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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    True on the Prius verus the Volvo 240. But the same is also true for Prius versus a Jeep Wrangler or even a Volkswagen Beetle. ie, the longevity of the 240 and the Wrangler/Beetle relative to the Prius is a discussion about "brand loyalty" and really has nothing to do with "sustainability" &/or "quality". I've owned several Jeeps over the years, I always nicknamed them "cheep Jeep" because the doors are 'paper thin' and interior quality is so "cheep" that you can keep the doors off and NOT CARE if the interior gets RAINED ON. But I assure you, even though a Jeep is "cheep" as far as quality is concerned, you have to spend EXTRA for them because of HIGH DEMAND when it comes to the Law of Supply and Demand and the Price Elasticity of Demand.
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    Agree "for the most part". It has worked for me but I never have more than SIX add-ons (NONE of which are of the Web Extension variety). I'm actually not a fan of St52 or St55 (so for that I will have to concede to "will have to take your word for it") and have basically only used this for Mypal and New Moon - but it has ALWAYS worked. My "base" is Mypal v27.9.4 and that profile seems to ALWAYS be "backwards compatible" with EVERYTHING ELSE. So apologies for any mis-information.
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    Not sure if this will help or not but I know i've used this method in the past for those types of issues. I only use "portable" browsers and I've had success, in your case, of using a portable Firefox 52.9, installing the add-on, then over-writing the portable's "bin" folder with the "bin" for Serpent 52 or 55. TONS of my addons are labeled as "not compatible" according to Serpent 52 or 55 but they WORK anyway, just has the "not compatible" message in the addons page.
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    Religion does not qualify for "within reason" in my book. But if if does in yours, then I won't thump a Bible at you for your discourse.
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    I personally disagree with this sentiment. We are a like-minded community with a common interest. We are allowed to stray every once in a while, who freakin' cares, go off-topic AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE as far as I'm concerned. Within reason, of course, let's not throw politics in the mix, so to speak, but come on, who freakin' cares about so-called off-topic setting in once in a while! I actually sometimes feel like I'm talking to a Holy Roller thumping his Bible at me whenver somebody feels they have to proclaim such an "apology" for going "off-topic". But I digress... And, um, "apolgies for going off-topic"...
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    Awesome! Thanks. Will try later this week as I would opt to rebuild my profile at the same time.
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    Yes! It is actually quite EASY to inoculate the telemetry in 360Chrome! It is a huge SHAME that so many people would rather just sit on the sidelines and compain about the telemetry as opposed to taking TINY steps to get rid of it.
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    Don't get me started on that one! I believe in personal accountability and you CAN RETIRE if you live your life properly! Don't buy a home that takes you thirty years to pay off (I paid off mine in THREE! - the bank pre-approved me for a $350,000 mortgage, I bought a $67,000 three-bedroom one-bath while driving a paid-off 18yr old car rusting out from under me). Don't live in vain so much so that you trade cars in every three to four years because you want to be seen in something "new". Don't buy a brand new vehicle and put yourself under a 6-year auto loan at the age of 62 then complain that you can't retire at 64 because Social Security won't pay for your auto loan and your 30-year mortgage. Don't complain at 64 that you "can't live off of Social Security" when you lived life in such a manner that you are still paying for a 30-year mortgage when you bought your house 50 years ago. Don't complain at 64 that the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment was 1.30% when the inflation rate is 1.25%. Or that two years before the COLA was 2.80% when the inflation rate was 2.49%. That is UPSIDE DOWN and WILL BE the reason why the NEXT GENERATION has no Social Security because you broke the bank.
