NotHereToPlayGames

This will have to wait !!! I have no d@mn clue why I keep landing on a "forbidden" page when trying to post. Kind of don't care, "death to MSFN", things are clearly not back to NORMAL yet.

Okay, seems okay now. I kept getting "forbidden" notices when trying to add replies or edit an old reply when a new reply was "forbidden".

Correction. I will NOT be able to help. I cannot EDIT posts and I have to WAIT 10/15/20 minutes between posts. F Dat!

No, it isn't.

I can help with that. I use Win 10 LTSC 2021 and it has been a GODSEND over XP (which I only finally ditched roughly a year ago [maybe two, but definitly not more). Even on a ten year old Dell Latitude E5470 with "only" an i5-6300U at 2.4 GHz and only 4GB RAM. I have to admit that I don't know the difference between mine and your "IoT" and whether or not there is more than a "2021" version. I *prefer* to use WINREDUCER EX-100 and cut MOST of the bloat *directly out of the install ISO* BEFORE ever installing and NONE of it ever lands on my hard drive !!! But... That approach has seemed too "complex" for the average MSFN user. That is not an indictment, just been down this road before and no "interest" was ever garnered from the MSFN Community. So here's what I'll do. I obtained this ISO from MSFN way back when I was still on XP: en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_257ad90f That may not be the most recent, it's just the one that I have (my company IT shares these with me, I do not have the download link). I'll install into a VirtualBox VM and walk through how I debloat an "already installed" Win10. Again, that's not my PREFERRED route, but it is still effective (and even a WinReducer EX-100 approach still needs SOME of this still done after install). Will keep you posted...

Strictly from MEMORY, as I did just look at Nov, Dec, and Jan "new members" just a couple days ago. I'm pretty sure that @Gregg was one of only FOUR real members out of EIGHTY TWO that joined in November. I say "real member" in the sense that they joined in November and actually had a NON-ZERO "post count". My guess is that @Gregg and three other real people kind of got caught in the crosshairs as all of the fake accounts started the same month that they happened to join. While a slight inconvenience, he is able to read the forum without being logged in and he'll have to re-register his account. A small price to pay, but things are all FIXED now and with only ONE (I'm guessing FOUR in total) that were slightly inconvenienced.

Yep, just saw that. Criss-Crossed when posting replies.

Pretty much what I expected. At least it wasn't a manufacturing date code, those things can be brutal to decode.

I completely missed that one. I almost always have to "convert in my head" posted dates. The US is kind of backwards, we mostly do month-day-year but the standard online seems to be day-month-year. So to VistaLover's credit, I do prefer when people SPELL OUT the MONTH - avoids confusion when other countries do things backwards.

Hmm... I guess I should pat myself on the back for predicting the donation requests ??? But I won't... Wait, yes I will...

Agreed. But please don't break your own arm with the obvious patting of self on own back. Stroking of own ego. Blah blah blah. Feel free to add your "you are OT" rant, won't stop me any.

Obviously (to me at least) a typo. If you're pointing out typos, then you missed "requsted".

It appears to me that the forum was reset to a January archive as far as settings and forum software but without loss of any "content" dated after that archive. Some aspects appear to have been reset to last November. For example, the list of members wiped out all "new members" (they were all FAKE anyway!) from December and January. There never was any new members past January. New members were not able to join until just a couple days ago, per that list of members. Unsure why ONE from January was still kept, as it too appears "fake". Along with the "repeat names" which are clearly fake as well. ie, if you see an angryduck and an angryduck22 both join on the same exact day, they are BOTH *fake*. xper is making appearances (ie, seeking donations), so maybe he'll shed actual light.

My previous job had me flying all over the country. 23 different states every year. Never *once* have I ever witnessed anybody taking a THERMOMETER through security. Never before 9/11. Never after 9/11. But sure, I fly a lot less nowadays, so maybe this is something new. Like eating Tide Pods. It's a whole new world. I know a kid (straight A's, honor student) *expelled* from school for three days for having a pair of NAIL CLIPPERS in his pocket. Some "zero tolerance" policy. I just laugh, you can what, injure a person three different ways with a pair of nail clippers? I can think of two hundred and three different ways to injure a person with a NUMBER TWO PENCIL.

Well, um, while I agree, there's so much to say here that I'm not going to waste "too much" of my time, just a little to "feed the beast" and get it off my chest. First, yeah, I used startpage about a decade or two ago and stopped because of ADS !!! But I'm smarter today about things like uBO and Stylus that while they may not "block" all of the ads (and telemetry tracking), they do keep them OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND. Second, and no offense, but all of the "just for profit" 'talk' here at MSFN as a whole kind of TICKS ME OFF !!! Without profit of some degree, we may as well all be living in the SIXTEEN HUNDREDS !!! (I'm not technically sure what century to use, but you get the idea.) Where are we gonna draw the line? I can point to AT LEAST a *DOZEN* posts here at MSFN biatching and moaning about "profits". WTF!? Is MSFN a "talk about technology" forum? Or a biatch and moan about politics &/or different styles of socio-economics? ??? ??? ??? Like SERIOUSLY, the FIRST person to "say that" here at MSFN should be PATTING HIMSELF ON THE BACK because "profits" have leaked into ALL TOPICS. Congratulations! Your anti-profit stance has gone VIRAL! !!! !!! !!! Don't INTENTIONALLY misread that! There IS a difference between X% profits versus Y% profits. But again, live in the DARK AGES if "profits" p#ss you off so much !!! If you don't like "profits", then don't live in a HOUSE (the GREEDIEST of all industries!), don't own a computer or phone, don't own a car, live NAKED and not wear clothes unless your yourself grew the cotton, loomed it into a fabric, and needle-and-thread'd it into shirts, pants, socks, and undergarments, don't eat at restaurants EVER, don't buy groceries to feed your family, don't ever give money to a CHURCH, just live under a bridge somewhere and solicit every passerby to feed you for the day. Don't ever ask them where they got the dollar they just GAVE YOU, just take it from them with a SMILE on your "greedy" face for wanting THEIR lifestyle able to feed not only themselves, but also FEED YOU. </rant over>

