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I will be back next year. Tomorrow will be spending time elsewhere away from workstation without internet. I got some sparklers for tomorrow. I hope everyone happy new year here. Lets hope MSFN will survive from 2022 as this place is one of it kind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtKbO8YVpg

I am talking from natural fillet (filee) of it. Also it local one and fresh so it costs bit more in my area. I am talking from fresh rainbow trout (kirjolohi) fillet sold in vacuum bags. I eat with chili, tomato and spinach topping I do myself. It is not dry and is tasty food. For single person that price is not too high from fresh fish. I mostly like to eat rye bread (ruisleipä) which is popular here. Something I noticed when was visiting europe long ago that in other countries rye bread is too sweet. Tastes like someone slapped 20kg sugar to it. This is my favorite rye bread https://www.k-ruoka.fi/kauppa/tuote/oululainen-jalkiuunipala-8kpl-480g-6411402106407 it is bit harder than cheaper bread and it tastes more like rye.

operating systems are going more and more controlling users instead of giving them free control over OS

I hate to call on work phone. It is relatively new samsung galaxy with over 5" screen. I need both of my hands to call while in older smaller handsets were usable with only one. Also for me phone cameras never were to serious use. I prefer deciated cameras and camecoders. do you remember era where every company wanted make smallest phone possible? I got few of those small handsets that are pretty unusable with my fingers. Then one day they decided phone must be very large. Some of new ones are 7+" which is near size of my netbook. Maybe I should start walk with that in pocket to be trendy with huge device? Or pick my Nokia 880 with pull up antenna. It is same size as modern smartphone even though it was from 1995.

Here fresh fruits are relatively cheap. For example most expensive apples are around 2 euros at local store. Cheapest ones are under 1 euro, but i like some of bigger and more juicy ones or apple from local farm during summer. Also I can get salmon with 5 euros for kilo when on sales. I really enjoy making food myself from fresh ingredients. Also during summer I got change to get fresh berries and fish where I live by going to river or to forest. Next summer I will be going deeper into forest to pick up mushrooms and berries with friend. I will get some equipment I may need like PMR phones which are long range handheld radios that atleast in finland wont require licence. Last time I had radio phones was back when was 15. In recent years I got my interest on radio phones and radios overall back because they got lot of potential and they are not depend on carrier to work (if network crashes). As long as got battery or other power source and there is no something jamming it you can get comms. I know how to use amateur radio and plan to get licence for them at some point when got time. this is one of hardest questions ever in my opinion. There is no simple good answer for it and it depends on circumstances.

I am lucky for not needing application. Bank still offers paper with some one time use codes to clients since many customers are elderly ones who wont have smartphone. They ask sms auth (bank uses 3FA) for some thing though so need some way to receive text messages to use bank. For me my old brick nokia will do it but something like google voice should work too. They do want their users to use smartphone application, but I was able to silent bank officer from asking it by pulling out my old Nokia and asking if I can get app for this . I have always been bit sceptic for using SMS at authentation as SMS is plaintext and there is attack methods to steal your messages. Well they still need that piece of paper to access bank luckily and sms is only used for transaction confirmation after entering code from paper.

your thing sounds similar what I got. I got newer hw for things that my old hardware fails to do. One example is accessing my online bank as site is very bloated even on Pentium 4. Need fast core2duo at minium to be able do money transfers proper. Never though I would need lot computing power just for keeping up with finances. For anything I can I like to use my trusty old Pentium 4 with XP and trusty old Pentium 3 with Windows 98. It is effective computing that I enjoy.

