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@D.Draker I was expressing my opinion. If others' opinions insult you, then maybe it would be better for you to not participate in such discussions. I simply speak my mind on things I'm more familiar with. US is often enough in the news and in some places I lurk online, I can't help but notice American posters who are discontent with the way things are in their country. They also use the term "3rd world" in relation to it sometimes. Traitors, right? /s The keyword "us third world country" is used often enough that the Google search engine suggests it, there are articles noting in which way it's backwards etc. Take school shootings, for instance. There's a whole list. One of the guys who committed Columbine High School massacre apparently commented "It's going to be like...Doom". The computer class teacher let us play Doom all those years ago when we were kids after we were done with exercises. Who ended up shooting up the the school afterwards? Nobody. Granted, that incident ended up with really high publicity, is only one of many and there is much more to the story, but seriously, knowing such things, how do you expect me to have a positive opinion? How do you put US in the same bucket as Ireland and Denmark, which, BTW, are the only two countries on your list of the best that are doing better than where I'm from - 🇸🇮 🇸🇮 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇸🇮 🇸🇮 🇸🇮 - on the Global Peace Index. Peace oughtta mean something on this crazy planet! One of the few leader boards that are worth competing on IMO.

@MrMateczko Interesting, will keep it mind. I know FreeDOS is straightforward to put on USB flash drive, haven't tackled with MS-DOS yet.

Yup, FDIMPLES. And there's a Bonus CD with the rest of the packages. There's an option to use VirtualBox on modern OS to configure raw access to the "disk", in my case the flash drive and use it as the virtual machine's disk, then virtual CD drive is used easily. FreeDOS 1.3 is configured out-of-the-box to be able to use VirtualBox's SoundBlaster 16, CD drive and network card. For networking with NVIDIA Ethernet card, MSClient 3.0's installation dsk3-1.exe must be somewhere, eg https://ftp.psu.ac.th/pub/microsoft/msclient/. If you're modifying FreeDOS installation from Windows, you can easily cheat with 7-Zip to open the file, no need for EXPAND to extract the two needed packed files inside either then: NETBIND.COM is extracted as is. PROTMAN.DO_ -> open and extract PROTMAN.DOS PROTMAN.EX_ -> open and extract PROTMAN.EXE Then there's Packet Driver to NDIS Converter - I used version 11 - dis_pkt.zip - extract dis_pkt.dos file. I renamed it to upper case letters for consistency. From NVIDIA driver ZIP's NDIS folder, NDIS.DOS, NVDIS2.DOS and PROTOCOL.INI are needed. All files were put on FreeDOS install root C:\NET. PROTOCOL.INI as provided by NVIDIA is already setup for a working networking. Main part of FDCONFIG.SYS after boot menu entries was modified like so: 12?DOS=HIGH 12?DOS=UMB 12?DOSDATA=UMB 12?DEVICE=C:\NET\NVNDIS2.DOS 123?DEVICE=C:\FreeDOS\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE 1?DEVICE=C:\FreeDOS\BIN\JEMM386.EXE NOEMS X=TEST I=TEST I=B000-B7FF NOVME NOINVLPG 2?DEVICE=C:\FreeDOS\BIN\JEMM386.EXE X=TEST I=TEST I=B000-B7FF NOVME NOINVLPG 12?DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET\PROTMAN.DOS /I:C:\NET 12?DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET\NDIS.DOS 12?DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET\DIS_PKT.DOS 34?SHELL=C:\FreeDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM C:\FreeDOS\BIN /E:1024 /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT 12?SHELLHIGH=C:\FreeDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM C:\FreeDOS\BIN /E:1024 /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT Finally, rename file C:\NET\FDNET\FDNETPD.BA~ to FDNETPD.BAT and add the following line to it: C:\NET\NETBIND.COM That's it as far as networking is concerned. Presence of FDNETPD.BAT will skip detection / loading drivers for network adapters that are supported out-of-the-box, that's why I find it a convenient place to put the final command related to networking. I noticed there's a small problem in supplied FDAUTO.BAT. It's coded to skip loading additional drivers and the part for setting codepage / keyboard settings (if you uncomment it) if you have very basic CPU. Problem is, VINFO.COM may detect CPU as much less featured than it is and I'm not sure BAT handles cases where it is...if errorlevel 3 -> means if errorlevel equals 3? Yeah, then it definitely doesn't. It can return values above 3, according to documentation. I just did it like this: goto Support386 rem if not exist %dosdir%\bin\vinfo.com goto Only8086 rem vinfo /m rem if errorlevel 3 goto Support386 rem if errorlevel 2 goto Support286 Commented out the entire routine and put goto on top to go to correct place. Lacking SoundBlaster sound card, BLASTER env varibale line is probably best commented out as well. Also uncommented part with codepage / keyboard settings: rem codepage settings NLSFUNC %dosdir%\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS DISPLAY CON=(EGA,852,1) MODE CON CP PREP=((852) %dosdir%\CPI\EGA.CPX) KEYB SI,852,%dosdir%\bin\keyboard.sys CHCP 852 MKEYB SL rem keyboard settings That's more lines I've seen with Win95/Win98 underlying DOS! It gets me the ability to use some of our "special" letters (Hello čšž!). In the old MS-DOS, keyb yu ... was used (Yugoslavia). There's also COUNTRY line to uncomment in FDCONFIG.SYS: COUNTRY=386,852,C:\FreeDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS Anyway, I posted this as a quick reference. We should probably have a dedicated FreeDOS thread. I noticed FreeDOS came up in this thread in the past. There is obviously some overlap.

