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Yeah, I wonder what's the deal here. At first, I thought it just acts as simple passthrough when no rules are applied, but it's not, sites will detect and block it if they desire. Some company's website acting as a gateway to their network I came across said plainly that I'm using a proxy and can't enter. Even Google image search doesn't work properly, get some CSP errors in the console when trying to view individual image. I use proxy.pac to get the browser to connect via proxy only to hosts for which I use Proxomitron. I don't need it for any site that actually blocks it.

Vista is the first Windows with USB tethering support out-of-the-box.

Mine's updated to April 2017 EOS updates I think. Might be the cause, might be something else, who knows.

I was the first who posted about how to hex edit the DLL one way to extend the date, at least on MSFN. Didn't know about that project though...just hex-edited my DLL and forgot about it. FlashPatch! doesn't run on XP, but most of it can be made to run with small modifications. FlashPatch_NetFx4.zip FlashPatch_NetFx4_src.zip I threw out some unreferenced namepaces from .csproj file, commented out update checking function and fixed another error related to retrieving HRESULT code from Exception object occurring when accessing it directly on older .NET version, then it compiles on XP using .NET Framework 4's bundled tools: cd <path\to\FlashPatch\folder> C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe FlashPatch.csproj /p:Configuration=Release

I'm curious about the topic as it seems to be a rocket science on Linux. The idea is to have a computer that has both Wi-Fi and wired network adapter and is connected wirelessly to the router / access point. After bridging wired and wireless adapter and configuring IP for the bridge, you can connect another computer to the first computer's RJ-45 port and it's almost like it was plugged directly to the router. At least the procedure is very simple on Windows, select the adapters in Network Connections->Bridge Connections, wait few seconds, configure IP settings on the bridge, then virtually everything works (file sharing between both computers and other computers on the network, hosting servers on either of the two computers and have them accessible from the internet by setting up port forwarding on the router...). On Linux, Network Manager gives the impression that it can be done, you add the bridge, you add both wired and wireless connections to the bridge, say on which physical adapter it should bind just in case, activate it, it fails. You come across the information that it may only work with 4addr mode enabled on the wireless adapter and of course it doesn't work because either your router or your wireless card doesn't support it. You read a bunch of other texts related to the matter and are only left scratching your head. So my wireless card / driver does support 4addr mode and in this case it is required that what they call WDS mode is enabled on the router, the option which is non-existent on mine. After activating the bridge, MAC of the wireless card can be seen in the GUI of the router on the list of connected wireless clients, but the IP address field is empty, despite being configured on the bridge and only communication between two computers connected with a wire works. I'm curious if anyone have any experience in that department and in that case, was able to make it work. Do you need some special settings, bypassing Network Manager and doing everything by hand etc.? Not targeting any specific distro, but let's assume we're working with Debian or Debian-derived distro that doesn't change in the networking department compared to regular Debian. Even more curious about what's special about Windows that makes it work so easily, despite the differences between wired / wireless modes.

Yes, ANGLE is active here and WebGL2 can't work with D3D9 feature set AFAIK. Is that with webgl.disable-angle = true? It may only work by also adding layers.prefer-opengl = true, which forces OpenGL for general webpage compositing and has its own quirks...not exactly the same as with St52 where you can keep D3D9 for webpage compositing.

Yes, supposedly there is - https://www.thewindowsclub.com/usb-port-remains-active-even-after-using-safely-remove-hardware The official article regarding this appears to have been removed. It's because these LED backlights burn you retina. Try to find a CCFL monitor. Or purchase blue light blocking eyeglasses , at least. Regarding blue light, there's also f.lux and similar software.

Edge has PlayReady CDM in addition to Widevine CDM. Love Moonchild's comment:

I suspect whatever flaws are lurking there wouldn't be as pronounced if web sites were designed differently. Many sites are unusable without JavaScript. I wonder what would be a good content rich website that works without JavaScript and if leaks are really mostly due to JavaScript. Since these browsers do have a loyal following of developers, surely someone must have thought about checking with debugger where memory allocations stay? Everything develops at really fast rate, much longer development cycles would be a whole lot better in the general. But we live in this insane hyper-capitalist society that keeps chasing its own tail and can't slow down for one minute and take a good look around to see where the heck it's at.

