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It is same problem on me. How many times someone said "let me send you that on whatsapp...oh wait you had that nokia thingy" when spoke to someone on phone. Having Whatsapp is not enough reason to move away from my old Nokia brick. 6110 is this phone. What is great on it despite being released in 1997 it got very good if not better reception than some newer handsets (external antenna), it lasts around 1-2weeks with third party 1200mah battery depending how much I call, it allows to have custom ringtone and caller groups plus mute calls based on group on profiles for example night I only accept family calls nothing else since they would not call me for no reason in middle of night. Many phones from same era had short battery life with beefier one than mine. If file is actually important email or FTP it to me, sending important files over IM client is bad idea since will get lost eventually to all useless messages. I have noticed that nobody bothers to call or text something pointless to me so win for me.

Finding this stuff is hard for many users. I tried search XP compatible browser for long and most was either spam or article how XP got no supported browsers. That is one roadblocks. Second is not knowing there is "professional" XP community in MSFN that tries to extend life of the system. 99% of web response is do not use XP and nobody does use XP. For around 4-7 years I though that as well to be last person wanting use XP seriously and could see trough BS from XP. Then ended to MSFN and well here we are. Before I did not say anyone I had XP for serious use now my family and friends know I run XP and even 98 as day to day OS. Was fun explain dad about all softwares that were designed for XP. For me Pentium 4/Pentium M is minium to XP platform. I have run and actually currently got Windows XP (for 20th anniversity) running on Compaq Presario 5000 with 850mhz Celeron, but I prefer Pentium 4 for better multimedia performance with DVR card. I watch TV with my CRT monitor. I got 2.80ghz 478 socket Pentium 4 HT one for XP. That brought funny thing in mind long ago. I had change compare 1.2ghz Pentium 3 and 1.4?ghz Pentium 4 and performance was pretty equal in most tasks. Biggest different on early Pentium 4 was pipeline that in theory was faster on some tasks optimised to it. it might be Corporate edition since it did not need activation. I was able to obtain corporate edition CD and licence key from one place that tossed away old systems. Using corporate edition is sorta grey zone since eula does not permit even if it is genuine, but it would be worry if I had business and would end up having audit.

You seem to be new here so welcome. Seems you made same decision as I did. Linux and other Unix like are path outside XP. yes. I have not found any good alternative to XP. Latest handbrake to XP fails to render lot of stuff.

Well for me it is freedom of OS choice. And who is more stupid? Person who uses all latest products because newer must always mean better and all knowledge is based off what companies tell them or person who uses products they like older or newer and has done their own research for using equipment they like. When I said I am using Nokia 6110 from 1997 for phone and and got E90 as PDA I was not kidding. 6110 is sitting on desktop stand and e90 is syncing. I was able to tweak symbian accept modern SHA2 certificates so it can access email and other things (though limited to tls 1.0). There is community effort to keep any dead platform alive. I can understand someone using newer or latest Windows or latest smartphone, I got both on workplace. I do not care what someone likes until they start shove stuff down my throat insisting everyone use it and cannot respond any critic other than you are just <competiting company here> shill or stupid. Many of my friends run Windows 10 or 11 and they are fine with me running XP and I am fine for them running what they prefer. My friends actually respect my deciation of using what I like despite age of os/equipment. I have had multiboot with Ubuntu 9.10, Vista, Windows 98, DOS 6.22, NT4, Windows 2000 and XP on same machine. That was actually painful to do but got experience from dual or higher booting. Just running two different Windows versions is super easy. Give both them own partitions first install older one then newer one and newer one bootloader will see other Windows installed. I recommend hardening your browser. Disable webassembly, webrtc, install Umatrix and set it block all by default. It takes time to learn use Umatrix but it is very powerful tool for security. I use noscript as backup in case Umatrix would have exploit or wise versa I am young enough to keep uphill battle going. I have moved to penguin on some things like banking (actually did long time ago already) since Linux got less useless stuff that could result to security issues. For me Windows 8+ is big no no

