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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/09/2026

Those old enough will remember when Windows first gained traction and every bloody app was "Win" something-or-other. Now Omarchy has taken off and every app and plug-in is "Oma" something-or-other.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/09/2026

How about instead of subsidising batteries and putting the onus of storage on the customer, we force electricity companies to pay us for electricity at a rate closer to what we pay them? I pay them 50c per kWh, but they pay me on average around 5c. It's crazy. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 16/09/2026

I can't even play an instrument, Ed. But regardless, the answer is no.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 16/09/2026

The noun should be spelled "promice". Don't at me.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 16/09/2026

If you run a YouTube channel, there's still time to rethink that AI-generated thumbnail before I click "don't recommend channel" on your video and never see you again.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 11/09/2026

You can stop now. The cows have come home.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 11/09/2026

The complete (for now) set of Dan Da Dan Funko Pops!

Photo of the full set of Dan Da Dan Funko Pops in my display cabinet.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 10/09/2026

There's a human designer somewhere who historically has made flyers with a yellow/red/brown pallet, paint brush strokes to highlight text, and bold fonts, and Chat GPT has completely ruined their life.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 09/09/2026

Back in Windows on my home PC for the first time in two months. Mostly just to make sure updates are applied, but I could do with some grown-up power management from an OS for a change. 😅

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 02/09/2026

Coming up on two months using Omarchy now. Haven't booted into Windows since installing. DHH is inspirational when talking about computers, but abhorrent when talking about politics. I'm taking solace in the fact that Omarchy is not a commercial venture so I'm not funnelling money to fascists.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 28/08/2026

Getting lots of micro NBN dropouts this morning in North Albury. Internet connection drops for 5-10 seconds and comes back. No reported outage ... frustrating.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 21/08/2026

Oh look it's another AI-generated YouTube thumbnail! *plonk*

Me clicking "don't recommend channel" on an AI-generated YouTube thumbnail.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 15/08/2026

Hello from Omarchy Quattro! 😀

Screenshot of system info and about screens on Omarchy Quattro.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 07/08/2026

Managed to kill my Omarchy session tonight with an OpenCode-generated script so thoroughly that the PC wouldn't even boot. I had to unplug the mains power and hold the power button in for 15 seconds to drain the motherboard. Never seen anything like it before.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 02/08/2026

Met a neighbour on our walk.

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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If the Australian Labor Party just did what was good for the majority of the Australian population and ignored how absolutely shit the opposition and ON were, they’d be even further ahead in the polls with less to worry about. #Auspol.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 16/07/2026

LLMs ("AI") tend towards the global average of everything, so they're horrible for creative tasks and produce slop. However, I'm coming around when it comes to things that you *want* to be average. I've been using OpenCode to help me configure/diagnose Linux. I don't want creativity for that.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 15/07/2026

More and more of my work day is being spent marking Teams chats as read because bloody Facilitator has posted junk into them.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 14/07/2026

Hot take: Magneto being a holocaust survivor didn't even make sense back when the original X-Men movie (set in the "not-too-distant future") came out in 2000. It'd be dumb to do it again now and hand wave it away with some stupid "he's a mutant so he's long-lived" excuse.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 12/07/2026

The only way this Lindsay Graham thing could be more suss is if he fell out a window.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 11/07/2026

I think I might be an #Omarchy boy now. ❤️

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 05/07/2026

Hello from Omarchy! Finally got it installed on my new PC. Early days but it seems to be running pretty well!

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 21/06/2026

It's weird, the pride you feel for doing things many people would consider mundane. I haven't opened a desktop PC in decades so that was scary for me.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 21/06/2026

As much as I hate generative AI, I am finding the built-in Copilot app quite handy for answering questions like "what the hell does this mean?"

