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Peeked at Win11 22H2, still looks confusing as the first release. Noticed they changed Task Manager, now looks like UWP app and it's got icon buttons on the side instead of labeled tabs on top (can be expanded to see the labels) and huge context menus. Was looking for the Startup folder the other day, then I remember Win10's start menu hides Startup folder as well. I'm so used to the sane menu provided by Open-Shell (formerly Classic Shell). Hopefully don't need Win11 any time soon. Somewhat off-topic, but I really dislike the idea of running multiple OSes on one machine on a regular basis. Virtual machines cost a lot of resources, no proper graphics support, sound latency. Rebooting also couldn't be more annoying, close everything, wait for the other OS to boot and then you end up in another world.

Reads like one of those random problems where at the end, nobody knows how they occurred in the first place. I've had bad luck with some other part of Windows going bad in the past, I only recall the one when audio didn't work anymore after an update and couldn't figure out what was wrong. I remember looking at known (to me) related registry entries, which looked fine. I think it was the update process rather than the update content. That was Win10, but I've had other strangeness with older Windows as well, including 7 and XP. Never had a corrupt user profile though. I wonder about the message specific meaning, is it about loading NTUSER.DAT (user's registry, aka. HKEY_CURRENT_USER) or could be also something else? I've had a funny issue on non-desktop Linux, specifically my previous Android 4.4 installation on my smartphone. Anytime phone would be rebooted to recovery, fsck would find some file system errors on /data partition, which would be fixed only until you booted the system again. Then they would come back. But if I formatted the partition, boot the phone, go back to recovery, then they wouldn't appear anymore. They also haven't appeared ever since I replaced stock Sony's flavor of Android 4.4 with community port of LineageOS 14.1. I thought about bad flash memory, this is something that is yet to be confirmed, I think I've never run full test, but I remember reading about some command line utility you find on Linuxes and toying with it, it can be told to test the device by writing data to each block and reading it back for verifying the correctness. Not sure if it's part of BusyBox, which I do have on Android, but it's possible to mount phone's partitions on desktop Linux when you plug the phone to computer via USB, you can even use dd and netcat together to transfer whole partition data on the block level over USB both ways! After enabling ADB TCP forwarding, that is and the sufficiently functional custom recovery on the phone is required, can't do much with locked-down default device. Either way, If it's really a flash problem, it must be well disguised.

That one is not too old, only 3 years. Huawei apparently doesn't officially support unlocking bootloader anymore. I like to be able to tinker. I must have voided the warranty right away with the current one. Thinking about the past models I used, I've always been tight with internal storage space, but these days, tens of gigabytes of space is the norm. I settled on Via, while it may look like a random no-name browser just looking at it at the store and it doesn't support extensions, it does have some features you wouldn't expect, eg. listing direct media links, built-in ad blocker (uses AdBlock Plus lists I think), simple source code viewer. The biggest thing though, the version I use currently is 4.0.5, its APK size reads 968.26 KiB, doesn't use extra native libraries, uses installed WebView to render web content, doesn't consume as much RAM as the bigger browsers where on a low RAM device, you may notice the Android will terminate home screen app just because you opened one or two web pages. It also supports back-forward cache (instant back/forward navigation without reloading), not sure if mobile Chrome supports it these days, back when I installed Via for the first time, it wasn't a thing or maybe it could only be turned on in chrome://flags. While Chromium WebView is rather complex, the impact of other parts that web browsers may rely on does not appear insignificant.

The speaker is holding up, for now. I see Android 7 is slowly getting out of radar sight, statcounter lists its market share at 2.44%, Android 5 is at 1.26% , the older aren't listed specifically anymore. The forum for my phone model on XDA is deserted. So I guess things will stay as they are on the software front. I hate dalvik-cache folder eating hundreds of megabytes of space on internal storage. Do you already know about Greenify?