Well welcome to "stupid" XP user for rest of life club . I mostly use Windows 7 on deciated system as "modern" system to things like heavy render and some games and use XP as daily driver along with Windows 98. Windows 7 is way better option than win8+ but XP is better still for me. It UI made more sense and was more clear and offered to choose between classic start menu and new webby one, had classic and "Bozo the clown" theme and other. Last time I had BSOD on XP was due forcing non compatible driver. Only had some applications crashing but rarely needed reboot whole thing. Atleast it wont force update against my will to new build every so often and break all up unlike certain OS with two numbers and first is 1 and second is number before 1. I got DVR, Radio Scan, Radar, game support, emulation, office software, email support, multimedia support for my use cases and I could not be more happy with it. I can also sync my PDA (Nokia E90) with XP. I got desktop mostly and my XP laptop is HP Compaq NC6320 and second is Fujitsu Siemens C1320 and few others. You do not need all updates. I only got SP3, POS IE updates for TLS 1.2, Exfat update, Windows installer and NET frameworks needed to tuner and other software

That is million dollar question. I could understand optimisation, but why on purpose move codebase away from supporting it. I guess part of it got to deal with Microsoft similar to making softwares depend on IE for no good reason and contract that required use atleast one Microsoft Internet Exploder api exclusive feature when using Microsoft utilities. I really would not be surprised if MS would do something shady again to push them use it. And at the end who needs cloud features on complicer? Good example of wide support is retroarch. Not it can only be used down Windows 95, but it can run even on PLAYSTATION 2. That console never had as wide homebrew scene as original xbox but is still ported to obsolete platform released in year 2000. And other devs claim they cannot give support to OS last updated in 2008? We are not talking about new software we are talking old software dropping support

Ubuntu is rather bloated and got useless background junk (for me) like software updates that slows stuff down. Desktop does not matter it still feels like crawling Devuan Linux with XCFE or Mate is my way to go. XCFE can run fast enough even on Pentium 3. Second good is Salix OS which is slackware without need to pull hairs when installing software.

you should add that link to first post too. That way finding links would be easier to newcomers

This reminded me from Windows 2000 pro sp3 CD I salvaged once. It had scratch that apparently broke boot sector and tour. System files and bootdisk creator were fine so was able copy it then use NTLITE to burn in back in as bootable. I do not like use floppies to install it so that helped

Well he left MS two years after vista release. Perhaps he though leave sinking ship

Hardware until hashwell can run XP. Openoffice still runs under XP. More it is what you will choose. I chose use newer machine and linux to convert videos to H264, I wont browse internet lot outside small personal webpages and MSFN and who said you need latest versions from software. I am using dictonary software FROM 1992 still. Well I am from generation that started computing with Windows 95/98 and took until XP era to have their own machine. I was not lot on computer as child, rather played in my room or outside with siblings or friends. I still spend lot time outside. I know lot from computers due my personal interest on history of computing and other technology. I used lot of time virtualising, programming and other instead of gaming and did server upgrade to college IT LAB before left it and I am working with tasks that are generally meant for higher and longer trained than me just fine. So age really wont matter rather interest and experience. I had no way choose when I was born, neither does anyone else. I am surprised to see even kids today being interested from old tech and researching it. PS. I got no 286 or 386 but I got 486DX2-66 I run Windows 3.11 WFW on. It also got internet connection using serial port and virtual PPP modem. I am also running Nokia 6110 from 1997 as day to day phone (I really wanted one back then) and got working Nokia 880 from 1995 so I am more into old stuff.

I will tell how I ended up to it I was using Windows 98FE quite while on dad computer until I got my own computer that had Pentium 4. It was custom build with Radeon 9800 (later Geforce 6800GT). First I was using Devils own Windows XP key and pirated CD before obtained legit XP pro CD and key. Devils own key was first XP key that leaked and was used by most pirated copies of XP. It was also showed on pic where guy had XP cd before launch with key written to CD-R. Nowadays I use genuine copy of XP XP opened me into digital media and accessories like mobile devices, cameras etc. WIA was heaven compared TWAIN to me. Sure ME had WIA, but NT kernel was more stable on me. Also I loved new shiny themes it had inlcuding "Bozo the clown" theme. It had few bad things like WPA and XP did tasks it supposed to and was daily drive for longest from any OS 98 having second place. When 2014 and XP eol data came I was surprised from hysteria. Everyone felt to think all hackers will hack all XP machines in day support end and staying on XP is stupid. One point I had break for using XP due life that point and needing of some annyoing software that needed newer OS. Later that was over thankfully and was able return to XP. After mozilla dropped XP support I though XP was done. I searched alternative browser and noticed Palemoon. I knew it was based on FF52 that was last working with XP and expected it to work with XP, but no. It was another we artificially block XP thing. Then I found Newmoon browser and later Mypal browser that proved they were lying that cannot run on XP. That point whole new world opened with XP to me. I am using XP daily and got 2x XP machines. One is my first PC ever with Pentium 4 2.80ghz, P4P800 mobo, 4GB DDR400 ram, Gainward Geforce 6800GT AGP (matches geforce ULTRA) 2x1tb hdd and ESI Maya44 audio card. It is hooked to 17" Mitsubishi Diamondtron CRT. Second is Hotrod XP machine with Intel Core I3 4330, 4GB ram, Nvidia 750 1gb, 2x1tb HDD, Sound Blaster Audigy RX, Happauge TV tuner, Radio card, Radar optimised Radio card to follow civil aircrafts. It got three widescreen HD monitors (20, 24 and 22 inch) and is beefiest thing ever. I will likely keep using Windows XP for rest of my life. Going to Windows advertising edition (8 or newer) is not option and Linux can never replace XP due compability. If there is community to keep Symbian alive pretty sure XP will have it own community too

