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I tried a new biscuit recipe. It's better and simpler than my stock recipe.

Thanks for the Birthday wishes everyone. The day was taken up with moving and it's aftermath. Had to look away when the movers decided it was easier to heave various pieces up and over the deck than navigate up a flight of stairs, but they are the professionals 🤷‍♂️ Then out for a Birthday Meal at a highly rated local dining establishment https://maps.app.goo.gl/3axzZPydB9u67P9y5 While we waited for a commercial sized load of bedding to be washed. Tasty Large portions, enough for lunch the following day. Brent would have felt at home.

I tie cathode direct to -HV, -400 V in my case. Works with EL34, 300B, 2A3, EML 20B-V4 and EL156. The datasheet for my Electro-Harmonix 2A3EH Gold says 450 V maximum plate voltage.

I found a 2.3mm receptacle contact with a lantern-type spring insert, which should be able to tolerate some radial misalignment without too much change in the mating force. I've been toying with the idea of a multi-part jack. The pin center diameter was chosen to be 10.75mm in order to accommodate the Stax, the Hifiman and the less accurate Kaldas plug with the acrylic base. The contact retainer washer is made from Teflon which also gives a bit of flexibility. The connector and shell can be made from PEEK but I can't help trying the PEI (Ultem). Its translucent color matches with the gold plated contacts quite well. There are two variations of the design, with the retainer sandwiched between the shell and the cap, and with the retainer secured flush with the cap. The latter requires better precision from machining.

Went from Via To They say that moving is a major life stressor. I can believe it. It's almost like I feel a year older! Time for bed!

Peter Doig built a sound system using parts from old cinemas and then Brian Eno did a DJ set on it.

$6000? Please. All the cool kids are asking $8-9k for their new flagships. What, are they trying to tell us their headphones aren't as good as the new Hifimans or Raals? Also, they should make the cables a subscription-based service and sell the bass separately as pre-order DLC.

Raising awareness, do your own due dilligence (check your favourite feeds, Internet Storm Center, &c.): VoidLink was detected around 2026-01-13: Cloud-Native Malware Framework; Linux-based; extremely sophistocated; stealthy; modular, adaptive behavior based on detected environment; Go/Zig/C (dammit, now I have to learn Zig); highly in-depth knowledge of Linux internals... As I saw said about about it elsewhere, "targeting Windows, hackers were in the lobby; targeting Linux, hackers are now in the vault".