Stearn Vault | Site-Wide Activity https://stearnvault.com/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Sun, 24 May 2026 14:46:29 +1000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3b73faebc98e47812b6cee95837ea25c Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5462 Sun, 24 May 2026 06:34:49 +1000 I’m just more comfortable without them when working at the computer πŸ˜›

Progressing at a fairly good clip, all things considered. πŸ™‚

Some of the UI quirks may be due to how they’re using Qt. Could be worth sending them a feature request πŸ™‚

Yay! Been playing some minesweeper off and on lately myself. Of course, when you get to the end game, it…[Read more]

]]> 7e2f38a22c27de1e6634d98f73340b6e DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5461 Sat, 23 May 2026 11:35:41 +1000 Having to play with glasses is a thing though πŸ˜› , pity VR is no longer in the loop.
Ditched ClipChamp in favour of Shotut – quite a good program really. The QT throws in some quirkiness like you can’t vertically expand the Keyframe/Timeline area and so left with the dinky super small RH scroll button. Also a few gotchas such as adding text to a…[Read more]

]]> 3ff88c30cb6950b36251d4903300ad56 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/23/#post-5460 Fri, 22 May 2026 07:31:30 +1000 Could possibly cannibalize a few robot vacuums for parts to get the Labubu heads to suck up dirt πŸ˜›

πŸ™ Good choice on site. I like to keep my dogs’ ashes in the living room so that they’re always nearby πŸ™‚

We’re getting some rain as expected, finally. Not a whole lot but it is better than nothing.

Got to thinking recently, we need a knowledge…[Read more]

]]> 405d71249bd8539b56269b325ef46c01 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/23/#post-5459 Thu, 21 May 2026 11:23:40 +1000 Another issue for the Labubu mob, arranging for it to be fitted with a vacuum hose for the gathering dust in our houses. And a playlist of cheerful whistles to get it across the task!
He’s gone to a better place now:

Next to some canna lilies in an area kept fallow for years now, and come over a little…[Read more]

]]> c8019ca6bc1c97ec890b4103f216b706 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/23/#post-5456 Mon, 18 May 2026 09:19:13 +1000 The Labubu bot may need treads before it can adequately roll on various terrain. Not hard to do: gluing rubber mats to it may be the ticket. Will definitely need to look at the project in more detail.

The readme is kind of light on details, though. Definitely needs more fleshing out.

On May 18, 2026 at 5:27 pm DeVaultSetter said Only two weeks…

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]]> c8bb315a5d1ac924b86456ad99ae7cce DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/23/#post-5455 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:27:57 +1000 Only two weeks after his shot, Shem has become almost immobile in a rather speedy downgrade to Stage 4 End-Stage Osteoarthritis. Difficulty with his eat/drink/motions now as well. Oh well, best to keep him comfortable in his basket for a while, looks like time for the needle in any case. πŸ™
On a rather cheerier note, a few showers coming in for…[Read more]

]]> 1cd689f070a335f6eb4bb7701baf2905 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5454 Fri, 15 May 2026 07:31:03 +1000 Reinstalled Guild Wars 2 the other day and, while the game runs beautifully, it does have some issues with displaying text on 4k monitors. With my display scaling set to 125% in the OS, text was so tiny that it was unreadable even without my glasses. Had to set it to 150% to get it readable. Since I don’t feel like jumping all over the place with…[Read more]

]]> 10d934b2d41a97ffe0408a398284d1d0 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5450 Wed, 13 May 2026 07:32:19 +1000 Just got a note that GitHub is updating the VS version on the cloud to Visual Studio 2026. Shouldn’t affect things too much since the code is already C++20 compliant but we’ll find out once we get things building again.

On that note, I’m taking a bit of a break since I’ve been hard at it for months. In the meantime, if you want to take a look or…[Read more]

]]> 818d89055fd7632f289c2d680dc8dabe Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic SETI in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/seti/#post-5449 Wed, 13 May 2026 07:28:53 +1000 Yep, saw that! Haven’t had a chance to browse, though. Will definitely need to! πŸ™‚

There have been some curation come up on Hacker News but I haven’t been making much note of the threads. There was one project that let you scroll through them like a roll of film πŸ˜›

]]> c7a46e8cee06e342861a784ddf6f5100 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Cooking in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/cooking/page/2/#post-5448 Wed, 13 May 2026 07:27:37 +1000 Had some new recipes come in: http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm

Could be a lot of fun making dishes from a thousand years ago. May need to try some of them!