I have been waiting this day whole year. Windows XP turns in to 20 years old today. US launch was in 24.10.2021. Here video from it launch event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KgOgjdY830 20 years really flew. XP was truly amazing piece of technogy and is still used thanks to MSFN. Today I will be only using Windows XP to celebrate it. Maybe everyone should share some when started using XP, how liked from it and if is still using and do you have plan use it on future Also funny note that XP is now old enough to legally buy strong alcohol drinks here

welcome to near 2 meter tall guy with almost nothing being comfortable to drive club . I have same issue with cars. I guess today average height of person of lower so cars got less room. I have stuffed myself into Honda accord and VW jetta backseat (both are small cars already) and was worst experience ever. Second issue is to find clothes that fits. All XL clothes are meant to fat person not tall person mostly. That seems like nice car. How reliable engines were on those?

we had no teletext games as far know but we had interactive TV games controlled by text messages from late 90s until 2013 or so. They were mostly done with java. There was things like Rantalentis (Beach Volley), Mikämikä TV-Visa (MikäMikä TV-Quiz), Puhuva pää (talking head) and Tellus. They were controlled with text messages that had command or text. We also had GSM-Nightshows that were SMS based chat. Puhuva pää (talking head) was my favorite. You were able pick either male or female voice synth and make head talk. I miss more simple days when there was other than constant advertising on TV "Good since that is consumer benefit to force them buy new equipment. Some just think it is harming but companies are your friend and care from your best." ok lets cut sarcasm right here. This is all about money. Here carriers refuses to activate voLTE on some compatible handsets that been approved on other countries. Why? To sell you new phone. Pretty sure even if you hack it LTE, carriers would refuse give you voLTE. Teleoperators should not be allowed have any phone sales for good reason. Also here Elisa started disabling 3g freqs. My Nokia E90 can no longer reach UTMS connction but works no issues on 2g. I use e90 as my PDA. When teleoperator decides to kill 2g and nobody offers it I will join @ArcticFoxie phonesless club for good. They killed landlines already so that is not option. Also sidenote back in 2001 Nokia was on YLE morning show talking from UMTS and how it is revolutionaly and wont need new soluction, but later 4g was announced and same was said. Now same is said from 5g, but they already develop 6g... This all feels nothing but milking from consumers. Soon we have 100g likely and it will need handset that costs more than brand new bugatti. Bad thing on 100g will be it useless to anything else than watching pictures of cats since wasn't that why phones were made to begin with. And whole thing collapsese because simple programming bug leaving whole world without internet or telecoms forever

Well I really hope laws will keep 2g up here (emergency requiment by authorities). What is funny that last year there was switch misconfiguration causing internet fail on Telia network. Lot said they were unable to call while me and my family had no issues. Then I realised it was since I had 2g Nokia brick and parents even though they had smartphones phone contract were limited to 3g. Lot used voLTE which is like VOIP and that was main reason why they were not unable to make calls. So is that voLTE that good at the end as only option? 2g is voice or data 3g is voice and data same time 4g and higher are data only and not designed to voice Also seems impossible find new non smart TV on market. All includes smart features and keep broacasting stuff like bluetooth always even if not plugged in. I will keep my 32" samsung TV around for long. It is HD but it got no smart features at all and most fancy feature is USB port with built in media player that is ACTUALLY USEFUL. Also it got scart, composite, component and 3 HDMI ports. Even harder was find non smart digital watch. I do not want device that sells my heart pulse, speed, sleep times and others to companies I want clock showing time. AFter hours of searching in town I found one store that sold casio watches and got casio F-91W that does not have any smart features. I wonder if smart technology will turn against itself some point?

what car you currently got? You seem to like even older vehicles than I do. For me it something nice like saab 900 from 1980s with power steering and heated interior and other luxuries is more prerable. Opel Olympia was back when Opels were designed and made by Opel themself. Later GM gave same car that was rebadged under many brands like saturn, holden, vauxhall, chervolet subaru etc. That thing seems to have 1.5l engine. How does it perform? I have no experience from that old cars at all.