Your image response about the one-way flight to the worst of the worst.

Indeed, but @D.Draker's response was a classic fallacy of relative privation. Ugh, I wanted to write a long post, but changed my mind. Maybe the short version...Monday's coming, so will have to go to work. Hundreds of kilometers turn into thousands, just for commuting. Have an old car from 2001, slowly being consumed by rust and engine occasionally not properly responding to gas pedal since it turned 20 years old, like something would artificially release it a bit. Then you actually release it and push it again and then it snaps back. It won't last forever and 3 visits to a mechanic last year were stressful as it is, forget about finding someone who would be willing to commit to full restoration work and have the car there for who knows how long. I don't go to vacations and practically have no life outside of work, so wouldn't call it "living" either. Just soldiering through existential dread.

@mina7601 Not the first time it happened. https://msfn.org/board/topic/181239-missing-country-flags-under-members-avatars/ And the topic above was locked.

For me, it's generally the opposite, the older the OS, the worse fonts look. Haven't really used Win10 as a daily driver before 1809, but font rendering was an improvement from Windows 7 -> Windows 8.1 in my eyes. Can't say I notice a difference between Win8.1 and Win10 (1809/20H2). Vista / XP all look worse to me. So called web safe fonts are default in XP and older for UI rendering, these are the ones that look OK without anti-aliasing, few fonts classify as such, so there's not a lot of variety. Many fonts in use today, particularly on the web, require anti-aliasing to look right. No problem with AA with my eyes as long as it's done in a specific way (which I can't really describe due to specifics / differences that seem to exist beyond configurable parameters). Then there are also differences how web browsers render fonts and the OS they run on can play a big part (unless you use Links ). Of the browsers I'm familiar with, I would rate them like so: Pale Moon/SeaMonkey > Firefox > MS Edge with Enhance text contrast flags > MS Edge without the flag and other Chromium browsers (Chrome, Vivaldi, SRWare Iron...). Supposedly regular Chromium based browser on Windows has a hardcoded constant for text contrast set to 0,5 and it's possible that text would appear better with a value of 1,0. Never felt like bothering finding out where the value is stored in the executable or compiling a huge codebase with an unknown number of hoops to see what it's like then.

I found NVIDIA NDIS2 driver here that works with my onboard Ethernet card on ASUS M3N78 motherboard with nForce 730a (I think) chipset, manual simply mentions it as GeForce 8200. Who would've thought networking would work on that hardware on DOS. The motherboard is from 2008 while that driver was updated in 2010. It's pretty quiet in DOS land on bare hardware. Mpxplay is an audio player that's supposed to support Intel HD Audio cards and Q2DOS, a Quake II engine ported to DOS, uses its code. Neither of them produce any sound. Q2DOS should be run with -sndpci argument, it mentions in the console that it picked up on VIA sound card, but eventually just crashes. USB mouse is functional with an older CuteMouse 1.9.1 driver (some BIOS trickery that makes it look like a PS/2 mouse). Latest CuteMouse 2.1 beta4 eventually stops working, it works again if the driver is reloaded. I use a PS/2 keyboard, so nothing to do here. Supposedly you can access disks and optical drives on SATA controller if it can be put in legacy SATA mode rather than AHCI mode, which is an option here, but I think I'd rather prefer that it doesn't see them so can't break anything. FreeDOS 1.3 was used for all of the above, ran from very old no-name 1 GB USB flash drive with insanely slow write speed.

