Ummm… as I said, everything up until Windows 7 won’t boot, not unless is WinPE based. If it’s a regular install, no, it won’t. Windows 8 and above, yes, it will boot… and it won’t throw errors. Will everything regarding 3rd party software work? No. Can it be fixed? No, no source available. Then what’s the point of booting from anything other than C? IDK, you tell me 😂.

Really? Try booting Windows XP from a drive that is not marked as C: somewhere in registry and in config files. Even if you do manage to change the root from C to something else, it simply refuses to boot, end of story. People have tried it, it just doesn’t work. With Win8 and above, yes, it does work, but some programs will out right refuse to work (cuz they’re gonna look for C:\%WINDIR%\system32 for the libs it needs to run, and they won’t be able to find them).

The only exception to this rule is WinPE (for WinXP), and that is a hacky setup, not officially supported by MS. It can be done, but it takes a looong time to actually make it bootable under any drive letter (anything that’s not C).

But yes, you are correct, drive letters were in use before DOS.

Unfortunatelly, drive letters are reminants from the DOS and early Windows days (anything that isn’t NT 6.2 kernel based or above, has to have drive letters), so they have to stay for backwards compatibility.

Actually, up until Windows 8, drive letters were required for booting as well (which can be seen in the safe mode boot screen). Windows 8 and above doesn’t require them though (can be seen in safe mode with debugging enabled), but they are there and will stay there for a very, very long time. Windows can’t just part ways with them, there are just way too many things tied to them… legacy stuff, but legacy stuff that everyone still uses. Like try mounting a network drive without a drive letter, lol 😂… or anything for that matter without a letter, you can’t. It’s how Windows works. It’s so deep into the kernel, that there is no way to remove it without breaking stuff left and right.

I R baboon.

Mooom, the normies are bulling me again.

Gangsta C++, for the ammo endowed.

No, I mean the portable nature of Chromium makes it a perfect candidate for making browsers like Vivaldi. And yeah, Vivaldi runs Chromium/Blink.

I just don’t have the time and the energy to do that any more. Too old and have a family now, which takes up most of my free time. The rest I spend here, on Lemmy.

Or Vivaldi.

That whole ‘nothing lasts forever’ thing isn’t because the changing internet standards, it’s because companies and websites choose to adopt those standards rather than stick with backwards compatibility.

That won’t stand true with Google I’m afraid. They adapt quickly. Meta is probably quicker than them, but doesn’t have the user base Google has, so it really can’t dictate that much.

(“CAT” from “Caterpillar” - yeah, they make phones)

Not really, they’re just rebranded Chinese no name phones.

Still, yes, they are good.

Yeah, I know all that, but I’ve just given up at this point (look my comment above as to why). I’m just too old for this back and forth bullshit till the end of time. And I don’t think things are gonna change any time soon. Unless a global catastrophy plages mankind, nothing is gonna change… like an asteroid impact or something like that. People show their greatest virtues and unite only when faced with grave danger… it’s just how humans are, they don’t do shit about anything unless all of their friends, relatives, family are in immediate danger.

And even if we avoid this grave danger, things will soon get back to same old, same old. A large chunk of humanity (like over 95%) needs to be wiped out in order for people to take things seriously and shift their mindsets in an entirely different direction… and even then, there is no guarantee that that will last.

Yeah, this thing works if everyone around you is not an asshole. It doesn’t if everyone is. And even if the copycat or copykitten win in the end, the number of retries is just too tiring, so you just give up and decided to not trust anyone, thus becoming the cheater, same as everyone else.

It’s because people usually search for that… one of the many reasons why I lost hope in the human race… people getting their kinks on other people getting beaten up or killed… I mean, it just goes to show you how worse we are even than animals.

RustDesk

That being said, it’s developed by Chinese and communication with them is tough. Some security issues still haven’t been patched (no one actually knows why, they either don’t reply why or reply in Chinese with a cryptic message like “why ask this” or something weird like that). They’re also notoriusly against anyone speaking anything against them (I once commented on their subreddit that the devs are mostly Chinese, so communication is kinda difficult, after someone asked why they don’t reply or give scarce replies regarding issues and PRs on their GH).

Still, it’s free and open source, so you can give it a spin if you’d like. The servers that come by default are super slow, the idea is to make your own (which kinda beats the point of actually having some sort of a replacement for TeamViewer or AnyDesk… if I wanted to set up my own server, there are other open source alternatives), which drew me away from it from the start.

I still use AnyDesk with version 7.0.14 for Windows and version 6.0.1 for Linux. The older Windows versions because there is no red bar over the window that says “free version” or whatever and the older version for Linux because it just works better than the latest one (6.2.x), I have no idea why.

Since most instances block it by default, I opened an account there 🤷.

Would recommend having a chat with those guys, they’re not as bad as they’re being portrayed in most of the Lemmyverse.

The paid ones didn’t, the free ones did.

If they can buy the .ml domain, everything can work as it was. The question is, are they even for sale right now.

Oh, thanks 👍.

Hell, having the IPs is sufficient enough, no need for the hosts hack.