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Surely not another thread with pointless bickering.

True, it doesn't, but it ended up in the funny farm and apparently there's very little interest in the topic at hand. I suppose joking about the surrounding environment could be seen as logical in a way, given this thread's location. For me at least, my interest in computer technicalities has waned over time since I work a job that includes plenty of them and I don't want to spend much free time dealing with them as well. While I welcome non-technical topics, the soil around here isn't as good it seems. The world is changing, times are changing, our environment is changing, our circumstances are changing and everyone copes in their own ways.

Legacy Windows really does attract the weirdest bunch, huh? Edit: Somehow this song came into my mind:

They really went out of their way to copy Win11 looks. At first glance, it looks like it's powered by KDE desktop environment. But one must remember that Linux != Windows. And copying MS's questionable design decisions isn't the brightest idea IMO.

No idea with which Windows this stopped working, but on Windows XP at least with both Remote NDIS and ADB drivers configured/installed, if you have USB tethering and ADB enabled simultaneously on the smartphone, Windows detects both ADB device and network adapter. But this apparently stopped working with certain Windows version and Windows only sees network adapter if both USB tethering and ADB are enabled. I wonder if there's a trick or registry hack that would get Windows to see both devices. You can still have both USB tethering and ADB on modern Linux.

Fast-forward to today and newly manufactured cars must be equipped with lane-keeping assistance, among other things, at least in EU (https://www.theweek.co.uk/93687/eu-lists-11-car-safety-systems-to-become-mandatory-from-2021). I can stay in the lane on my own without a computer, thank you very much. Ha, brutal!

Saw a recently recorded local talk show that would be called Non-violence in English. Can't say I heard anything I didn't know already. It was focused on the violence among the young ones still in school, how schools don't have authority anymore, how the violence spreads through social media, about those patterns being picked up from the family etc. But what will change for the better? What will they do? Not much I suppose. What has changed throughout the history? We're just apes with smartphones. Someone there referred to the smartphone as a weapon kids haven't been taught to handle properly.

Sorry, should have said I meant it mostly in the behavior department. Don't have much actual reference to compare other aspects, other forums seem very crowded with a lot of topics popping up in a short time period. MSFN seems easier to keep up with, though TBH, I don't really get much out of here, especially since I daily drive Windows 10, only every once in a while, but also my computers work for the most part and I can't think of anything I'd want to change, some tweaks are in place to make it more pleasant to use (or just look at ), so I guess it's just an old habit that I still come here since I don't have much other places to go. Just wandering through life because what else can I do?

Hm, pretty sure drama and elitist attitude of certain legacy Windows version users was already a thing pre-COVID. This whole place doesn't seem much different from other places to me. MSFN remains the home of OldNewExplorer, StartAllBack. I guess these two programs just work. I don't think MSFN ever intended to focus specifically on old or new. XP was latest and greatest in the earlier years, you know, though I do have the impression that over time, the forum became the pensioner hangout. I'm not sure even the person responsible for the forum still standing actually cares about the legacy Windows versions.

Seems absurd to have all those things on the infotainment. Navigation and music seem reasonable and where the line should be drawn IMO, but social media and video conferencing? Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are already a thing, but that's not good enough it seems. I've been to a city a time or two recently, saw people (pedestrians) on their phone. They come to the traffic light and tapping on their phones while waiting for the green light. Most of them aren't using navigation, aren't they?

I might have heard the name, but never looked it up. I rarely seek out new music. I'm not sure how those are supposed to be "better", especially the latter two. All these modern communication platforms are alien to me (but then so are humans TBH). I made a Telegram account recently, wanted to join a group I found out about on YouTube for one specific technical topic (just to find the useful content to read) and got banned in less than 1 min. Maybe because I set my name to Pete? Well, jeez, sorry for not putting my full actual name there, I was just looking if there was anything interesting written there. Whatever, in the end I deleted the app off the phone. Wasn't moved anyway, so I join the group and I basically see one long conversation, no structure. Seriously?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/1/23619468/volkswagen-audi-porsche-cariad-app-store-tiktok What did I just read?

Do you guys also have festival of mental health or something like that in your countries?

You may try it again. Yesterday's release comes with a nice boost in web compatibility. Recent development is quite rapid.

And yet, this is occurring regularly. If you want to annoy the person that wrote something, you can just use @ before their name. But no, let's repeat the long wall of text again just after it was posted. Seems some aren't even aware selective quote is a thing.

I actually only saw Slovenian article about it, first time I see the English variant.

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/refs/tags/86.0.4240.99:services/device/wake_lock/power_save_blocker/power_save_blocker_win.cc Guess this was not properly adapted for case of missing APIs on older OS. Calling JavaScript code is lied to that the request was fulfilled, but effectively does nothing.

Browser should prevent screensaver/sleep naturally when playing videos, seems that part is simply broken in 360Chrome. In JavaScript, WakeLock may be requested to block screensaver/sleep for other use cases. You can try this test: https://reillyeon.github.io/scraps/wakelock.html But it won't work if the browser is broken.

