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Emma (IPG)

update your browsers and computers folx. if you are using outdated forks of Firefox on Windows 7 i would suggest not doing that

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@ipg@wetdry.world reminds me of someone i saw maining windows 7 to play cs2 because they got like 600fps with it to make it "playable" despite having the most overkill fucking hardware that could literally play the game on windows 10/11 just fine and they refused to upgrade because "you can't debloat the kernel!!!!! it makes it slow!!!!!"

bomberfish :neocat_verified:

@ipg the situation is even worse on older versions of macos, the best browser you can get on 10.6 is a port of firefox 105 using the ui from 55

enderman0125 :neofox_flag_bi: :neofox_box:

@ipg people who continue to use windows 7 because its "better than windows 10 and has no bloat" will never make sense

if you care that much about bloat, windows is the last OS you should be using

also installing several hacks into your kernel and using community forks of chrome and firefox that run on windows 7 are stupid, suck it up and use windows 10 there are several themes for windows 10 that make it look like 7 and a lot of them are really good too

enderman0125 :neofox_flag_bi: :neofox_box:

@ipg i will however give credit to the windows 7 holdouts for willing to backport every software known to the human race to windows 7

i dont know how they do it every time I've said "use windows 10" they've thrown a temper tantrum at me and constantly acted like a moron but when it comes to backporting entire web browser engines and implementing newer api functions they're like einstein

Lea (headpat dispenser)

@mudkip@wetdry.world @ipg@wetdry.world the amount of tantrums people threw when valve announced they'd drop windows 7 support was absolutely hilarious
"they're taking my games away" your games are gonna take themselves away once you accidentally connect your computer to the internet and some malware steals your account credentials lmfao

patter

@mudkip @ipg I can understand liking Windows 7 for the nostalgia & less pre-installed spyware angle, but don't connect it to the live internet

That One Average 成

@mudkip No lie, if someone's already at the point of using hacks and workarounds to keep Windows 7 alive just 'cuz they don't want to use Windows 10/11...

Then they have no reason to just switch to Linux tbh. It's actually *less work* and you'd have *more support* doing that.

Emma (IPG)

Since certain people need this spelling out specifically: I mean imagine the concept of *visiting a single link in your web browser* leading to *something* getting full access over your device. And by single link I mean, let's say, some random embedded ad, or a sketchy piracy site, or a link someone on Discord sent that you accidentally clicked on

Update your browsers and computers and phones

Proxfox Virtual Environment 🦊

@ipg yeah this is something i thought about because i have an ipad with ios 16.something

i can either install whatever software i want on it, including linux vms but you know, have a version of safari probably with many high risk cve s in it

Proxfox Virtual Environment 🦊

to be fair this is more of a "stop linking your browser updates to the os" and a "just let me install software i wanna install" take

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