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Well Ford and Dell got some in common. Both used to do high quality stuff but since then started cut corners and turned into unreliable short lifespan products. Dell uses cheap caps on mainboard and their cases are propieraty so no way change case easily. I hope you and your machine will have long lifespan together . PS. that desktop is interesting looking still. It looks like mix of Windows XP and Windows 7 to my eye

imagine that being only checkout and you would be in hurry to buy food

Well you should not use cloud to store important data anyway. There is no cloud just other people computers and by sending data there you trust unknown entity with all private and possibly classified data. Use external hard drives combined with cd-r/dvd-r/dvd-r DL/Bluray to backup and do offsite backups. Optical media is secondary backup and hdd primary Also if you do not want go to win10 to avoid spyware features but install newer ms software like office 365, you made it poitnless. Office loads quite bunch of stuff to your machine and phones home from everything. Latest office I use is 2007 and after that libre office or openoffice

Here another RTL-SDR related software that I found to work on XP. adsbSCOPE V2.7 with ADSB# V1.0.11.1 works on XP and displays aircrafts around me. I tested and all maps and built in downloader works without issues under 32bit Windows XP with POS ready TLS patch. That program is also less bloated than virtual radar server (why does it need web server while this wont) and runs all inside client. Earlier I mentioned some other RTL-SDR related utils that been confirmed to run on XP. You do not need newer Windows to do SDR stuff

Security is illusion many times and used by marketing teams to sell products. Words like secure and private are common Lets take three examples of persons Person 1. Uses Windoze 11/MacOS with some "super secure" (read super bloated) antivirus, Microsoft Edgy, or Google chrome and think is unhackable since memory protections and got all updates installed. And lets ignore fact companies have likely backdoored those protections to whoever asks it. Person 2. Uses fully libre thinkpad with FreeBSD or QubesOS and uses hardened firefox thinking they are unbreakable and safe from hackers because that is what everyone said from them. Well that is harder to break but FreeBSD got vurneabilities too and Qubes OS uses hypervisors that got vurneabilities. Also what if someone just break into your house while laptop is on and prevents you from locking it while copying all of your data out or do other physical intrusion? Person 3. Uses whatever his personal preference is. Does not run after latest "security" trends. Takes time to research and patch any holes can on system, but despite that does not trust to be hacker or virus proof and is careful and uses common sense. Which of those persons is least likely get hacked or get attacked by virus? I would say person 3 because that he/she is not too arrogant to think to think he/she is safe from hackers. Point of this is not say all safety is useless and you will get hacked rather is never trust to software or hardware blindly and not fall into every single marketing word. Person 1 fell totally fell into marketing lies without doing any research at all, Person 2 sure did good steps like removing backdoored bios and disabling hardware backdoor, but fell into arrogance that can ruin all effort. I actually needed /p i flag on my main Pentium 3 Windows 98 pc because ACPI issues. ACPI seemed to make whole thing unstable and when forced to apm and then disabled APM was stable. Windows 98SE sucks on power management even it is good other ways. on machines I got HDD installed I like to use Norton Speeddisk for defrag. For 98SE/ME non lite, 2k and XP i use 2003 version. It seems do better than Windows defrag. Fun fact Windows defrag and scandisk are crippled Norton Speedisk and Norton Disk doctor. MS licenced their limited versions from Symantec. What I am not sure if Symantec reduced their performance on purpose to sell their own product but feels like it. Windows 9X dirty fixes like copying files from working install fixed things many times. It was way more simple and mostly cared from registry. Also if 98SE hoses up, I can still access dos mode and use scanreg and others without needing emergency boot floppy unless boot partition is broken