]]> c22fc4bf8c91ecb8a97b52dde8ada053 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/23/#post-5447 Tue, 12 May 2026 11:10:00 +1000 Couple of showers over here which is nice. πŸ™‚
Might be quite nice if the price is right, and if it can negotiate and traverse rough terrain. Can it operate off-grid for example? Mass production then may not be entirely in the spirit of the enterprise, in which case raising an issue for it may not elicit a…[Read more]

]]> c5f9b2d82e6038bf076e35f357b27ad4 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/23/#post-5445 Tue, 12 May 2026 07:19:17 +1000 Had this come in: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/labububot/overview/

Still have no intention of getting one but could be a lot of fun!

]]> f47fd4c829bc990c9b586a910cea03e1 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic SETI in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/seti/#post-5442 Mon, 11 May 2026 10:43:55 +1000 So, the flood gates have opened!
https://www.war.gov/ufo
Tried the last one out of interest:
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/western_us_event_slides_5.08.2026.pdf
No dates along with fairly broad event locations. No doubt someone will step up with content curation in mind. πŸ™‚

]]> b823ca833986c982d2722ac7ba442b5c Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5441 Mon, 11 May 2026 07:43:25 +1000 Sorry to hear that the fur-balls are having some issues. I know how that can be: my dog hurt her neck last year and that wasn’t fun πŸ™ She’s fully recovered now πŸ™‚

Yep, we also had Mothers’ Day yesterday. πŸ™‚

Finally getting some rain over here, which is nice. Hopefully it continues to rain off and on for a while. We’ve got several bodies of…[Read more]

]]> 1099beb256ec4de18cdd0f5f965a8c31 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5440 Sun, 10 May 2026 11:25:53 +1000 Jaffa, the young dog incurred a paralysis tick, so in hospital, doing well enough. πŸ™‚ So much for the bank balance and invested time. πŸ™
Shem, the old dog, has lost some appetite, very quiet and slow, but still walking well enough. Had a shot for pain, only lasts a month though.
National Clean Up day is today, as well as Mothers’ Day here as well,…[Read more]

]]> 9ab7a470bc2914337591a777b277144a Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5437 Sun, 10 May 2026 08:01:57 +1000

On May 6, 2026 at 6:54 pm Spastic Hamburger said
I suspect winuser.h needs to go before afxwin.h but I need to take some time to study the logs some more.

Turns out that wasn’t the issue. Still getting the same error:
C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio2022EnterpriseVCToolsMSVC14.44.35207atlmfcincludeafxwin4.inl(154,11): error C2039:…[Read more]

]]> 7b01ef1047d92b085832dbfd06f90495 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5433 Thu, 07 May 2026 10:28:48 +1000 Got tired of the bugs and missing features in COSMIC so I switched to Cinnamon. In the past, I’ve always used XFCE or gone piecemeal but many packages I like of the latter are no longer maintained. I don’t know, I just felt like using Cinnamon right now.

It currently uses X11 so we’ll see if I have similar issues when it switches to Wayland.

Not…[Read more]

]]> 492f3e598d42d21e8e91a771a66e1090 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5429 Wed, 06 May 2026 08:54:23 +1000 We’re getting some errors regarding UpdateLayeredWindow even though we don’t use it in the project. I suspect it’s another missing include somewhere upstream that’s resolved in windows.h so it’ll take me time to figure out which file(s) in MWEdit need the header that defines it.

So far, here are the files in the Windows API that we’ve discovered…[Read more]

]]> c872c999f16e89d62fec7a5eeebaa837 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5427 Sun, 03 May 2026 09:07:09 +1000 So it turns out that MSVC doesn’t like it when I try to use bool instead of BOOL for MFC stuff, which is annoying. Looks like they never updated the type to C99 or modern C++. Blech:
D:aMWEditMWEdituiload_dlg.h(69,15): error C2555: 'CEsmLoadDlg::OnInitDialog': overriding virtual function return type differs and is not covariant from…[Read more]

]]> 86f01c2bfceb6f25491b421019e422c7 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5426 Sun, 03 May 2026 07:48:51 +1000 Turns out it’s an issue with how COSMIC does compositing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Input_grabbing_in_games,_remote_desktop_and_virtual_machine_windows

So basically, I can either drop PopOS, drop COSMIC, or wait for them to fix things.