I don't believe they're deliberately seeking bugs in old browsers to break them. General apathy towards what happens in the older browser versions seems more likely. Or thinking the property is needed for some reason and so was left there or was forgotten to be removed while changing other parts of the surrounding code.

UXP and other descendants based on old Firefox are in the wrong because that behavior contradicts the specs. Fixed in Firefox 80. "z-index" has an effect on transformed content in Firefox, but not in Edge/Safari/Chrome

Firefox dev tools lets you know the property z-index is ignored if the element isn't positioned; its position is not set to something other than static, which is default if not specified (it isn't specified in this case). Chromium seems to do the same, but doesn't warn. W3Schools also suggests it shouldn't work for statically positioned elements. Also here:

The image problem you're discussing looks like a layout issue. Try the following CSS: @-moz-document url-prefix("https://www.tunwalai.com/story/") { .story-image { z-index: unset !important; } } Interesting that unsetting filter on the image (which sets contrast in this case) also makes it display, but then it obviously doesn't display with intended contrast.

No, someone mentioned it on another forum I don't recall. Didn't know about the official article. I took care of that in UBO: ! https://learn.microsoft.com learn.microsoft.com##.has-default-focus.header-holder This cuts off more than just the unsupported banner. I personally use: ||learn.microsoft.com/_themes/docs.theme/master/*/_themes/global/*.deprecation.js$script This script specifically removes hidden attribute of the banner if the browser doesn't support certain features.

So this is actually Cambria Math! I didn't believe WordPad when I pasted it there, when I made the new line and had formatting buttons and font dropdown set the same as with selected text I copied from the website, it looked a little bit different, so I wasn't sure if this is really the correct font. One source I found yesterday suggested this font initially came with Windows Vista and Office 2007. ... Hello? Where have you been? ... It's Q4 of 2022 we're into, this isn't any news ... FWIW, the overwhelming majority of sites, with social media services being the top offenders , will favour the latest Google Chrome over the rest browser choices, especially when non-mainstream You don't say, I remember when you could still chat via Facebook Messenger (normal version of the site) on Pale Moon and it didn't make you wanna start throwing things out the window. On my not very latest browser versions, on Firefox it works with a bit of scrollbar twitching while on Edge, it works correctly. Some websites out there are still reminiscent of the old web, eg. https://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/VCDS.php. They have written specifically to let them know if you believe their website has an accessibility issue. In contrast, one Ross-Tech's distributor's website (https://vcds.si/) has a bit more modern design and there's more going on in the background (eg. jQuery). I think it would be decent for the site of such caliber to also pick the language from the browser. Looking at the HTML, it's made with WordPress and I know for certain WP can do that as well. Above website is compatible with UXP, but WordPress or at least certain plugins these days can in fact serve UXP incompatible scripts. Which is a problem because such platforms have their appeal for taking away technical details when it comes to working with websites and such incompatibilities may, given some time, manifest on multiple websites. You too? I still cough occasionally after 1,5 week from the point when I seemed to be fine at first glance, it's really taking a lot of time to clear up.

Yes, Palefill is a community effort, it's pretty much about coding site specific fixes using some known workarounds where they may work by injecting certain polyfills (JavaScript functions not natively supported by the browser) or performing some smaller alterations to the original JavaScript code on a specific site. Some can be fixed while others rely too heavily on specific features, those are hopeless. https://www.tunwalai.com/story/651554 The text in the bracket says "Omegaverse". You might be missing the font the site is using. I'd say what it is, but I'm honestly not sure after trying to identify it if I'm doing it right... If possible, having Office 2010 installed is one way to add some fonts Windows XP normally doesn't have. Generally, if a used font is known, that font alone can be installed on the system and then sites using it will display correctly. May not apply for the poster above, but if anyone is unaware, there are extra fonts on Windows XP CD covering letters of specific languages that aren't installed by default:

@Taiga-chan AFAIK, you need to install Palefill extension to be able to use that website. I'm not a registered user there so can't tell if any additional issues have appeared since the compatibility problem due to lack of support for Web Components in the browser has been addressed with that extension.

