![]() Things would never have got this bad if Microsoft had given up its goal of ruling the browserverse (sorry) earlier. Who knew it would all be down hill after CURL.Ĭhrome became the dominant desktop browser largely due to Google's decision to develop a better browser and the resources to market from both sides: to users "as a better browser" and putting "works better in Chrome" on its websites after the success of the initial IE 6 notice on YouTube. It could be worse, and has been, and probably will be again soon. But you just can't stop spanking that little web monkey can you? The modern web browser is and forever will be almost always, but not quite always, the worst possible tool for whatever you need to do. We need to stop trying to fix html and browsers. Putting it in reader mode or desktop mode was totally ignored. With the Dev tools loaded you could see the site start to load, and then send shit to the mobile device. I tested a dozen high profile sites on a mobile browser last week and got a literal white screen. The whole web is a lie, browser portability is one of the largest ones. Which ones work changes by the hour, because they change it however they want, whenever they want, and show little fear of breaking things. When they say "Runs on any web browser" it means "runs on some versions of Chrome." Yeah, like most places that say it's web based I got my problem fixed in a jiffy, it was at the DSLAM (card needed reseating or something. So I called another number given to me by someone who had some clout there, to complain about this stunned cow. I was reporting that my modem had no line sync and thus software wouldn't even come into play. I was a business customer, with "computer service" in the name, that she'd clearly see in the account info too. I told her that I use Linux and almost musically "We don't support Linux". My router had the PPPoE client which isn't exactly rocket science. I once had some silly young girl from ISP tech support tell me that I had to "connect to the service with a standard Windows connection" (the PPPoE client) and tell her the error message if I want support. So I just lie, even though I don't have Edge or Chrome or Windows installed anywhere. I look after my own end very well, and I wouldn't even be calling any kind of support if I didn't already know it was a problem upstream from me, or otherwise their problem. ![]() Then they switched gears, with a power grab (Windows 8) and ruined the computing environment. Windows 7 was the best thing Microsoft ever beshat. I still have Windows 7 in a Qemu virtual machine, for the rare occurrence that I need to run some little program in a native Win32 environment. I used that for games, untouched, with nothing bothering me (I kept upgrading my AMD graphics drivers) until around 2018 when using Wine and translation technologies (good directx to vulkan translation with DXVK) on Linux got more practical. ![]() That was the baseline, back then, software and games usually didn't require higher patch levels than that for W7. So I wiped and installed Windows 7 Pro, Service Pack 1, and the "Platform Update". So then I took to setting the Windows Update Service and Background Intelligent Transfer Service to "Disabled" and getting updates manually when I'm ready to, and that worked for a while, until one of the updates I let on started checking and re-enabling those services (nothing is supposed to enable an explicitly disabled service) They were so arrogant as to "upgrade" my AMD graphics drivers (replacing them with MIcrosoft supplied), I used to have to jump through hoops and use a driver cleaner etc. I took the "free upgrade" to Windows 10 and regretted it, fought with it for a year, mainly mandatory updates and build upgrades that kept putting back everything I mitigated. I used Windows 7 like that for years, for my games (in a dual boot. ![]() That's the good thing about running EOL software loads :-) ![]()
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