I do try to be open minded when it comes to country of origin when it comes to these things and while it doesn't seem that literally everything coming from "there" is a total piece of crap, I think that delegating EVERYTHING to China has gone too far. There was a bit of an educational piece on one of the news broadcasts recently about eye sight. Glasses are an easier and cheaper fix if you're scared to go under the laser to correct your eye sight. And guess what was said, the West develops them, China puts them together. So it's either a laser or the glasses that came from China. I've read few times when it comes to electronics that if strict controls aren't in place, they like taking shortcuts and using lower quality materials. Though this could happen anywhere.

I do think mental health is important topic that deserves more attention, especially in this age with the crazy pace and everything tightened up. I'm not active on any social other media, just made few posts recently on another technical forum. I don't really fit-in anywhere, my head is often empty and having no clue what to say. I was obsessed with Windows XP too at some point, when it was still current. A distant relative told me then I shouldn't obsess over an OS as much, better to focus more on other things you do on a computer. I think it was a good advice. Hm, what was I going to put in the 3rd paragraph? About pulling fuses out for side mirrors and power seats, what if there's a significant height difference between the customer and the person at the workshop? Power seats do have a manual way as backup, right? Interesting how some banal things can bothers us as much. This reminded me, I was at two different places in recent times for tire swap. They both put infotainment on the radio at the end, I had it on the car screen (where Settings->Tires->SET is accessible) with media mode active in the background so the Bluetooth connection to my phone works for playing music. They could just 🔙 to the Car screen. Guess it's so rooted in their routine they always put it on the radio at the end. For those that may not be aware, modern cars have TPMS (Tire-Pressure Monitoring System), indirect variants that a lot of cars have should be notified that the pressure is OK after swapping and/or inflating tires. Off-topic, sure, but seriously, this strict on-topic concept really doesn't flow well with how humans naturally converse and being anal about it might be worse for someone's mental health, depending on which end you are. I remember @NotHereToPlayGames also pointing it out at some point.

I wonder for how long that account functionality worked. After I don't remember how many years after XP was released, Windows Live programs (Messenger, Mail etc.) were released, which you could use in place of Windows Messenger, Outlook Express etc. It all seems so far away, I was in the elementary school when Windows XP was new and Windows 95 was still used at that place for few years at least after XP was released. I also remember finding an old article some time ago that I'm unable to find again, it said something along lines of Microsoft extending Windows 98 support for the sake of some poor countries, which included Slovenia of the time.

I recently dug out the old book about Windows XP, its original title goes like "Microsoft Windows XP step by step". The book also describes creating .NET Passport account. Does anyone remember those? I think I used it back then to be able to use Windows Messenger. How times have changed, today you have monstrosities like Skype and MS Teams. Regarding mail, I started with Hotmail back then, maybe that account also covered it. Then I remember there was MSN Explorer, but I didn't fully understand what it was all about. Has anyone used .NET Passport account back then and for what purposes?

You mean you used the report button on OP's post? Not that I know much other ways for them to check other than contacting one of the mods directly and report button on the post is probably meant for offensive/problematic posts, this post was just quoting the text from the article at https://msfn.org/windows-10-update-will-intentionally-break-some-bluetooth-connections/, though indeed it is the way to let everyone behind the scenes know. Maybe only @xper has access to those articles. Just wanted to say it sounds funny in the way, to report the messenger.

I guess it is, though I haven't tested Windows' W32Time service recently, but the Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) known from Unix world. A Windows port is distributed by MEINBERG and is available for download at https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/sw/ntp.htm. The hint why it helps partially at: How Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Handles Internal Time ntpd calls SetSystemTimeAdjustment during the normal operation with bTimeAdjustmentDisabled argument set to FALSE, which disables OS syncing hourly with RTC clock. If I understand the default config made by the installer, which is the combination of command line arguments and values inside configuration file ntp.conf, it makes the program sync quite frequently with NTP servers, minimum polling time being minimally 64 seconds and maximally 128 seconds and it's also checking if any network adapters have been added or disappeared at the interval of 3 seconds. Looking at the Windows' default time service code in OllyDbg, it looks like it does call the API function with the argument as described above at some point, so it's possible that it would help with time resetting hourly, but not after coming out of standby since apparently the kernel code that syncs time with CMOS clock only does it right at initial boot, but subsequent sync doesn't compensate it for selected time zone and DST (if in effect). It's also worth noting that due to incomplete/buggy implementation in the kernel, RealTimeIsUniversal=1 setting prevents the kernel from ever updating the RTC clock, so if the user or the service changes the clock, the change isn't reflected in RTC - reboot to BIOS settings where it can be seen the clock hasn't changed.

I just re-watched The Terminator recently. Seeing T1 and T2 in a cinema would be something, but I was born after, in the ruins. I mean after they were released, not after Judgement Day as it came in the movie. It's been years since the last time I was in the cinema, I'm certain I watched Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys. There were few others, but they slipped out of my memory. Edit: Right... Doesn't seem to be working! I made few posts in other topics, but I don't have much else to say.