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    I've worked third-tier auto industry for close to 27 years, domestic and import hybrids, currently transitioning to electric over hybrid. It's a lengthy debate and people always have "their side" and can't be talked out no matter what "science" or "math" has to say. The rule of thumb given to me by Engineers much higher and smarter than I has always been a 25/35 Rule of Thumb. The way they describe it is that if you have a vehicle getting 25 mpg and you are car-shopping for something that gets 35 mpg, YOU ARE BETTER OFF WITH THE 25 MPG! Twenty Five is better than thirty five! It's more convoluted than simply looking at depreciation value, resale value, upkeep costs, et cetera. Look at it this way, you "impact" the environment to MANUFACTURE a new car. And you "impact" the environment to take a twenty year old car getting 25 to 30 miles to the gallon and sending it to the junk yard. Think "fleet fuel efficiency" - you just discarded a car getting 25 to 30 when "fleet average" is only 24.9 (2019 EPA data, a mere 5.6mpg increase over 15 years of data). So you put something in the trash only for it to be "replaced", on average (Engineers use the term "aggregate"), with something with a LOWER fuel efficiency. This is old but it's also the research our Engineers still reference - in 2004, Toyota reported that 28% of an automobiles entire life cycle emissions are all generated by the manufacture and transport to the dealership. Let me put that this way, I have a neighbor that has owned three Toyota Prius's in the last 11 years. With 28% of an entire life cycle of emissions being generated BEFORE he even visited the dealership for his trade-in, he has impacted the environment much more adversely than I have! And I drive a Jeep that only gets 18 city and 24 highway. But I also live 0.7 miles from the office, work from home on most days, and get SIX WEEKS plus on ONE TANK of gas.
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    After some off-and-on research, I've been able to create my own userscript for my bill-pay website I ended up opting for today + 3. // ==UserScript== // @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js // @grant GM_addStyle // ==/UserScript== var theDate = new Date(); var myNewDate = new Date(theDate); myNewDate.setDate(myNewDate.getDate()+3); var dd = String(myNewDate.getDate()).padStart(2, '0'); var mm = String(myNewDate.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, '0'); var yyyy = myNewDate.getFullYear(); myNewDateFormatted = mm + '/' + dd + '/' + yyyy; $("<CSS_SELECTOR_FOR_DATE_FIELD_YOU_ARE_TARGETING").val (myNewDateFormatted);
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    My second car when I was a teenager was a 1984 Plymouth Horizon (with a Rockford Fosgate Punch 150 and three 15" Pyle sub-woofers). It was rated at 28 mpg city and 45 mpg highway. I still have my log sheets where I averaged 42 mpg combined city-and-highway (mainly because I drove to a private high school 35 minutes away). FORTY TWO MILES PER GALLON! And that was in 1990 driving a car that didn't even have fuel injectors. Holley 2-barrel single-overhead-cam carbureted 4-cylinder 2.2L engine with 5-speed manual transmission running on regular gasoline. A 1984 Toyota Camry with a 4-cylinder 2.0L manual 5-speed was rated 23 city and 29 highway. The Toyota Prius entered the scenes in 1997 but was not sold here in the US until September 2000 for the 2001 model year. The 2001 Prius was rated 52 city and 45 highway while the 2001 Camry was rated 24 city and 33 highway. Twenty years later, the 2021 Prius is rated 58 city and 53 highway while the 2021 Camry is rated 28 city and 39 highway with the Hybrid SE at 44 city and 47 highway. The base price for a brand new '84 Horizon back in the day was $5,956 when the Wage Index was $16,135.07. ie, you could buy a brand new car in '84 that averaged 42 mpg for 36.9% of your annual income. The 2021 Camry Hybrid SE base price is $28,293 (and the non-hybrid only saves $183 on base price!) and the median household income is $42,228. ie, 67.0% of your annual income. Put me in the "we were better off in 1984" camp
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    The repack is at version 13.0.2250.0. But like the last five or six releases, the Dev Tools is still in Chinese. Looks like I may be forever stuck at build 2206 when the Dev Tools was last released in English.
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    How do you test these and know which true/false settings to use? I generally DISABLE hardware acceleration as a rule-of-thumb but that's been based on too many people that report issues with it enabled.
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    Navigate to C:\WINDOWS\Installer and look for any folders that have any Mypal files. Delete those folders. Reboot and the icons should return to normal. If not, we may have to look into rebuilding the icon cache, it's been a while since I've done that so we'll cross that bridge if still required. ps - too late for this warning, but I never use "installers", everything on my computer is from manually extracted "installers" and self-created registry settings for programs that aren't natively "portable".
