top 10 bad ideas: #1. signing into accounts on windows xp
double dog dare u to rev up IE and download mcfee from like major geeks and Norton from like cnet and have them fight
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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maybe in a different vm because this sounds like the best horrible idea i’ve seen in a while
Snapshots baby. Learn em, love em.
Most likely it won't work as very few websites will work with XP's level of SSL security these days.
Firefox/mypal bundles its own SSL stack
major geeks looks like it hasn’t been touched since ‘05 so there is some hope for IE
I was going to suggest another antivirus from tucows but turns out that site has been dead for quite some time.
yo is that linux
no it’s actually windows xp
Damn, I opened the post to ask where you got that theme and what DE it is.
You guys must be joking. Fuck I feel old.
Also now I kind of want a WinXP DE on Linux lol.
KDE with Windows XP theme?
you can make kde or xfce look indistinguishable from win xp