Workers and Resources is great! Highly recommend it if you like realistic city builders…[Read more]

]]> 85d943f0ee31032c9c169fa699567314 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5425 Sat, 02 May 2026 11:54:40 +1000 Sorry, did read Workers and Resources as a module/DLC of Witcher – somehow didn’t catch on to the mismatch in the naming. πŸ˜›
Are you playing it through proton and Steam Launcher? There’s Windowed borderless which apparently reduces FPS, else ALT + ENTER according to this.
Still use Acemovi, reported some bugs via email a couple of months ago with…[Read more]

]]> 61e17aef57aace0c057011b29c68a17e Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5424 Sat, 02 May 2026 08:30:37 +1000 The Witcher launches in fullscreen and I can choose the resolution from the in-game menu. It’s currently set to 4k, which is the monitor’s native resolution.

Haven’t used either one myself but I do see them recommended in the OSS circles. πŸ™‚

]]> 261232e95c518eb2fc90bb615820b392 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5423 Sat, 02 May 2026 08:21:16 +1000 Yeah, I see E-61 machines mentioned a lot but the decent ones seem to start at around 2,000 USD with new La Marzocco units going for around 6,000 USD. That’s a lot just to get a cup of coffee! πŸ˜›

Yep, will make a note of it for if I get over there! πŸ™‚

Hard to treat them here due to how wet things usually are. They just come right back a few…[Read more]

]]> 3435bb4e90c85c4e5702342becf35822 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5422 Fri, 01 May 2026 15:36:54 +1000 La Marzocco is mentioned a lot – they were the first with the horizontal boilers. Hefty prices these days though.
Vertical vs. horizontal boiler
Someone suggested Accademia del Caffè Espresso looks like a nice place to discover when next in Italy.
There’s been some success reported with the treatment of fire ants up north, they’re on the march here so preparation is…[Read more]

]]> 90d4d68b1097e962888eea8109e099dd DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5421 Fri, 01 May 2026 09:59:22 +1000 Does Witcher launch in its own resolution or do they provide a choice?
Yes, sounds like some streamers have addressed it e.g. YouTube, obviously other cdn’s don’t care, and the browsers + extensions don’t provide a “streaming” dialog of user options. The browser people are aware of it, somehow a new instance of a video launched from a full screen…[Read more]

]]> 03f2ac56b15dd7f706b21bf737415562 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/11/#post-5420 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:29:55 +1000 So the flickering hasn’t come back so I’ll open a bug report when I get the chance. 60 Hz is fine, would just be nice to have 144 Hz as an option is all since my monitor supports it πŸ™‚

The Witcher now works again, still trying to figure out what’s wrong with Workers and Resources. It seems stuck in windowed mode, which could be the issue, with…[Read more]

]]> 9f5acbd0ffb171bb02144c71a2e13475 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/10/#post-5419 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:01:11 +1000 Ah, okay, good catch. Happy enough on 60 HZ here – the monitor here doesn’t support full HDR on Windows anyway – crock or not. πŸ˜›
All the desktop browser streaming apps in this country have the same problem as here:

Streaming series doesn’t stay in full screen after each episode.
byu/Night_Owl1990 inDisneyPlus


You set it to full screen – why…[Read more]

]]> 3d5ca110ecbb59a68680c97736f491c1 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5415 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:45:08 +1000 We’ll want to update the build files to tell MSVC not to enable warnings for system header files. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/external-external-headers-diagnostics?view=msvc-170

GCC and CLang handle this better and don’t issue them for system headers by default.

