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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic The Long Hall of Hilarity in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:27:58 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooh, I like that. I may do some decorating next year, at least inside. Could be fun! 🙂</p>
<p>More election humor!</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Monty Python’s Election Night Special" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/666OKm08fRA?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Films &#038; TV Shows in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:26:38 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will see if I can check it out 🙂</p>
<p>Been watching Classic Doctor Who and Xena: Warrior Princess lately. The latter is a really weird show with a ton of anachronisms. Of course, it&#8217;s right up my alley as it winds up being hilarious 😛</p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic The Long Hall of Hilarity in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:50:42 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy Halloween Hangover! Due to excessive exorbitance re acquisition this merch won&#8217;t cure it:<br />
<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/4551294553/hangover-kit-halloween-hangover-kit" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.etsy.com/listing/4551294553/hangover-kit-halloween-hangover-kit</a><br />
Potential <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/puns/comments/1i1pxsa/comment/19s1256frbbuo" rel="nofollow ugc">hairdresser names</a>.<br />
Last bit of election humour before mid-terms:<br />
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Anti-Roger Marshall 2026 Kansas US Senate TV Ad #1 Edge Action Fund Oct 15 Country Song #1" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/myFtZSV0Img?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Films &#038; TV Shows in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:01:15 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both of those are excellent movies, sure to have seen them sometime back, memory is a bit short on the details, so pencilled in for future viewing on Tubi of course. 🙂<br />
Saw this one on local FTA:<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_Me_(2022_film)" rel="nofollow ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_Me_(2022_film)</a><br />
Good moves and scares in there, perhaps spoiled a little (for aged viewers in particular) by a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3883"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/films-tv-shows/page/18/#post-5813" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Power to the Pluggers and Players in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:06:40 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So <code>powertop</code> is what is used in Linux land but its report options are limited. Looking into it 🙂</p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic The Long Hall of Hilarity in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:56:55 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If it comes to joining the queue for the latest Weird Al merch, I&#8217;m first in line bud!<br />
Election humour, from Texas this time:<br />
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Introducing Scanduel: Bet on Ken Paxton&amp;apos;s Scandals" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PHp0E-e7n68?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:23:40 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are some cool places on the US list, such as the Greenbrier 🙂</p>
<p>Most of our transportation and utility companies are set up as wholly owned or at least partially owned subsidies with the government being the primary party. There have also been a few occasions where we nationalized an organization not owned by the government, such as during&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3877"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/25/#post-5793" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:04:14 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>$100 or so per night for a small double room at the <a href="https://www.angelandroyal.co.uk" rel="nofollow ugc">Angel and Royal</a> doesn&#8217;t sound too exorbitant, no doubt special discounts willingly lavished on special visitors bedecked with cherub regalia.<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_House" rel="nofollow ugc">Trinity House</a> is more like a state corporation, is there a parallel on the US?<br />
Curious that Shirley Plantation is the oldest in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow ugc">List of oldest&hellip;</a><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3876"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/25/#post-5792" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Cooking in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:06:16 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Homemade miso paste doesn&#8217;t look too difficult to make. Maybe it&#8217;ll be worth a try sometime?</p>
<p>The homemade sauerkraut was good when I made it s few years ago</p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic From Go to Blown in Wind&#039;s Woes in the forum Discussion</title>
				<link>https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/from-go-to-blow-in-winds-woes/page/2/#post-5789</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:24:30 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I personally use <a href="https://meldmerge.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Meld</a> on the rare occasion I feel like using a graphical tool. Usually, I just use the terminal and, for more complex stuff, redirect the output to a file which I then load in my text-editor (also helps me share the changes more easily). Maybe it&#8217;ll work better?</p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Power to the Pluggers and Players in the forum Discussion</title>