I've read of similar concerns over here...and that it'll probably just increase import of older, stinkier vehicles from other countries unless ICE cars were banned. I occasionally need the phone for phone function, it's mostly for if there's something important to communicate to another family member when away from home. Other than that, it's mostly for accessing the internet so I'm not glued to the computer for everything. Regarding mobile data plan from the cellular provider, I only use few MB per month, usually less than 10 MB, and that's mostly for gas payment transactions, so have no need for fast transfer speeds. Don't need multiple cameras either, even the one is rarely used. Everything from 2G to 5G is fine and dandy here though, maybe 5G coverage isn't as good as older ones yet. US is the 3rd world craphole in my book.

Behold...https://libredd.it/...the alternative open-source Reddit front-end, JavaScript is only needed for audio in videos - can be turned on in the settings. SURPRISE! It doesn't look right. Edit: Oh, it was already posted about, including the workaround.

None taken. Various, I'm sure of the few such as Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Latvia, even folks from Asian countries come, I'm positive on South Korea at least. No one'll die if they skipped some trips. Mind boggling to me, but, they really aren't bothered by being stuck in traffic or ending up in huge crowds, aren't they? And there's talk of the next potential COVID wave in the autumn... Not suggesting to throw hands up and just let it go slowly, though, just pointing out the perspective many don't consider.

Sure, if you want to be pedantic...https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/capitalist-countries...but that wasn't the point, I'm still a cog in the system I never consented to participate in. Yes, and then what awaits at the end? If you're lucky, you'll die of heart attack in your sleep, if you're unlucky, death will be slow and horrible. Who knows what horrible diseases and degradations you'll experience before you finally succumb. IF you somehow get through all the nonsense in between. Indeed, I'm just taking care of my needs to the best of my ability while laughing at the absurdity. As George Carlin has said... At the end of the day, this environment some are so worried about is the same one that supports sentient life and all the suffering that comes with it. So saving it = keeping the status quo. As far as I'm concerned, the cycle of consumption and reproduction ends with me. The DNA molecule's journey ends here. Can't get much greener than that! Maybe that'll teach them. Some of the things tourists do: they cause traffic jams, they leave trash everywhere, they leave their cars everywhere, they're having a picnic or otherwise abusing green surfaces where it's explicitly forbidden to do so, they pollute lakes.

11. MSFN renders all wrong on it! My first was version 4.0 on school computers. Later when we got the internet connection at home, 6.0 was used for I don't remember how long. Computer was infested pretty quickly with crapware as soon as we got the internet! Who knows what we were clicking. That came with IE7. Who knew, MSN has a minimal retro version that loads in IE5. NetCaptor was also a thing. Never knew it existed until today.

It's immc.exe, guess it stands for "Install MMC". Running setup.exe in reskit folder also installs it.

It's not hard to get people to buy new crap when those same people are incredibly spoiled, whining and bitching as soon something doesn't happen the very first second.

mmc.exe doesn't exist on my Win98 SE installation. And I don't "debloat" my Windows installations.

I do feel like like a cog in a capitalist machine. You know what, it doesn't even matter what it's called. Life is pointless and so is saving the environment. If people wanna drown in their own crap, who am I to stop them? Sit back, relax, watch the candle burn out.

Oh, well I'm a minimalist, so no such thing as hundred programs in use here. And the crap at work either makes distinct company named folder in %localappdata% or C:\ProgramData or writes to its installation folder, so not much to keep track off.

Did you try using symbolic links or directory junctions to redirect individual programs' folders and did those cause problems as well?

Perhaps drowning in waste is the endgame of capitalism.

My list: 'Improve YouTube!' (Video & YouTube Tools)🎧 Bypass Forced Download Container Tabs Sidebar Copy On Select DownThemAll! enhanced-h264ify Extra sounds FastForward Firefox Multi-Account Containers Flagfox Kee - Password Manager Link Properties Plus WE Livemarks Load Progress Bar Simple Tab Groups Tab Count Icon Tab Mix Plus Tab Session Manager Tampermonkey uBlock Origin User-Agent Switcher and Manager Wayback Machine

Mine are in lower 10s last time I checked (slower CPU), cca. 13.9. ChrEdge 94 and Firefox 96 on Win10 easily get 46. MyPal 68 on XP is about 36-38 I think, don't recall exactly, would have to re-test. Edit: oh, you showed Speedometer 1.0 and I'm talking about results of Speedometer 2.0. I don't recall ever trying 1.0 variant.

Expensive gas -> expensive everything else A big downvote from me!

Neural link to user's brain.