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True, but I also think inflation is irrelevant. What I mean by that is that most people only think of money "linearly". So an "investment" is only an "investment" if the sale-price exceeds the cost basis. The cost basis is the price paid plus deposits added along the way (ie, the home improvement costs). $40k in 1983 is $86k in 2009, so according to inflation he did "profit" even though his sale-price did not exceed his cost basis. But I do think that most people think sale-price relative to price-paid. That was, in reality, the only thing dad was thinking when he compared $110k sale-price to $40k price-paid (excluding deposits added along the way)

Dad wasn't amused, but the rest of us were Dad was standing around the grill during a cookout and somehow the topic of the house we all grew up in came up. Dad kinda started to boast, said something to the effect of "Best investment I ever made, bought it for $40k, sold it for $110k." Without thinking, I said "You lost money." He was like, "You didn't hear me, I bought it for $40k and sold it for $110k." "I heard you, you lost money." The cookout turned into an add-up-the-numbers reminiscing of the house we grew up in. Dad had it built next door to the house we were in at the time then sold that first house. So his 30yr mortgage from 1983 was only $40k after selling the first house and paying off a couple cars. He retired in 2007 but the house did not sell until 2009 (a land-contract sale fell through and he had to relist it for sale). Sold it in 2009 and he was under that 30yr mortgage that entire time, two second mortgage home equity lines of credit for home improvements throughout that duration. He was still convinced he made a profit of $110k minus $40k of $70k. I kept telling him he lost money but he still would not believe. So we grabbed pen and paper... 25yrs into a 30yr mortgage at 8% = $62.5k in mortgage interest vinyl siding home improvement = $8k new roof = $6k added central air and new furnace = $7k added pool and deck = $4k He would have had to sell for $127.5k just to "break even". Us kids found it funnier than Dad did

My company laptop came with LTSB 2015 and was then upgraded to LTSB 2016. I would recommend 2016 over 2015. I know that the company IT department opted to remain on 2016 when 2019 was tested, but I do not really know why they opted out of 2019. If you take the time to learn NTLite and WinReducer Ex 100, my experience is that you can get the regular version to be almost identical to the LTSB version. There may be some networking differences that only an IT Professional would even notice, but it seems to be the best route for Win 10 on a home computer.

I've never had any luck with "hardware acceleration" in the past (on ANY browser, on ANY operating system), so I disable out-of-habit nowadays.

Thanks, much clearer now.

For one, I have no idea why you seem to be wanting to start a fight with me. This seems EXTREMELY out-of-the-blue on this end. WHO CARES if I accent with CAPS on occasion - "get over it", it's got NOTHING to do with YOU, it's just the way that I communicate, it might be your EGO that made it "about you". For two, I was SIMPLY pointing out that I saw no TRAFFIC with WebClient running. BUT that I was THANKING you for providing me with one LESS service running on my machine. So, in closing, THANKS AGAIN for that one LESS service ps - I reported your "inciteful" posts to the Moderator. If it was not intended as "inciteful" then I will apologize in advance. If it was intended as "inciteful", then I stand by my submission to the Moderator.

For those interested in trying the beta releases, I've found a Dropbox that contains thirteen beta releases (these are the X-Pen repack versions). Page that contains the Dropbox = http://effect8.ru/soft/browsers/360-extreme-explorer-portable.html The actual Dropbox itself = https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1br0hs9ft84gf0v/AADEnsCRUFogCCHFSX8SBkHZa

Those Level 3 Communications could be your own ISP's DNS ??? Or your bookmarks fetching a favicon ???

Your claim for wasted traffic seems FALSE. But it DECREASES my service-count by one so I guess that's enough for me to disable it.

Also, for Sectio D, there appears to be SOME .cn entries that appear legit when you look at surround code relative to some of the other .cn entries - do you have a "count" of how many was replaced? But maybe those "code blocks" don't really DO anything anyway?

For the v13 build 2206, please show a pictures of what you mean by Section B when you say - I removed the entries: "https://ext.chrome.360.cn/webstore/detail/", "https://ext.chrome.360.cn/tabextension/get_json" and "#appstorePage .network-error".

No worries.

Oh, and MOST IMPORTANTLY - once installed, NEVER UPDATE !!! And no, I'm not joking

Ok, that matches what I see here. Thanks for double-checking.

On a "live" system, I would recommend removing ALL "metro apps" - even if you "like" them (find a 3rd party equivalent instead!) Here's an example but google/bing/duck for a learning-read - https://www.maketecheasier.com/uninstall-pre-installed-apps-windows-10/ But I would go one step further and axe them before they are even installed in the first place. You will need to learn how to use NTLite and WinReducer EX 100. Again, google/bing/duck to learn more.

To be as polite as possible, I cite an excerpt -- Although shocking that a single application on your machine can consume so many of your system resources, the complaint is relatively misguided, born in part by rose-tinted visions of the way the internet used to work in the olden days and by a fundamental misunderstanding of the way RAM is distributed and used within a computer. https://www.poweradmin.com/blog/why-your-internet-browser-is-such-a-ram-hog/ https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3r7xnc/eli5_why_do_browsers_take_up_so_much_ram/ https://www.howtogeek.com/334594/stop-complaining-that-your-browser-uses-lots-of-ram-its-a-good-thing/ Divide those tabs among two or three browsers, use one during the day for real-time market news, close it at the end of the business day, bookmark or speed-dial the tabs you don't even look at for weeks, et cetera. If you can't take the advice of closing unused tabs and stop "Page Parking", I really got nothing more for you. I feel that this discusson has "gone full circle" so best of luck to you, I got nothing more.

