Mr.Scienceman2000

I have to say that I can do nothing as I am not you. You have to decide yourself what to do. One thing I gotta say that dumbest possible thing to do is trying make yourself believe you only need "teh latest and (not always) greatest" and not look back to what works for you. Everyone seems to be falling for that and suffer from half assed systems. Also I do not know should I laugh or cry to those who want get rid of win10 since telemetry and go to spyware distro called ubuntu, install microsoft teams and all other spyware programs to it. You only changed your master that way. I give you two example for more realistic soluctions: Example 1 I personally banned Windoze 8+ on my personal network and any newer machine I service are only on my lab network which is behind different ip and network hardware. I installed Linux for dualboot on my notebook and on my desktop pc so can use it to do things Windows 7 can't do. I am running wide variety of operating systems on my network starting from Windows 3.11 for workgroups up to to Windows 7 and Linux and wont fall for "you can only use one os" meme. Example 2 One of my friend who is network admin. He partially lifted Windows 10 ban as he needed it to play some newer titles. He is running Windows 10 on his main workstation and got second workstation running Windows 7 that he uses for any serious use since win10 keep hosing up according to him. He is also running older Windows versions and linux like me. What distro I recommend now? Well something that got all you need by default and at the point writing this Salix OS is that. It is very minimal and got that one program per purpose philosophy. Full install takes less than 3gb of hdd space and it got celluloid for video/dvd player, quod libet for audio player, firefox for browser etc. And if you need more programs there is graphical installer that will automatically do it for you without need for pulling hair or smashing keyboard. Even though it is one of few gem in linux distros I need to give it honest critic. They could have had included more privacy respecting browser than Firefox like GNU/Librewolf or Ungoogled Chromium, but maybe I am just nitpick there

there is two tools you can use. One is process hacker 2.38 with it low level driver enabled. It is last for xp. You go to network tab then launch browser to see what sites does it connect. Look any network connections with your browser name. Also not that not all of connections mean data collection. Some of them can be related to site you are connecting. If same connections happens on many sites then it is spying addon. Second is MITM proxy that will need custom cert to be loaded on browser but it can see more You could learn use thing called Umatrix. That allow per site scope for allowing/blocking js. For example I can allow google scripts on google site while blocking scripts from google on this site or anything else.

@NotHereToPlayGamessince you are privacy aware person I am curious what addons are using in your 360chrome? I may have to give it a shot to access some sites that need newer js and wasm. I have used gecko based browsers for most of my life so not fully sure what works on chromium and even less on older one

not sure if I mentioned this song earlier in thread but it kinda reflect your or mine attitude to world (finnish song translated to english) https://lyricstranslate.com/en/suomen-muotoisen-pilven-alla-under-cloud-shaped-finland.html Point I give up totally is when all is actually over for good and absolutely nothing can be done

you can post whatever you want but could also post nitter link as twatter requires js. Here is nitter link https://nitter.net/ThreadsIrish

if it makes you fell any better I felt mostly same long ago when was reaching adulthood. It is thing that everyone will go trough. Most including me just never spoke from it to anyone as I am person who likes to keep them as own thing. It will eventually ease off. I ended up spending lot of time on room alone with games or internet and ended up loop with no friends because did not want meet anyone. But that is in the past and eased off when got to college and these days I mostly worry from work and other things but I learnt not to let them control my life. I live day by day and try get best out of each of them. Just don't give up it will ease off eventually

