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Some of us aren't that open and tormented by our own anxieties or having mental blocks. I did give a bit of €€€ on few occasions to those in-need on the street, so there's that. Can relate. Met very few people in my life and if that isn't challenging as it is and meeting the right ones, then there's also keeping them around. I need a lot of time on my own, then the work life came and then the COVID, so with the latter ended up from meeting one or two times a year to 0 times. They say it's much more difficult to meet people when you're out of school. My mother keeps in touch with her aunt, who is 101 years old, she lost all the hearing in recent months, but her mind remained sharp well into her 100's. They were discussing that me and my brother would need to be in some shared interest group. I wonder how some other people manage to fit these things into their schedules. I come home from work and the rest is mandatory. Weekends fly-by as if it's nothing.

My recipe is taking a look at page file peek usage after having ran one or multiple programs that consume a lot of memory, just think about what your most memory intensive workload looks like, then taking that value and rounding it up to the next gigabyte or half-gigabyte to get the appropriate fixed size to set. Process Hacker may be used to read the value (Tools->Pagefiles). Also a method for those that like to have fun with PowerShell.

4 GB kit (2x2 GB), the brand is Mushkin. It's fine as long as I pay attention to hungry web browsers. Can't believe when I still played games that I could play some with 6 GB in the requirements.

Aye, that's always the possibility.

AM2+. My only occasional issue is running out of RAM, so haven't really considered actually replacing anything else, it just crossed my mind if the whole thing was newer, I could find some RAM in a local shop. Just few months back, I found DDR2 RAM someplace else, but can't find it again. Seein' how my RAM shopping's been going, I'll probably leave everything as it is in the end until some critical component dies...

His trouble began when you advised to clean up Chrome folder to stop the updates. Sure, but we never saw his chrome://gpu page and that Vulkan as actively used for rendering and causing trouble. He also claimed he didn't notice any difference with or without --disable-gpu, which implies no GPU acceleration of any kind, so no Vulkan neither. Though the difference is very obvious on the systems where GPU acceleration works properly as far as I'm concerned, especially if you watch videos in the browser, run WebGL stuff etc.

Hi everyone, stopping by for a bit. Just another day at the office. Customers are crazy I've been thinking about purchasing extra RAM again, have to look for DDR2, otherwise would have to go into replacing the motherboard and the CPU as well. Never end up purchasing due to poor general availability of it. Was more determined back in the old days with the old computer that had DDR1 and DDR2 was current. Oh but then it was easier, found it at the nearby physical shop, was a bit pricier than DDR2 though. Getting by with 256 MB then was more difficult than with 4 GB now. 8 GB would be nice, but can't decide if I should. Some Hungarian online shop (eXtreme Digital) sells 4 GB kit for 28€, brand CSX (German). Then there's a chance the motherboard doesn't like and the question of whether should I be investing in a 13 years old computer in the first place. So I keep going in circles. If I haven't upgraded in 13 years, why now? ^This! Have to turn it off sometimes to calibrate and recompose because toxicity is poison. Today in fact, I don't' intend to speak to anybody at all if I don't' have to. People went ape-s*** last night and I'm not sure why over here, but I was in bed. People were yelling in the hall for some reason and I don't even care to know. Need to take care of myself, I don't know. Oh man, horrible people are at just about every step, can't avoid them unless you live in the woods or something. Has anyone read about this guy? The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit Definitely not for me and many other people, but the freedom from toxicity! Which brings me to... Holy..., they dare to predict that far into the future? I kinda thought smartphones are just fashion accessory of this time and it'll pass. Aren't we degenerates enough as it is...all the toxic behavior, greed, corruption... Skimping through the posts gave me the idea to post... Klemen Slakonja as Pope Francis - Modern Pope (#SpreadLove) This is Funny Farm after all.

The flag is just an override, I'm talking about the effective state with the flag at Default and the Vulkan status on chrome://gpu page. I don't know, searching around, Vulkan backend seems to be of most interest to Chrome users on Linux at this time. Isn't this exactly what I've been saying for years ? Just in different words. I don't remember it in the context of Chrome's Vukan renderer backend, which is more or less experimental in practice. I wouldn't say Vulkan in general as a low-level graphics API is bad, but to each their own.