Those last 3 days went by quickly. I feel noticeably better, but won't be for long as I return to the office soon. I've never hung on any mental health forum, maybe came across few topics when was self-diagnosing several years ago. Am I a schizoid? Do I have avoidant personality order? I came across those and few other terms. The only conclusion I came to, which wasn't really a conclusion, was that I'm just another lost soul, wandering. I used to lurk at /r/SanctionedSuicide on Reddit. It was the place where wanting to die wasn't stigmatized. People came there to vent, to say goodbye, to discuss the right to die. That subreddit was eventually banned. It was theorized by some that existence of the subreddit actually actively prevented some suicides as it gave people safe space where they could be heard. I don't know from experience what Reddit was like at the beginning, but I read conversations where some were saying that the founder of Reddit, who died at some point, would be spinning in his grave, if he knew what Reddit has become. Still, there are still some pockets of sanity there, obviously those subreddits won't be popular. Thanks, will do, at least when something pops in my head. This is also my home and sanctuary right now, as well. There are no accidents and we found our way here for a reason. I said earlier I don't like older OS, that part I didn't really mean, not sure why I said it... I boot too often into older OS, though I don't use them for any special purpose. It's a sort of trip back through time. Regardless of whether old or new, they all have quirks (or certain applications show them when run on particular OS)! Writing this from Vista. I came to this forum for Big Muscle's Aero Glass, no longer developed and just stayed out of habit. Guess there's some sort of attractive force at work here. My mother sometimes does self-talks as well! We've been talking recently, she says we'd (our family members) all need something in life to look forward to and that being isolated between 4 walls doesn't do us any good. One thing about my mother, in the past, she was usually right about the things she said. I agree it's important to be there for yourself. Ugh, I wanted to write more about it, but just can't put it together. And it's 4:20 in the morning...should really get some sleep. Until next time...

Throughout the years, speaking from my own experience (FX->PM->FX->Basilisk->PM), it often felt like the codebase is held together by duct tape, eg. memory leaks continue to persist. You close all tabs, but the browser process still holds hundreds of megabytes of RAM. Or take Scratchpad editor's "Pretty print" function for instance, broken that it often breaks the code or craps itself; doesn't understand "let" variable declarations (very common!) and "`", there could be more valid characters / words. This doesn't make sense, ANGLE enables D3D9/D3D11 output (only former usable on XP), with "webgl.disable-angle" set to true, OpenGL is used, not D3D9 or D3D11.

I don't watch anything related to Ukraine anymore. It doesn't help them nor me, so what's the point?

Roytam always striked me more as a buildot rather than actual human.

I took the rest of the week off work...and I'm already up since 5:30 due to my biology being so used to get up earlier...bleh, this is actually more than a hour before the usual alarm. School was a lot better in that regard, a week off every season and the longer 2-month holiday. Now it's like the same subject over and over again, all for that damn piece of paper. I've been asked in the past why I don't buy a new car or a computer since I can afford it. All this obsession with materialistic crap people have beyond the necessities (and maybe a thing there and there) is meaningless to me. The computer still boots and executes code without errors and the car is still drivable. I don't see myself changing in that regard even If I won the lottery. I'd move somewhere quieter, away from other people's bul*****, get back to pursuing my interests I left behind since employment, maybe discover something new along the way, live a slow-paced quiet life. It seems I don't gravitate towards tech threads as much anymore. If anything, I feel more disconnected from the IT as the time goes on. Few days ago, I wanted to check something with my work TeamViewer account. Couldn't login with a Firefox version released in January 2022 (JS syntax error). And the technical side of this forum, well honestly, compared to other places, I feel the only thing different here is the ideology. Old OS, extended kernels and other such hacks don't really fly with me. So I guess it's pretty lonely and alienating no matter where I go.

Themes implementing various image resources aka. .msstyles files were always restricted internal feature, since Windows XP, hence the lock to digitally signed MS's themes. It seems they simply choose one look (+dark variant on Win10/11 and two color extra flavors on XP) and that look represents each Windows version.

If it helps anyone, I came across two alternative front-ends to Instagram: https://bibliogram.art/ https://imginn.com/

You can add C# coders. Funny, where I work, when the inspector for work safety came, he also tripped over the fact that all coders use freakin' dark theme. I personally can't stand it neither.

Ask gamers who spend over 10000€ for the computer equipment.