I guess we all got different opinion to this but for me it was early 2000 before social media outburst. Back then games were mostly physical, most used landline and some were into wireless phones or those fancy new smartphone (older consept smartphone was pocket pc not device to post on twatter or other unsocial media) like my 6600 that was salvaged from trash bin long ago when it was few years old. Most still used IRLtalk combined with calling, texting or instant messaging or email or letters, but for it was mostly being in places physically with friends. I was out playing with friends on park, football field or other places or sometimes in their houses watching films or play multiplayer games with dead consept called splitscreen. Also console modding scene was big back then. Original Xbox was modder favorite it was able to play divx and other movie files, run emulators, play music and other cool stuff thanks to homebrew and modding scene. Today whole modding scene is replaced by 9 year old redditors and seems to be only into piracy or hacking into games (use cheats and not reverse engineer or mod them) and not interested trying utilize the hardware with homebrew software. Still hurts to think world went way it is now. Most friends around me seems to be hooked into unsocial media and they cant put their goddamn phones down for minute and feel so offended when I tell them put it down for while to spend time with me. Everytime it beeps they are looking them withing second from it. Put it on silent mode and let it sit on pocket until leave my house. I wont care what they do with their phone elsewhere but in my house it is my rules And they usually makes them acceptable with poor reasoning like "if one company can track why not let all others track me" or "i have nothing to hide let them spy me". Privacy is not all or nothing, it is about loosing something and just because you give data to one does not make it justifiable to give it for another violator. You can have privacy to some level without moving to mountains to live as Amish. Social media has ruined this world for good and I really wish there would be button that would make twitter and other go away. Too many people are addicted to social media and suffer depression from it as that is how algorithm keeps you hooked. Well atleast you can make personal choices. One is not install or browse those services on your phone. Second is delete those for good, then can go fuhrer and stop using your phone for useless things or go brick phones that I always been interested of. My old-school nokias allow most important feature of wireless phone which is to call on a move and my Casio f91-w non smart watch shows me what time is and also got second timer. My workstation is running trusted and tested operating system and software and I wont be on my machine most of my days, I still like meet people IRL and enjoy spending time on nature

at this point words dangerous and deadly wont mean lot to me when said on media. They overused those words totally in too many wrong cases.

I seen that on my Celeron 266 pc when was testing hardware functionality with XP to confirm there was no issues. For some reason APM was not on by default and that happened. If you got APM only board, xp and 2000 offers toggle to disable in on power control panel applet

worst there have been were in lenovo that caused grub to ruin uefi firmware rendering laptops unbootable. Back when I was in college I had MSDN access where could download LAB keys and ISO files for certain amount per year. It was how I was able learn use Windows editions and many of their programs. Actually some of my licenced operating systems uses those keys and iso files still

just boot to win10 or live media or something and rename acpi.sys to acpi.old to have backup then copy install that one to folder. It will be fine but if Windows file protection Window pop up like below press cancel and DO NOT give it cd as Windows XP+ does not like that you swap files and that tries revert it. Not sure if that will affect to sys files but if does better not try your luck

Back in day long ago when I was in school I was taught following for using internet: Do not use your real full name, do not use your real profile picture, do not tell your age, do not tell your address to unknown person. That was back when everyone used messaging boards and MSN messenger and other groups to talk online instead of social media. I had many "faceless" friends as kid that I never knew from their name, age or town in MSN messenger and they did not mine. Then the era of facebook came where idea was use your real face instead of some profile picture and real full name and all other and it ruined whole system for good.

but...but..but it must be real since it exist on twatter of fakebook. Long ago I made fbibook account thinking attend some communities but quickly learnt it was not what I expected. Everyone were narcissistic, I was though suspicious because did not have birthday, hometown, family info and picture of myself in profile and eventually left whole cancer for good and got no regrets. I stick to messaging boards I guess since here nobody cares that I am with picture of MTV3 channel mascot (aulis owl) and with my nickname and not real face and name. I never understood why I need have my own face everywhere.

my workplace wont require me to wear mask in my office luckily. Only if I am moving on other areas. I see some who wear mask even on car when they are in it alone. Do they wear one while they are alone in home too?

Maybe I should have had stated it as without huge bugs. At point I was testing it there there was performance bug on Ryzen cpu and Windows 11 and that made me mad since lab system had ryzen. I know there is nothing bug free but if bug causes me major headache it is unacceptable. Yeah there is small things under the hood but I cant see any huge deal-breaker reasons to upgrade on my personal system. If it fixes someone bug good, but for me it is another 200-300 euros waste so no thanks.