So much easier, I agree. I also feel life is a burden a lot of the time, so much nonsense that could've been avoided. Just thinking about the future brings depression and anxiety. Who knows, maybe the world ends soon and our problems will be blown away just like that. Oh well... Wherever you are, I hope you're still holding up. I'm going for a walk with a dog now...

There are other files besides dwm.exe, eg. dwmcore.dll, uDWM.dll and others. I tried replacing DWM version in the past, but I either missed something or there are just too complicated dependencies on other system DLLs and how they work, so all I managed to do was making DWM non-functional.

Today outlook.live.com/owa opened in a sort of barebones basic HTML mode. I guess they only test on Chromium engine (Edge most likely), judging by errors / warnings in other browsers. Also helps on official Pale Moon when it happens.

The time came to replace my old vehicle. New one's clock is a bit better than the one in my computer, if you leave it on manual, it takes about two weeks instead of one for time to get behind by the same amount, but it's also aware of time zones and DST (compared to the clock in the old car) and the option to automatically sync over GPS seems to be working as expected.

^That's a funny issue. I get this on official Pale Moon 31.2.0.1 if I have the developer tools open when loading that page, but works otherwise. If console is open, one JS file says: Unexpected exception sending payload. Ex:[object DOMException]{} If I connect to it via Proxomitron (just pass-through), then no error and it loads normally, regardless of whether the developer tools are open or not...

I guess I don't have a formulated opinion about a lot of things either. Back when I was 18, practically all classmates were getting their driver's license. Me? Didn't happen 'till 5 years later. I probably wouldn't own a car if I didn't have to drive to work. If me and brother's time when we're done with work wasn't as variable, we'd likely share one car. My head feels empty a lot of time. People I see out there somehow seem to have this idea what to do with their life in general. So then put me in the formula, add the car, don't add driving to work. Where am I supposed to go? Just randomly drive around like in GTA? That'd be expensive hobby! I have to say today was special. Traffic on the road to where I live was normal, just like in the good 'ol days! Seems like people have nothing better to do than move from one place to another all the time. It wasn't like this just few years back, at least where I live. Was quite a change, everything feels different. I almost felt like back in the beginning of driving school when I drove off. My thoughts were: "Why am I going so slow? Oh, I have to push the pedal further. The pedals are so soft. Wow, it's so quiet, I can hear myself think! What are all these kilometer numbers?" Few minutes later taking a turn at the gas station: "Is it just me or is the clicking sound the same as in brother's Astra?". Waiting for one of the pumps to get clear: "Huh, the engine just shut down on its own". The driver in front drives off and I push the clutch: "Oh, now it goes.". Later outside of town: "OK, where's the RPM meter? Has to be somewhere, right? Guess I'll find it when I get home". There were more thoughts, but I have to end it here to get some sleep now. I'm still recovering from mild cold I caught last Friday. Weather / climate's been really bipolar recently.

Thanks, sending a virtual hug your way! It's not something I hear in real life. But then, I'm distrustful of other people in general and keep to myself. Anxiety doesn't help. I see you're back as well, @msfntor . I had an odd feeling you contracted something heavier and fatal back then. This is a particularly messed up year. I'd rather not talk about in detail about that specific event that happened recently and the can of worms it opened. Other than that, I gave away the old car. Actually left it at the dealer where I bought a new one. That one week during summer, the engine in the old car randomly shut down on a motorway. Didn't realize it at first, thought it'll snap back eventually, I retreated to the emergency lane and only several seconds later thought to hit the clutch so could see the tachometer turning to zero and the battery indicator lighting up. It did restart right away, but since I've come to a complete stop in the meantime, I had to wait a while before I could go because so many damn cars passing by. Not pleasant. Then it happened again two days later, the experience from the first time helped that I managed to restart the engine while the car was still on the move. Maybe they would've put it back in working order if I took it to the official service. It served well for 21,5 years, I was its 3rd owner for 5 years and after recent experiences and generally issues popping up in shorter periods in recent times, I thought it might be the time to update myself in that department.

