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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.

well said. That is my life attitude. I cannot know when it will end and will try live my best until day it all ends. I try not to worry too much and find things in life I enjoy like hiking, watching movies and playing games

This kinda reminds me from pig flu. Everyone were super hysteric that it will kill us all and you need take vac or will die. I know one friend who had it and he is still alive without side effects. Also many who took vac suffer from narcolepsy. Now it feels same but much longer period of time. I guess constitution law wont mean a thing in your country (like it would mean thing on many places).

You didn't specify software or hardware so i say Microsoft mouse from 1983. Anyone who says it is bad they do not understand how x and y axis based input devices are the future. Also can your fancy IBM PS/1 with PC-DOS and keyboard play piano on screen? No. Maybe I should not joke here but that question is super vague and kinda makes no sense. Pick one MS product to like is kinda strange . Maybe rephrase whole thing and also mods could move this to different category since this is not related to windows 11 and maybe you can get more sensible answer to more senisble question

Here we call them Viktoriankaijanen. In my experience they wont like other birds and they bit very hardly even stronger than cockatiel when they attack and for that sized bird they move quickly. Lizards don't like from other pets. I remember once there was dog visiting on house with gecko and it came to front window and tried scare dog away and dog just stared it with interest. Luckily there was glass between them. Do you keep iguana in your yard?

well I have not closely followed that sinking ship but their engine seems not allow do anything for those privacy settings on palememe based browser even when I allow js. It works on ungoogled chromium and librewolf so useless and inferior to searx, which can do ddg and google results and I can run it on my private instance And thing is violators will never change for better. For example privacy respecting Duckduckgo used to run data collection operation before was privacy respecting vendor. Always look under curtain and you see more than before. Like I said you still got lot to learn in life (so do I and everyone else) and that if something sounds too good to be true it is not true.

@Sampei.Nihiraif you want to see how Pihole log looked like after I reloaded site with all content blocking off at browser level. It seems work for basic ads.

I know that feeling. I had perfectly configured XP setup on old mainboard (asus m2n-sli deluxe) that did not want reload os when moved to new mainboard (Asus H87M-PLUS) and used lot of effort to remove old drivers, convert it to achi, install new drivers, reconfigure anything that relied on old drivers because it was less effort compared fresh install of windows and software and tweaks

there is soluction for that if you have spare linux box or VM to utilise. https://pi-hole.net/ I am using that and it with default lists works great for blocking ads in network level. Sometimes UBO might conflict with that. Also make sure you wont blacklist any CDN you may need because some lists on by default. I agree with this. In my tests on Chromium, Gecko and Goanna based browsers enabling excess amount of blocklists wont block more ads or trackers and only slows down browsing. I only use UBO for cosmetic blocking and Umatrix will handle ads and tracking blocking. Also ublock is helpful to block anything that umatrix is missing for some reason because sometimes you cant block all visual annoyances and ublock works great for it. I only use built in filters and adblock filter list for finland and my custom cosmetic filters on it.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/ In short Chromium will be removing webRequest api and replace it with chrome.declarativeNetRequest in next month with Manifest V3 (V2 will be crippled away). This of course is done in name of security because google is worried from following to end user. Now when I said official story I can say my opinion on this. That is total lie and only purpose of that is to limit privacy add-ons like noscript, ublock origin, Umatrix etc from having higher control over your browser. New api replacing it will not allow addons directly read data and will force request trough chromium (source). Also that wont limit addons from stealing your data because malicious addons today wont need to read your browser traffic to steal passwords or or other data. But of course anything can be done with security excuse. And if you think some alternatives like Firefox or Coward I mean Brave will not do it remember that Firefox is funded by Google and it past they killed off XPCOM addons in name of security, forced addon signatures, added hard blocklist for addons and Brave gets paid from Google to use their search engine plus it uses Chromium engine as default, it includes it own spyware, it uses addons still for contect blocking. And some actually good forks like Librewolf and Ungoogled chromium are in uphill battle with mainstream decisions and developers of librewolf has admitted they have problem hand. And UXP based browsers like Palememe or Serpent suffer from compatibility issues with Chromium JS and WASM made pages so those are not so great either for all use. Feels like every day I want get more away from internet, but world forces me to use online services to do basic things because offices are closed or resisted access

I cannot fully say if this works in your configuration but I have been using these drivers to load even NT4 on newer mainboards on achi mode. You need to slipstream those with nlite http://alter.org.ua/en/soft/win/uni_ata/

I wonder what parrots you had? Cockatiels, Budgies, Lovebirds or bigger parrots? Does France have population from escaped parrots? When I was in Spain long ago I saw Quaker parrots there.