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    I can set up a temporary host and upload my copy if you want to go that route. wusus works well also, I've done that route in the past also but I myself prefer to have all updates "slipstreamed".
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    I reinstall about every 6 months. But nothing to do with Windows. My x64 slipstreamed installation disk is dated 2017 and my x86 slipstreamed installation disk is dated 2018. I've yet to encounter any reason to update Windows (XP). But I have a "disk 2" of automated and fully unattended application installations that all run with no user-interaction for about an hour after Windows is installed. So I install about once every 6 months because of updating "disk 2" of my Windows XP installs. It's always been fun to show people that "disk 2" doing its thing, mouse moving around, windows opening and closing, keyboard typing directory locations, EVERY aspect of setup completely automated without touching the mouse or the keyboard.
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    Since you are leasing, I would contact the cable company. You are paying for the equipment and that should be buying you tech support as well.
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    Here's the one that I use -- https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6400 I also use this in addition to the above -- https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7231 They are dated 2017 and my needs have never searched for anything newer so unsure if newer exists or not. And I avoid "pos" stuff for both x86 and x64 - they kept breaking too many of my applications and it wasn't worth my time to isolate which "pos" hotfixes were breaking what.
  19. NotHereToPlayGames
    Agreed! Unless, of course, it is somehow your mission in life for the rest of us to exit stage left whenever you enter stage right.
  20. NotHereToPlayGames
    Great! Yeah, two of my laptops are pretty finicky with the order that the drivers are installed (but only Win7 and Win10, my WinXP partitions never really seem to care). This order tends to always work -- chipset drivers -> card reader -> network -> bluetooth -> audio -> graphics
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    Personally, if it helps, I never search for drivers by "name". I would start by going to your Device Manager and selecting your Network adapters in question and uninstalling whatever you have installed (Vista default or otherwise). Highlight, right-click, uninstall. After you have uninstalled, now highlight, right-click, and select Properties. Go to the Details tab. Select Hardware Ids. You should see a list of numbers with VEN, DEV, and SUBSYS. Search for a driver using those identifiers and skip trying to find a driver by "name". This is from my WinXP x64 Device Manager -> Network adapters -> right-click Properties -> Details but you should be able to find something similar in Vista.
  22. NotHereToPlayGames
    That was my experience, yes! v28 became my default-for-everything soon after its "sneak peek" version was released in May 2018. To me, v28 became increasingly sluggish soon after version 28.2.2 (official numbering, Roytam's equivalent was 28.1.0a1.win32-git-20180922). At that time, I "upgraded" to v27 and found its performance much better than v28. I never really researched at the time "why" v28 became so sluggish.
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    I'm seeing this "identifier" as USELESS. Here's why - isn't an "identifier" supposed to be able to IDENTIFY? Then why did I get 92.35% earlier this morning and now I'm at 91.87%? Easy, because OTHER PEOPLE are getting the same EXACT "identifier" as I am getting! Namely, "0FVVVV". And I got that "0FVVVV" in two different browser (BNav and 360Chrome).
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    What PERCENTAGE did it give you? Ignore the detected apps, it is the percentage that is telling you if you are "unique" or not, unless I'm mistaken. It didn't find any of my apps but only listed me at 92.35% I have Word installed (but it is version 2003). If the Adobe icon is for Acrobat Reader, I have it installed (but it is version 9.5.5). But on the other hand, if I have to DISABLE extensions that run by default just to get this thing to work, then I'm being PROTECTED in the wild and this demo was kind of pointless, IMHO.
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    Does anybody know of a way (userscript? addon?) to automatically fill in date fields? For example, one of my bill-pay websites have payment date fields where you enter the date to make the payment. These fields STUPIDLY default to the DUE DATE. I would like a userscript or an addon that would default these date fields to TODAY'S DATE *plus* two days. ie, visit the bill-pay website today (5/13/21) and the date field is automatically filled with 5/15/21. (This was a piece of cake using a web filter called PROXOMITRON, but I no longer really use it for a web browser proxy [I do still use it for Excel spreadsheet data queries] and would like an alternative solution.) Any suggestions?
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