The phrase that is abounding is 'Corporate Criminals' .... keeps this stuff apart from the conspiracy mumblings.

mike

Hmmm thats just the fine...and they carry on merrily! How much money in gossip lol... actually I noticed years ago how fewer adverts I got when I blocked facebook at the router. Most likely not paying tax in countries where they make money either...definitely the case in the UK. Just another leech o...

Duck ducky behaving here but have had their server keel over on occasion....getting popular. In town there is a big billboard advertising them at the moment. I did use ask for ages mainly for the less cluttered results. Also tried kiwi browser on this tablet..... chrome renderer but independant ever...

Yes changing defaults is a bit of a puzzle. Problem was that the default font was too small for these old eyes. I wonder if squinty vision was developed by bill G. Perhaps MS devs did not notice monitors getting bigger. One of the joys of linux is usually nice smooth readable text. I am allowed an m...

Ok technical head prevailing. Google were struggling to keep up with their educational commitments...eg virtual classroom during lockdown due to the extra bandwidth needed. After all their servers main traffic appears to be serving mindless crap to the masses al la TV. It was a bit embarrassing henc...

hooks into nearly every section in the registry. so no longer unix like? Related to the move to Intel cpu etc... Yes I feel helpless when their stuff appears, it would drive me to several beers (if i drank) but lets wait and see, if this waste can procee.....d for another 25 years... sorry mike ps ...

And what about HTTP/3 that is near. Protocol developed by... guess who?

sell sell sell...i assume they get a cut from landfilling.

Hope they invest in oxygen production too.

mike

The is usually a setting to block third party cookies too. Google have not wandered into my banks waving the flag of 'security' yet. Indeed https is shielding their activity...after all cookery recipes don;t really need all that encryption. Like a certain virus ...be aware, learn what you can and im...

serious mp4 playback eh...... ye olde technology. :D Streaming a web video is not rocket science in itself. The symptoms you describe sound like ram filling up.... either the ramdisk or directly. There is much to cause this on the web (javascript and excessive css) now and may not necessarily be the...

Elsewhere on this forum are some nice examples of /etc/hosts files designed to block many of these sites which I found as a fringe benefit this here olde lenovo laptop works a whole lot faster on the net. The hosts approach is neat, avoids the problem with https and routers and is good for linux and...

I suffered a HP2133 for some time. Here are some random accumulations https://www.dropbox.com/sh/14ydqfonpdwee78/AABa3dx1vbnFdf-vrejMCHN0a?dl=0 You may notice these were used on puppy 4.12 and lucid. Support for the via chipset is abysmal though i eventually did get 3d video working. Broadcom wifi w...

Being bombarded with documents due to sons a level studies and softmaker handled multimedia better than same era libreoffice.
Its the sheer speed that always impresses me which i assume as its built directly in something like c or c++
Mike

although I think youtube might be out of the question with only 64megs for graphics.

This in itself does not affect you tube playability...

Mike

Windows 7 had some 50MB fonts.... they were for chinese and other graphic fonts hence the size. The softmaker i have is 2012, I never got to use later versions. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvmae26yi8thmmx/Textmaker-free_sfs4.sfs?dl=1 I had a commodore plus 4...it had a wordprocessor on tap..... took a...

Hardware decoding of h264 and other formats in the video card is the major boost... hence why cheap smartphones manage ok...computers and TVs merge.....
I have a pent 3 from 2000 that plays games and emulators really well thanks to an nvidea card doing all the work for example.
Mike

Hm. Interesting; I never thought of that. So; can you delete the 'planmaker'/'presentations' stuff out of the shared freeoffice directory in /usr/share, use just the 'textmaker' /usr/bin entry, and run it as a dedicated, standalone word-processor? Yes each is a self contained binary blob... very li...

Perhaps the motorola brick phones are making a comeback..
Mike

Ok seem to be two models called L30 from toshiba.... so my input here may be invalid
Mike

Note with softmaker you can only have say the writer which is a third of the whole package which in my case is about 8MB.
Mike

The truce is that one upon a time I too did try to join a movement on holding up this stupidity with software. I did fail, got no where. Anti engineering. CB radios used to be sold on weight rather than the quality of the electronics.... computers seem to have gone down the same path like those sev...