Don't get me wrong I am not any anti vaxxer person and I got all basic vaccinations. My only worry is related health issues others had with those experimental vac. I wont be guinea pig for big medical companies. But you know what response to my worry is? "Stop reading conspiracy theory sites, there is no microchips in vaccine" or that I am selfish for not taking it. I have not said anything from microchips only that I got worry it could have side effects to my health as it is currently experimental. I hate when you are automatically flagged belonging to some actual id*** club when you have genuine concerns from anything. But it usually tell other side has run out of good arguments and need to be desperate. If you mean computers overall we likely would be near Amish as computer covers quite lot of things. There has been computers since early 1900, but they were not like today. Also every time you would call someone there would be phone center person (sentraalisantra here) instead of automatic call machine to connect you that person. But if you mean computers like one I am typing with one thing I would see is it would limit ability to do you own research on things as computers and internet allows much less resisted access to data than before. Also gotta admit computers does some things like calculations easier and save lot of time for my life. Sure I can calculate without but why bother every time when spreadsheets make them easier. Also I would not have so much media preserved as I have now

did that ever leak capacitors? I had dell optiplex 260 from same era and it had bulged and leaky caps since capacitor plague. Some of early 2000 dells had capacitor issues that gave them nickname Hell Capacitor plague did not affect later dell units. I have had GX620 and 755 and those are still kicking with bulging or bad caps

I don't know the horsepower maybe ? Jokes aside it depends from usage. 1 liter N/A engine is just fine for normal highway usage, but when you got tons of passengers and other load on car extra horsepower comes in handy. Also during winter on hilly area any power engine can produce helps since if you stall on hill you will roll down and break your car. Which reminds me from fun story about V6 turbocharged Mercedes with launch assistant, automatic transmission, AWD and all other fancy stuff that got stuck in snowy hill multiple times while my friend 1.8l N/A FWD Nissan Almera without anything else than traction control was able pass it just fine. Mercedes was way too heavy I guess and needed to be towed up the hill

biggest issue is to find VOIP provider that sell number for consumer in Finland and allows call to 112 (emergency number). My Modem can actually convert analog phone to VoIP but getting VoIP service is hard here as carriers killed it off push smartphones down everyone throat. When I eventually find good one I wont replace my cell phone with it. I use my old-school wireless phone on a road and transfer calls to VoIP when home. Kinda like my 15" laptop from 2005 is device for me on a road while in home I want use my desktop with big monitor. Also I am looking going into ham radio for communications in future as other options will be harder and harder to get. Most of old tech just work better P.S I totally understand why you don't want wireless phone and prefer landline, sadly you are one of few remaining who think it should be freedom of choice while other think you need to be forced to something "for your own benefit"

I do have bunch of Nokia and Siemens and Samsung phones (pre 2009) that nobody wanted and I am collector of those. They are part of Finnish technology history but these days nobody cares about history unless they can profit from it so I plan keep them safe. My oldest phone on collection is Nokia 880 GSM from 1995 which was basically reshelled Nokia 2110. Nokias from late 90s to early 2000 were actually best and most reliable mobile phones there is. They were assembled in my home country many I got were actually assembled and built in my home town. They used high quality plastic on them and were working making them have better and better battery life. Consider that when first mass produced Nokia phone 1011 came out in 1992 it had 15h standby time and 90min talk time max and 5 years later Nokia 6110 had whopping 270h standby time and 5h talk time with 900mah battery. I got 1200mah battery on my 6110 phone and it lasts near two weeks with single full charge while I call a lot. Also that phone is frikking durable and feels it will last many generations. So if you think all cellphones are super unreliable it is false. And I agree that landline is better but in my eyes cellphones and landline phones were not to competite against each others as laptops were not to competite against desktop machines even though market changed to that way. Wireless phones are good for areas where is no access for landlines or use on a move while landlines would be my choice on home and other non moving places. Also there should be freedom pick between. Am I only who is not simple minded enough to see it that way in this country or world? And you know reason why I got no landline and I really hope you are not forced in US "For you benefit" away from landline option. Here they made even getting VOIP hard to push those sh@tty smartphones down everyone throat. I do not hate smartphones and only hate that they are pushed to those who do not want them. Pretty sure they would be offended too if I would come and push them my old brick Nokia but I wont since for it is freedom of choice.