I have seen around same age laptop booting Windows 3.1. That laptop did not have any documentation with it and finding info is hard as it is Olivetti rebranded to digital. I have that laptop still but without understanding error codes I cant swap rechargable cmos battery. I installed one to it which had same voltage and laptop turned off every so often blinking heart symbol on LCD which I assume means system health warning. When I pulled battery it worked and still works great just need reconfigure bios on every boot. I also was able to salvage very rare WSOY EN-FI dictionary program (1991) from it hard drive that runs on DOS and WIN16 (it runs even on XP).

They are not too bad to run but problem is that many programs use those as unnecessary depency. For example firefox by default wont work without pulseaudio without good reason but you can make it work without. SystemD, Dbus, Pulseaudio etc are more things that power user may not want in their system but for average mortal does not have to worry about them. I recommend newbie to just get just work distro like Linux mint or Salix and not think Artix, Devuan or Gentoo and avoiding pulseaudio and others before is advanced enough (and even then is not requirement) If systemd would be my biggest worry and not worry from making enough to to pay bills or any other actual issues I would be happy

for me google vs apple vs Microsoft is same s*** with different as*****. Apple privacy thing is straight out lie to attract consumers. Apple made their tracking blocking thing to have ad monopoly that would force every ad company pay them for data. Also apple super privacy respecting setup requires you to activate device on apple servers. Also Apple uses privacy as excuse to make side loading of apps in Macos hard/Make it impossible on iOS and in name of security they try block you from maintaining your own devices. So they are no different than other violators and it is totally foolish to believe that publicly traded company would care from your privacy and would not sell your data to get more earnings for shareholders. Thing is that these days privacy is best marketing term for anything. Last time I saw honest company was Google around 2010 when their CEO said that if you do not want them to see your files do not upload files to their service and that is redpill many are not ready to swallow even today because they are not comfortable with fact that no company cares from your rights or privacy and only want to lure you believe so. I assume I will get plenty of "look this research or whitepaper that proves your FUD wrong" like always when I question their precious companies (not talking from you rather that diehard part)

All I can say is that here we go again. Lot of people around me keep saying they will never ever go to Windows 11 from Windows 10 and will boycott Microsoft for bad decisions. Same people said that they wont go to Windows 10 from Windows 8 or 7 and guess what OS they use now? Windows 10. I bet in few months most of them are running Windows 11 only. Why do everyone say things they wont stand behind? I am not saying that just give up and go all to Windows 11 and all other M$ products and give them thousands of euros, rather stick on your words or make more realistic plan like I will only use Windows 11 where I really have to and will prefer have main system with older version of Windows or go to linux like me. Currently got two Windows 8+ system I use. One is workplace laptop with Windows 10 and second is my LAB system running Windows 11 for testing purposes and it is located on isolated network that is behind separate IP and wont have access to my personal network. Currently that lab system is running Linux though. And if someone want use Windows 11 that is fine too but my point is don't say things you wont mean. I just wonder how much more consumers are able to stand? I guess they would even be fine mandatory for retina scan every time they want use their PC (facial scan exist already called Windows Hello but that is not forced for now) and even if machine would lock them out after they were looking wrong information like what is wrong with this system.

Also Nightmare on Elm Street 3 had PC/AT compatible with Windows 1.0 in background on one scene. Maybe that was real nightmare on movie . P.S I have almost that compaq laptop but it is slightly newer Compaq contura CX430 with 100mhz 486 cpu. Old compaqs are near unkillable laptops. Few years ago I found one old article from that series of notebooks and some complained they had issues running Windows 95 but luckily I never had those.

how much your iguana costed you on wall repairs ? most geckos need heated rock with uv light to rest since will simulate the natural resting in sunlight for them. They spend most of time in dark ares and temperature must be bit over normal room temp (20c) and in winter you cant ventilate that room to avoid freezing your lizard. Exotic animals are very prone to cold and right now we got -22c and dropping so that must be taken in consideration. they are very intelligent since they know to come out when they hear familiar voice and will come closer to wall when they see familiar face. Also they know when is feeding time and come out when that happens even if food is not ready. They got very good memory for that sized animal. I almost spit my morning coffee to monitor when saw this