What a coincidence. I have exactly same notebook and had EXACTLY same audio issues there. All sounds were muffled like you described. I am not sure what driver exactly fixed it, but it was one included in Snappy driver installer. I can check version someday but unfortunately I wont have laptop in my house as I gave it for one who needed XP laptop. I know this is far from best fix but I fixed it by using earlier downloaded copy of snappy driver installer, then chose audio driver and installed it. I need to try confirm what version I installed once I get my hands on that laptop again. I know what you thinking. Driver updaters are bad. That is true for 99% of them and even to this one if you use it wrong way. Snappy driver installer is legit in my experience as it is open source, it does not need internet connection after you downloaded drivers and indexes. Just keep in mind that only use that for audio driver or other missing driver as otherwise it may break stuff. Here is real DL https://sourceforge.net/projects/snappy-driver-installer/files/ For XP laptop that is very fast. Also it got nice large display. Shame dell default drivers are awful

Hello everyone in cafe. I am back for few days then offline again when year will change. Christmas went just fine and was able to hold on traditions like past years. I got too many mentions or notifications...damn Is anyone going to fire fireworks this new year? I will stick with sparklers (sticks that emits sparks when ignited) as they are only good firework left. Quality of other fireworks went down but price went up. What I find odd is that apparently these days you need to be 18+ to handle sparklers. Back when I was kid I was legally allowed to handle them. Apparently it is safety reasons why not, but I wont know anyone with proper brains that burned themselves with one as child. Besides there is lot of adults that harm themselves with fireworks so age got nothing to do with it. Well one less joy for new generation. Well I am happy I grew up before all of this insanity and was able to have proper childhood.

Well this is last day when I will posting or checking in here before christmas. I hope everyone in MSFN happy Christmas and even though things are not best in a world I hope everyone will at least have most important. Spend Christmas with those you love. I will be checking in next time before new year! This owl will be flying away now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6PlTobopUc

I wont either but since you said ended up checking and good for that. Exactly 100 different which is rare Ok enough offtopic.

I know that "It will be cool" thinking. I used to do the same. Then one evening when was walking at lake I though is this what I want. That evening I made decision get rid of things I did not like and went back to old and working. I got feelings too towards Windows 10 but those are not fond. Rather slap to face. For me it was 98 and 95 as child and first pc I owned was running Windows XP Professional. For me Windows 10 is not standalone OS rather cloud based as it tries push that onedrive and ms account to login integration. I hate Windows offender, I hate Onedrive, I hate Windoze as service and wish could erase them forever. Sure Windoze 10 is fun as standalone but nightmare for proper administrating on big network. It is not ok for OS to hose up totally every time you install patch and even less ok is to force renew ADMX templates. Back in Windows 7 era on domain making start menu was much easier and it did not include UWP bloatware. Ad infested programs got no place in production network and with Windows 10 they are mandatory! Sure not if you got enterprise edition but do you think every company in world can afford licenses for that? So I hate win10 for it refusal to co-operate with experienced system administrator, rather limit what I can do and will stick on old tech that works. My advice to you is still same as before. Put all critic from your decisions to /dev/null/ which is in normie language means ignore it. Nobody here can tell you what to do or what to use. I no longer care at all what others think from fact I am sticking on older equipments. You need to make decisions on your own or it was not your own decision. You can see how open I dare to be about Microsoft or technological problems? Do I care that many disagree with me? No.

is this selfie from you?

well this country ain't perfect, but compare it to many other countries we are doing very well. If I would move away from every country border I don't like I would be living in the moon.

I would say problem is modern web and not Palemoon. W3C been bought out by big G and other big corpos. They dropped all actually useful things like marquee, tables and then gave it CSS replacements that wont work at all. And everytime they release those end user would need to upgrade browser to view site using it. Code keep getting more and more complex to do same task. Consider how easy tables were. Compare it to CSS replacement of it. That is why I keep referring web standards as broken. Last proper standard was XHTML but it was dropped when W3C was bought out. Palememe based browsers in other hand lack many antifeatures of modern browser like webrtc, WASM is easy toggle off as it is security risk, EME DRM. Also it got smaller codebase.

