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Don't think most people who run XP/Vista today do it out of practical considerations/because their HW can't handle a later OS. For me, it's more like running a vintage car as a daily driver -- impractical, hard to explain the appeal, but fun nevertheless.

Are you suggesting that win32 is doing this? If not, relevance? You keep stressing that, does current Chromium handle it differently, and only Supermium (& Thorium) go out of their way to obfuscate it? Genuine question.

My only point is there are XP browsers capable of handling those sites, nothing more

A George King fan, his driver collection has been a lifesaver, but it's not the same -- the source code was leaked, many new exploits found. Update packs (past whatever Legacy Update installs/are already a part of XP Integ One Who Must Not Be Named) seem a bit like installing more locks in a house of straw. Posted from XP x64/Supermium btw.

How do Chrome-based browsers like Supermium figure into this? Or am i misunderstanding something? Edit: here's deepl.com.

Don't think so, but just updated now. Same results.

It doesn't for me, though it does work in XP+Supermium.

Sometimes, jokes need to be explained. At such times, i thank Google.

Yes, but only if we can't logic our way out of a paper bag. Did you click the link?

I remember hating my parents as an angsty teen. You're more grist to the mill still loved

Not sure about relevance, but posting from the East Coast of Burgerland. lol?

You're mistaken. Remember, Google is still your friend

AFAIK, government-approved VPNs are allowed. ? NotHereToPlayGames is either using a government-sanctioned VPN, is a scofflaw, or is not posting from Russia. Struggle to see how this is relevant to the thread, explain? Any number of reasons.

"Explicit" as in showing [cartoon] genitalia? Horrifying... The dev has stolen my dreams and my childhood; my innocence is gone! Yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying

Nah, just interweb drama. [Cartoon] furry pron is illegal in UK? The dev left a furry pron Easter egg (long since removed).

From the README file: "Welcome to One-Core-API! Here you can found source code of One-Core-API project. It is based on ReactOS source and use ReactOS's build environment" Lies? GitHub [currently owned by Microsoft] links aren't allowed? Seems like MS would have trouble challenging links to content MS itself hosts.

I think Skulltrail192's One-Core API (releases), (source) is based on ReactOS. Would call it a 'usable beta,' though it does introduce its own set of issues. Worth checking out though, and irrc the uninstaller works (not a recommendation; try at your own risk).

Not that it matters much, but 122 setup.exe actually works on XP.

Thanks so much! Edit: The first one i tried WORKS! Thanks again!

CPU's stuck at base clock (3.4 MHz), and doesn't want to budge. Guessing it's ACPI, but only guessing. Current ACPI.sys is 5.1.2600.7777; tried 5.2.3790.7777, but that just bluescreens. My HW is obviously unsupported, but x64 XP installed on the same box works without any issues. - Is ACPI the likely culprit? - Are there other modded ACPI.sys versions i could try? (read some, but not all of Compiling ACPI v2.0 driver for Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003 SP2 (x32/x64) thread, mostly over my head) Any ideas welcome.

You mentioned you preferred ungoogled because "Ungoogled version has more useful flags for user's convenience," so when i asked "which flags do you use," i meant "flags available in ungoogled Chromium, but not in vanilla Chrome." So: which flags, available in ungoogled Chromium, but not in vanilla Chrome, do you use? I was trying to recreate your voltage spike issue, and you don't watch vids in browsers, iirc. Should i reproduce an issue you've never experienced? But sure, when a GPU is actually used, core voltages go up from a state in which nothing is being done. This is perfectly normal & shouldn't cause concern. Your GPU will be fine, lots of us (most?) have HW acceleration enabled, that's simply not how GPUs die. Worry not, GPUs are hardy

You could shut off HW acceleration in Supermium by going to Settings->System->turning off "Use hardware acceleration when available". OTOH, couldn't reproduce the symptoms you're describing on this box (Titan X GPU), in XP or Vista. Here's a screencap vid of Supermium being closed and reopened, with hwmonitor not showing any voltage/power change. Tell me how it looks on your Philips TV.

I guess, though not sure if reads/writes contribute substantially to HDD failures -- the heads are never in contact with the disks, the disks are always spinning, whether they're being used or not. I mean, maybe the head assembly wagging back and forth might eventually wear out the bearings... dunno, tangent, could be wrong. >voltage spikes Core voltages momentarily ramp up? One of the joys of having old HW is not having to worry about stuff like that, close that HWMONITOR. The GPU is there to be used, enjoy it If he's messing with Microsoft's binaries, sorta has to be (just guessing here, know not what i speak of etc.).

Which OS? On XP, Supermium takes a long time to open (on all my boxen), and often fails to load pages (leaving them blank) on the first try. OTOH, ungoogled doesn't run at all. Two-part question: 1. Why does it matter if, while you're using a browser, the HDD led flashes? Are you concerned about a nominally higher electric bill, heads servo noise, HDD wearing out, what is the drawback of the HDD being used? 2. Ditto for GPU acceleration: Why would you not want your GPU to be used?

The interesting bit is Supermium doesn't require extended kernel to run (ungoogled, just like Chrome/Chromium, does).