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Cake day: October 28th, 2025

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  • I’m not gonna dig for it, but I once hardware overvolted a Pentium M laptop CPU by getting the pinout of the socket. I found pins that handled voltage and shunted them with a single thin strand of speaker wire. Bet you could do the inverse to get a hardware undervolt. It was fun, and I got an extra 500Mhz out of that Celeron. My age is showing









  • Had a Merkur 34C as my first closed comb DE razor. I hated it. Tried various blades (Persona blue/red, Feather, Shark, generics from the NEX or Navy EXchange store on base, Gillette Silver Blue) and I could never get a BBS from it. I hated that closed comb razor.

    Still, after 20+ years in DE wetshaving, I didn’t learn my lesson and decided to shell out +/- €100 for a Pearl Flexi (Indian company) closed comb DE razor. I hate it, too, for the same reasons.

    Can you see I’m steering you away from closed combs? There was one exception over my 20+ years: my 1955-1960 Gillette Red Tip Super Speed. I loved it so much, I paid a company (Back Roads Gold in the US) to clean, repair, and replate it. Lost it moving overseas. I loved her so.