I was expecting them to kick tobin out of project and stop being hostile. Well I got fear palememe might die as there has been fight between tobin and moonchild. Codebase is solid but I cant recommend it anymore for their hostility towards everyone. Only some of it forks are good.

funny is that many want to live on southern parts as they are more "civilised" or whatever while I want live away from these as life in middle of big town would not be fun. Those areas rents are super high. Here you can get 50+ m2 apartment with lower price than getting small 20 m2 apartment there. And I still got proper hospital, stores and other services in 9km range.

here is USB dongle I can confirm to work on XP https://www.tp-link.com/en/home-networking/usb-hub-and-converter/ue300/. It is realtek based and cheapest gigabit USB dongle in market where I live Also you could look around for PCI nic from something like Craigslist or whatever. I was able get few of them for free.

try to do it on original Extremely (slow) graphics on Pentium 3. I have done it and GMA felt godlike even it sucked badly in comparisation. What I mean here is not use Linux on anything but not take linux as magical soluction to all of your issues. I am using Linux for some tasks but for most Windows with it software is just so good. I do not understand why I or anyone else should go full linux instead trying get more life out of older OS. You cant live totally using only so called "free software" and many so called "free software" like firefox spies on you as much as propieraty ones. I gotta agree on there. For "modern" use vista is bare minium. I can get most out of XP since 99% of my games are dx9 or lower and few are on my original Xbox, but if you want compatibility with newer applications Vista is way to go. P.S I have tried 980ti on Vista with inf modded driver and it worked flawlessly

sometimes you could try close your ears and eyes from world problem out of your reach for a day or even a week and try enjoy life. I have done it and it feels very good. I am not saying blissfully ignore it but have few days off from it. Finnish attitude atleast on more traditional guys like me is not worry too much from things that you cant change. At the end some want you to worry all the time to keep you hooked. All is going crazy but at the end I am happy for what I got. I gotta admit stumbling on this board was one of best things happened on internet as it proved I am not alone with my thoughts.

there is some. One my favorites is called planets which is text based space exploration game. You can explore planets, resupply, fight, trade on it with AI or friends. As fans of oldschool star trek it is fun game. Here pic from it on hyperterminal. If you want to setup your own BBS for fun I recommend use syncronet BBS software on Windows 9X based OS as many BBS software were dos based. Dosbox should work too I guess. Friend is running it on win9x VM with games and programs.

Finland luckily seems to be good place for now. Atleast if you live outside biggest cities. Here masks are not mandatory, covid pass is used at minimum but is currently being dropped. Also lack of vac is not issue if you wont watch TV too much. Overall you should not watch and read news too much and if read not let it control your life. Also fact I wont live big cities gives me even more control. These areas are mostly forest, nobody bothers you if you wont bother them and so on. Things could be better here, but when I compare effects here vs in US or Australia for example we survived rather well. Australia situation is scary from what I read. It is prison island these days. I hope things in your country would be somewhat ok and you would not suffer from any big issues there.

wait...company provides support effort for other than Windoze 10 or 11? I guess ms forgot bribe them or they did not have leg breaking deal. Either way that is good if I ever want to run it (it must be cyberpunk first and not cyberjunk)

funny that finnish windows 98 is leaner even with maxium configuration. I have both OEM and retail Windows 98 and Windows 98SE finnish and they lack online services and WebTV. Also "channel bar" that was considered to be ad in was actually useful here as it pointed out to local sites that had free access and content you may want to find. Finnish people used to do their own path on everything before started copy others sadly to appeal someone which I am not even sure. For me configuration is mostly same but I got wallpapers, audio samples, desktop themes and hyperterminal enabled also. I like listen some classical music that was included in sample music and some legandary midis like canyon or passport. Hyperterminal is for communicating with friends using BBS. I have been experimenting "instant messaging" using BBS over SSH with friend on Windows 98. You cant do it purely on Windows 98 as new ssh ciphers wont work but any linux/other unix or XP+ computer can run ssh tunnel that Windows 98 can access. That way you can encrypt telnet between parties and have better control who can use BBS. Also been doing BBS gaming with it. That is likely most minimal way to have encrypted text communication and "social" platform by combined best of new (ssh) with old and reliable (BBS)

that works for most but some stores I use wont offer that option. Either you give credit card or use checkout service to wire transfer