There simple reason. Back in day devs were not able to get away for making horribly optimised code so easily (internet exploiter is expection). Back then RAM and hdd space was relatively pricey and internet access was over modems for most. Broadband access was new and it purpose was not download bloated page rather have faster speed for stuff like download/stream music and video. Making site load slowly like today if wont have bleeding edge connection was saying "f**k you I do not want to do business with you.". Today normies got fast enough connection to make it possible push unoptimised junk acceptable with "most users got good connection" excuse. Sure I do have 100mb/s cable modem connection but only because apartment offered 10 euros per month. I took it to have better connectivity to server and file transfer use. And most sites download relatively quickly. BUT that does not make accept bloated contect. I am lucky to enjoy such luxury, but not all does have that. Pretty sure many on this board have even capped data connection and speeds way below that. Most modern sites look flat and ugly and got useless stuff like text done with js, hamburger menus etc. everywhere. Back in day dynamic web pages did something cool actually and were not just to track you. Making static site is impossible unless using web tools unless use something like old Dreamweaver or do all HTML with text editor since they all are just web frameworks now. Best way to classic internet is to do simple personal site and use XHTML since that is much more strict and actually standard. I currently do not have website but somepoint will setup one when got time though I wonder how long it takes until my domain is suspended or site ddosed for stating opinions from these problems and someone found it went to reddit or twatter causing outrage among fanboys (yes I hate those services). That is huge thing to do considering chromium changes all the time more bloated and you would have to rewrite all code more efficent while keeping all those broken standards. I would want web browser that purpose is to download documents over network and render them onto your screen and not some application platform. Palememe is closest to it along with retrozilla and netsurf

it is since most see more potential on dos than Windows 9x. For most Windows 9x is obsolete and vurneable and insecure. What is funny pure DOS is even more insecure than Windows 9X on some ways. For example I can use internal tools to wipe boot hdd clean inside dos while windows 9x does not permit it that easily. Sure you can ruin windows 98 many ways but dos is not magically more secure. Also win9x is running top of DOS Benefit of dos is that it allows tap directly to hardware without using API. That is why many programs are faster on dos than Windows 9X, but downside is you can indeed tap directly to hardware and do all type of not so fun stuff

perhaps I worded it bit too roughly. My issue with javascript is that atleast newer one does not have so strict limits what it can do to please developers and that is making it unauthorised code executed on cpu in my point of view. Webassembly which is javascript makes it even worse and upcoming webgpu well time will tell. Also javascript is not standard at all. Google and Microsoft keep creating their own code with it causing major headache to someone who does not want bleeding edge browser all the time rather prefer long term support. Atleast flash and java had standardised plugins and dynamic contect was able to work on firefox or opera and not just internet exploiter back in day. Sure those had vurneabilities, but so does webassembly and js. Anytime web browser runs unauthorised code you risk machine to those vurneabilities One of js abuse is ability to read your nic mac address which can be used for fingerprinting in future or deanonymise TOR users unless they use mac address randomisation. Question is one point activex fell out of use in favor of Javascript and everyone look how stupid idea it was to give web browser that much power. And even today some suffer from it consuquences. Enterprise environments still got tools made with active x that cannot be dropped out of use since nobody full knows how it works since person who coded it left place long ago. Vendor lock in. So how bad side effect will be once JS issues gets addressed? Yes if coders would be required use something actually optimised and not just wrap js bloated webpage to electron and call it program. I have been studying C for last few years. It is very complex, but can write very efficent code. I am tired of Microsoft teams used to communicate with workmates sucking 2gb of ram, when basic function is exactly same as older messaging softwares with too much fluff

i think was bit unclear. Windows 9x and Windows 3x share same things under the hood. Both are programs in top of dos (even though got own drivers) and purpose was to exit windows 98 to dos mode using shortcut that loads custom config.sys and autoexec file then unloads those once close and reboots to windows 98

Luckily I can still control it for most parts. For email I use mailnews client and last time I logged into webmail was to enable IMAP support, news I read from teletext or rss, both are bloat free. For teletext I only need any TV with digital tuner or digital tuner with end device. that is mostly true in my case. I like to use online news via RSS sometimes but mostly use newspaper and teletext. YLE teletext main page got anything important I need to know like emergency alerts or warnings if need "bleeding edge information"

Seems WTTR.IN now forces HTTPS for website since someone whined we need HTTPS only. For now it works on roytam1 ff2, but for future need look alternative since some point TLS 1.2 support will be dropped and TLS 1.3 (for now) wont work on Windows 9X I mean really? Site is literally just weather using ASCII symbols. Why do you need strong encryption in order to do it? Script injection excuse is stupid. If you are too stupid to block JS on untrusted site it is your own problem. User should be responsible on own security and should not be treated like babies. And HTTPS does not mean site cannot harm your machine or someone cannot inject code. That site for example uses adobe assets and twatter and if one of those is compromised site can do nasty stuff. That site was perfect until now. I was able check weather using my 486 with netscape navigator 3, check in older PDA and even check weather on Nokia phone with 128x128 display, but now all are broken to "protect" me . Time to look for alternative online weather service that force stuff like that.

