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For Civ V, are you trying to open the launcher or the game directly? If my timeline is correct, the game used to open to a Civ V game menu, but after some update it opens a launcher which connects to the internet and shows ads, etc.

There is nothing more to be said here.

Added Windows 11 and the 3 main Server OS (2016, 2019, 2022). There was a clear effort in the past to have many different editions of previous OS, but I do not know whether it should be added for the newer versions. When Windows 10 was added, it was just x86 and x64, no Core or Pro options. I don't know how crazy people want to get, whether we should be adding things like Windows 10 Pro for Workstations or Windows 10 Pro National Academic High End or Windows 11 Home Advanced options.

Don't really care about market share. We don't need to organise the forum based on real world events. And also try not to make changes just for the sake of making changes. For a design standpoint, the primary portion of a forum index should reside within 1 screens worth of space on a standard system, and MS Software Products section fits into that space. If we had to add another section, such as if a Windows 12 comes out or something, then we will think about moving a section into a sub-section.

Tables being used for tabular data was always the best practice and something that was in every learning HTML or web design book you'd ever find. Well back when books were the go-to way to learn these things. Obviously we should be aware that the modern web developer is not using the best practices of making a website. It is hard to find an actual good website these days, and why should people feel obligated to make them? The browsers still allow bad code and even the online validators are not good either.

The forum is not bound by what is and isn't supported. Windows 7 is a top-level sub-forum due to the activity. It has come up in private discussion to move it, the question was then: why? There is no harm to keep it the way it is.

Well the measures that were undertaken in the US (and are still ongoing in some places) are the unorthodox responses, not what you have posted. Also there is a misnomer in regards to the term "natural immunity" which is not being used appropriately. It is the same type of situation where people misuse the term retro to mean anything old rather than being something new designed to look or feel old. Natural immunity is an immunity granted through passing down genetic traits through generations, you can't achieve it during your lifetime but it is something your children or further down can "acquire" when they are born. Natural immunity for any new disease exists but is extremely rare, it is where you have an innate immunity and the disease does not effect you. You can still be a carrier. In fact look into disease carriers in the animal world for examples of natural immunity whereas a rat can spread a disease but not get sick from it. What people are talking about when they misuse the term natural immunity is acquired immunity, which is natural, but could be said to be naturally acquired immunity. That is where your immune system fights off a disease and is able to recognise it. And sure, we could have gotten to that point much earlier if nothing was done but there is a large amount of social pressure put upon "leaders" by people who do not understand the laws of nature and macro level of society. The idea that any one person can be responsible for death due to a disease or that all people can be saved are extreme viewpoints but are a common theme in talks by government, media or on social media. The "if you do/do not do x, then people will die and you are a bad person" whereas humans do not have the ability to actually control these types of things at the macro level and we cannot (yet) defy the law of nature. You can't save everyone and it is natural (and normal) for some people to die if they get sick. And then the "logical" rebuttal to your proposal would have to be then how many more or less people would have died if there was no extraordinary response to the discovery of the disease? For people who think you can save everyone, there is no answer that is acceptable to them.

Why delete when we can move!

Doing that, and now I can get to Twitter without it crashing. I did see there was some twitter URLs in there, you think there was just something that was cached that was causing the issue, or that there is still something left that must be done?

I did other testing, when using the Private Browsing window I can go to twitter without a problem, and it uses the same extensions I listed above except for HTTPS Everywhere. Regular browsing with HTTPS Everywhere disabled doesn't stop it from crashing so it doesn't seem like it is caused by that.

An interesting (or annoying) thing started happening on 12/20/2021 (as best I can tell) is that if I try to visit any page on twitter (an individual tweet or just twitter.com) then the tab will crash. Some twitter embeds (that aren't being blocked by extensions, such as those that appear on substack or some other pages) do appear inline on non-twitter sites and cause no problem, but i never tried to click on any of those embeds. There doesn't seem to be any way I can determine as to why the crash is happening. Having inspector open then trying to go to twitter doesn't show anything useful unless I am not looking at the right things. Now this is Firefox Quantum 69.0.3 (64-bit) and these extensions: - DDGo Privacy Essentials - HTTPS Everywhere - NoScript - uBlock Origin - Web Developer If I go into about:crashes, I can see a list of the crashes. All are listed under Unsubmitted. If I try to submit one it says failed. I know I can find these actual crash files, is there a program that I can open the dump files in or are they usable in windbg? It is not critical to fix this issue with twitter, as I can use another browser to look at those links. I just don't like having an error occuring and not knowing why it is happening.

