UCyborg

Maybe I'm just bluffing. I'm unusually talkative here and this is still one of the cooler / calmer places on the internet.

I checked the CPU temperature while running Prime95 for about 10 minutes. 51,5 °C is the max temperature it reaches, the max operating temperature noted in the specifications is 62 °C. Yikes, did it look subtle? And fixable by unmounting the cooler, clean the surface, re-apply the thermal paste, re-mount the cooler? I had such nights as well, but now have to sleep and I get a bit too much screen time at work anyway. What happened to those nights? @D.Draker Wow, that's old. @Tripredacus @i430VX Yes, that's the impression I've got how it is (should be?) most of the time. But things tend to be falling apart with time in our universe.

I actually did that before cleaning, two times at least as I was testing the other cable. I don't remember seeing neither one ending up dusty for being in the port. So thermal paste loses efficiency over time? Might be something to look into if so. Current one must be about a decade old. I haven't stressed CPU at 100% in the longest time, no idea about the temperature on the proper load. I hardly do anything interesting anymore, so I guess the whole computer is a bit underutilized.

Thanks for sharing your experiences everyone, will definitely attend to it more often now. Actually, was going to do it at the later point this summer, but did it today instead. Yesterday, ethernet port just stopped working in any other but 10 Mbps mode, forcing higher speed in the network adapter settings would just leave it showing network cable unplugged. Checked the cable with another device and it's fine. So went through dust blowing today and it's fine afterwards. It wasn't even as dusty as last time. I wonder if it's possible that CMOS reset was actually what fixed it.

SyntaxError: invalid regexp group So, use different browser I guess...

I bring up an issue on their forum and this guy comes in accusing me of misleading people and twisting some of my words. Because it works for him™. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=28417 Who needs Matt anyway?

Oh, went by too fast. Somehow that password box triggered "Nothing interesting here, move on."...

Ah, I see I should've quoted @mina7601, I was asking about the setting on profile.

It is? I can't find it.

Saw part of this quoted in other places long time ago and thought it was interesting, only found the whole thing today.

Oh, well, still, the absurdity of buying the license then not being able to use the product anymore. I just got reminded of @dencorso's EOS != EOL he used to have written on his profile if my memory is correct, so thought it's not entirely dead yet if some MS server still deals with XP's activation requests. Wrong semantics?

POSReady '09 isn't even a thing for XP 5.2 (x64 Edition) AFAIK. Not sure the "need" for them is that great.

Or he simply moved on. Would his website still exist if he wasn't among the living anymore? These things cost money I think.

As if most gamers care for Win7 specifically (or any other old OS, really). Besides those with specific interest for "retro" experience. Older games / drivers will continue to work either way. Also Windows isn't the only capable gaming platform. I went Win10 few years before encountering something having a hard requirement for it.

Saw a title of an article in some magazine that read along the lines "Who will feed American babies?". Did they ever think about NOT creating them in the first place? No, of course not! People just have to keep creating more problems.

So XP's not actually EOL yet...EOS seems to often mean EOL in practice. It's absurd, but it is what it is.

Yes, I relate to what you wrote before you edited it. Didn't really mean to criticize you for editing (just in case there was even a subtle hint of that), I know full well that dwelling on negativity isn't good neither. Can't say I've figured out exactly how to balance it. My mind is kinda in the darker place now, though not as dark as sometimes in the past. I used to lose myself in virtual worlds, you know, escapism. That worked for a while to keep the mind from wandering off. Take all the time off you need and all the best to you as well. Can't say about other forums since this is the only one where I'm active ATM, but I think the vibe here was better years ago. Perhaps due to different people. Came for two projects, one abandoned, not much to say about the other, it just works, but otherwise, honestly not sure what I'm still doing here since I don't really fit in here. Nostalgia? Funny thing I forgot to mention few days ago...I only recently realized your name here is XPerceniol, not XPerenciol. My mind always "auto-corrected" that. And about that guy who thought he could function with one liver...can't say the story surprised me, all things considered. One could read about weird things happening all the time...the absurdity. iPhone, iPad, iPwn, iSmack...iBedridden. Got reminded of news of youngsters who manage to blow parts of their limbs off with pyrotechnics in new year's time, all of that misery as the result of that pointless banging. The news is made, gruesome pictures are shown and the world keeps on spinning. Then the story repeats the next year. Since this is Funny Farm...

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/1009315 And toxic positivity is...well...toxic.

Bleh, I remember XP refusing to activate in the past for being done too many times... I use workarounds ever since, even on my daily-driven Win10, for which I do have a legitimate key. Maybe it works after installing current certificates.

Eh, I wouldn't go that far, violence begets violence. These devs are the products of hyper-capitalist society based on everything being rushed and relying on huge framework libraries. You'd need some kind of systematic change. Thankfully, I still get by with Pale Moon mostly, sometimes I "need" Firefox (*cough* *cough* Skype *cough* work-related *cough*), but Edge (Chromium based) is the absolute last resort and I'd prefer it to stay that way. I'm also of opinion one should at least be equipped with a decent computer made at least since around 2009 or so, too old is just self-torture. At least that's my speculation from personal experience, I actually went straight from 2002 tech (with slight upgrades) to 2009 tech, 'been content ever since.

I use two screens, LG W2361V (2009) and Samsung SyncMaster 710N (2004). If I'm not mistaken, first one is LED while the second is CCFL. The effect of changing color in the evening is helpful as far as I'm concerned regardless of which screen I'm looking at. I use f.lux every once in a blue moon when booting to some older Windows. I normally use Windows 10's Night light, which is good enough unless you "need" something fancier.

Oh, well if someone wants to bring it to the attention of the author, feel free to, but I just can't be bothered to do that. No need to.

OP must have an issue that is beyond "normal" issues due to sites' overuse of JavaScript if he has a problem on MSFN.

Great! Maybe you can add this to the repository!? You mean clone it and put it on GitHub? It's one of those things I mess with once and forget about it, so didn't think it was worth the bother. Pretty much all of my GitHub profile is abandonware anyway. You can put it on your site if you want, it has permissive license.

Oh, well, git version 2.36.1.windows.1 works via supplied terminal application (Git for Windows, there are other ways to get the main thing). At least I could pull, push, commit. I read that Windows 7 support is going away soon due to underlying toolset abandoning it, so if it won't work there, it definitely won't work on Vista. Maybe I tried Git GUI on Windows years ago...or was that actually a plugin for Visual Studio and I never really did use the standalone thing. I certainly don't remember what it looked like...I do remember Visual Studio integration. I started with Git on Linux and the idea of looking for GUI didn't even occur then, due to many small things there and there having to be done in the console on Linux in general anyway. A bit of random off-topic trivia, I know.