				<link>https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/power-to-the-pluggers-and-players/page/2/#post-5788</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:14:26 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Took the opportunity of reviewing the <a href="https://valid.cpuid.com/j2jys8n3" rel="nofollow ugc">new rig&#8217;s</a> power consumption in generating the following report with the terminal command <code>powercfg -energy</code>:<br />
<a href="https://stearnvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/energy-report.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://stearnvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/energy-report.html</a><br />
If any settings in the report are adjudged by the system to be out of whack, user is prompted to correct them by running the <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/experience/deprecation-of-microsoft-support-diagnostic-tool-msdt-and-msdt-troubleshooters" rel="nofollow ugc">deprecated&hellip;</a><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3872"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/power-to-the-pluggers-and-players/page/2/#post-5788" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic From Go to Blown in Wind&#039;s Woes in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:41:19 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funny thing installing the latest <a href="https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/releases?q=v2.16.59&amp;expanded=true#release-v2.16.59" rel="nofollow ugc">WinMerge beta</a> when it got to registering the shell extensions. A system freeze.<br />
Looking at it later, could have been an after effect of any of or all of <a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/from-go-to-blow-in-winds-woes/#post-5779" rel="nofollow ugc">this</a> involving APCupsd uninstallation and installation of PowerChute Personal Edition (and an upgrade from an older to a newer legacy of that product, an earlier&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3871"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/from-go-to-blow-in-winds-woes/page/2/#post-5786" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Software: On &#038; Off the Web in the forum Discussion</title>
				<link>https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5784</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:56:08 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Agree, Discord has always emanated vibes of a discordant hue and cry, which, funnily enough, is intended and expected behaviour. 😛<br />
YouTube&#8217;s <a href="https://gist.github.com/monochromer/8ddc6707f70a873754995ca7677a59ab" rel="nofollow ugc">thumbnail cdn url</a> <code>ytimg.com</code> doesn&#8217;t resolve to a navigable page, would it make any difference for it to be so? Found this one in an old file:<br />
<img loading="lazy" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yu3daUfa_m0/mqdefault.jpg" alt="Monkeys at hand" /><br />
Want the thumbnail blown up to fill the page? Use <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34763547/youtube-maxresdefault-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">maxresdefault</a>.&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3870"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5784" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:00:49 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, Logitech&#8217;s keyboards seem to have longevity issues. My dad&#8217;s old keyboards wound up with broken keycaps after just a few years. Not sure how he did that, honestly. 😛</p>
<p>Their mice seem to still be solid, though 🙂</p>
<p>Not familiar with that brand but the appearance is pretty sharp 🙂</p>
<p>I have a SteelSeries, which is quite nice. Heavy, too, so it&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3869"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/hardware_relics/page/5/#post-5783" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:49:02 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All the Logitech keyboards purchased locally have ended up with non-functioning keys, like the spacebar. No matter how the touch of the keystrokes went down, Logitech have spacebarred this user for good! So, onto a new keyboard &#8211; it seems of late the <a href="https://aulakeyboard.com/product/aula-f98-pro-v3" rel="nofollow ugc">AULA F98 Pro V3</a> has gone on sale, yet the general reaction is warm, so we plunged, and came up&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3868"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/hardware_relics/page/5/#post-5782" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic From Go to Blown in Wind&#039;s Woes in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:26:58 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wouldn&#8217;t worry about .NET 3.5 being installed: that&#8217;s required by several system packages. Microsoft has been slowly upgrading them to use the newer versions, though.</p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic From Go to Blown in Wind&#039;s Woes in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:25:06 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new rig also kept waking up from the Back-UPS RS 900G hibernation. The device descriptor may or may not have had <code>Remote Wakeup</code>:<br />
<code>Device Status: ...<br />
...<br />
Remote Wakeup Enabled</code></p>
