🌐 Anti-Competitive Practices

YouTube has started to artificially slow down video load times for Firefox users using the following piece of code:

setTimeout(function() { c(); a.resolve(1) }, 5E3);

5E3 being 5000ms, or, simply put, 5 seconds. You can find more information about this on the r/firefox Reddit thread.

🌐 The December Magic

On December 1st, I have started the daily upload streak of 2023. The best daily upload streak I managed was 12, achieved in December of 2019. Back then, I managed to break all stereotypes about myself and exceed all the expectations. I felt proud. Now is the time to not flop and improve on it!

I have a very personal relationship with December. It's the month of the year when we in European part of Russia get plenty of snow. And after all, it's the New Year and Christmas Eve!

I love snow, I love the freezing cold weather. The sights are exceptional and I gain a lot of inspiration by just observing the nature and being one with it (snow activities are my absolute favorite, otherwise I don't really go outside).

This is why I often times get active in December. But it depends. The stars must align in a special, magical way for me to embark on such a journey.

I have a full-time, I have university, I'm an adult with all kinds of responsibilities. Yet, here is the third video in a row. The goal is 25% complete. Windows 11 is trash. We got this – enjoy the content. 😉

https://youtu.be/XL7mR1JIT3U

🎉 2024

Hello, my dear friends! 2023 has been a fruitful year for me and many others. Hopefully this year's hard work paid off for you all.

This year there's been plenty of controversy. I've been absolutely violated by YouTube, but Twitter took me under its warm wing. Damn, Twitter was renamed to X in 2023? Feels like it happened an eternity ago.

ChatGPT, released in Q4 2022, took the world by storm in 2023, and companies rapidly started integrating it into our daily lives.

The world has lit up even more, bringing us even more local conflicts for the world's largest empires gain from.

Personally, 2023 flipped me upside down. It's been a busy and successful year in real life. My online presence took a step back, and maybe that's for the better.

Let us all, who has made it here, be strong and keep our nowadays so uncommonly present acumen. 2024 will be the year of change on all different landscapes. May your future projections seem vivid and apparent to be accurate in the end, and your resolutions be accomplished to their maximum. 🍷

🤔 How is your 2024 going so far?

👍 - We're back
🤔 - Indecisive
👎 - It's over

Mine's been going pretty productive. 😉

🪟 The Old New Installer

Microsoft has finally put their hands on the Preinstalled Environment, which previously has been abandoned for around 10 years. Windows 11 Build 26040 ships with a new, redesigned installer, which is suspiciously reminiscent of the Media Creation Tool (or the autorun installer).

What really caught my attention is the unexpected rollback towards versioning Windows again. The new installer seems to explicitly state you're installing Windows 11 - not just Windows, as it used to occur in previous Windows 11 builds. Could it be silent acknowledgement of defeat and a sign that Microsoft is preparing to move away from their beloved WaaS (Windows as a Service) strategy?

🪟 Artificial requirements start turning real

Windows 11 24H2 now requires the SSE4 instruction set for the PopCnt instruction, which theoretically bumps up the actual CPU requirement to Intel Core 2 from Pentium 4.

That's a welcome change, but was it worth it? The USB XHCI driver seems to be the culprit.

Is it still possible to run Windows 11 on Pentium 4? Find out soon on my channel.

📦 I present to you... the Enderchest

After hundreds of hours, it's finally here! A full-scale blog with dynamic content support! I finally have a place to share my thoughts with everyone else that is entirely unmoderated and belongs to me. Written from scratch on Nuxt 3.

Yes, there are still many things to improve and add. But I can't express how happy I am to have a place where not a single algorithm is able to censor me. Thank you, YouTube, for pushing me to create my own space. It was a tough journey, but absolutely worth it!

You can now find me and all my work on enderman.ch! Even if I get banned from every single platform on the Internet.

It's long overdue. I purchased that vanity domain in 2018 with an intent to create my own little space online. Since then I lost it, regained it, made many mistakes, made new friends, lost a bunch, got a job. 6 years... the list goes on and on! At least I'm not married yet... 2024 is my year of redemption — I will try to finish as many projects I started as I can. I simply can't move on, the sheer amount of unfinished projects doesn't let me sleep well at night.

The good news is if I keep on going, I'll probably manage to finish most of them until the next year. These projects I'm perfectly capable of doing, they're just a little bit too time-consuming...

As a little celebration, I remade my first ever article from scratch to my current standards. There were a bunch of mistakes and inaccuracies, hopefully they're fixed now. 🙂

My awesome followers, if you happen to enjoy huge and beefy reads, you'll most definitely enjoy...

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