We are talking about Windows for workgroups right? And you installed win WFW native network driver? Also are both on same drive? You need atleast soft reboot (exit to dos mode) for it to load. This could maybe solve your issue: Create shortcut on Windows 98 for the win.com. Set custom config.sys file on it properties with following DEVICE=<path to win3 folder>\IFSHLP.SYS and add any other devices you need to load. Then it should exit dos mode and boot into windows 3.11 and when win3.11 closes it will exit back to windows 98 Second and easier way is to reboot machine between doing it. For that creating boot menu would make stuff easier. I need to lookup exact syntax but you can have two or more custom driver and other config. You do not need hit reset button once exit windows 3.11. CTRL+ALT+DEL will result reboot. If you want it autoreboot when exit (atleast make it prompt) you can use reboot.com file from windows recovery disk folder

Bit of sad story from online news and js. One local newspaper used to have site that allowed access everything with js disabled, had rss feeds and all other cool things. Then one day in earlier of 2021 I saw ad from their new beta site on newspaper and decided try it. It was horrible. It needed 4 addresses worth js (most were some cloud provider) to even render article and even then part of it was broken. I sent feedback from new site using form (located on bloated MS cloud) that site did not work without javascript at all unlike previous site and explained why need for non js site would be required. I said for security I cannot allow that many domains of javascript and they should consider safety of customers/readers before implementing js enforcement and they should rework site. Guess what? My reguest was totally ignored and two days later they pulled that horrible beta site to replace main one. They also killed all RSS feeds. I contacted them I wanted RSS back, if not public even as paid customer only and guess what? Went to deaf ears again. All of articles are paywalled now and no way view properly with my configuration. Few days forward they launched huge advertising campaign on our town to attract young hippy bleeding edge kids. Advertising pics had person with cell phone or tablet and said download mobile spyware I mean app that was basically electron wrapped website. Then something strange happened and I started save amount of newspaper subscription per month, I no longer recieved newspaper and changed to alternatives. I was not only who got mad about that and stopped paying from newspaper likely. They did show middle finger to all loyal customers and decided please hippies instead. Replacing old customer base with new one that is easier cash grab with data mining, milking out from multiple subscribtions and other seems to be trend on companies in 2010 onwards

I use office suite so outlook was not so big deal. If need standalone calendar application. Lotus work had one called lotus cal I think

I sorta solved that with Outlook 2010/2003/any outlook before 2013 that had very good built in calendar. I use it since can sync notes with PDA with Nokia pc-sync. That is one thing to consider use. You do not need add email account to outlook in order access calendar. Outlook is bundled with Microsoft Office if you have that installed

"Just upgrade to new wasteful toy one more time and we promise wont shove new broken standard down your throat again". I am tired of that. This need to stop. Only reason is to milk customers. Sure consumertards love that. They love artificial short lifespan and wasting money. I was serious about going to HAM radio on day 2G closes. I will use google voice if need call and do rest of comms on ham radio. Maybe you need to start making long term decisions too. I cannot rely operators for rest of life. HAM radios been same technology wise forever and could buy old unit and use it just fine with newer ones.

Irony is that sites used to block other than Internet Exploiter from accessing sites. Many sites relied on Internet exploiter broken standards like msjava and mshtml to render. For me Chromium and Internet exploiter are same evil just with different logo. Internet exploiter recommend everyone use broken MSHTML, Google recommends everyone use Chromium exclusive HTML5. Internet Exploiter had OLE embedded controls aka ActiveX also known as infectiveX for it HDD formatting capabilities, google pushes webassembly that is basically operating system running inside browser and can do lot of nasty stuff. Sure someone will pull "but it is cross platform now" argument. It is cross platform evil, but it does not work on every platform. I got plenty of machines that cannot run it for hardware or software configuration reasons. And remember back in day same people defended InfectiveX and MSHTML to be real standard and others just could not follow good standards and how internet exploiter was super secure and much later they admitted how horrible ie was for usability and reliability standpoint. Now they just got other thing to blindly defend until new evil comes in and they admit Chromium, webassembly and HTML5 were huge mistakes. i would recommend pick browser that purpose is to download documents over internet and render them onto your screen, not be gaming or Alternate reality or other trash platform. Modified Mypal with nMatrix, Noscript, decentraliseye, firefox 2 theme, is my choice. It does not not have Webrtc at all unlike Chromium (another vurneability made on purpose), it allows disable Webassembly totally, supports java and flash if need them (off unless I allow). I block javascript on most sites. If site does not render on Goanna engine it means I am not welcome to the site and I should look alternative.

