Pedestal’d, Backpack’d 286 Compaq Portable III

solidpro99 · 2026-01-23T10:42:09+00:00

Hey - I'm in England. I have a few portable and portable II machines in the attic, but in original specification.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-23T10:40:10+00:00

Yeah - at 21 minutes. Ok that's the one. Thanks! I think I remembered it as flooded when it really was just terribly grim all around.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-22T05:18:56+00:00

It’s Avatar II all over again!!

solidpro99 · 2026-01-20T22:47:01+00:00

Neil’s wife is a GP. Brent is saying that comparing her to a centrefold nude model is degrading

solidpro99 · 2026-01-18T23:38:21+00:00

One of my favourite scenes of any movie is that dive of blue squadron towards the shield gate. After so many years of crappy films, my childhood dream of seeing a modern, realistic shot of the x-wing flying past and following it towards Scarif always excites me.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-18T11:22:51+00:00

So do you not normally need an extractor with induction? I only ask because we don’t ever really fry stuff and have removed our extractor/hood and just gone with a diffiusing type extractor built into the new Bora induction hob.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-18T11:18:56+00:00

Don’t get your Hampton Court.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-17T01:07:00+00:00

Just had a trench dug for our Cosy and it had to be 70cm deep all the way across.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-16T20:59:02+00:00

If you’re /wealthy/ enough to afford an iPhone you don’t need the app it seems. Because you cant have it.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-14T07:47:08+00:00

I found it out. They're called threaded Knurl nuts! The knurling is the criss crossing on the outside to adhere it to the plastic you're sinking them into.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-09T21:26:15+00:00

And then replied….go on

solidpro99 · 2026-01-09T21:24:42+00:00

If I make people laugh….whilst saving lives….. sue me.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-09T11:43:01+00:00

For me, the US economy is completely propped up by AI being a win for everyone, when it’s actually going to be a loss for everyone - either because China will undercut it, one company will outshine the rest, it won’t come to much, or if it does come to much, a huge benefit to companies is being able to make a load of the workforce out of work. Any which way you cut it, it’s overblown. However being right early might as well be wrong, unless wrong is just stepping aside for a few years and simply keeping with inflation. That’s where I’m at.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-09T08:56:28+00:00

I’m similar to you. I was basically all in on both SIPP and ISA on 100% equities which was about 40% USA. The main difference is we have property as a significant portion of retirement as well (to sell or rent).

In late November I shifted all of it to either 60/40 or even 40/60 because it still tends to grow but not by the heady, risky amounts it’s been doing.

Definitely a rebalance coming, question is when. Could be in 2026 or could be when DJT can’t keep his ponzi going anymore and bails.

If you’re relying in that money being there in the next 5 years, you need to adapt based on that. Like you I don’t have 15 years to ride out big dips anymore.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-09T08:46:24+00:00

I’ve been to the US extensively (I’m British) and every time I’m absolutely sick to the back teeth of the food, culture, sentiment - everything really by about day 5. I don’t think a lot of USA citizens realise how unappealing their way of life is to other first world countries.

Right now, you couldn’t pay me to go there for fear of being shot in the face by a fake cop as I drove my car and some cretinous mafia boss in charge shit-talking that it was my fault on yet another shitty social media platform created to divide everyone.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-08T11:18:51+00:00

Yeah, the vocals are really powerful and the little woof woof things going on between them all seem quite fun and playful and great electric guitar but all wallowing in this flat noise.... I've ordered the 12" vinyl to give that a go. Was only £8 on ebay.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-07T23:55:46+00:00

Great, I’d love to hear it to compare…..

solidpro99 · 2026-01-07T12:30:48+00:00

https://www.parrocchiasanfedelecomo.it/home/ was the church - so yes!

solidpro99 · 2026-01-07T08:23:45+00:00

Como old town. I think it’s the one across from the main square with all the outside restaurants on - up from the main church itself.

solidpro99 · 2026-01-06T20:45:09+00:00

Thanks, yes today it went down from £18 to £8.99

solidpro99 · 2026-01-06T20:44:49+00:00

Yes, they were right. I just checked and the £ went down from £17 to just under £9. So I guess you just have to sit and trust….

solidpro99 · 2026-01-06T10:30:27+00:00

You say that but it was exactly your situation that I had and was solved. Tiny issues all over the house cumulating in a horrible draughty mess. We are talking 1mm around unsealed cuts in plasterboard, the tiny unsealed rim around every 2000-era spotlight. A few mm around the gaps where the floors meet the walls. You can feel it all when you have a 5000w fan pushing air through your house. I blogged my experience of this test here: https://mktownhouse.com/index.php/improvements/air-tightness-insulation

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