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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

ironic is that those supposed to saves lives but they can also take them away. Few years ago there was recall over failing seatbelt harnesses. And more recent is Takasa airbag recall that affects near all airbag equipped cars from early 2000 onward. Problem is that airbag can harden and explode instead of filling up. I am pretty confident that all cars made from 2000 onward are affected but manufactures refuse recall most until someone dies for it failing and company gets sued. I feel very confident stepping to car with one

Welcome to club . Getting stable platform is hardest but once you get rest is easier. I am more happy than I was at beginning of end (read social media outburst)

For me it originally started from frustration and hate towards Windows 8. Back in 2014 I was still running Windows XP and all sudden everyone were like "OMG xp is out of support, it will be flooded with viruses, it is totally unusable to anything, upgrade to windoze 8." and I hated it. There was plenty of Microsoft propaganda going on to increase sales of Windoze 8 for those who wanted OS that actually worked properly out of box and was designed for non bacon grease covered monitors. I decided to keep using Windows XP until life decided that I wont and was forced use that piece of s#it called office 365 on my personal system. So I decided take last sensible OS called Windows 7. Few years passed and I was sticking with Windows 7 and eventually was rooting for it. It was very decent operating system and had ACTUAL IMPROVEMENTS in my usage. During that time my XP pc fell out of use since I had no time for fun like before. Then Windoze 10 came out that was free update and MS forced it into my pc against my will (since that hidden option to force update to Windoze 10) and at that point it was personal for me. It messed up my computer totally and I had redo everything. If you need to force OS for some doesn't that mean there is something horribly wrong by design? Also everyone were so love with their Windoze 10 systems and praised Microsoft and were insisting everyone to use it and being hostitle to those who did not want it. I eventually ended up giving it a shot saying that I will never go back to older Windows versions. As vanilla it was horrible to use so I ended up installing classic shell and some other mods and it was more ok but still felt buggy and also someone in Microsoft decided that consumers were still not harmed enough when they added new useless task bars , then they decided to disallow disabling "anti consumer inexperience" aka bloatware downloader on home and pro edition of Windows. That combined with inability to pick what updates to download like on Windows 7 and older plus settings resetting after updates I decided I had enough and rolled back to Windows 7. When I mentioned what though from Windows 10 and what could be improved everyone were so insulted like I would have kicked a dog. It is just a software and not everyone want to use what you like. But everyone were thinking Microsoft was their friend and cared from them actually and that is why any critic was not ok. That point around 2015-2016 I decided to permanently ban Windows 10 on my personal network and stick with Windows 7 and newcomer Windows XP that was back in game I also got rid of most of internet services at that point and wont regret it. Then micracle happened and I was no longer required run any of those software on my personal system. It felt so good to install what I wanted and not install anything forcefully. Then Windows 7 eol date came and felt like I was last man standing behind using older OS. Everyone were thinking older Windows was only good for retrogaming and if you plugged into any network it would get flooded with viruses and hackers would turn into botnet even I knew that was bulls#it. Then I found site called MSFN.org while was looking some XP compatible browser and well here I am. I know this is long answer but you asked why and here is why. At this point in time I am fine for anyone use whatever they want BUT DO NOT TELL ME WHAT OS TO USE. I do not care if you got Windoze 10 or 11 and got picture of Microsoft CEO on it and you worship it, but do not push it down everyone throat. Some are too simple minded to see choice of os or choice of anything in this world. All is forced in this world liked or not and most are fine with it since "someone else knows you benefit better than you" And if someone think I am stupid, diehard or anything else because I said this then it must be that way. I do not have to please anyone.

