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1080p but avc1 instead of av1. Some "breathing room" for cpu multitasking, but not much. "h264-ify" userscript:

CPU drop at change from 2160p/vp9 to 1080p/av1. No extensions. No lagging, but no CPU overhead for multitasking.

Test video at 2160p, VP9, no extensions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLuTLF3x9sA Laggy as H#LL (obviously), all cores pegged to 100%.

Here is my Win11 -- only 0.9 GB of RAM used at startup, but yeah, it did bump up to 1.0 when I opened the "about" screen. That seems very much in-line with the "more-capable" versions of Linux. "Apples to apples" here is 11 with all AI removed since Linux doesn't have these AI features, so not really "fair" to compare Linux-without to Win-with. And yeah, it's a GOOD THING that there is no AI and the end-user doesn't have to jump through hoops to remove/disable.

My wi-fi is pretty fast. Yeah, I'm only on a 500 Mbps ISP but my wi-fi connects anywhere from 300 all the way to the full 500. Two TV's are currently streaming news so that does bring me down a tad during these screencaps. At any rate, this is PLENTY FAST ENOUGH for YouTube "watchability".

In 10, my test-case browser is not going to be the same as my test-case browser when I install 7. Mainly because 10 has MORE AVAILABLE and 7 will be "limited" to something like e3kskoy7wqk or r3dfox. While some may consider this to not be "apples to apples", that is not my goal here, I want to know if 7 or 10 is "better" for YouTube. And that will determine which OS *stays* on this 'junk hardware'. Should still be "very close" (e3k-needs-easier-name has a HIGHER version of Chromium as I write this).

I opted to install 10 first. Admittedly, I fear that to be a mistake because I will very likely end up with 10 so I should have done it last.

I may revisit Q4OS. I actually suspected from the get-go that I made a *MISTAKE* when *not* selecting the TRINITY desktop. I did not screencap, but Q4OS ate up 6.5 GB of only 8 GB RAM. That was on a DIFFERENT computer, but still, that's one helluva lot of RAM consumption just for the desktop!

Today's "find". Darik's Boot and Nuke 2.3.0 (DBAN) - secure 3-pass "wipe" of hard drive to ensure that no data can be recovered after donating it. The POC Acer Aspire One showed ELEVEN HOURS for a "wipe" using Active@ Boot Disk's KillDisk (was just over 2hrs for the Acer Aspire X). DBAN is 43min in and shows 4hrs 33min remaining - using DoD Short 3-pass option. Largely, of course, due to the collosal POC nature of the Acer Aspire One. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darik's_Boot_and_Nuke https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/

So below are my five oldest computers. The Intel Atom N450 (Acer Aspire One, 16yrs old, barely used, worst purchase ever!) is officially going to Goodwill. The Intel Celeron N3050 (Acer Aspire X, 11yrs old, freebie) is also officially going to Goodwill. The Intel Core2 Quad Q6700 is undergoing a small journey. I'm unsure of the depths of that journey at the moment. I installed Q4OS (based on Debian Linux) on the Intel Core i5-6300U. I did Plasma instead of Trinity, but eating up 6.5GB RAM out of only 8GB was a "H#LL NO!" and it got uninstalled. But that basically tells me that it would be a WASTE OF TIME to install Q4OS (or even Zorin) onto the Q6700 computer. So I have narrowed my options to Win7 Enterprise and Win10 LTSB 2016. I'm looking to compare/contrast YouTube "watchability".

I wish it were "that easy". Sure, I'll comply to every "US Sanction" I am legally obliged to comply with, but the average person doesn't know about these sanctions. Even if I'm only complying because I can't "not" comply. Sanctions against France, the local wine aisle clears a shelf. I can't buy the wine not because I am complying with a sanction, but because the store is fined if they sell it, so they take it off the shelf. Might be weeks or months before the news hits the public and we finally find out WHY we can no longer buy French wine. It's kind of like my utility bill, there's a note on it that reads, (paraphrasing) "This amount is due whether you recieve this invoice or not." Or speeding, whether there is a sign posted or not, you cannot drive 120mph in a school zone just because it's the summer and no kids are in school. ‘Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.’ – John Selden (17th-century English jurist) Look into immigration and ICE protests here in the USA and please tell me if that can be summed up in a neat and nice one-liner about complying with US "laws". "Mob Mentality" is probably very different from one country to the next. And to what "cause" the Mob steps in.

re: r3dfox and it being LibreWolf-ified, there is a way to PREVENT it from ramrodding most-recent uBO. I personally love uBO, but I also prefer the user to be in FULL CONTROL of what extensions they opt to run. You'll notice that the LibreWolf-ified r3dfox does not allow a uBO uninstall, and it reinstalls itself if you delete uBO from your profile. Again, nothing against uBO, but I'm no fan of The Nanny State, and that includes r3dfox deciding for itself that I have to run uBO because that is "them looking out for me". Long story short... (too late...) You can PREVENT that uBO from reinstalling itself "against your preference". Look for r3dfox's "policies.json" and remove the following, now you can remove uBO from the profile and it won't return without your consent. "ExtensionSettings": { "uBlock0@raymondhill.net": { "install_url": "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/uBlock0@raymondhill.net/latest.xpi", "installation_mode": "normal_installed", "private_browsing": true } },

ps - I feel like there's an OJ Simpson joke in there somewhere and whether or not I like the Ford Bronco or whether or not police footage should be a form of "entertainment".

Works for me. I wouldn't technically call it "riled up", but yeah, I can understand that general observation. On a scale of 1 to 10, it's a 2. But "written" communication sounds like a 10. That is "written communication skills", nothing more.

Stuttering and freezing on YouTube is not a "bug". It's expecting too much of an old processor, an old OS, and backported browsers to NOT stutter and freeze. There are userscripts that can force h.264 and to force less-resource-hungry resolutions. Again, expecting too much is not a "bug", it's a "reality check". Another thing that I find helpful is to *INTENTIONALLY* "throttle" my internet speed. It does not cause "lags", it forces the streaming service to NOT send me UN-NEEDED 4K.