<p>And Windows may or may not have been picking it up, in which case manually re-allocating the UPS connection to another USB slot seems to have settled it down a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3866"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/from-go-to-blow-in-winds-woes/#post-5779" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Power to the Pluggers and Players in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:26:13 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yuck. I was hooking up a lamp the other day and found that one of the two sockets in an outlet was bad so I&#8217;ll need to get that fixed at some point. Annoying when that happens. Fortunately, it was just a lamp and nothing important but it does mean I&#8217;m down a plug! 😛</p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Power to the Pluggers and Players in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:48:32 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bit of a song &amp; dance with a <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/1941025/fast-startup-0xc00000d4-and-srttrail-txt" rel="nofollow ugc">bad socket</a> today, Have to say Windows safe mode has come a long way since the clunky 640X480 days of yore. Most of the devices in Device Manager are marked as bricked, because as we know, it&#8217;s safe. 🙂</p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:54:35 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So is anyone doing anything with blockchain anymore outside of crypto-currency? There was a lot of activity surrounding the concept several years ago and then, after a couple of years, <em>poof</em>. Nothing.</p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Software: On &#038; Off the Web in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:31:09 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have no real experience with it myself but it looks like they were last online around 2024. It came out around the time that I had mostly lost interest in playing the games and I never was much of one to use community modifications. From what I understand, though, the big thing with it was shaders (at least initially). I never had stability issues&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3852"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5762" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Computer Setup in the forum Projects</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:59:51 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s now back and the logs only give up <code>BugCheckProgress: 0x00040049</code>.<br />
The original C: Drive SSD was installed with Windows in late July. Mr Fixit added in an old Working SATA (not the faulty one above) in early August. There exists a 2GB dump dated that day in <code>LiveKernelReports</code> which most likely relates to that enumeration of that drive. It was I:&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3851"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/computer-setup/page/5/#post-5761" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Software: On &#038; Off the Web in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:57:23 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Couple of years back Boris did take the ENB forums offline due to spambots and scrapes. No matter, all the content is amazingly preserved (minus image links) at WayBack, including some old posts courtesy yours truly <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200226221153/http://enbseries.enbdev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&amp;t=2313&amp;start=110" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>. Still not absolutely convinced ENBoost did anything much other than boost player confidence. 😛 </p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:30:51 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting list: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies" rel="nofollow ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies</a></p>
<p>Lots of Japanese companies and breweries on there</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:43:43 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It sounds like there could have been an outage during a critical Windows process. Windows is much less forgiving about those situations than *nix. It&#8217;s possible you may need to reinstall the OS</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, CSM is mostly for older technologies such as IDE that pre-date SATA drives (as well as older add-in cards). Granted, it&#8217;s been a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3836"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/computer-setup/page/5/#post-5740" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:03:11 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr Fixit came back with the drive H/W as okay, after reseating and re-installing the drive. Will pick up the rig next week. Not 100% sure of the health of the drive as some programs exhibited a little glitchiness &#8211; could be a memory thing too.</p>
<blockquote><p>DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth<br />
sfc /scannow
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<p>As we know, continued use of hibernation is&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3835"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/computer-setup/page/5/#post-5739" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Power to the Pluggers and Players in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:36:48 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More infrastructure should be designed as art forms. Civilization would look so much better if it weren&#8217;t covered in bland industrial displays. Just as an example, the Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty could have cellular aerials on top. Streetlights could have a whimsical appearance, like sunflowers. Just make things look better!</p>
<p>I miss easily&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3834"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/power-to-the-pluggers-and-players/page/2/#post-5738" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Films &#038; TV Shows in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:55:21 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_(film)" rel="nofollow ugc">Oculus</a> was pretty good. Of course, I generally like anything with Sackhoff 🙂</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:00:21 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever found the safety features on some power boards overkill? Here&#8217;s an <a href="https://whrl.pl/RgXWk3" rel="nofollow ugc">example</a>, but there was an easy solution this time. 🙂<br />