I also need to update the build files to mark some…[Read more]

]]> 54e390c954063f0411e8173330326d9c Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5413 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:19:31 +1000 Working on the clean up. Several things are being caught so I’m fixing the stuff I missed. Some of the newer 64-bit functions are different so I’ve updated the variables for those as well. I’ve temporarily used unsigned long long but we’ll want to switch to std::uint64_t once we update the formatting strings, which will need to be done all at once…[Read more]

]]> 3187a7c80e0da4f64d34c96e3a0d1e05 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/10/#post-5410 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:34:26 +1000 Looks like I may have figured out my screen flickering bug that activates on session lock: only happens when the monitor is set to 144 Hz so it looks like a bug in the compositor. Will open a ticket when I get the opportunity now that I know what’s causing it. I set the refresh rate to 60 Hz yesterday and, today, the flickering never materialized.…[Read more]

]]> 952dbba8db90f45654e255819be0a1f6 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5409 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:28:15 +1000 Okay, finished up reviewing the files for circular dependencies. I’ll get it committed and uploaded in a day or so, resolve anything I missed, and hopefully things will start building again. We’ll find out

]]> 2d1e45bcbf1a4258964176a12866e199 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5408 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:51:34 +1000 Got a ceramic teapot I picked up but I mostly make single cup tea. And usually without milk and sugar. Looks like the standard includes some mentions of others according to Wiki but not sure about how extensive it is. The standard costs roughly 85 USD, which seems expensive just to get instructions on how to properly make tea πŸ˜›

In a similar…[Read more]

]]> 5bdd8ccd9c93bdf39ebc7e161a002d17 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5407 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:49:14 +1000 Yes, I use metal teapot so horribly non-standard. Milk before though – definitely no sugar. And this is for Camellia Sinensis only, is there a standard for others e.g. green tea – Jasmine Rooibos etc?
Always wondered about elephants going “rogue” all explained here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70880911-animal-vegetable-criminal

]]> d318dea14d5eef9913a807cd08757e5b Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5406 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:40:11 +1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

Ah, tea.

]]> 7d70825e3e5d2ed30b9fc913dd6c03c9 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5405 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:45:27 +1000 Got to love nature. πŸ™‚

And, over in Romania, there’s a park built in a grotto.

Cool! No price listed at all so likely expensive πŸ˜›

Yanko posts some cool stuff. Their articles come up every now and then over here πŸ™‚

]]> c7be922f84435b05281f154284e56f6d DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5404 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:46:19 +1000 Late in the night in Bavaria, a nacktschnecke was found to be the cause of all the doorbells ringing and disturbing the occupants.
Wonders never cease, as with snails and the way these flatworms affect the poor sods is breathtaking. Such a parasite of relative size hosted by our species would be hardly conceivable.
Beginning to dry out here as…[Read more]

]]> 415d44436110a0a2b839069830bb8eeb Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5402 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:54:08 +1000 Adorable, aren’t they? Haven’t seen too many slugs around here in recent years. I suspect our increase use of pesticides are partly to blame. Used to be a lot more common before we upped the spraying around five years ago.

These days, more and more media is simply parroted and there’s much less original reporting than there used to be. Reporters…[Read more]

]]> e81f5e46eae8a8f4b21b3766ee0c02b6 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Films & TV Shows in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/films-tv-shows/page/17/#post-5401 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:35:35 +1000 Will need to check the shop for some compilations! We’re also getting alternate art cards for Magic based on FiM, too!

I realize Jodie Whittaker’s stent on Who was polarizing but I quite liked her version of the Doctor. Found it rather refreshing.

Decided to continue watching cartoons! Currently watching Courage the Cowardly Dog. Got plenty of…[Read more]

]]> 1ac9a9ad9e88c31283a73da0baa77a52 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Films & TV Shows in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/films-tv-shows/page/17/#post-5400 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:32:09 +1000 The comic book My Little Pony is available for loan at Wayback too, looks like a story in there for 99 pages.
Ther’s enough interest in Dog to keep you going until the end, no eye-popping antics from the dog to break any of the very few moments of monotony though. But then you know it’s all real despite an oft used tendency to employ CGI in such…[Read more]

]]> 6615436abd1509de128583c060fd71c9 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5398 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:05:01 +1000 All sub-records have their data blocks as global scope with the classes having to go back and forth. We may want to change that at some point to having class-based scope. Will need evaluation.

I don’t see a reason for them to be globals as the values will change for each sub-record in play but we’ll get there.