First time I read this I skipped over few of first comments on first page. I agree with that I am aware of those but feels as important to make consumertards realise they are doing it wrong by buying cheap stuff made on those polluter countries that is on bin all the time. Why it is Finland fault and our job to drop whole planet emissions to make our life actually hell. We have recycling and even got standardised bottle recycling, traditional Finnish culture outside hippy consumertards is to use stuff until it fails and then try repair it, average car engine size here is 2.5l max unless van pickup or muscle car, we make houses energy efficent, we use wood and peat for heating that are renewable unlike they say. There has been even research to use waste from farms or other waste to produce energy but no since it is better to be hysteric and riot and like bunch of kids. Does asian or eastern countries or other actual polluters have recycling system? No. Do they have renewable energy? No lot of non renewable sources like coal and nuclear power (didn't fukushima or chernobyl taught anything?). How much do they consoom brand new stuff. As far as I know on china iPhone is popular because Apple got CCP approval by giving them access to data centres on china. And iPhones are pretty much worst waste and pollution producer since anti repair practises. So yeah I understand why it is my fault now by trying extend equipment lifespan, recycling, not buying useless things and those so called polluters are innocent. Ok that went into sarcasm, but you get the point. Why we who produce almost none pollution or emisisons need to to make our life into hell? We need heating, we need reliable vehicles during winter and we need power backup other than batteries in case bigger grid failure. We cannot cut those totally. I blame social media for this since that seems where most of this happens. Go and look FBIbook or twatter for topics about it without account (disclaimer I wont be responsible for lost braincells for reading them) I guess some enjoy hysteria no matter what

here we have days or weeks worth of -40c on my area. Otherwise it is around -30c and then lower. What is funny is southern Finland that thinks they are move civilised than northern Finland has near chaos when there is snow and -10c. Sometimes I am not sure if I live in same country with them... I keep mentioning those army jackets maybe could mention more from them. I got atleast one British army desert jacket, German army summer jacket, Finnish army winter jacket, Netherlands army summer jacket and Finnish army winter gloves. I have been buying those from stores and internet as oversupply. Most of those been in my use 10 years and still no issues. All took lot of abuse on hard work and all needed to do been washing them. There is reason why I like military clothing and it is durability. sadly that feels true. Unless you are over 50 years old now you have low hope retire unless you got plenty of savings. I am pretty sure forced to work for rest of my life. Retirement system turned into profit

Repeat same on -40c then you know Finnish Sisu. Well I do have army winter jacket and gloves that are designed to extreme conditions so not such issue to me even though that cold your face is frozen once get in and no way to move it until warm again . Well I would say we all are doomed to our own stupidty. I seems to be last person who dare to question lot of this world insanity, but no since my soluctions to problems would mean they would have to give their wasteful consumertarism culture and move off comfort zone for a while. Even though world is likely doomed I wont care. I try do best I can myself and I want enjoy whatever time we have left on this world. Life is too short to worry and worrying wont fix anything. I try to live best out of my life every day. Everyone needs to find what will make them happy, nobody else can tell it. For me it is playing with these old computers and doing nightly walks on local lake. At the end I am happy. I will continue enjoying life as long as it lasts I would say this song summarises my way of thinking pretty well https://lyricstranslate.com/en/suomen-muotoisen-pilven-alla-under-cloud-shaped-finland.html (translated to english) Good way for anyone start living that way is 1. Get rid of social media with those fake friends who only forces and cause you stress by making you think your life is worse than theirs 2. Start meeting people in real life 3. do you what you actually like (as long as it is not illegal) and ignore popular opinion if it is against it. 4. Spend less time on internet 5. Stop watching news all the time. Sure it is good to be aware things, but constantly watching world going down can cause stress. throttling also happens with MPV under linux so it is on purpose

