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The Bleak Shop of Old Stuff (2011): Featuring some strangely familiar old faces...

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I used a Printronic cartridge from OCProducts - I might try the cartridges at 123ink.ca, Moustache brand next.

I started using 3rd-party ink for my HP DeskJet - it's been working out fine for the last year or so (HP discontinued the cartridges).

Chris Rea - Dancing with Strangers

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Not to be confused with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus or

Once We Were Spacemen - Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk

It looks like Western Digital is having serious problems with its older SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) hard drives. High failure rates of Western Digital Blue and Red drives of 2-6TB have been reported: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/wd-launches-investigation-into-problems-with-its-smr-hard-drives-the-same-drives-that-got-wd-sued-in-2021-now-reporting-failure-rates-due-to-fundamental-flaws

Would swapping out the rolling casters with footers improve the sound too?

David Lynch and video games:

Disney's lost special effect process:

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"Hello... is it me you're looking for?" https://tinypineapple.com/music/hot-shot-city-is-particularly-good

Nick Knight (1989) The unaired CBS pilot for the subsequent series Forever Knight (1992)

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Wild Palms (1993)

Bach Fugue in F minor, BWV 881

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Albinoni & Corelli (Adagios & Concerti) Musica Amphion & Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor

Patrick Leonard - It All Comes Down to Mood

Abandoned Japanese island:

Ubuntu 25.10 was just released (October 9), too - probably worth upgrading the test system eventually (in my experience, new releases are very buggy for the first 4-6 months) - alternatively, Ubuntu 25.04 or the older 24.04 LTS will be more stable: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ubuntu-25-10-new-features And of course, Flatpak doesn't work out of the gate: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/flatpak-broken-ubuntu-25-10-apparmor-bug For what it's worth, I am tech-scared too.

Installing Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account - they make it annoying as usual (Windows 11 Pro only):

Old DOS games on PC speaker, Ad Lib, and Roland MT-32 part 2 (skip the long preambles if you lived through the era - yes, we know Macs and Amigas had better sound):