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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    Agreed. And I guarantee you that the Chromium team does not care nor perhaps even read what the MSFN community says about their project.
  2. NotHereToPlayGames
    Agreed. The Wikipedia boycott rant, be it true or false, would get an F at my old high school
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    Web page looks like a high school project. Hope it is "expanding" to more than what is there thus far.
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    Wrong thread. That question should be posted at https://msfn.org/board/topic/184051-my-browser-builds-part-4/
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    My car is 32 years old. Not a single solitary spot of rust! I do firmly support the notion of "if you take care of it, it will last forever". My kids are the same way! They may have phones that are SEVERAL times older than their friends's phones. But my kids's phone have no scratches, don't even have "screen protectors". Because if you know how to TAKE CARE OF THINGS, they will last a long time. But there also has to be a sense of realism - and sorry, expecting a 20yr old computer to compete with a 5yr old computer is not realistic. But I also must admit, neither is my 32yr old car "for most people". People drive like MANIACS and falsely think that "green means gun it", it doesn't "green means go".
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    Not likely. SSD is faster, there is no doubt about that. But it's also over-rated and exaggerated when you consider that larger RAM computers do all their talking between CPU and RAM. The speed of the SSD or HDD is only a factor when "loading" the program into RAM. It's also fairly easy to prove. Unless I missed something. I can run an OS from a DVD-R, complete with web browser on that DVD-R, wait for the disk to STOP SPINNING, then type a URL in the address bar, the disk does NOT start spinning. Translation - if the DVD-R was not accessed, then neither is the HDD or SSD.
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    Speaking of older laptops. I have an old Asus X54C lying around that I decided to bring back to life. i3-2350M at 2.3 GHz, 4 GB DDR3. Win7 Home Premium x64. Circa 2011 or 2013. Unsure if this was a low-end model, a mid-level model, or a top-of-the-line model "back in the day". Reinstalled Win7. Turning out to be a complete waste of time! ALL web browsers I have tried on this score 30 or below on Speedometer. In the TEENS for several roytam builds. TEENS! I've never seen anything score that badly! But it's not just the "score", this thing has got to be the SLOWEST computer I've ever ran! Type a URL in the address bar of ANY web browser and it sits there for at least four seconds before doing anything, another three to nine seconds before the page starts to load. Network or wi-fi both show and test just as fast as all of my XP and Win10 machines - but this Win7 is TERRIBLE. EXTREME network lag.
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    Planned Obsolescence = Job Security The hype and propaganda of "security vulnerabilites" will sell a refrigerator to an eskimo.
  9. NotHereToPlayGames
    Sweet! We have Raspberry Pi's running some of our factory equipment.
  10. NotHereToPlayGames
    Agreed! Especially considering your keyboard, mouse, and monitors will carry over to that "upgrade". Definitely easier than the software. But even migrating software to me seems a red herring, it's really not "that" difficult to migrate software from one computer to the next. Windows Updates are a much bigger PITA (of no concern to me, I don't install "updates", I do occasionally install hotfixes but doing so is not important to me, seen them BREAK software and printer installations WAY too many times). Proof that cost of hardware is a complete red herring - compare your computer to your PHONE (I don't have one!) and track just how much that PHONE costs you compared to your computer. And people will "upgrade" that phone every two years and not think twice! Constantly tied to a multi-year contract, RENTING the phone month by month, because the "phone was free" when they signed the "rental agreement".
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    But computers are like cars - you can spend $18,000 for a brand new Mirage or Rio and get from Point A to Point B - https://www.cars.com/articles/here-are-the-10-cheapest-new-cars-you-can-buy-right-now-421309/ Or you can spend $58,000 for a Lexus and not get from Point A to Point B any faster - https://www.cars.com/research/search/?style[]=luxury&years[]=2024&sort=highest_price
  13. NotHereToPlayGames
    No. https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/06/18/cost-of-a-computer-the-year-you-were-born-2/
  14. NotHereToPlayGames
    That's just it. We don't need top-of-the-line. A mid to low level PC may require a RAM upgrade but computers really are CHEAP. None of us here at MSFN live in a Third World Country and the shear REALITY is we could ALL have a brand new computer if we really wanted one! Cost of computer in 1971 = $750. That's $4,659 adjusted for inflation. An Apple I in 1976 cost $667. That's $2,949 adjusted for inflation. An Apple II in 1977 cost $1,298. That's $5,389 adjusted for inflation. A Commodore VIC-20 cost $299 in 1980. That's $913 adjusted for inflation. A Commodore 64 cost $595 in 1982. That's $1,551 adjusted for inflation. An Apple Macintosh cost $2,495 in 1984. That's $6,042 adjusted for inflation. A Toshiba Satellite laptop cost $2,499 in 2002. That's $3,495 adjusted for inflation. A Toshiba Satellite laptop cost $330 in 2013. Point is, computers are CHEAP. This isn't 1977 where an Apple II cost 9.6% of an entire year's average wage.