I gotta be ahead of others as my family only had one car expect at one point they had two cars for year and I used their older car to learn driving before it broke down too badly for wear (GM seal of quality). In other hand that car had 300 000km driven so it served long life and as far as know new owner fixed it and is still driving it. Also we were not traveling aboard, rather traveling in home country and my parents taught me not to consume. During my life I have had 5 phones expect bunch of old Nokias I saved from being scrapped while some change phones like underwear. Also I had 4 desktop machines total that I did not get for free and were from "new" parts so I am ahead others in reducing emissions, waste and consuming.

My favorite on classic cars are Saab Scania era Saabs (pre gm). Those were amazing engineering and manufacturing from best of Finnish and Swedish engineers. Most Saab 900 sold here were made in my home country at uusikaupunki factory while some were made in Trollhättän Sweden . Saab benefit and weakness was quality. They did very safe and reliable cars that are still one of safest cars on road and got can last near forever if maintained properly. Problem was that they were expensive and Saab did not make tons of profit from car they sold. And most who had money to Saab chose BMW or Mercedes even though they had worse engineering (see top gear Saab vs BMW drop test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk5CTRu_Pzw). Also what dropped them in America was "lawnmower" 4cylinder engine. That 150hp 2.0l turbocharged engine was good but for some reason I never understood most US consumer felt to care from amount of cylinders and not from fuel efficiency or power vs consumption ratio. They were designing and made few prototypes from 4liter 230hp turbocharged V8 engine in uusikaupunki factory until GM bough them out and they had their v6. Here is link to video about that engine from old YLE TV show puskuri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVidhrnLFf0 Saab is like pre 2008 Nokia phones are to me. Everyone today think they are bad because they are old (old must be bad because twatter told me so on my iPhone) when in reality they are high quality and lasts long time and because they are unwanted you can get them cheaply.

Limiting gas cars and going to EV is just way to move problem out of your eyes. No matter what they claim they will use fossil fuels to charge those EV. And remember that test that says EV is more environmental friendly is done biased way. They do like petrol car output exhaust fume and ev wont mean ev is clean. But of course electricity comes out of wall outlet so it is clean But I agree that many uses too big engine for daily use. I understand huge v6 and v8 if you move huge amount of load but having one for daily drive without load is overkill. For me 1.8l DOCH engine without turbo or VVT/VTEC or 1.6l DOCH with vtec/vvt (Toyota silvertop and Honda JDM B16-A as example) is my minimum because it is something that would have enough horsepower for mixed use on highway/town/with load while not sucking too much gas

And nobody seems to care how it will affect battery lifespan here to use EV. Now everyone say things like "don't listen radio" and "don't use heater" to make EV acceptable in their mind. So we need to go back to bad old days when cars did not have heater and needed to have thick winter jacket and gloves in car just not to freeze alive in your cockpit? During emergencies I do not want my car and engine run using same energy. If I am out of fuel I still got lights, hazard signal and heater. When EV runs out of "fuel" you got nothing. Also what is trend on having million displays in car and not having normal gauges? Those are distraction in my opinion. I want simple gauges back. I am not saying that there cant be any screen as option but not as mandatory. Also I prefer install my own phone car kit and not have some vendor thing locked into brand new BT enabled phones with manufacture program installed. And some may not have wireless phone to car or want one that is permanently installed to car by themselves. This is gauge cluster that got all information you need on driving and is clear enough (from saab) https://www.rbmsaabparts.com/rbm_images/produits/greenlights2.jpg

11 years. My original trusty Pentium 4 tower with antec sonata case was last time cleaned in 2009 after antec psu blew up and I never cleaned it after that until last year when did full cleanup and rinsing (mainboard and electrics off case) to it. Dust had gotten into fan bearings making them hard to spin so had to swap fan.