Regarding security issues mentioned above, I'm still lax about security after all these years. Don't like putting millions of layers in place to save me from myself. And I fare along just fine. Yes, it's possible. I hear Android is full of holes. Should I throw my (long unsupported) smartphone away just because of those? Likewise, my computer's CPU is vulnerable to Spectre. Guess that has to go as well. I have those fancy security features of Windows 10 with bigger impact on resources turned off (looking at you, Windows Defender). So I read Win10/11 also has what they call Virtualization-based Security. Relies on Hyper-V. I wanted to try Hyper-V as virtualization solution on some older Win10, don't recall if it was 1809 or even older, but enabling that feature alone had a significant negative impact on graphics performance. So I turned it back off before I even opened the interface for managing virtual machines. I still prefer old school single-process web browsers such as Pale Moon and SeaMonkey, even if they're a bit frustrating at times, mostly due to web sites abusing JavaScript at large.

FWIW/OTOH, even Mozilla go into the trouble (?) of composing some form of "Release Notes" for their Firefox Nightly "trunk" builds (updated twice over the course of 24h) in, what @Mathwiz called, a plain-language "executive summary" of changes Yeah, I guess they do. I was tired and not making much sense. 99,99% of the time I don't really do "nightlies", "betas", "auroras", "canaries", "Windows Insiders" etc. etc. Software in general changes way too often too fast, even looking only at normal releases. Too much crap to keep up with.

I second that motion. The change log is usually quite long and very technical; hard to understand even for those of us who dabble in programming. Putting it in a spoiler tag would let us refer to it if need be but save our scroll wheels if not.... Even better would be a plain-language "executive summary" of the changes, but I'm sure that's out of the question. It would have to come from upstream.... It's a commit log, not something of vast interest to end users. Imagine Ubuntu folks posting commit logs of all software it ships at release. Upstream does write changelogs, eg. http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml But what is there to write about what are basically "test" releases compiled from trunk code? Changelogs are written when you release stable and tested code. We never give out nightly builds to customers where I work. When there's something important, relevant code is merged into the latest stable release and intermediate release is made.

Perhaps a moderator should move these posts to MSFN cafe. Crap in real life is way beyond the levels of crap MS produced.

So you went out and encountered people? It seems they're everywhere these days. The first serious COVID lockdown here, oh that was bloody amazing, no cars, no people besides an odd pedestrian and an odd patrol guy hanging around, peace and quiet. Seems that was something that happens once in a lifetime and never again. There's always been at least slight feeling of disconnect from society here. Wasn't it always like this that most people strive for acceptance from others? I personally started noticing these patterns in elementary school. One of those things for instance, smoking. It was (still is?) literally seen by some kids as adult thing to do, like you have to smoke to be more mature. What the heck? And another thing, very last day of elementary school, went out with two guys I used to be friends with. Somehow they got their hands on the beer. OK, whatever, Slovenians are traditonally a bunch of drunks so kids already do it... At some point conversation went into direction of the things we'll do in the future, I think. There's really only this one part I still remember about conversation that day. The question came up for everyone to answer, at what age we'll have sex. Errr, how am I supposed to know? But you had to answer and that answer wasn't valid. So I blurted out an age slightly after 18, I picked 21. And they laughed. As you might have guessed, their answer was 18. I found this whole thing from their side even more ignorant in later years as I got more aware of the possibilities and the way people can be. What if the person is asexual? Yup, just follow the script. I'd probably be a hypocrite if I said I don't do some of the things "they" do, but I don't tend to orient exclusively on what others do.

@D.Draker I really need more rest in general.

My spinning rust must have gone rustier. Somehow I managed to boot Win11 VM in 35 seconds back in October 2021, now it takes 10 - 15 seconds longer. More snapshots of VM were made since, but surely the old ones are still in the old place. Granted, it can't write anymore in now occupied spots on the disk... Ended up rebooting (took 38 seconds from boot starting to login screen) main Win10 diagnosing long glitchy behavior of my USB multi-function device, what I thought for a long time was glitchy software on Windows since it happened to always work on Linux 'till yesterday where I got explicit I/O error message there. So it was bad USB communication all along. Also, somehow it always produced an issue with scanning, not printing, so I ruled out physical problems long ago. Must have something to do with extension USB cable (I hope), should test with another computer, where it works without extension cable, with extension cable.