A prompt asking me to choose between GPT and MBR to initialise a newly installed SSD.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/06/2026

Something I've plugged into my Dell ultrawide (which is also a USB dock) is preventing Windows from turning off the screen. The screen turns off after three minutes, but immediately turns back on. I have some sleuthing to do on the weekend. I suspect it's the mouse dongle.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/06/2026

I got a new keyboard - the Nuphy Air75 v3. One tiny thing I didn't realise would take time to get used to is that the F keys aren't grouped together in sets of four with gaps between them, so my muscle memory of finding F5 has been disrupted.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/06/2026

Scorptec's "ready to run" PC was shipped to me chock full of packing foam inside the case. I had to unscrew the case to remove it. Makes sense for shipping, but I wouldn't call it "ready to run"! /r/mildlyinfuriating

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 12/06/2026

Holy shit Disclosure Day was fantastic

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 12/06/2026

Going to have to manually install the second M.2 SSD into my new computer when it arrives, as the shop wanted $ and extra time to do it for me. It looks *reasonably* simple from a quick YouTube search but it has been many years since I've installed my own hardware components!

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 10/06/2026

The sprinkler system guys just pulled the "parts - $8.18, knowing where to put them - $500" trick on me.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 10/06/2026

Does anyone bother naming their #PowerShell module functions generically and using the DefaultCommandPrefix setting to apply a noun prefix anymore? I've never done it with my modules and I'm wondering whether I should.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 09/06/2026

The problem isn't that Trump keeps failing asleep; the problem is that he keeps waking up.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 05/06/2026

People who say "without further adieu".

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 04/06/2026

So ... did everyone else know that USB 3 ports emit a bit of radio noise and can make your 2.4 GHz dongle mouse feel really janky? I plugged the dongle into an extension cable so it wasn't near a cluster of ports anymore and now the mouse pointer is buttery smooth.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 30/05/2026

Damn it, I was very excited that I'd found an old Surface Pro 4 lying around and was gonna put Omarchy on it, but then I realised I'd have to go back to the Surface Dock and dismantle my USB-C infrastructure. Don't want to go backwards, so shelving that idea for now.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 30/05/2026

Man, I just bought a new USB stick, and the smallest they had was 32GB. The first one I ever bought was 4MB.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 28/05/2026

Things that I am obsessed with right now: * Dan Da Dan (the anime and associated collectables) * Azure Automation (this is the shiznit and I want to move all our PowerShell scripts to it) * Omarchy (desperately want a new PC so I can dual boot with this and try it out)

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 26/05/2026

@tolin.ski Curious if you're still using Omarchy. Just watched your video about it from a few months back, as I'm considering it for a new PC later this year.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 21/05/2026

Is David Farley an independent yet dot com

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 19/05/2026

Whelp, Qantas just let me book a flight using an email address with a + sign in it, and now won't let me manage that booking because the email address is "invalid". Bravo.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 15/05/2026

It's 2026, and two people can be co-authoring a SharePoint-hosted Word document simultaneously, but SharePoint will still say it's "locked for editing" if you try to edit its metadata in the document library.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Worth remembering Australians pay a low rate of income tax compared to other advance economies. You would have to earn more than $200,000 before you start paying more tax in Australia than in the USA We are a low taxing nation. Automatic tax cuts each year will only reduce govt services.

Chart showing the average income tax rate of Australia and USA by percent of average full-time earnings.

Australians pay a lower level of tax until you get to 185% of FT earnings - or about $199,960

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 13/05/2026

I really hope the Greens don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good when it comes to Labor passing the budget. The negative gearing/CGT changes might not go far enough, but they're a good start. @larissawaters.bsky.social

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 11/05/2026

Tired of the narrative that the people of Farrer voted for One Nation because they were tired of being neglected by the major parties. Regional areas have been neglected, but there was a fantastic independent candidate that they could've voted for. Farrer elected One Nation purely out of racism.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 09/05/2026

A meme depicting someone who, dissatisfied with their right wing party, votes for a different right wing party. When nothing changes, he declares that all politicians are the same.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 09/05/2026

Ok, vote cast for @michellemilthorpe.bsky.social in Farrer. I think there are enough nasty people in this electorate to push One Nation over the line, but I'm holding out some hope for Michelle.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 03/05/2026

I always cringed when someone accused progressive protesters of being paid to be there, but damn if I'm not starting to think that Gina's bankrolling the One Nation trolls in Facebook comments. They're just relentless (and needlessly nasty).

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