but never actually tried how it works.

Does anyone here have any experience with anything Apple? I don't.

Google and their Android Auto...old versions just stop working and newer ones leave old Android versions behind. I stumbled upon this recently, he films the paper with car specs and price at the end (2:27) where Android Auto is mentioned with Android 5.0+ requirement. This was filmed in late 2021 and even then Google said "No way, Jose" as far as Android 5 support goes, today they want Android 8+... Seems there's no actual alternative and if I've read correctly from the source I can't find ATM, communication between head unit and the phone is encrypted.

Regarding the forum software, it serves the purpose of exchanging messages about topics between users. If it is crap...well, from the perspective of someone working at the software company, there is really only one constant when it comes to users and that is BITCHING and WHINING ALL THE TIME. It doesn't really matter what you do or don't, you can leave it as it is, they won't like it, if you change something, they won't like it, if you add something, they won't like it. A cesspool of toxicity. No sign of appreciation of all the grunt work going into these things. I don't know the person running the forum, but it seems likely that his view on all of this is: If you don't like it, you can pack up and leave. But just hypothetically, if we were to migrate to another forum software, what would you choose? phpBB, vBulletin, XenForo, something else?

All pointless since none of those features work on XP. Chromium requires D3D9Ex (Vista+) at minimum to enable certain GPU dependent features. I wasn't paying attention to video playback when changing the ANGLE flag in Chromium, but it's useful for those viewing/interacting with various WebGL content as some things render faster with one API, other with another. D3D9 can only do simpler content while the rest can support all graphical features.