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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
well mpl licence can technically allow limit access to source code while give access to it for some. Things like that kinda ruin whole idea of having open source project. I always though open source meant anyone can modify and access it freely but was wrong. Impression was mostly given since iceweasel was not killed by mozilla for licence violation, none of system d free distros were not killed by mainstrem distro etc. I really hope current moonchild production owners would leave the project and someone with sense would come instead. I said mozilla will sink first but seems Palemoon will before it. Atleast mozilla wont attack against librewolf or ff45 sse. Mozilla is funded by google so palemoon was only indepent project (custom engine and was able work without mozilla), but developers will kill it themself -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Well palemoon developers hates tor and other anonymisers. Peoples who block tor does not realise some peoples have genuine need to use it. Maybe I could start recommending against palemoon since they hide source code from public and may have something to hide on code and recommend use it forks instead. That is not lie, if they do not let everyone access source code and could maybe make developers come back to senses when get bad image -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I have not donated any project for long time since all I did went undesirable path. They discourage peoples from donating to actually good projects since fear from wrong path. It is because supporting legacy os kills "professional look" for some reason. It is some twisted image on many peoples head that professional only run latest and (not) greatest operating systems and softwares and other only stupid diehard peoples run anything older. And many peoples try to be like that. I remember one place how they spoke how some stupid peoples without knowledge want still run XP when support ended and how companies think their benefit when dropping sw support and how professional uses Windows 8.1. Well I am professional and work with servers and run XP and 98lite on my personal machines for most part and can say running XP requires much more knowledge than buying laptop with win10 preinstalled, downloading chrome to watch cat videos on facebook. I got knowledge and experience run OS I want as daily driver. And running old hw and os does not mean all software must be old. I am also running linux dualboot on many of my machines where new Windows wont even boot and works great. And if professionals do not use old OS why many CNC machines I seen on production runs Windows 98, 95, 2000 etc? Because software been many times designed for those and system and upgrade would break them. Those are used do very precise PROFESSIONAL work. I have seen lab equipment running Windows 3.1 on 486 since it used ISA card and seen water quality analyser lab computer running Windows 95 and those two are not professional systems? I got nothing against running latest os just want peoples realise "Professional" image is made by companies to increase sales -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I am using MCP based ports (newmoon and mypal and webbrowser on linux) since are last browsers without all antifeatures, sensible classic UI, classic addon support. Antifeatures like webrtc, eme, invisible recapta, telemetry etc -
all same thing that did not work on win10 plus task bar being locked wrong way on my tests. Most can be still forced with group policies though if pro
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funny that it offers left and middle only and they all are forced to centre until activation of Windows. I guess OS begging, nagging and showing watermark did not make peoples activate Windows so now they force taskbar to wrong place by default to force peoples pick buying licence or losing productivity
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i had link to it too on my post. Underlined text means link but most wont notice them so good you posted those. I confirm that is one I use and runs no issue under w2k
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Since nobody seems have mentioned Boingo wireless is one I use. That works with my Intel 2200bg wifi card on my Pentium M notebook running vanilla Windows 2000 professional SP4. It worked with every win2000 compatible card that can do wpa2 and has no issue connect any network on my experience. I have also used that utility with same WIFI card as you do many years ago so as long you got latest win2000 driver wpa2 will work just fine
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Atleast caps did not cause fire like on one dell. Electrolyte ignited at bootup ruining board. That is not too bad price. I got ok soldering skills but would not touch mainboard that I do not want to lose either. And I usually let one of my relative do it since he is way more skilled than me and is happy do it free as long as I got caps for him. Lucky it lacks since some systems had it since 2006 (amt). I could say same from my Pentium 4 system (asus p4p800, 2.80ghz Pentium 4 socket 478, Gainward 6800gt) . Pretty powerful and all it needs it more RAM. Now got 1gb and consider getting 4gb to it whenever find decent deal nearby. It has been sitting on closet for too much because had no space for it earlier before moved to new place. Now can put it back in order. Gpu needed fan replacement since worn bearings. Swapped 60mm noctuas to it. It does ok for factory OC gpu (80c max) since 6800 run hot. I got plan to hook into my DiamondView CRT and buy few large hard drives and also install DVR card to it too for watching SD quality TV programs and reading teletext. Just bit worried from burnin risk caused by TV channel logo on top. Otherwise it is solid and powerful machine with right software and funny enough I will likely use it more and invest more money to it than main system but well my money I do what I please with it
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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
mean that and audacity. They were bought out and new company added telemetry to it. First version of their privacy policy before was polished after storm from users caused me lose trust on them . Adding Mypal vs Palemoon just made it worse year. Also could add Signal mobilecoin intergration and failing publish server source code to list of bad thing happening open source. -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
that is very good question. I do not like idea of needing extension to every search engine since one can add other nastiness to browser. Also makes it harder to add custom search engines -
KDE + KWin compositor performance on NVIDIA GPU
Nokiamies replied to UCyborg's topic in Other Operating Systems
I had similar issue on my test system with debian 11 and KDE, but also had mouse glitching out on compositor enabled (black box where mouse was sometimes). On me problem ended after switching off from proprietary NVIDIA driver to free one, but then lost most of 3d features and had lower performance on anything using hardware accerlation. Gpu I used was 1050 2gb. It is not distro specific issue rather driver. Does free driver make different? Manjaro has device manager that allows toggle between free and non free driver, so reverting is easy -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I got NM28 on 478 socket 2.80ghz Pentium 4 and have no issues with it unless go to soyware sites without blocking JS. Well dunno if it is different on Pentium 3 but for me Pentium 3 is win95-2000 and Pentium 4 to 98 or XP because had no XP until I got new hw long ago -
So... This will kill chrome compatibility with 7 and 8?