Tried stock Chrome version 107 on work laptop running Win10 1809 and Vulkan is disabled by default. I don't expect them to enable it by default on stable channel unless they manage to polish it and put reliable fallbacks in place for older graphics cards / GPU driver combinations. That was on Linux...don't know how broken Chrome's Vulkan backend is these days on different platforms, though it wouldn't surprise me if it's currently still more broken on Linux compared to Windows. Certainly it doesn't work as expected on Windows. One thing I learned about Linux systems (the ones that can be put on regular desktop computers) and the software running on it is to not expect greatness when it comes to anything using a GPU. IMHO, Linux is to be put on a server in the basement then forget about it, not something to be used on the desktop regularly. Though that's just me, I know it works fine as a desktop system for some people.

I just assumed an interest in Mozilla solution since it was posted in this thread. Sure, userscripts can be useful and work in different browsers, but native solution should be more direct under the hood. Chrome had backspace bound to navigation-back action in the past, but that was many versions ago and the official solution for those that want it back is Go Back With Backspace. Guess Chinese re-hardcoded backspace navigation-back while Edge users may actually have a settable flag in edge://flags, depending on the version.

@dmiranda Why not just set browser.backspace_action in about:config according to your preference rather than mess with user scripts?

Mozilla got more insistent with updates with time with their Firefox, you have to apply a group policy setting to be sure it won't update. Or never visit the about dialog, though I can't say if this alone works. Last time I checked Vivaldi, it didn't include the Chrome-like updater, but had its own mechanism. You could update it or not, your choice. I managed to keep Edge on version 94, but it's only easier on Win10 as certain extra registry keys may be respected that force it to follow group policy setting, which it normally does not. Can open the about page in settings and it'll say the browser is managed by your organization rather than update. So far, updated Pale Moon has managed to cover most of my needs, keeping fingers crossed it stays that way into the future. But in any case, never updating a web browser hasn't proved a viable long-term strategy so far. The oldest browser engine I personally use is the one from Chrome 87 on my smartphone. I'd still be on version 79 if it wasn't for optional-chaining and nullish-coalescing operators.

Mine has a button to turn it off, though it defaults back to on each time the ignition is turned on. I've seen on a video on YouTube that eg. older Audis can be recoded to remember the state. Though for newer cars of the last 2 years or so that are manufactured under one of the VAG brands, the surest thing seems to be a small memory module plugged into the wiring below the button. I don't know, not sure if official personnel around these parts would be willing to do any mods in that direction. Obviously, memorizing the setting would be the best, though default off and keeping the ability to turn it on would also be fine.

None that I'm aware of and according to this, the only way to have dynamic imports working is having it implemented in the browser's JS engine.

No XP at hand to check for certain, but at least on newer OS, that service runs inside svchost.exe instance hosting a handful of other critical services, the process itself is marked as critical, meaning its termination causes BSOD.

Thanks, and good to see you back! I'm trying to focus on the positive, though it isn't always easy. We have an extended weekend, the following week starts with 2 holidays. The second one is rather bleak though, the day of memory of the dead.

Oh, didn't know Silverlight can still be used and your post only mentioned modern Chromium / Firefox, which only support it via Widevine AFAIK. The Silverlight problem sounds like something that would have to be debugged by @win32.

It needs support for dynamic module importing and doesn't seem to care about the user agent at first glance. What about MyPal 68 or one of those Chinese Chromium variants?

There are extensions that don't work with multi-process. Mozilla eventually added a dropdown and exception list for that in their browser, Basilisk seems to be stuck in the past though.

The nice thing about the dialog, besides knowing the program just crashed, is the ability to choose whether to launch the debugger (lookup AeDebug) or just close the program. I noticed there's another dialog, presumably OS provided, that pops up if WerFault.exe isn't functional where you can also select whether to attach the debugger.

Windows Defender? Well, they do seem to insist on deliberately keeping it on. Didn't test if its service back away with another anti-virus installed, but I noticed that if you set the service to manual start by editing registry offline, it goes back to auto when the OS starts. Vista's Defender has a nice UI and a checkbox "Use this program". Doesn't tell you, "nope, can't do that". My board has TPM designation on it, nothing plugged there, nothing about it in the manual.

