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points by johnwalkr 3 days ago | 0 comments

Sorry for the loss, are you able to keep her high score saved too?

I wanted old school MS solitaire in windows 11 since the modern version has ads and extra useless features. I found that the Windows XP version works without hassle. Earlier versions aren't really different but I forget if I tried to run earlier versions. One quirk: however the winning animation is programmed, it takes almost 20 minutes to complete on a very wide monitor[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78z2zlwV-XQ

[–] strotter 3 days ago

If you want to scratch your old-school solitaire itch, check out https://freesolitaire.win

[–] solyin 3 days ago

it was fun until the end which was a temu ad. Before that there was an emoji that said end automatically, which was no fun. and then there was no cool card shuffling at the end.

Don't visit the link, unless you like feeling let down.

[–] throwaway270925 2 days ago

Better use

https://cards.jlogical.com/

Its way nicer and open source:

https://github.com/JLogical-Apps/cards

[–] NooneAtAll5 2 days ago

very bad performance :/

[–] merelysounds 2 days ago

Note, this is not FreeCell[1], it is Klondike.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCell

[–] NooneAtAll5 2 days ago

wrong solitaire

[–] mapt 2 days ago

> I wanted old school MS solitaire in windows 11 since the modern version has ads and extra useless features.

> All LG televisions are maintaining a dossier on you and transcribing everything you watch and everything spoken within earshot

These things seem like something we should be responding to with such an extreme disgust response that it's denominated in drone strikes.

Like having a shower liner installed that comes with A Guy With A Peephole who permanently lives in your bathroom now, and that's just something people tolerate. "Switch to tile if you don't like it", they say. No. Sometimes the appropriate response to audacity is to choose violence. It is an implied deterrent against sufficiently offensive antifeatures that nobody has bothered banning them. I shouldn't have to specify that I don't want it, the operating system is just not supposed to be in the business of pushing ads on me, the television is not supposed to be in the business of wiretapping me. These would have been banned long ago if they were known and if we had a functional government.

That guy living in the shower liner is getting disassembled with a Sawzall with extreme prejudice, and frankly that is not sufficient.

[–] poglet 3 days ago

> are you able to keep her high score saved too?

The score is a value stored in the Windows registry, the poster probably re-created (or imported from a previous export) the registry entry upon each Windows installation.