I used to think that the 18.x version was [the last to run on Windows 7] . And now I am glad to tell you that enthusiast hackers from Russia made quite a neat and generous thing to backport NodeJS 22 to Windows 7 environment. Such occurrence was super useful since i was already running into some limitations with [NodeJS 18] and was thinking about moving my project to the Linux environment.

WE ALL WANTED THAT, DIDN’T WE? [Tor Browser 14.X] based upon Firefox 128 ESR is finally hacked to work in Windows 7. Thanks flies out to valorous [Blaukovitch] !!!! Here is a safe [Mega.nz mirror] to preserve history as usual. Also you might be interesed in [original site] and [Github page] of the developer. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

Adaptive timeline of chronological events. Written from scratch. Used software: [Windows 7 x64 ESU] , [VSCodium 1.93] , [Firefox 115.17 ESR] . Technology stack: plain HTML/CSS/JS. Main features: Lightweight: no frameworks used, pure code Adaptive design: desktop & mobile Smooth resizing & interactive animations Timeline slides can be changed using multiple inputs: GUI interactions [dots, arrow buttons, clicks] keyboard arrows [ ◄ / ► / ▲ / ] mouse wheel [ ▲ / ▼] touchscreen swipes [Github repo] ◄ source code located there [Live Demo] ◄ live demo of the project

Just a quick note to point out an interesting fact of computer history. Amd recently announced it’s server beast CPU [Epyc 9965] . Built in 3nm lithography, it supports 384 threads, a 12-channel memory controller and has a whopping 500W TDP. Windows 7 256 thread barrier is finally broken. As for an Intel, they are definitely can send their technology to the museum. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

Brilliant high quality review of a really interesting and compact SCSI card for those of you who want to keep your Amiga up to date. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

As a long-term user of Android OS i stacked up the most irksome peculiarities. They have been with us for ages, since version 1.0 to be exact. messed up separation between internal and external storage, which is not clear to a generic windows user, files are hard to find, applications save data randomly either on internal or external storage, logic pattern is definitely broken here incoherent and unclear notification system, with poor organization of priorities absence of transparent file handling, i am talking about file extension-application matching, there is no convenient tools to manage this task And it looks like google will never fix above mentioned facts.

In the last couple of years I dedicated most of my free time to self-learning the barebones of modern web technology, things like: HTML, CSS, JS, WEBPACK, PUG, various frameworks like Hugo and other web tech trickery. For those of you who are interested, here is my [Github page] . Who knows where the VScode will take me? I hope that these technologies will be a nice addition to my knowledge of raster & vector software, which I use as an [active microstocker] .

Bring your museum 4.7Mhz XT machine up to the performance of an AT 286 machine. In those days, productivity gains were measured in times, not the measly percentage units that currently are common practice in the marketing world today. Adrian has done a very interesting review of such a rare accelerator. Thanks fly out to him, enjoy! Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

No illusions here, because it is a pretty transparent question and you don’t have to be an overwhelmingly smart person to understand it. Here is a handy list of straight facts about why Linux will always be your secondary operating system and not your primary one: as of 2024 we have over 600 [!!!] distributions of Linux, just look at [distrowatch] Why do we need them all? plethora of desktop environments > 50 [if we count only major ones it will be close to 20] As if three variations were not enough?

I already marked stand-from-the-crowd [Neo Geo console] of the early 90s. Now it is time to mention a Japanese computer that is definitely made with love and effort, just look at it’s design! IMPORTING AN X68000 FROM JAPAN TESTING OUT THE IMPORTED X68000 SHARP X68000 MIDI AND RAM UPGRADES Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

It’s been a while since i watched Chyrosran22 YT channel. If you are interested, here is one more unusual video unpacking of pretty obscure keyboard. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

Yesterday was the last update aimed for Windows 7 POS devices. Comprehensive details can be found at [Ghacks] . Windows 7 is an operating system which already outlived Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11. Also i would like to point out some relevant Windows 7 pages for die-hard fans like myself. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

As you may already know i am using [Windows 7 as a daily driver even in 2024] pretty much for everything. I think most of the sofa expert’s conclusions about Windows 7’s obsolescence are [out of touch with reality] . ACTUAL HARDWARE SETUP: 32-thread modern CPU 64Gb of DDR5 RAM fast NVME drive 24Gb of video memory WHO NEEDS MORE? Such hardware specs are achieved by [CanonKong’s modern chipset driver] .

It looks like we have reached the very last driver for the Nvidia 3XXX series of graphics cards. They promised that the final revision of the driver will see the light of day in late September. As of early October, the latest version of the driver is [v475.14] , released on July 9. But I have a feeling that Nvidia will release another very final version later on, if this is true I’ll update post accordingly.