Didn't watch the whole thing, it was a little while back and I saw a small part of it, it was an interview with one of the ex-presidents of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana Arango if I'm not mistaken. He said something along the lines that biggest threat to the environment being shrinking of rain forests to make space to plant coca. I'd have to find the interview and listen through it to be sure that was really what he said. Nobody mentioned something like that yet. Another thing that sparked my interest, I had to get myself a new set of wheels and one of the new (to me) features is start-stop system. Apparently it's one of those things new cars in EU must be equipped with and it has to be set to enabled by default to pass all those emission regulations and stuff. But what difference does it make? Found an interesting reading...https://unsealed4x4.com.au/why-stop-start-is-a-dumb-idea/...what do you think? My regular everyday route has total 2 intersections with traffic lights, where in the worst case scenario, if timing is right, I'd wait for about max 15-20 seconds or so at each. Turning the engine off for such a short time doesn't make much sense to me. There's also a number of conditions that must be just right, otherwise it can happen that it turns off with a significant delay, eg. 5 seconds or turn off immediately, but restart again after 2 seconds. Then there's the factor of engine components wear, they may be better reinforced, but things wear out with time and use anyway, so why deliberately put more strain on it? Just my thoughts, I don't pretend to fully understand the big picture. How suddenly everything has become about saving energy at every step, seems to be a constant theme on TV these days. "Just 1 degree Celsius less heat in the house will reduce consumption by x %". I come from a family where we're used to a bit lower temps and we're like, hey, we know that, tell that to the youngsters. New theme this week, they're reducing road lighting.

I've got a keyboard from Vista era, Logitech Internet 350 Keyboard with a PS/2 connector. I used Logitech Media 600 Keyboard before (USB connector, also Vista era), the only issue was that its volume knob broke after some time. I bought another 600 then, which is actually still unsealed and unused (I didn't want to use it so I wouldn't break the knob, but I liked it otherwise, guess my thinking back then was to save it for another time or something), switched to 350, which was also still unused at the time, this one must have been bought as spare. No idea what I'd buy if I had to buy a keyboard today. None of those extra buttons work on Win9x AFAIK, but if my memory is correct, I remember reading in Windows SDK files that with mice, button 4 and 5 became a thing in Win98 time. That era was really short, first computer at home had a 133 MHz Pentium and 16 MB of RAM, it ran Windows 95. Only few years later, a new computer was bought and the difference was radical, CPU speed measured in GHz rather than MHz, Windows XP. I remember a very short manual included with XP and not understanding a thing ("What the heck is a domain?"). Win95 manual was longer and understandable. Was a kid back then, didn't know much technical gizmos. Never saw Win98 manual as everything between Win95 and WinXP was skipped, at least on the home computer. There was a business computer for my father's company at home (there was a car workshop in the same house), this one ran Win98, it came with that OS, but no CD, it had WIN98 folder from the OS' CD on its second disk, so that could be used to install the OS. It was used for several years after WinXP was well established. That computer didn't do anything else but ran an accounting application, who knows what I would've found if I used it for stuff I normally did. It was never connected to the internet and if I'm not mistaken, it didn't even have a sound card. Its CPU was 233 MHz Pentium, it had 128 MB of RAM. Back then, we also had to wait for things to load, so not much has changed since, huh? I remember HOVER! game from Win95 CD, you could actually sit for a while and watch the progress bar before it loaded completely. I probably didn't know it could be copied to disk, but not sure if the speed up would be that significant. Wasn't it also a thing with slower computers at the time that you could watch graphical applications' interface redrawing at slower pace? My current computer's motherboard has some classic technology (COM ports, floppy connector), but from what I've found, completely unsuitable for running Win98 natively. Vista was bound to lead us into the future and XP support was left there for the old grumpies while Win9x have been designated as irrelevant old dinosaurs.

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I recently found out about WerTweak. Binaries aren't provided, but compiling it is straightforward. Since I did it for personal usage, I figured there might be other people who might appreciate being able to download them for themselves, so I published them under my repository. Installation instructions are in the README on the main page. I encountered one of those freaky Windows problems on one of my installations where WER refuses to show crash dialog even for plain applications with normal GUI, when the group policy setting DontShowUI=0 is set (Prevent display of the user interface for critical errors set to Disabled), so the crash dialog should be shown. The issue is not encountered on the fresh installation of the exact same Windows 10 build. No idea what went wrong and how to solve it to behave as intended, but the tool also restores the dialog in this case.