I still play it sometimes when got someone to play with. It is nice for it low requirements. Only need some sort of light, table, sticks and balls to play and no computers or other devices

it is frustrating as many stores here uses checkout services instead of sending bill for you to pay. One called checkout finland here uses way too many domains, subdomains etc and if you reload purshace will fail but it takes money anyway. And to make it even more pain in the as# they change those all the time I ended up using lowered script blocking on browser instance I use for banking (seperate browser on seperate hw) and on workstation I block JS

I don't have wife but I know that struggle still. One person had to use my pc to do new order as his laptop had died and he was asking why all sites are broken and was confused about javascript, css allowing etc

unfortunately companies do not want to give you that as it would reduce their profit and change to milk off their users. I am playing Beamng on Windows 7 with Logitec wheel and have not had issues. I dumped discord long ago when it turned into nasty place. These days I am using Mumble or Teamspeak for voice comms and BBS/email for other comms. Seems you are in school according what you said and I can say from experience that choosing what you will run as OS in college atleast can be hard. For me biggest issue was outlook web access school intra used and I needed intra to access any resources. It felt not work proper on anything. I actually had laptop I used exclusively for studies and had desktop machine at home for any personal work. Luckily those days are behind now. Just don't give up using what you like just because someone told you to do so. I know it can be hard as young but do not let anyone tell you how to live. I did that mistake when was younger and it was bad idea but also learnt what I really wanted. Now I am running whatever I want and any critics saying it is stupid are redirected to special place called /dev/null.

funny that I felt that for few years. I had other priorities in life than enjoying games. Now I still got other priorities but more free time enjoy games. Those wont count many unknown games that were served in BBS servers or personal sites here or in other European countries. Most of games were simple and small games made by developers for fun. Many of those are hard to find these days. Also there is still games done for dos by some Also I am not sure from PS2 but Xbox gets new games even today. There is new pc game ports and some unreleased beta or alpha games popping into internet as people dump devkits/port them. So collection is growing even though those platforms are dead in public eyes. I may stumble into recent gem that never heard before even today for xbox or dos/9x.

1050 was multimedia card. And any cards under 1070 kinda felt lame to me. There was better ones in older gen that worked with XP and vista offically. 980ti swept floor with 1060, 970 or 980 were faster than 1050 or 1050ti with same vram (outside 970 ram bug). 960 and 950 are comparable to 1050ti and 1050 but like said work on older windows too. For free those cards are very good but if you paid from 1000 series under 1070 was waste of money I was also wondering did OP actually bought core i7 and cheaped out gpu for 1050? Feels like buying ferrari with fiat punto engine.

I do not know but feels that voting wont matter as everyone feels to fall same empty promises from same parties every year. When elections are coming they promise moon from sky but after election they forget all. Also political memory is short here. After someone does something actually bad it is forgotten in next election

I have to say that I can do nothing as I am not you. You have to decide yourself what to do. One thing I gotta say that dumbest possible thing to do is trying make yourself believe you only need "teh latest and (not always) greatest" and not look back to what works for you. Everyone seems to be falling for that and suffer from half assed systems. Also I do not know should I laugh or cry to those who want get rid of win10 since telemetry and go to spyware distro called ubuntu, install microsoft teams and all other spyware programs to it. You only changed your master that way. I give you two example for more realistic soluctions: Example 1 I personally banned Windoze 8+ on my personal network and any newer machine I service are only on my lab network which is behind different ip and network hardware. I installed Linux for dualboot on my notebook and on my desktop pc so can use it to do things Windows 7 can't do. I am running wide variety of operating systems on my network starting from Windows 3.11 for workgroups up to to Windows 7 and Linux and wont fall for "you can only use one os" meme. Example 2 One of my friend who is network admin. He partially lifted Windows 10 ban as he needed it to play some newer titles. He is running Windows 10 on his main workstation and got second workstation running Windows 7 that he uses for any serious use since win10 keep hosing up according to him. He is also running older Windows versions and linux like me. What distro I recommend now? Well something that got all you need by default and at the point writing this Salix OS is that. It is very minimal and got that one program per purpose philosophy. Full install takes less than 3gb of hdd space and it got celluloid for video/dvd player, quod libet for audio player, firefox for browser etc. And if you need more programs there is graphical installer that will automatically do it for you without need for pulling hair or smashing keyboard. Even though it is one of few gem in linux distros I need to give it honest critic. They could have had included more privacy respecting browser than Firefox like GNU/Librewolf or Ungoogled Chromium, but maybe I am just nitpick there