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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.

I've got new Reddit's View Entire Discussion button working. The expressions I wrote to set the resulting variables made from matching regex function call was totally wrong, should be: const s=t.match(i), o=!s||null==s[1]?void 0:s[1], r=!s||null==s[2]?void 0:s[2]; Instead of... const s=t.match(i), o=null===s[1]?void 0:s[1], r=null=== [2]?void 0:s[2]; Now, does Git work on Vista...it does! Awaiting approval. https://github.com/martok/palefill/pull/15

I disagree, that "solution" is like not fixing broken Bugatti Chiron and taking VW Bug for a drive instead. Sure you got to destination, but your Bugatti is still broken. Same with websites, you don't have "old" versions of many websites available. Also, someone else already wrote a similar user script - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please. UXP browsers will need to be updated to understand regex named capture groups. I doubt roytam1 is the correct address for such issues. I tried rewriting that part Reddit code, but got the code wrong (with help of palefill extension)...may take a look at it again this weekend. The script executes without syntax errors only when the site doesn't intend to hide most of discussion and show the button to view it.

Dang it, UxStyle is just as unreliable on Vista as it was on Win10 builds where it still somewhat worked. Logged off and when logging back in and I ended up in the messed up classic theme with all weirdest colors. Had to restart Unsigned Themes service to be able to reload the modified Aero theme. I suppose there's nothing as neat as SecureUxTheme for Win7 and earlier. Edit: Actually, it doesn't always glitch out. Not sure what's the pattern.

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 is EOL, can't be activated legitimately anymore even with a legal copy and it never officially supported Vista, but it runs on it if the installer is fooled that it's running on Windows 7 or later. Can't say how good it is as I have no other point of reference plus my sound equipment was always cheap.

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...