  15. NotHereToPlayGames
    The discussion was not in regards to "needing" that UA, but rather in regards to reverse-engineering what Chase.com is sniffing for.
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    I do have a "default" install of Win10 22H2. It's a VM and an unregistered Windows installation. Unmodified, default install. The only thing it gets used for is various software "dark mode" visual inspection. I am not a "dark mode" fan, but I am still curious at times and "dark mode" software just seems to 'coordinate itself' with Win10 better than any other OS - I say that based on only VM quick in-and-out "dark mode" testing. That 22H2 "default install" has become a very good comparison. I run the 22H2 VM with 4 GB RAM and things get sluggish even with 4 cores allocated. My tweaked 21H2 LTSB 2016 is quick and snappy with only 2 GB RAM and only 1 core allocated (it's also the version I use on real hardware, but it all starts in a VM until I get it to where I am happy with it). Processes / Threads / Handles side-by-side basically tells it all, Windows only, no background apps -
  17. NotHereToPlayGames
    I'd have to review my history. But if memory serves, the only reason my three-iteration process includes NTLite is because WinReducerEX100 doesn't remove MS Print to PDF and XPS Document Writer (something I never use and if I did I would resort to third-party, not bundled with OS). I print PDFs via doPDF, I don't want the feature "bundled" into my OS.
  18. NotHereToPlayGames
    Autoruns doesn't list it in the Services tab.
  19. NotHereToPlayGames
    Neither do !. I've used Autoruns in the past, forgot all about it, thanks.
  20. NotHereToPlayGames
    I actually use NTLite (but the free version). My media goes through three iterations to get my slimmed-down 10 to work to my liking. WinReducerEX100 free -> NTLite free -> WinReducerEX100 free. Since XP remains my true workhorse, not sure if I'll pay for a tool to improve upon my slimmed-down 10. Guess it will depend on just how much more I'll "need" 10 over XP in the coming years.
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    <OT> I've only ever had one job and one job only that scheduled employees to work weekends. 80% of us, myself included, only had two days off per month (a Sat and Sun), MANDATED to work all but 24 days per YEAR. Would even be MANDATED to work New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, and Easter. SOME were even MANDATED to work Christmas (I did have the "luck" of not having to work Christmas) - worst job of my entire life! I survived two rounds of layoffs but resigned after just over five years all on account of mandated overtime. Resigned without another job already lined up. BEST THING I've ever done, that job had a way of turning everybody into "sour" people, "mad all the time". I also always keep late afternoons and evenings free. I'll do anywhere from 8 to 13 hours in a day, but I get there at 2 or 3 in the morning and out the door when the kids' school lets out. I've had to basically retrain every boss I've ever worked for, "We can't have you here at 3am by yourself." I've involved HR at three different jobs over bosses telling me that, "Explain to me why so-and-so can work at 8pm here by themself but I cannot do the same thing at 3am?" HR takes my side each and every time! Because there is no difference! You either don't let anybody work outside of a standard "8 to 5" or you accept the early arrival and the late departure EQUALLY. We don't do family stuff every day of the week, but I am by no means absent. I have half a day in before anyone else even wakes up.
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    For now I am opting to revert to 2016 LTSB. I have ZERO use for "Windows Defender" and I'm not keen on running an OS with useless and unneeded "overhead" running in the background.
  23. NotHereToPlayGames
    Is there a specific .ps script I should download/run?
  24. NotHereToPlayGames
    LTSC is a version of 21H2.
  25. NotHereToPlayGames
    Doesn't even launch for me!
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