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No.123787 +
Guyzz!!!!
I finally upgraded my OS and got a new pc!! (・∀・)
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No.123788 +
Ooh! Post specs!
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No.123790 +
nice yuki figure! biggrin
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No.123792 +
give it to me
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No.123800 +
>>123788
It's got 1G RAM, 64GB SSD, and an Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 at 1.2GHz nyaoo-closedeyes
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>>123790
Thank you hachikuji
I've been thinking of buying another Yuki figure, since she's my waifu, but I still haven't decided on one since they're so expensive desu...
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No.123802 +
>>123792
Nuuuu! I am not switching back to DOS!!!!
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No.123803 +
>but I still haven't decided on one since they're so expensive desu...
teh world is too expensive cry
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No.123804 +
>>123802
I constantly wish there was a DOS release with drivers for extremely modern hardware. Networking, video card (emulation of modes that modern GPUs don't have anymore), sound (just emulate a SB16 lol)
I think you need to emulate the BIOS these days too because of UEFI

like yeah, I guess virtualization just does everything I actually want, but I still want REAL BARE METAL DOS on the CPU
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>>123804
I'm sure eventually some madlad is going to make exactly that and we'll all be able to use Windows 3.1 on our PCs again...cool
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No.123850 +
4:3 FTW
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No.123863 +
What's the tech nerd assesment on Windows 7? I like it because it's the OS i grew up with, but apparently XP has a better reputation unsure
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No.123865 +
>>123863
what's the use case?

XP is smaller and supports older shit better.
7 still runs loads of modern software (it is dwindling by the day though as shit starts to require 10 and up).
Both are insecure due to age, XP much more by default due to choices it made for legacy support, although you're also less likely to get malware that actually runs on XP due to age (it is still a threat - you'd need like Windows 98 to age yourself out of threats like that).
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>>123863
W7 can run far more software and video gayms than XP, just like W10 can compared to W7. Just two weeks ago yt-dlp dropped W7 support because Python 3.9+ doesn't support W7, though if you read the comments there are unofficial Python 3.9, 3.12 and yt-dlp builds for W7 and even XP.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10086
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No.123867 +
>>123865
I'm not exactly a tech nerd and i never understood people saying how XP and 7 (just for example) are less secure. I really want an example of this. Do people go around downloading random sketchy shit or are there lots of sophisticated net worms (bypassing most security measures) going around targeting them?
I know about that one somewhat viral video where that guy connects XP to the internet in 2024 and it gets raped by a worm in less than a minute, but he turned every single security measure off and connected it directly to the internet, not even a firewall or anything. So that doesn't really count.
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No.123901 +
>>123867
there is a real chance of getting hit by a driveby attack while browsing but having uBlock Origin installed mitigates like 90% of the risk and I'm pretty sure there aren't any huge media file vulnerabilities on 7

I do remember getting hit by one really early in XPs lifespan due to a buffer overflow in JPEG decoding in the default image viewer but that would be like 2002, way back when they had those message box popups due to the network messaging service being exposed to the open internet
sp3 era XP shouldn't be so bad
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No.123904 +
>I do remember getting hit by one really early in XPs lifespan
Just using the internet at all back then could easily result in ur PC getting pwned - so many times I had to go virus hunting because a family member or friend visited a bad site or there was a particularly malicious ad sweat2
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>>123863
It's pretty much just the final Windows version that felt like an overall improvement, before Microsoft went downhill with spyware and stuff
Before anyone says I'm going all "This is good because of my childhood!" I'm talking from a normal perspective, because 98 and XP were my childhood, not 7.
Anyway, people tend to think of 7 as the DEFINITIVE Windows, the Windows to end all Windows
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>>123867
Honestly, it really depends on if you're connecting it to the net directly, through a Firewall, or through a VM, as well as what you're doing and if you have an adblocker.
As long as you have a decent Firewall, adblocker, and are using common sense, you should be fine.
If you're extra paranoid, you can still set up an antivirus, since some still support XP
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>>123866
What's W10?
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No.123909 +
>>123866
I really wouldn't recommend using an unofficial build of Python with XP, since even if it's professional enough, it still could harbor viruses
Some people have even open sourced their code just to ward off people asking about viruses, because some have weak brain and instantly think that open-source = no virus
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No.123910 +
>>123867
I should point out that I took the photo in OP literally one day ago after connecting to Heyuri on XP. I have checked many times after the photo, and I still can't find anything that has happened virus-wise
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No.123912 +
>that guy connects XP to the internet in 2024 and it gets raped by a worm in less than a minute
there has to be an ero art of saseko-chan getting raepd by giant worms
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xp-tan watch out for teh worm!
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No.123916 +
>>123909
just drag it into virustotal lol
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No.123956 +
>>123910
I use xp online everyday for sites like heyuri and MAL and a buncha forums and old ani sites you’ll be fine (´ー`)
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No.123957 +
>>123787
Install Gentoo. （ ´,_ゝ`）
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No.124000 +
>>123956
it's not about what specific sites you connect to, but rather firewall security and how u connect the internet itself: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w
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No.124024 +
>>124000
Holy shit 124000th post
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No.124025 +
>Holy shit 124000th post
zOMG!

Your fortune: Average luck
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No.124029 +
I remembrar when it was less than 10K and each thousandth GET was celebrated. And nao teh next thousandth get will be 125th nyaoo-closedeyes
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No.124829 +
To the people asking if XP is safe, yes it is. Run a clean ISO (https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3x86), and install legacyupdate (https://legacyupdate.net/) ASAP, this'll give you the POSReady/Embedded updates, giving you security fixes from ≤2019. Supermium (https://win32subsystem.live/supermium/) is the best browser in terms of support for modern web, but K-meleon (http://kmeleonbrowser.org/download.php) is way more fitting and lightweight (disable tabbed browsing and install the whistlerxp theme (http://kmeleonbrowser.org/wiki/Themes+by+Al?version=20) and you've got a very close experience to IE6 biggrin) If you want video playback VLC (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/) still supports XP SP3 to this day. Irfranview (https://www.irfanview.com/) if you need something the default photo viewer doesn't support. Image editing can go up to Photoshop CS6 (https://1337x.to/torrent/389085/Adobe-Photoshop-CS6-13-0-1-Extended-Final-Multilanguage-cracked-dll-ChingLiu/), although I'm running CS3 (https://archive.org/details/adobe-photoshop-cs-3-portable) for teh aesthethics. WinRAR (https://archive.org/details/wrar561_202007) for file compression, bonus for the classic theme (https://www.rarlab.com/themes.htm)
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