Truthfully, you have to experiment and find the mix that is right for you. I use MVPS's HOSTS file but tend to only update it once a year. The tabs you don't look at for weeks at a time - STOP KEEPING THEM OPEN. Not to go ALL CAPS on you, but that solution seems far FAR too obvious and you really do need to "let go" and close those tabs If you don't like bookmarks, then use a "speed dial" addon or something of the like. Or just copy-paste the URL into a .txt file - but why bury yourself with the performance-cripple of keeping them open for weeks at a time? Some difficulties in life we simply bring upon ourselves - that, my friend, I suggest is one of them Don't like pasting the URL from a .txt file? Then use a 3rd Party program like TyperTask and assign a keyboard shortcut. I personally never open any of my financial sites, be they banking or investing, during a "browse session" and I clear cache and history at every browser-close. And for any real time charts, I keep those running in a separate browser altogether - I use BNavigator for that type of stuff, don't care if the rest of BNavigator doesn't fit the rest of my needs, it fits for that so I use it for that. You really are better off getting rid of the "Page Parking" obsession (a real term) and learn to truly multi-task. "Parking" on a page for weeks? Then complaining that your browser "leaks"? Really? But anywhoo...

v13 build 2206 Russian Repack is not making this connection at every launch. I will patiently wait for your v13 tutorial before making any changes with my config.

I'm aware of that part. I was curious as to WHY you did that replacement --> hexadecimal code "33 00 36 00 30" has to be replaced by something like this "2e 00 2e 00 2e" What was occuring BEFORE this replacement that is no longer occuring AFTER this replacement?

I will have to wait for others "like you" to chime in, I'm afraid. I personally do not condone the practice / habit of the (so-called) "need" for 25 to 50 tabs being open 24/7. I could direct you to link after link and article after article on "why" I don't condone the practice - but in reality, we all have different "needs" for our computer and "to each their own", as the saying goes. I parallel keeping so many tabs open is like going to sleep at night with the front door unlocked - but again, "to each their own". In the world of "social media", all 25 to 50 of those tabs are very likely "sharing" ONE cookie and every tab knows what the other tab is doing - I'm exaggerating slightly, but it's called Cross Site Request Forgery and it relies solely on session-cookies. I'm no security expert, not pretending to be, nor a conspiracy theorist, but keeping that many "sessions" open all at the same time is not something I would recommend.

Not another one of "those people"... But I digress... I suspect you are better off finding out WHICH ONE of those 25 to 50 tabs is causing your problem and tweak that page's javascript. Or, perhaps better yet, find a way to "live with" NOT keeping that problematic page open 24/7. Not sure how much help that really is, but at least it is "something" until others come along

I wouldn't confuse "fetching an image" with "telemetry". And nor should people (you don't, btw) that "volunteer" to use such things as "prediction services" and the like consider that as "telemetry". I use v13 build 2206 of the Russian Repack with several of the changes you have cited above. Could you detail this one more? --> hexadecimal code "33 00 36 00 30" has to be replaced by something like this "2e 00 2e 00 2e" And do you plan on doing your analysis with v13?

Oh trust me, I am aware! I have friends, familiy, coworkers, and neighbors that biaatch and moan ALL THE TIME about gas prices - and I find it entirely irksome considering I get 6 weeks, and then some, to ONE tank of gas. They'll watch gas prices "like a Hawk" and will leave work an hour early just to make sure they fill up before "gas prices are about to jump". They install "phone apps" to tell them when prices are about to jump and which local gas station will be the last to raise prices. They'll drive an extra 4 miles OUT OF THEIR WAY (8 miles round trip) in a beat up ol' ride getting 18 mpg city "with the wind at their back" to save $0.08 per gallon when gas prices are only $3.00 per gallon and their tank is 16 gallon capacity. ie, if they were running on FUMES and had to buy AN ENTIRE TANK of 16 gallons, they spent $1.33 to drive OUT OF THEIR WAY to save $1.28 -- they spent an extra $0.05 but in their mind they "saved" !!! And you know d@mn well they did this NOT for an ENTIRE TANK so they were "upside down" by much MUCH more than $0.05. But it doesn't matter how many times you "do the math" for them, they continue this INSANITY and continue to FALSELY think that they "saved".

My nLite Services are currently as follows - ;# Services # Alerter Application Layer Gateway Beep Driver Distributed Link Tracking Client DNS Client Error Reporting Fax Service Indexing Service Messenger Remote Registry Route Listening Service RPC Locator Secondary Logon Service Advertising Protocol Simple TCP/IP Services System Restore Service TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Telnet My list of Services via My Computer -> Manage -> Computer Management -> Services does not list QoS RSVP, Quality of Service (QoS), or Text Services Framework so I may have removed those elsewhere with nLite. I do list WebClient and it is listed as Status = Started and Startup Type = Automatic -- I have not tried disabling the WebCient service.

Okay, that makes sense. That puts you right around $7.51 US Dollars per US Gallon. I'm showing average annual salary in Finland at 56,300 EUR per year which is $68,650 US Dollars per year. For the Midwest area of the US that I am located, the average annual salary is $68,876 US Dollars per year - so you could say we are basically EQUAL. The average gas price here is $2.93 US Dollars per US Gallon. That tells me TWO things - 1) I'll agree that you are paying too much, and 2) My gas prices SHOULD BE DOUBLED