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It was? Most stuff I encountered is clean and don't involve distribution of modified Windows files.

Go ahead, but only if you'll do it also for the others. It doesn't have to be for me alone. I'll be fine as usual. I mean as fine as the one can be in this crazy world.

I have an iconic Linksys WRT54GL router with Linux based 3rd party firmware, Tomato 1.28 by shibby to be precise. It lets you normally bridge its wireless and wired interface. No excuses like they make for desktop Linux, just works and easily enabled in the GUI.

I meant the thermal paste. Not sure which game was the most demanding on the old PC, a number of them seemed that way since GPU was low-end and only DX7 compatible. Fancy, I only have portable fans at home. And a non-functional AC in the car. Family tricked me into believing it's not worth investing into repair/replacement since "you'll only have the car for two years". It's not as bad as thought it'll be though. I never go to sauna so I guess that's my sauna. No, wait, you don't have window in the sauna.

This can only work in cases where the site's code only ever sets up regex objects explicitly through RegExp(). Code like... const myRegex = /incompatible regex here/; ...won't work. Those aren't "polyfills", those are core language syntax constructs. You can't "polyfill" core language syntax constructs. It manipulates/replaces RegExp object among other things. So concluding the statement above, the answer is no. Learn C++, Windows API and their limitations on XP, fork old Chromium, backport to XP, modify the JS interpreter to understand nullish coalescing, optional-chaining operators and code your own GUI on top since you don't like the default one. That's possible with the right skills.

I saw a discussion on Reddit recently on Win10 subreddit regarding Win10 and HDDs, which applies to Win11 as well due to similarity. It was said it's not so much about Win10 being poor with HDDs, but rather modern HDDs performing poorly due to SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology and manufacturers not giving a damn because everyone buys a SSD for boot drive or blames Windows for bad performance otherwise. Not up-to-date on Win11, but with the first release, you could just do "DISM /ApplyImage" to install the OS from the Command Prompt (Shift + F10) in the setup environment without tampering with anything, no system requirement checks were run then. In my experience, Win10/11 are unusually slower to login, they messed up file enumeration performance since Windows 8.1, at least noticeable in Explorer when you check the properties of a folder, no idea if it's still like this and finally there's some more background noise by default. Seem a bunch of background tasks can be turned off without much compromise on the functionality. So still humming along with older HDDs and relatively up-to-date OS. Also, I might be one of the more patient people alive today.

Those min/max version checks are more about what is officially supported and tested. Last time I checked, it wasn't a big problem just to simply run it on Firefox 52.9, but it's not as useful in the current state since you'd also have to add stuff missing in that browser required for web sites. I'm keeping mine for myself since I bothered to look up how to get window object from bootstrapped extension. Indeed, I was referring to the stable one. I didn't know until rather recently that 2.57 exists for several years now (which I never tried). Reminds me of Process Hacker, though I didn't find instabilities with some newer builds of it, but then, there's a lot of things to miss if you're a simpler user. Or it just seems to works, there's a build of CyanogenMod 7.2 for Samsung Galaxy Mini that never left nightly status.

Such is life in the land of the unsupported. I use this style as a workaround (Stylem, userContent.css...): @-moz-document domain("drive.google.com") { #drive_main_page { overflow: auto; } }

Replacing K32EnumProcessModules string in the import table with any valid kernel32.dll function name of equal or lesser length, then adding new entry in export table for psapi.dll -> EnumProcessModules, then fixing references (addresses) in the code (so that they don't point to the random kernel32.dll function from the very first step) to the new one could work. There are multiple PE editors that can add new imported functions, don't recall which ones I tried in the past, for the code fixing there's OllyDbg and similar software. I mostly worked with OllyDbg in the past, but it handles only 32-bit stuff. Quick procedure is something like this: Open the DLL. CTRL + N to show imports/exports. Locate the name you changed from the original, right-click, find references something option so you get the list of instructions to update. Check the address of the new name / functions in the window you opened with CTRL + N, go to the instructions found before (double click the entry), then double click the instruction, modify the addresses. Somewhere in the right-click menu is the option to copy everything you changed to the executable on disk. Not easy if you've never juggled with these things before, but doable if you take the time to sit down and absorb it slowly.

Thanks! If it was up to me, in https://github.com/RamonUnch/palefill/commit/a82544e I would've have also changed "Platform51Up" (two occurrences inside "main.js") to "Platform485Up", because (and call me pedantic ) : 1. UXP by Roytam is currently at v4.8.5, 2. 4.8.5 can't be >= 5.1.0 (i.e. 51Up ) Better checks were added yesterday I see. Current SeaMonkey's (not UXP) platform version is 60 something, so version check also wouldn't give the desired result in that browser. You can make it more complicated (function supersededFixes) and a bit more correct (no assumptions). No idea, I learn as I go.

Not a lie, EnumProcessModulesEx is in psapi.dll. K32 version is obviously in kernel32.dll on newer OS.

@VistaLover Well I use new Reddit now with palefill extension with a script patch I came up on my own. I find new Reddit easier on the eyes on desktop, though I prefer i.reddit.com on mobile.

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.