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@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.

@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.