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Upon noticing this I quickly made a backup of my working extensions and Profile folder on an unaffected machine so I can force the files back if necessary. Reinstalling the extensions (i.e. their newest versions) from mozilla's page (into an old ff) won't work because of the cert verification thing.

17.03.2025 19:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Afaik they changed some certificate thing which made older versions of firefox kick out newer addons. Does seem like a shenanigan they pulled to force people to upgrade to new ESR 128 base ff version. This is especially punitive to older HW which won't run ESR 128 ff & forks like librewolf, floorp.

17.03.2025 19:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I thought about it, but I'd rather have them 1:1 tbh (more pixels per bandwidth and some images can't be too small).
The text div is just for keeping the line length down.

31.01.2025 17:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh yeah, could be, could be. I mean the same goes for linux... it can get a bit weird once you start replacing window managers and stuff.

I bought my machine and kind of didn't use it... just let it update every now and then. Just needed the OS in order to run some software (didn't want to VM).

31.01.2025 13:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks for the headsup. Yeah, the timing was pretty sus... I just uploaded my Windows11 error file to it after all. Maybe Apache got angry.

31.01.2025 13:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Self inflicted how? No, my computer is vanilla, no extra installs, no registry stuff. I have barely visited a website (maybe like microsoft, and a testing google). All I do is start up notepad, pretty much. It hasn't even been on the internet this month because I wanted to work uninterrupted.

31.01.2025 13:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It "got better" after a few reboots.

Computer actually has one of those flash drives because it's a cheapy. I'm gonna plop an M2 thing inside at some point to remedy it.

31.01.2025 13:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Huh, my site died?

31.01.2025 13:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

I should message #Microsoft and ask whether this html file makes the W11 explode on their side as well :P
It's just

<body style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> (text)

though.

31.01.2025 12:50 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Alright, does this file display? I found a way to make browsers show text files with no HTML clutter, just a little style header setting CSS white-space. Good for my text-only writings, showing UTF-8 chars + paper colour.

(hope this wasn't what caused W11crash)

androidarts.com/Windows11.htm

31.01.2025 12:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I found that firefox has a setting in the config for turning off the cache, which also helps to reduce writes (from videos like music and audio books).

31.01.2025 12:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That sounds like a good idea. Any specific directory which works? C:MyStuff/ or what? I just put stuff on my desktop (cuz Explorer is meh), but that's in the user dir.

"Thankfully" W11 was so bad that I didn't use the machine for anything important, and most of the time I save onto a thumbstick.

31.01.2025 11:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I currently use 2x Mac OS, 2x Linux, 1x W11, 2x Amiga WB, (2x misc RPi), and the MSX bios if you count that. The only reason I don't throw the W11 laptop out the window is Narrator TtS which I use for editing writing, and some gov. software needing Windows.
Does Linux have a good TtS? Haven't looked

31.01.2025 11:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

W11 troubles part 3 - Pastebin.com Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

A followed a guide which said... just restart spam, and it worked. Sort of. My Desktop changed colour to an umbrage black, certainly catching my mood. Rescued file, with a small addendum of recent events:

pastebin.com/GMJtj2Nq

31.01.2025 11:46 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

This machine had been offline for weeks, so not a virus issue.

Seems like it logged me into another profile, like a guest, despite explicitly saying it logged into "me". Found some empty user folders, most were empty but I finally found my files in one, so expect that log soon...

31.01.2025 10:50 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Huh? No, it just deleted all my files. It "prepared windows" when I rebooted. Probably cleared my user account since it did eventually log in.

I had stuff I had been working on for a few weeks and not backed up :/

31.01.2025 10:39 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I was gonna post another long Windows 11 issues log, but the machine soft-bricked trying to open an ordinary html file. User profile problem. All my files are gone? Thanks.

Maybe I can find them as admin?

31.01.2025 10:33 — 👍 46 🔁 2 💬 6 📌 0

Permaban / full deletion was certainly a thing on forums, but it mostly applied to malicious "rando" signups. Regular users didn't see it because it got deleted. I remember a few places even had some IP ranges blocked when things got out of hand.
Temp ban regulars were more talked about & visible.

19.01.2025 12:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

There was also additional friction... you didn't often go to other niche forums and even if you did and then saw a post you felt you had a strong reply to, then you might not bother to sign up, unless you were REALLY instigated, in which case you were easy to spot and ban.

18.01.2025 16:46 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That said, on niche forums 20 years ago one could quite often see "outside people" signing up to stir trouble, so it's nothing new... but iirc it was less of a problem – they were often/always contained in the general talk sections (and eventually banned if they started too many threads).

18.01.2025 16:40 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Nice~ So block on here actually also removes comments? A more potent banhammer feels more forum-like.

I guess for a while social media really changed how people saw moderation (and posting consequences). Private/clique spaces disappeared and everyone had to go shout on the public square.

18.01.2025 16:30 — 👍 44 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

The rounded default XP theme was pretty ugly iirc. Maybe it carried over to 7. I think I turned it off straight away in both cases.

10.01.2025 12:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

W11 troubles list cont - Pastebin.com Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

Windows woes list cont.
pastebin.com/jAHXqTVV
My biggest surprise was finding out that scaling is only half implemented as setting it to >100% just crops GUI elements.
I was like, nice, now I can see stuff, let me just *sigh* unfold this font element and click dropdown list and... it's out of view.

10.01.2025 10:43 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

Can comfortably slide from hurdy gurdy right into throat song, or perhaps Trio Mandili Kakhuri... then maybe some indian music.

05.01.2025 19:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I get Thrush with
Björktrast from swedish to English
Also, a capital B
Björktrast in English
...gives a different listed result :o

02.01.2025 12:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I found that having a native program on the computer is better for language stuff nowadays.

When writing I use the Dictionary in MacOS a lot for its Thesaurus/synonym (linux generally has one too, but I'm not so sure about vanilla W11 as search just bombards me with irrelevant settings.

02.01.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess "mainstream" Linux started to look quite professional some 10-15 years ago. It tends to fall apart a bit once you start to mix random installs, window managers, themes etc.... but that's true for any OS and can't really be helped.

Gimp and such still have a rather haphazard GUIs sadly.

02.01.2025 12:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know, but ... "starting from $1,057".

Mine was $149. I don't do anything heavy on any of my computers. At that price point it's possible that MS even paid me to get it, and fall into their traps. Sponsor trapware used to be a thing at least.

I think I'd rather get a Macbook Air if I'm paying 1K.

01.01.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

t is so strange to me because I always forget that it's generally not full height!

31.12.2024 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

...however, for cheap laptops I think MS's revenue more comes from the nag screen products, ads, and search sponsor stuff, which I'm obviously avoiding since I barely touch the machine.

It's kind of difficult to buy a laptop without an OS. I've built several desktops without though.

31.12.2024 20:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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