Like I said this was not pointed to you. I meant I do not like to be called fan when you said "Windows fans" because fans are thing I hate. I know you are aware of Linux problems since wont run Ubuntu and thinking are super unhackable, rather devuan and avoid all bad things on mainstream distros but meant Linux community overall that does not like any critics or words that could be improved and any other community does same Speaking that Mozilla thread it was not to bash Mozilla rather raise awareness from doublespeak and lies they do because best way to change things is raise awareness of people who were not aware of them. Only way change problems is make everyone aware of it, but problem with that is that taking red pill and see the truth is harder than taking blue pill and believe whatever you want and internet is full of examples of that. I would not be surprised if my different opinion would have caused outrage is Mozilla diehard reddit. And I wont talk bad from things to shill some fake projects like brave unlike some do. And I am not any anti Linux user. I got Linux running network level firewall, DHCP, Content filters (Pihole to block some things I do not want in my network). I also use Linux on main workstation and all servers exposed internet are running Linux and only allow Windows powered servers work on isolated LAN behind VPN. And what are browser choices for Linux? Well GNU Librewolf which is Latest FF without most nasty stuff and secondary browser I use is SeaMonkey and then for anything that does not need "modern" browser I use Webbrowser which is Palememe based and I also use Iceape UXP. If you still think I am Linux and Gecko engine hater then it must be that way. there seems to be rule that before some thing is mainstream it is hard to use but generally has better feature set instead of having nasty stuff and whenever some thing becomes more mainstream is start turning into bad. One benefit of Linux compared to Windows is that Kernel is open source like desktop and toolkit and there is some very good distros like Salix (easiest to configure), Devuan (allow control without too much hassle), Artix Linux (for those who actually want control over OS and not just brag off like arch users) and Gentoo (for those who got no life and got plenty of free time to compile, but in other hand you get more freedom to decide what your system will have.)

Long ago I used one spare Pentium 4 machine with 512mb of RAM to run game servers with WS2003 R2. Most important thing to remember is use proper hardware firewall between server and internet and ONLY allow ports that you need and I recommend high non standard ports and block pinging of port since that will reduce change of port scan attack. Any Windows or Linux or even BSD based server will get hacked if you leave all ports open. It is like leaving door open instead of small window to get fresh air. For web server I highly recommend against using id*** Information services since back in day that was room for worms like Code Red worm long ago. Also I recommend against wordpress. Use only apache and that way you are less vurneable. Sorry that cant tell how do that firewall thing on VPS since I self host all of my servers to have better access over them and have hacker proof killswitch (pull the plug) but it control panel should allow port blocking I guess

in my experience they used equally amount of ram. Linux mint 32 and 64 bit uses around 1gb of ram and salix uses around 400mb of ram with my config on 64 and 32bit. So salix got less extra clutter by default but it also mean it wont have things like timeshift (linux version of system restore), update manager but you need to pick between which feels best. Like I said usb Live USB to see yourself which suites best. Here is downloads Salix: https://www.salixos.org/download.html Linux Mint LTS (long term support) releases since you are not bleeding edge kid and likely prefer stuff not change too rapidly: Linux Mint 19 Tara supported until 2023 https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=256 Linux Mint 20 Ulyana supported until 2025 https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=283

I got two suggestions that offers live cd to test OS fully before you start formatting drive to it. Both of them are beginner friendly and browse web wont need do any command line things. Also both can configure windows dualboot and partition automatically without lot of hassle Salix OS and Linux mint are my recommendation. Linux mint is based on Ubuntu and got wider support for software but it got some bad things like system D. If you use pick XCFE desktop as it wont need 3d acceleration. It got graphical application installer for additional software. Salix OS is Slackware based but got GUI for installing packages and softwares and got pretty decent software collection out of box but follows one program per task philosophy and most important to me lacks systemD. Why is systemD so bad? It limits freedom of choice. and should I go with Salix? No. You can test both and see which fits for best for you using livecd. And at the end things like freedom choosing init systems and others wont mean a thing when going first time to linux so pick whatever works for you out those two. You can later decide what path you want take but you cant take path if pulled off from it. And order you install them is XP first then Linux that grub loader will take over and work with both. Just keep spare linux install medium around if you accidentally hose up the bootloader