Nokiamies replied to Jaguarek62's topic in Web Browsers
well good thing is there is no fast cryptomining exploit baked into browsers on Windows 7 and 8 or even worse ways compromise system. What next? WebHDD that allows transfer files directly to hdd or wipe it like activeX could. Webbrowser insanity started since 1997 had not stopped. Web browsers are not meant to this Well to answer original question google said in begin of 2020 that they will support atleast for one year on windows 7 so it is possible to kill it. Wonder if someday I wont be able access webpages since Chromium only technology, sites needing webgpu and webassembly enabled and others since refuse use them -
That is pretty much right on stock android. On android 10 atleast if allows it only trough android own framework that is limited to certain folders only and recovery needs root access. Only way do it is from sdcard good, then there is hope. Like UCyborg said you may need root it and do this. Sadly rooting usually wipes the device memory
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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
those wont work to download. But like @Skorpios mentioned earlier it "offical" site (https://www.mypal-browser.org/release/) is all but sourcecode luckily, but wonder how long until tobin and other ddos or contact vps to shut it down so backup while can. I downloaded copy with WGET to my system. Likely wont host mirror of them online to avoid DDOS/Being hacked or ending to other trobles but got backup of ALL files to personal use. Tobin need come take my cd disks to get rid of them. Never though would need see this much effort to preserve FOSS project. This year been horrible to open source community and showed it bad side -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
would be nice to see "secure" sites like bank and cc sites to do same as proper darkweb sites. Blocking access if js is enabled telling you disable it and requiring no js to work. That would increase security of them a lot and courage others drop js too. Js is not as bad as Webassembly or activex but it is still security risk and has no place on any secure site. And claim js blocks bots is false. New bots can read js only sites too. -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I second this. Noscript for clickjacking and XSS protection and Umatrix (nmatrix on me) for rest. Umatrix is also good way learn how web works. My bank needs only main site and subsite js to be enabled. Rest like google stuff is useless. And I wonder why in world does bank use third party provider scripts that can cause major security issue if vendor gets compromised. If js is not blocked malicious script can steal password or even do transactions in theory -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
Nokiamies replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Well child part on their name defines developers mental age very well. That is very low -
latest Windows 10 update broke unattended installs on MDT (Microsoft deployment toolkit that uses ADK). I was scratching my head for good while why all installs errored out until I did found out it was change in unattended setup and had to redo unattended configuration so I wonder if same answer file works to Windows 11 or need custom one
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I try get all games can from humble bundle drm free copies and gog.com. I mostly play portal 2 on steam that uses steam for multiplayer
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well peoples think "what you gonna do about it" and pay more to them instead of actually doing something like boycott companies until they change their way. Last Windows I paid was Windows 7 that I needed to have full paid retail version to my use or would not pass auditing. I currently got personal ban on Windows 8, 10 and 11 on my network and only use them work. If Microsoft changes their way of doing operating system I will be more than happy lift the ban but I doubt it . And before someone says Windows before it had issues too I am aware of them but at end they were solid and reliable products (Windows 3.x and 98FE as expections ) that made powerusing much easier. I am using linux if need new os which sadly seems to be going same path. System D as good example . Luckily Systemd free distros exist. Also cannot go linux full time on personal system since Windows games wont work, mix of package managers is hell etc so. no perfect soluction
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Without root it will be hard or impossible since way storage works on android or phone overall. You cannot do data recovery over MTP. Is phone encrypted? phone should totally off until you find way or app may write to block with old data even if just running background
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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/unsupported-win11-pcs-wont-update wonder how long it will work if that is true. Ms will block updates on Windows 11 if unsupported cpu. You may need use wsusoffline or similar to continue getting updates in future. Or maybe someone makes patch similar to wufuc (allows bypass ryzen block on win7 update) to Windows 11 well back in 90s Microsoft made many company networks running Microsoft Chigaco (Windows 95 beta) before it was stable so it is possible that some companies move to it partially. I already heard plans from getting win11 on my workplace and how it will affect on getting new hardware.