seems they forget that already. Like they forget GSM supposed be STANDARD so you would not need multiple handsets, but that is not companies want. They want to milk you off as much as can and some actually like it. We live in world of consumertards who enjoy anticonsumer practises. well few years you and others will complain from 5g shutdown since 6g is out and few years 7g is out and everyone will complain from 6g shutdown and then 8g comes out and closes 7g but you are no longer allowed complain from it for your benefit because big corpos know it better. Supply chain shortage is our own fault and cannot be blamed on covid. Why we need stuff computer into every single device and connect it to internet? I guess soon spoons will need wifi to eat food and will sell what you eat and how much to insurance company so they can increase insurance costs based on it. My old UPO fridge works perfectly fine without internet, so does my kotikokki oven and my Hyundai microvawe and others so why they would need it? Oh yeah to sell my data to companies... And same time we all sudden care from environment but wont change our wasteful consumertarism practises that does it way worse.

newer tor browser uses certain resolution to all users. But even that wont always work and there is ways to find resolution with browser atleast on XORG under linux

For me safebrowsing always been obsolete. Back in day it sorta worked because lot of bad sites had same domain for long example being goggle, youareanidiot and spysheriff. Nowadays sites keep changing domain all the time so blocking is obsolete. I have followed some scam sites and they had like 20+ different domains with same contect. Even worse is some antivirus companies are including "block forbidden sites" feature which is av company predefined list from bad sites that includes lot of rom sites, modding sites and other. Many turn that on for protection PS. Am I only who has been able block domains they want before safebrowsing was even a thing?

it is linux fork that fixes palememe antifeatures like addon blocking and allows install any ff52 compatible addon that new palememe cannot. i already disabled history, web cache and other and I prefer bleachbit over ciacleaner since avast made it adware If you want know which bleachbit works on XP 3.0.0 portable is latest. It claims wont but runs just fine and so far had no system breakage. Just be careful with it since it can break stuff but it allows clean traces pretty well.

for me it is more why I should bother. If I install FF to someone I remove them, but personally no longer use Firefox. Still recommend hardened firefox over ms edgy or Brave that should be called coward browser since it has nothing brave

seems we share something in common Privacy rights but not privacy stupidity. And at the end nobody knows if those paid "good" services would not do same as evil google. I use gmail for email just because it is free and I need email sometimes and prefer use IRLTalk to other. Sure I cannot use google chrome (rare expection is ungoogled) or other but you need to give evil a bit to make it. I wont use fbibook or others, I wont use all fancy spyware applications of today but like you said only way true privacy is live in hills.

i do not trust firefox anymore since funded by big g and out of box it is pretty spyware. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html compare that with Palememe https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/palemoon.html and there is browser called Webbrowser on linux that removes palememe antifeatures and for windows I use tweaked mypal. I disabled WASM and Webgl totally

i can get decent used car with that money!! Someone really is going to waste 2000$ to wasteful toy that will die in year or two or right away when drops. I actually calculated and around 2000€ is what I spent on 6 fully functional easily servicable, user programmable desktop computers and one server rack together! Plus perihepals like like headphones, keyboard, old mini hi-fi system and others. And money been spent over five years period. How? I did not bought latest and greatest rather old good but cheap/free. out of curiosity what is voip software you use to call? Does it run on XP? well they can always go backv when we some point realised all was f***ed up. I would say best is keep 2g for voice calls/slow data and then have second band for data only. You do not need to watch cat videos when you call to someone. Why did we had to sell telecom finland (later sonera) to swedish telia. We lost landlines and FAX others since it.