UCyborg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

I wonder if NoelC still lurks around and if bigmuscle is doin' alright.

This thread was created in specific non-technical part of the forum though. People come and go, it feels different here today than it felt 7 years ago when I joined. And for tech part, it really only attracts specific niches, maybe there are forums out there with more "productive" discussions that deal with different technicalities. MS in this forum's name stands for Microsoft Software, looks like a wider spectrum than usually covered here.

I'm sometimes existentially anxious when I wake up on work free days. Are you worrying about anything in particular? Worrying sucks. You don't have to answer, just curious.

I try to limit my uptime in the evening to 10 - 11 PM, though I stay up for at least 1 hour more often than I'd like to. Day's really short if you work, especially the autumn time pronounces the feeling, you come home and the night is already dropping.

Well, no, but the thought of someone close dying and the funeral...you have to keep it out of your mind or it'll drive you nuts...but it's inevitable.

One comment on Phoronix was particularly funny...are you going to pair a 486 with a VR supporting GPU? I remember even 133 MHz Pentium being very slow.

In the immediate past, no, just tired from being in the office every day.

Tesla seems to be all-the-rage in Europe. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/best-selling-cars-europe-2022 https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2022-september-europe-car-sales-and-market-analysis/

This week is going really slow for me...how about the rest of you? I just wanna sleep in the morning!

You're a lucky man, @msfntor! It's interesting how chatty some people are online, even if they're a total loner IRL, though if they're content that way, who is there to judge them? I've never really been alone, but death comes for us all and I'm the youngest in what's left of my immediate family, it's going to suck some day...can't we just all crap out at once?

Right, I forgot it runs NPAPI plugins, which is an unique trait, but I wonder if there is any other Chromium fork that keeps NPAPI support and reads policies from registry and where consequentially chrome://policy page works. BTW, does anyone use ImprovedTube? I thought I could remove enhanced-h264ify extension since the options were added to ImprovedTube to block specific codecs on YouTube, but they don't seem to do anything so I still need enhanced-h264ify, which I use to block AV1 codec. I searched the code and unless I missed something, there are just switches in the UI without actual functionality... I tried both the published stable version and the one loaded directly from GitHub yesterday. At least expand description option works in the latter, bleeding edge version.

I tend to leave things alone if there's no noticeable difference and/or don't understand how something works exactly.

Thanks for confirmation. I do happen to be on Chrome 87 on the smartphone and the site is indeed messed up there. Not as future-proof as I hoped. If I'm not mistaken, Chrome 87 is the last for XP (MiniBrowser). I don't recall checking the memory usage when no site is open with modified versions from our members @NotHereToPlayGames and @Humming Owl, but the original Russian repack of version 13.something (I think it was 2206) consumed over 800 MB of RAM, just sitting there. Well, that was with all my usual extensions and if I'm not mistaken, Chrome even puts every extension in its own process. 64-bit ChrEdge 94 on Win10 got to about 400 MB. Indeed, just had too many things open at the time and I wasn't ready to close them just yet, plus I tend to run temporary stuff inside a virtual machine or on a separate native Windows installation, where former obviously needs some free RAM to even boot. You don't want to see my XP installation in a virtual machine, it's like a bedroom that hasn't been cleaned up in years.