I gotta say that this is first and likely last board that can talk from climate change without going massive personal insults and and saying unrealistic soluctions like lets forbid all fuel powered cars, make heating with wood illegal etc. This is only time I actually put up my opinions on topic related to climate change. Here everyone seems to have realistic image that there is no simple answer unlike some think and there is more than just fossil fuels that causes climate/environmental damage. And counter arguments are actually good. Well this board members intelligent overall is beyond average board and it has it own unique contect other places do not have

it is issue with too high turbocharging and too big cost cut. Weak engine block, gasket, cams is begging for trouble. They could sure make it reliable but it would cost too much. That seems like industrial standard to make stuff cheaply nowadays. I have driven 1.2l Opel astra that claimed 145hp and also drive 2.2l L61 Opel zafira that had 2.2l engine with 145hp and can say I take 2.2l Opel without turbo anytime. I tried join the highway and reach 100km/h on ramp, but it did not accerlate even on higher revs. Then one point turbo kicked in giving short and too aggressive kick and then turned off. It could be horrible ecu design also. Same on zafira I do not need rev or hit gas pedal hard to reach 100km/h. When I hit accerlator it means I want power and do not care from fuel consumption. Also what is trend on designing cars to be too small? Did they consider there is that one 2meter guy who has barely room to press pedals without turning steering wheel? I need car with lot of room for a reason. Only small high performance engine I would want is legendary Honda B16A, 1.6 that produced near 180hp without turbocharger while being reliable and relatively fuel efficent as long as VTEC was not enganed

That is kinda tough to do. Did you stall at all during trip? why would somone want do that to someone, I would never ever do such a thing or do anything else to annyoing tailgaters . I cannot believe what said even myself. Everyone has done it some just never admit it

I know lot of US cars had manual transmission. I just like to make fun of inability drive with manual gearbox AT ALL. There has been even car theft attempts that fell short since weird three pedals and strange stick. It does not take lot intelligent to take off with manual on flat surface. Before learnt to shift proper I was able take off with high revving on manual. Good to see someone who likes manuals too. Sure there is advantages on automatic like not rolling backwards when take off on hill, less likely to stall, but manual gives more control and lasts way longer. Only seen major manual gearbox failure for downshifting too low gear that will kill any gearbox.

"But you can pay compensation payment that will magically make emissions disappear". Sorry I could not resist pulling that stupid comment I keep hearing how some "responsible" hypocrite consumertards can allow themself to fly while can criticise others for not caring environment . That emission compensation payment is biggest scam ever. Money is going straight into shareholder pockets. Online stores offers similar to shipping, but it wont mean your order is shipped more efficently, just means you are scammed. I actually walk more than I drive. I am not fastest runner but I am able to walk long distances. I have been walking even 40km walks with few short breaks. I spend way less time in front of my computer than outside when off from work. As for fuel it is important here to have fuel during winter to avoid having water condenstate inside fuel tank. Starting car with fuel water mix is not fun at all and whole thing feels crawling. Well there you see what I mean with walled garden. Those snippets are to keep you hooked with Goolag I mean Google. One funny example was when was looking liters to gallon conversion and one of snippets asked "is US gallon same as European gallon?" . Gallon is gallon no matter the place and that question makes no sense. Also google priorities CNN and some others to "prevent false information" when search for anything. Once google suggested Xbox one arcticle as second result from whatever media site it was when was searching with term "original xbox lpc header pinout". Those will twist search results and making things look wrong hiding whatever I actually search Well I still use Google products, mostly Gmail because email provider at the end wont mean anything. I choose any that allows me to use IMAP to send and recieve emails to avoid vendor lock in. Why I said wont mean anything? That is problem with email protocol, it is not secure, email provider can read stored mails and in and outgoing mails and even someone in middle in theory can read your emails since it is plaintext. There is no such as end to end encrypted email, sure there is PGP but it has it own flaws. Tutanota, Protonmail and others so called "encrypted zero access, forward secrecy, add here some fancy sounding words" emails uses deceptive advertising by telling you have end to end encrypted mail. Even if they use encryption key is done by js and stored to their server and even if they would not read it all it needs is single malicious javascript to decrypt it. Also those forces you to bloated electron client "to keep you safe". Do not use email for secure activities as it was never designed for it. And use email over IMAP for better security and privacy so wont have webmail vurneabilities and you wont need any JS. Some mobile core2duo boards had no AMT installed at all but mostly Pentium 4 478 socket era had no IME. I got P4P800 mainboard and it is very solid, lacks IME and other junk, got expansion slots and supports offically down to Windows 98. And if IME is so secure why NSA or other goverment agencies wont trust it?