I don't have any problems with my Win-7 machine running Firefox and BitDefender AV.
Edge? Not so much - but then again I rarely use edge. I'll use Chrome if a site isn't compatible with Firefox.

I built a new computer (https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-779437-1.html) and installed Win-11. Only one older program would not run (a pulse-ox interpreter for a CMS-50F) which ran fine on Win-10. Before you update from 10 to 11 be sure to run the micros_ _ t compatibility checker on your current machine to avoid any surprises.

Tadalafil on board. New Sports Car - but no road to drive it on.

Getting Old can Kill Ya

Parkinson knew Omega was Crap - though the Navy took years to admit it.
Just get an iFoan or Android Phone - or maybe a stand-alone Garmin etc.
Their current GPS Nav Solutions will get you within feet of where you want your sailboat or Anyboat to be.

That's what the beer is for - -

Took me a second - then ROTFL

OMG !! I think these are the BEST BIF images I've seen here in decades.
I saw what YOU saw - looked Mr Owl in the eye, and got the heck out of his/her way!!
?? Once in a lifetime shots - just Fabulous.
Congrats !!

I cut the cable 2 years ago (except for $50/month for internet). I have Amazon Prime (with firesticks), Roku, and Netflix (I'd drop netflix in a heartbeat - except that would be my last heartbeat - wife would kill me). We get FREE local TV using a digital antenna pointed at our local TV Antenna farm - about 50 miles away. The signal comes into the house over one of the 2 RG6 cables (the other is the internet cable) I had installed when we built the house - previously used for a DirecTV ($$$) satellite connection - Gone! The digital antenna feeds a 1:8 amplified distribution box (so no loss of signal strength) to all the TV locations in the house - including a Tivo Bolt PVR (I got one that has lifetime TV Guide & recording and programmed it for our local area) and an 82" Sharp Aquos TV (both also have Cat-5 internet connections). Our Land-line phone (and FAX) are via an OOMA VOIP Telo box I bought back in 2010 - works perfect - feeds all the phones in the house for about $5 per month (ALL Unka SxIT taxes!! x=H) - sure - wife and I both have iFoans with a cellular contract - but that's an aside.
The TIVO records our local 5:00 as well as NBC network 5:50 news every day (keeping ONLY the most recent), as well as several other programs (CSI Miami x10, CSI NY x5, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, etc). Game Changer !!
So I watch the nightly news whenever with dinner

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Dinner with TIVO

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Probably a little known fact that the GPS algorithm must use Einstein's theory of relativity to compensate for the relative speed of the radio transmissions from each satellite. As the dielectric constant of the ionosphere changes - so changes the speed of the electromagnetic waves through it.

If you want the background - take a look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5N4CqJLAhQ
Though the role I played in this program was small,
It was definitely the most important thing I participated in during my 46 year career.

1Lt Merlin with his GPS enabled Jet. Please Ignore Magnavox Tech Gene Mooning you from above the back seat.

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That's PART of the story. In the early spring of 1978 we only had 2 satellites on orbit - the other 2 signals came from ground based transmitters in the 'inverted range' at Yuma Proving Grounds - over which we flew our test-bed aircraft. Soon after when additional satellites were launched (8 satellites in each of 3 orbits) full navigational capabilities became available world-wide. When President Regan opened GPS to the public in 1983 after the Russian shoot-down of a Korean jet liner, we only released the CA-Code signal (clear-acquisition) with an accuracy of about 300 feet. The P (Precision code) signal remained encrypted until in 2000, President Clinton announced a commitment to grant civilians access to un-degraded GPS signals on par with those used by the military, and in 2007, under President Bush, the Department of Defense made that commitment permanent.

GPS - 1978 - on a 10,000# pallet in the back of our C-141

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Col Brad Parkinson (the father of GPS), Capt Bud Bruenning, and Lt Merlin - way back then.

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Hint: If you realize your need to delete whatever you wrote BEFORE you exit or otherwise save it - just hit the back arrow on your browser - and it will be as if it never happened. Otherwise you leave an obscure remnant with folks wondering just what the heck you meant. And OBTW - please be assured I depricate Crapple just as much as Winblows. Although none of us can do without either (wife has gone to the dark side with her Macbook Air and we both depend on our iFoans with links to microsxxt Outlook). Having insufficient experience with Linux (Unix) I can't really pick on them - although you just can't beat the value IF you can handle the learning curve.

Yep !! My bride's iPad (Pro 9.7" 1st Gen 2016 Model A1673) - will NOT Run iOS 17. Crapple planned obsolescence. I still use her old iPad version 5.1.1 (9B206) Model MB294LL. Amazingly the battery STILL holds a charge for many hours, I can still connect to the internet, and it still runs the basic apps I need. Of course I can't update Anything - but for my needs, updates aren't required. It's like my older machine running windows NT.

I've been building computers since the 1990's. Still have one running Windows 3.11 - Not recently though.
Perhaps one in the attic with MS-DOS.
Another with Win-7 (Lightning) - runs fine, NOT connected to the internet. It has 2 purposes:
To run my Creata-Cards program AND to run my Pronto-Pro remote control programming app -
No drivers available for anything after Win-7 - the Pronto-Pro totally runs my AV suite - TV, DVD, Tivo, AV Receiver.
Any new items have the IR codes read with the Pronto and added to my system.
I have programmed & updated that over many years - would be such a pain if it died, I have a back-up in reserve.
There is NOTHING that will do what the Pronto-Pro will do on the market for the past 15 years.
No - not Logitech Harmony or Anything Else.
Yes - my primary computer (Thanos) runs Win-11 https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-779437-1.html
Its 'father' (Mjolnir) runs Win-10 (updates disabled) https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-496767-1.html
I also have a teeny-tiny Raspberry Pi 4 box running Raspbian (Linux) with an MS-Office app - does everything.
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Despite Jerry's warning, I'll NOT be 'updating' my older machines to micros**t winblows anytime soon.
** = sn, hi, take your pick.

Raspberry Pi 4 w/ breakout connected to HDMI

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