I don't think Skia has much of influence, still pretty bad with it enabled. I normally use Edge 94 if I need Chromium for some reason and I noticed the same behavior with other Chromium flavors of the time when I tried them a year ago (though then, I never disabled Skia). https://i.imgur.com/HPMQWfM.png https://i.imgur.com/QXXm35P.png Haven't actually checked videos with latest Chrome yet and --disable-gpu, will do that next week on a work laptop where I have it. I suspect not much has changed. Not sure there's much point wasting too much time discussing on how these things work in Chromium browsers work as historically, nobody really changed much in how they work under hood. Google codes it in and that's how it stays. Heh, seems to be how Google codes in general (doesn't optimize software fallbacks). I've been toying with a PC port of Android x86 in the past and making it fallback to software rendering made the whole OS useless, couldn't even move the mouse normally. So was totally useless on my desktop PC with NVIDIA GPU because decent open-source GPU driver doesn't exist for it while I could use it on a laptop with AMD graphics (but useless when choosing a boot menu option to boot into standard VESA mode that doesn't load the usual graphics driver - if I remember correctly it was called something along these lines). Regarding the future of Chrome on Windows 7, there's none for the stock version I imagine. Maybe a fork will popup that'll keep support, but I don't expect much deviation from how it works under the hood (or did to accommodate poorer API function availability of Win7). BTW, for those who think DirectWrite is a problem...https://github.com/GTANAdam/GDIChromium...I tried that fork a while back and still found fonts to be bad...I really only find Edge with Enhance text contrast (edge://flags/#edge-enhance-text-contrast) to make fonts better (I haven't checked if it's enabled by default on newer versions), though still not as good as Pale Moon, SeaMonkey, Waterfox...speaking of which, I have those set at the default setting, which is that D2D is preferred over Skia. And when I messed with roytam1's browser forks for XP, on that OS, I explicitly set it to use Cairo. Opting for Skia is just painful on my eyes. Though I think Skia works differently on OS that aren't Windows. And I don't have a problem with font anti-aliasing in general and don't disable it anywhere, apparently it's needed to render many fonts right. Web-safe fonts that look right are few and far in-between and I prefer variety, so I don't go out of my way to force every website to use one of those.

I mean, I only have 360Chrome on XP installation, which I haven't booted into in several months, and I meant to say that I don't have any flavor of Chromium 86 installed anywhere else to be able to see on my own how exactly that site renders on it.

I'm personally experiencing a bottleneck that has to do with presentation of decoded video frames (I think). My GPU can only decode H.264, but as far as codecs available on YouTube go, I only block AV1, so it falls back to VP9 for most videos, which has to be decoded on a CPU in my case. Running the browser with --disable-gpu causes frame drops, but otherwise it's fine (at least as fine as can be on Chromium). So 3D acceleration of other parts of the browser helps, but the fallbacks are very slow. On the other hand, Firefox fares much better in software mode. A dropped frame there or there, but you can tell you're running a 60 FPS video rather than laggy unwatchable mess.

I checked again and it's not supposed to look like that. White space is supposed to be filled with an image. I don't have any Chrome 86 for reference at hand though. What's supposed to be Extreme about this browser anyway?

It puts the taskbar back the way it was is in Windows 10, which presumably comes with the clock that respects this setting, which Microsoft added in Windows 10. That setting doesn't seem to work anymore on unmodified Windows 11. If you need more customization regarding the clock, you can use T-Clock in addition to StartAllBack.

Have you tried adding DWORD ShowSecondsInSystemClock set to 1 in Windows registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced? Details

You're right, it does look horrible, I wanted to say it's miserable if you encounter such sites on regular basis...

Just window shopping, found out about another Chinese brand, Ulefone, Ulefone Armor X6 Pro looks interesting, not too big and IP68 rating. https://www.mobileshop.eu/, where Europeans can buy phones, also sells this brand, but not this particular model.

What am I missing? The site is readable in all my browsers, though layout is wrong on Pale Moon and there's a regex error in the console (invalid regexp group). Maybe it's a geo restriction? Wow, your browsing experience sounds miserable if you need dev tools on regular basis.

Here too, Windows take care of it natively. I wrote about my recipe in the other thread regarding the page file. You might save a bit of space if you size it right and prevent fragmentation that may be caused by auto-resizing. You might want to check after setting fixed size if it's still fragmented. Still, if I'm not mistaken, applications can still crash on low memory even with decently sized page file due to virtual address space fragmentation, at least 32-bit ones only have 2-3 GB to play with.