When very young, was inspired by the different designs and implementations of power poles. Some of note in this country, Britain and notably, France. Nothing compared to&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3832"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/power-to-the-pluggers-and-players/page/2/#post-5736" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:33:22 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fascinating! Interesting comments as well, the in 2020 warns of the downsides of using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_hexafluoride" rel="nofollow ugc">SF6</a> in the breakers. Not too hot on electrostatic loudspeakers unfortunately.<br />
The copper foil sheets would make a difference for shielding as well &#8211; Marantz comes to mind for that.</p>
<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="F8nnswzBeQ"><p><a href="https://robertwjensen.org/books/this-i-dont-believe/" rel="nofollow ugc">This I Don’t Believe</a></p></blockquote>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden;" title="“This I Don’t Believe” — Robert Jensen" src="https://robertwjensen.org/books/this-i-dont-believe/embed/#?secret=osL3N7lZjB#?secret=F8nnswzBeQ" data-secret="F8nnswzBeQ" width="500" height="282" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br />
He spoke on the radio&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3831"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/25/#post-5734" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:36:38 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I actually don&#8217;t have a cat 😛</p>
<p>Those articles are some that came in a long time ago which I felt like checking up on again 🙂</p>
<p>What amazes me is that people actually need instructions to unwrap their candy bars 😛</p>
<p>And came across this tidbit the other day:&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3830"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/25/#post-5732" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Films &#038; TV Shows in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:54:05 +1100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_(1992_film)" rel="nofollow ugc">Candyman</a> was excellent. Next up is the Mothman Prophecies. May go back to classic horror films soon. Those were always fun and I&#8217;ve been in the mood for Vincent Price</p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:52:12 +1100</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:42:17 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aw snap, something happened to the Micron 3400 SSD. Not long after resume from hibernation Windows detected an error, after which the PC would boot up to the BIOS. No boot device found. No idea what the cause is &#8211; other than a power spike which got through the UPS or too hot from a fan fail?</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:01:29 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And Dark. Dark was good! Bad dubbing but the rest of it was amazing! Still mad over Dark Matter. I&#8217;ll always be mad that it got cancelled before they wrapped things up. 😛</p>
<p>Tubi has a good selection of older horror films (and even some newer stuff from the 80&#8217;s). 🙂</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(1985_film)" rel="nofollow ugc">House</a> was fun (very much a B-movie) but it was rather jarring since it was hard&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3826"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/films-tv-shows/page/17/#post-5728" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Films &#038; TV Shows in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:33:21 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good sc-fi is sadly lacking these days &#8211; and more Black Mirror please!<br />
There are bound to be some good horror shows at IA, time to get a list up. 🙂<br />
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, is recommended if for nothing else but its epic style and presentation of Tolkien-like heroes. The atmosphere encompassing the build-up through the first few&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3825"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/films-tv-shows/page/17/#post-5727" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:01:42 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very interesting &#8211; the full 1995 article is at the archive:<br />
<a href="https://ia601801.us.archive.org/21/items/statistical-crystallography-a-practical-method-to-quantify-toxic-effects-on-spider-web-patterns/Statistical%20Crystallography%20A%20practical%20method%20to%20quantify%20toxic%20effects%20on%20spider%20web%20patterns_text.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">https://ia601801.us.archive.org/21/items/statistical-crystallography-a-practical-method-to-quantify-toxic-effects-on-spider-web-patterns/Statistical%20Crystallography%20A%20practical%20method%20to%20quantify%20toxic%20effects%20on%20spider%20web%20patterns_text.pdf</a><br />
It all started in 1948&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3824"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/25/#post-5726" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Films &#038; TV Shows in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:48:04 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is now October. What does that mean? Time to start watching horror films again!</p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter started the topic Email Delivery Improvements in the forum Forum</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:51:16 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The hosting providers have tightened up some areas relating to email authentication, thus (hopefully) resulting in even more email hosters accepting emails from StearnVault.</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:41:20 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kit Kat bars now have instructions on the wrappers telling you how to peel the wrapper off. Why, I have no idea.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:46:31 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So NASA once used <a href="https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20100033433" rel="nofollow ugc">spider as guinea pigs</a> to see what happens when you give them various substances. Fascinating stuff</p>