]]> a1cbca5de28cfc470085bd128873890b Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5394 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:55:22 +1000 Playing around with the cppcheck configuration some and this is what I’ve currently got for the settings:
cppcheck --enable=all -I . --inconclusive --language=c++ --library=mfc --library=microsoft_atl --output-file=cppcheck.log --platform=win64 --quiet .
I’m currently unsure about --cppcheck-build-dir but it may be useful as well with --cppcheck-bu…[Read more]

]]> 2796d10b62255123cecaff8f134ed817 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic MWEdit in the forum Projects https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/mwedit/page/17/#post-5390 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:17:52 +1000 I’ve add a note about examining the icons as there seems to be several duplicates.

Still fixing up the circular dependencies and boolean types.

]]> f9254b2685d101ce5a4b582a24de5e95 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Films & TV Shows in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/films-tv-shows/page/17/#post-5388 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:47:26 +1000 Just about finished with the main MLP series. May watch the spin-offs next or I may explore what else is available, will decide soon! The spin-offs, Equestria Girls, were based on fan art of the ponies as humans. The art was so popular that they decided to integrate the concept into a series of specials.

Been in the mood for old, old films…[Read more]

]]> 5e231eb7acea4dd46dd8687cf6efa519 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/random/page/22/#post-5387 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:03:57 +1000 Those silos are scary, even more so when the launchers become mobilised.
Wonderful, Banana slugs hail from Hoh, what graceful creatures!
The word “martyr” is being used out of context in the media it seems, so asked the question. These days many folks just ask AI without referring to a dictionary – or having any idea of its purpose. πŸ˜›

]]> 2792018a407f7842859b59edfbb40b7c Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/hardware_relics/page/5/#post-5384 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:15:22 +1000 I just re-sleeved some old cards the other day. The 30 year old sleeves were pretty rough. πŸ˜›

May be a good idea to run Memtestbefore sunsetting it. HDDs are harder to test but the SMART information may help some

For the CPU, you’ll want Prime95

Granted, Prime95 is mostly for stress testing but could let you know if something is going belly up.

]]> 681b579de0558ecd2a0242d53a689dd7 Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Software: On & Off the Web in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/software-on-off-the-web/page/10/#post-5381 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:22:41 +1000 Don’t use hibernation over here and I’ve never been able to get sleep mode working on Pop. After more experimenting, I’ve found that it’s the act of fully logging out and back in that fixes the flickering that is triggered by the screen locker as opposed to a reboot.

I’m definitely going to need to sit down at some point and do some…[Read more]

]]> 9fe81a45637b66c5f9eb6f13d0054625 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/hardware_relics/page/5/#post-5379 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:35:23 +1000 Good idea, always used to put the open sleeve in the cover first, might be ok for 50 years or so – before the plastic starts to degrade. πŸ˜›
Getting quite a few 1A bug checks with parameter 3f. Performed all the usual checks, memory looks fine. CRC problem likely points more to HW though – time for pasture? The guy in town might be interested in…[Read more]

]]> a12056a66897c41223a43a5f9e7493fe Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/hardware_relics/page/5/#post-5377 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:36:44 +1000 Time for a new keyboard or just going to stick with a red key? No reason to discard it if it still works! πŸ™‚

Yuck. Motherboard battery is easy to fix: just a coin cell battery. As for the rest, no idea. Data corruption, maybe?

I may start double-sleeving my records for extra protection. I already do that for my TCGs so why not records, too?

]]> 4fb360285fd0bd26cff82d8918b0880e DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Hardware Relics in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/hardware_relics/page/5/#post-5376 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:44:49 +1000 The little Redragon Kumara K552 has developed a red “F” key, backlighting on it works as with the others, but with a rouge intent. Stay tuned for other developments. πŸ™‚
So back with the old W10 clunker with a rather unpleasant shock of the date hard on 2055. Apart from the CMOS on the blink and the event logs all messed up, authentication out the…[Read more]

]]> 33699425fb5e7524231dddcb184d2695 DeVaultSetter replied to the topic Films & TV Shows in the forum Discussion https://stearnvault.com/forums/topic/films-tv-shows/page/16/#post-5374 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:43:22 +1000 Johnny Carson had a show in the fifties:

He comes across as rather engaging, which compensates somewhat for the low/med humour output.

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