Oh, that sucks. Mine seems to have something loose in the speaker area. The microphone and the loudspeaker (one for calls, at the upper side) are still fine. I took the back cover off and didn't like what I saw. I think I'll just break it if I try to pry it open back there. I did try something, I basically rubbed the cover where the speaker lies beneath gently with a small downward force and now it makes sound again, but for how long? 1 day? 1 month? Kinda hoped I'd make it to year 10 at least. I did notice intermittent problem with missing SMS notification sound in the last year, I thought it was just OS being glitchy, but now I'm thinking it was the hardware issue I'm currently experiencing all along. I did see this video, it doesn't show putting it back together. And I'm puzzled by what I'm seeing at 2:02. See the left side? That's where the speaker is supposed to be...the whole left side just looks like part of its mainboard without much interesting on top. Maybe it's supposed to be like that and my inexperienced eyes just don't see it. Or it's on the other side? But why would it be, there's a speaker opening on the back cover. Sorry, probably not making sense. I was hesitant about it, but was in a bit of a hurry with purchasing new phone back then, the previous Samsung Galaxy Mini's battery fared significantly worse plus my carrier of the time offered this model dirt cheap. I'm surprised at how the battery in this Sony is faring along, still holds for 2 days with my lightweight use, eg. web browsing (no videos, of course!). A week on standby alone should be easy, though I haven't attempted to see how long it actually still lasts on standby. I do, seemed it was a bit simpler time, maybe Google was also less scummy? Funny thing about what I saw on TV today, they were talking about the eternal modern issue with youth getting these devices as young as they do and encountering bad stuff on the internet and how parents should watch what content their children consume and so on and the footage with children being on their phones must have been from cca. 10 years ago, when smartphones were smaller and still had some hardware buttons below the touchscreen. Thanks for bringing up Cubot, will keep it in mind. Right now, I'll try to hold up to the old one at least a little bit longer. Then, I'm not so sure yet, having a bit of difficulty deciding what aspect I should prioritize. Aye, I always end up on this site when looking up phones.

@VistaLover Oh, cool, thanks, I haven't been keeping up. Too much baggage in real life.

Anyone heard of Unihertz? They basically make smartphones that don't cater to mainstream trends. Atom L is small + has IP68 rating. The latter may not be an actual overkill for me since I'm clumsy... Chinese brand, but does it even matter since almost everything = Made in China? One thing I don't like about Fairphone 4, it's still big...I prefer to be able to use it with a single hand, though maybe that's actually better when it comes repairability? The only other smaller model besides the one from Unihertz that I found is Asus Zenfone 9 (or 8). I'm still lost. The speaker died on my Xperia E3. It lasted 8 years, which I guess is better than the average 2 years people seem to throw them out for whatever reason. And I dropped it few times... Saw some guy on YouTube that took apart similar one and just soldered some copper wire from the speaker that was off and it worked. I'm not a handy person though.

I'm still here. You're right, I needed a break. I'm doing as usual. While things could be much better, they could also be much worse. I'm noticing this constant pattern when it's just peacefully raining where I live, all hell breaks loose in some other part of the country. And one day when I was at work, had no idea until I heard the news in the evening that roofs were flying in a nearby town!

Vanilla Pale Moon user here, also feeling impracticality due to those. Can't use Google Drive, can't use Nextcloud, couldn't even buy a vignette on evinjeta.dars.si (toll payment method to use motorways over here). My stopgap (Win7+ only) solution with close to classic GUI (with CTR addon) is Waterfox Classic, but it's also slowly becoming obsolete.

I won't bother addressing your points. It's clear that you're a conflicting individual who's always looking for a fight, always dismissing or putting down others unless they speak exactly how you want to hear them. Impossible to converse with you like with a normal person. You're not worth my time.