<p>Also, dug up some old articles on roaming cats from the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22821639" rel="nofollow ugc">BBC</a> and <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-20/cat-tracking-program-makes-owners-re-think-pet-behaviour/7431248" rel="nofollow ugc">ABC Australia</a>. Interesting study and there have also been some newer studies on that as well, such as <a href="https://animalethics.ku.dk/companion-animals/behavior/movement-patterns-of-roaming-companion-cats-in-denmark/" rel="nofollow ugc">this one</a> out of Denmark.</p>
<p>Was a bit hard to dig up the studies on&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3814"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/25/#post-5712" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic From Go to Blown in Wind&#039;s Woes in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:32:26 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is set up not going well, then? 🙁</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t comment much on hibernation as it&#8217;s a feature I haven&#8217;t really used since roughly 2005. I do know that, on suspend, I had to press a button to get the system to resume. Just moving the mouse wouldn&#8217;t wake it up unless it was simply &#8220;sleeping&#8221;.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:40:51 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Further eruptions of shenanigans, now with hibernation &#8211; <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/1940469/hibernate-resume-how-to-wake-on-usb-keyboard-and-not-on-usb-mouse?" rel="nofollow ugc">Hibernate Resume: How to wake on USB keyboard and not on USB mouse</a>?<br />
It&#8217;s personal preference really that nudging a mouse should wake the system. If the mouse is configured to wake the computer, the pointer can sometimes be lost due to the weird handling of the power state.<br />
Hibernate is also&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3797"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/from-go-to-blow-in-winds-woes/#post-5671" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:47:10 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We don&#8217;t need expensive &#8220;smart toasters&#8221;. Seriously. Just dial in the shade you want!</p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:10:12 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, their forum seems to be hit or miss. I like the answer in the printer thread: &#8220;Try turning it off and on again.&#8221; 😛</p>
<p>Honestly, that does fix most printer problems. Sometimes you do need to go into settings though and reset something. For whatever reason, my printer sometimes decides to use the wrong paper size and won&#8217;t work unless I switch&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3783"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/hardware_relics/page/5/#post-5646" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:06:55 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great info on the site! 🙂<br />
The <a href="https://www.ifixit.com/Answers" rel="nofollow ugc">Answers</a> section is a bit odd on account of the thin detail in most of the questions &#8211; as of late most of those would get a fairly good quality response in the browser AIs.<br />
What kind of vacuum tubes are you working with? There&#8217;s some good info at <a href="https://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=452300" rel="nofollow ugc">Antique Radios</a> where it&#8217;s proposed the reliability of some may not be&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3781"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/hardware_relics/page/5/#post-5644" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:57:05 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trying to rebuild my list of resources but <a href="https://www.digikey.com/en" rel="nofollow ugc">DigiKey</a> and <a href="https://www.mouser.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mouser</a> seem to be good resources for components. Could be handy for general repairs or even other projects.</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:16:26 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/meet-the-2026-ig-nobel-prize-winners/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ig Nobels</a> are out!</p>
<p>Always fun to go through them 🙂</p>
<p>Hopefully the driverless cars will have a manual override. The cabs don&#8217;t and the manufacturers are shifting to removing steering controls from them, which could be potentially problematic in the event of an emergency.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s important to note that at the quantum level, general&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3778"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/24/#post-5639" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:34:45 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While you can still purchase reasonably priced vacuum tubes, vacuum tube testers themselves are expensive!</p>
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				<title>Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Films &#038; TV Shows in the forum Discussion</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:56:16 +1000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, it has an English dub! It&#8217;s also available in Japanese with English subtitles if you&#8217;d rather (or without subtitles if you&#8217;re so inclined 😛 ) and possibly other languages. I only watch the dubbed versions of anime. I have a hard time reading the subtitles and following what&#8217;s going on at the same time 😛</p>
<p>Yeah, a lot of stuff these days is&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-3775"><a href="https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/films-tv-shows/page/17/#post-5634" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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