KB895961 looks to be in KB900325 ref: https://msfn.org/board/topic/73305-rollup-and-hotfix-solution/ cat: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB900325 KB954920 seems very specific, are you sure you need it? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/8aa4ef7e-a9b3-4137-1457-4327c68bba48 For the others, try searching this forum, or if on the web try something besides google.

I fully expect to have to change to a "Windows 10" at some point but I hope there is still going to be many years (or never) before Steam artificially blocks Windows 7 like they did with XP.

You certainly would have gotten a warning for 7a had this post got reported. This isn't a free-for-all section, we will have no issue with shutting this thread if things get too carried away.

Javascript is just a language. I think the article is written poorly with this exception: In order to remove liability for the state systems, they would obviously want to halt the use of third-party or cross-site includes. Which (of course) had been the motto of web development over 20 years ago. But anyways, if an entity with a website were to be sued or involved in a legal matter, they would have no control over scripts from other websites but do have control on putting them on their website. If they cannot provide documentation or the source of those includes (they would need to get permission from the site it is linked to) then they would be in violation of that particular provision. So to me, I do not think it would mean that they couldn't use javascript anymore, but rather not be using javascript made by someone else.

It would not be my first guess, no. Having previously worked in large networking environments and seeing the behaviours of people/corporations, these things just happen. Certainly they happen for the wrong reasons... aka we should have all learned by now that blocking IP addresses is a waste of time and should only be used as a last resort*. Yet companies still do it. The reasons why things get blocked is for various reasons. Sometimes there are automated systems involved that get overzealous. One example that I am sure you are aware is instances where emails from x domain either get blocked or filtered into spam for no apparent reason. Like the multitude of times that people with hotmail emails could not send or receive to other emails because hotmail was also being used by spammers, and poorly designed security products would block the domain. Having had worked in an ISP I had seen multiple times the automated anti-spam system blocking entire domains. Now whether an IP is being blocked or a domain is unknown to the user. It is also unknown to the user what is actually doing the blocking, especially with the overly bloated websites of today with 20+ external scripts, some of which are required for rendering a page properly. Any one of those could be blocking an IP range, a domain or any other various thing for a multitude of reasons. * There does not seem to be any public post besides some anecdotes regarding the time we blocked the entirety of Poland over 10 years ago due to relentless spam.

Be aware of forum rules against politics. Your post and title has been edited.

A mole hill would be a better metaphor rather than an exploding building.

Hmm think about looking at SATA DOM instead or even SATA SSD on M2 socket. Both of those are typically faster spec than regular SATA on SSD port.

Done

Changed topic title, deleted the dupe/blank posts. Split the "Dude" conversation into Funny farm. https://msfn.org/board/topic/183264-dude/

Best to just be nice to everyone here to be safe. The forum rules are for direct talking but Vistapocalypse didn't use it that way. The word dude has some different types of meaning to different people. In general in the US it is just used towards everyone and no one cares about it. How it can be used in other countries and which of the historical "definitions" or connotations it is associated with I don't know. Such as if the word became known in x country to relate to one of the old meanings such as "person from city/out of their element" and then that country did not go through the word progression that happened in the US, then many TV and movies from US use the term, there may be a different understanding in that country. But in general "dude" is casual speak and can work everywhere but in a professional or corporate environment. As such, there are some people who take offense to the word dude, typically professionals and those in corporate environments, doctors or government people. But no issue for anyone to call anyone dude on the forum.

To be clear, what you are looking for are likely NKRO (No Keyboard Roll Over) keyboards, although likely a 6KRO would be enough. The issue is that this was a feature that isn't documented and it seems the only reason why there is a list of known KRO keyboard capabilities is because people have been testing various models themselves. https://member.keymusician.com/Help/KeyboardsSupportingMultipleKeys.html Also according to a post on stackexchange, the IBM Model M is 2KRO as opposed to the IBM Model F which is NKRO. https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/6669/how-do-i-remove-the-limit-on-pc-keyboard-button-presses

It looks like I will finally get started to make some Windows 11 images after getting a few more things from Microsoft. Apparently the Windows 10 National Academic version has reached EOL (End of License) so it cannot be purchased, and if someone wants the NA product they need to get the Windows 11 version.

Floaters are normal. When asked by eye doctor in the past if I had them, the answer of yes that relates to the two quotes you put are not of a concern. Now there is a concern if they are impairing your vision or you can seem them all of the time. That is how it is explained to me the difference. I had first noticed them when I was a kid when I was sick a lot, laying on the couch or bed and staring at random things. You can have flashing of lights for various reasons also but again it is only a problem if it is happening constantly or for extended periods of time. But an eye doctor can tell what the dark spot is, something like that should not stay for more than 10 minutes or so. You could have a burn, the same thing that can happen if you look at the sun.