Interesting! Though I am surprised that INSTALLS are up. I tried the DDG "browser" and HATED IT! I do love their NON-AI search -- ht tps://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=<string>

Also here: https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Firefox-for-windows-7/issues/147

Appears to have already been reported: https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/issues/182

That (to me) DEFINITELY is tied to the "Title Bar" checkbox doing NOTHING in r3d 151.02. It's as if the "Title Bar" HEIGHT is set to ZERO or something to that effect. It appears CSS-related to me.

I only tried in XP (failed) and 11. In 11, when you right-click to customize, the "Title Bar" checkbox seems to do absolutely nothing. Unsure if it did anything in previous versions. edit: just checked in previous versions and this checkbox DOES work in previous versions Unsure if that is related to your issue or not, the Menu Bar looks the same to me in both versions. Are you having this issue ONLY when using your Luna XP Theme inside of Win7 ???

Your screencap "looks like" XP. So I tried to run r3d in XP and it doesn't work. Is that XP? Or something "made to look" like XP?

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Well, it is called a Japanese Thai Hack. And that ad is for some "Japanese Trick".

Wow! I use Stylus and uBO both to prevent the ads and ad containers here at MSFN. I do that because some of the ads would get me FIRED if female coworkers took them out of context. I just disabled, reloaded the page, and got the below! Now then, imagine what a female coworker would think if she saw this but was standing too far away to read it was about Sleep Apnea.

I don't have a Facebook account (*zero* "social media" for me, can you imagine my OT-ish-ness on any of those types of sites, lol). BUT... Sounds to me like there is an *EASY* solution -- convert Facebook's "infinite scroll" to a PAGED VIEW instead. This is sctrictly AI-Generated, but using AI has always been a good STARTING POINT for me, but will require a Facebook account to test and adjust accordingly: // ==UserScript== // @name Facebook Scroll to Pages // @namespace https://example.com/ // @version 1.0 // @description Replace Facebook infinite scroll with manual page navigation // @match https://www.facebook.com/* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function () { 'use strict'; // Configuration const POSTS_PER_PAGE = 10; // Number of posts per page let currentPage = 1; let posts = []; // Utility: Create navigation buttons function createNavButtons() { const nav = document.createElement('div'); nav.style.position = 'fixed'; nav.style.bottom = '10px'; nav.style.right = '10px'; nav.style.zIndex = '9999'; nav.style.background = 'white'; nav.style.padding = '8px'; nav.style.border = '1px solid #ccc'; nav.style.borderRadius = '5px'; nav.style.fontSize = '14px'; const prevBtn = document.createElement('button'); prevBtn.textContent = 'Previous'; prevBtn.disabled = true; prevBtn.onclick = () => changePage(currentPage - 1); const nextBtn = document.createElement('button'); nextBtn.textContent = 'Next'; nextBtn.style.marginLeft = '5px'; nextBtn.onclick = () => changePage(currentPage + 1); nav.appendChild(prevBtn); nav.appendChild(nextBtn); document.body.appendChild(nav); return { prevBtn, nextBtn }; } // Change page function changePage(page) { if (page < 1) return; const totalPages = Math.ceil(posts.length / POSTS_PER_PAGE); if (page > totalPages) return; currentPage = page; renderPage(); // Update button states navButtons.prevBtn.disabled = currentPage === 1; navButtons.nextBtn.disabled = currentPage === totalPages; } // Render posts for current page function renderPage() { posts.forEach((post, index) => { const start = (currentPage - 1) * POSTS_PER_PAGE; const end = start + POSTS_PER_PAGE; post.style.display = (index >= start && index < end) ? '' : 'none'; }); } // Stop infinite scroll function disableInfiniteScroll() { window.onscroll = null; document.addEventListener('scroll', e => e.stopImmediatePropagation(), true); } // Initialize script function init() { disableInfiniteScroll(); // Collect posts posts = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[role="article"]')); if (posts.length === 0) return; renderPage(); } const navButtons = createNavButtons(); // Wait for posts to load const observer = new MutationObserver(() => { const newPosts = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[role="article"]')); if (newPosts.length !== posts.length) { posts = newPosts; renderPage(); } }); observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true }); // Run after initial load window.addEventListener('load', init); })();