First of all, I’d like to note that this post is not an advertisement and it is not sponsored, I’m just REALLY impressed by software and decided to share this lucky find with all of you. Actual Window Manager has quite boring and generic naming, but in reality it is highly advanced and modern window manager that offers broad functionality combined with 90’s quality. Adding this software to your arsenal it’s like entering cheat-code for superpowers.

So you want to do something evil or make a present for the April’s Fool Day to your surrounding. Today we’re going to use the professional keyboard application [FilterKeys Setter] in its meanest form, will set keyboard filters to skip keystrokes, but only if the person starts typing at a faster rate. I find out that the easiest way is to set Ignore Under parameter somewhere around 60ms, so it will be not so obvious in the beginning for the end user, that key strokes are skipping.

[HighTreason] is not that active these days, so i have to find a solid substitute for my retro hardware cravings. And, oh boy, that was not an easy task to complete, i can barely find a solid reviewer among hundreds of sellouts, boring and just plain ignorant vloggers. But in the end of the day i found him! Yeah, it is [RetroSpector78] from Belgium. His speciality is producing reviews of obscure and rare pieces of computer hardware [primarily from 80s-90s era] with episodic dives into the software field.

Color profiling in Linux is a rather obscure and unpopular topic, so I decided to cover it on the pages of this website. KDE and other modern heavy desktop environments are often have preinstalled tools to work with color profiles, but in this note we’ll talk about importing of color profiles in my favorite lightweight environment called XFCE. In some Arch-based distributions like Manjaro everything works out-of-the-box, but that is not the case when it comes to EndeavourOS, which I am currently studying to migrate from Windows 7 in upcoming future.

Today I learned I was permanently banned from Reddit’s Windows 7 channel. Here is a [post] where i to take the liberty of writing my own opinion on the topic. Removed comment: Dude, malware and telemetry gathering are embedded in official updates. So what? K4sum1 is doing nice job for the Windows 7 users by compiling modern Firefox called R3dFox. Decide for yourself afterward whether to use it or not.

UPDATED ON: 2024-11-12 Due to the fact that I was forced to use windows 10 at my primary work, I have to accumulate all these software to prevent myself from daily vomiting provoked by original windows 10 diarrhea. Ok, kids, you don’t like the native looks of Windows 10? So am i! That is why today we transform atrocious Windows 10 interface into clean looking heaven of classic Windows 7.

Messing around with the recently purchased Ryzen 7700 i ran into some rather annoying power related problems. The computer and monitor would go into sleep mode after about 5 minutes, despite the appropriate power settings in the Control Panel and third party software such as Process Lasso and Park Control being residential in memory. I had to break my head to get out of this situation and traditionally i am sharing with you the solution I found.

In this note, I will describe all the settings you need to tweak to get a 100% flicker-free, eye-friendly result on your smartphone. However, some settings are quite extreme and you don’t need to apply all of them, such as the monochrome filter or setting extremely high warm values on the color temperature slider. PWM flickering is a “feature” of most digital displays at relatively low brightness levels that can cause eye strain and headaches.

UPDATED ON: 2024-09-11 Good news for all Windows 7 users! Material is provided by [official release calendar] . SO, IT LOOKS LIKE THAT 115 BRANCH WILL BE THE LONGEST SUPPORTED ESR BRANCH EVER! Please, take a note that 115 ESR branch is [significantly slower] than [hacked R3DFox] ! Firefox 115 ESR is for those people who prefer only official versions and do not trust to third-party developers. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik

No posts about VS Code for so long time? This should be fixed. Today i’ll do a little note regarding visual looks of the editor. Honestly, I already have my personalized theme. But after seeing [Retrowave84’s skin] , I was so impressed with the overall aesthetics and correctly set glow and shadow effects, that I decided to stack it on my own theme, to get the best things from both of them.

I have a ton of various batch files and scripts that i use in my daily process to simplify routine actions. Copy/move files, start/stop services, run applications with specific parameters, embed Exif tags, and much more. Most of them are executed by assigned shortcuts. Because of their quantity they begin to interfere with global shortcuts of installed software. That’s why I want to draw a visible logical line between shortcuts for scripts and shortcuts for applications.

Initially, I decided to install Windows Server 2008 R2, attracted by the opportunity to have a server-class operating system with increased I/O throughput in the works. But almost immediately i ran into compatibility problems [no surprise here] with my existing software. Some programs refuse to run because of artificial restrictions [you know licensing mambo-jambo stuff], some of which depend on components that are not present in Windows Server. It’s sort of possible to work, but you almost always run into little glitches here and there, even after converting it to a [workstation] .

It was more than a two-year long run with [44 thread Broadwell] , quite a nice heater. I have really enjoyed running multi-threaded workloads on it, but it is time to move on. As you may remember i’ve already tried [AMD in 2021] , just to make sure that it is possible in a Windows 7 environment. And now i would like to jump on the red train again.