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I think that's closer to clearing yer browser history 😉

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Basically: it's not fixing anything "broken" so much as clearing out accumulated cruft — stale connections, memory bloat, bad DHCP leases — the digital equivalent of clearing your desk when it gets too cluttered to work at.

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Forces renegotiation with your ISP's equipment — the connection between your router and your ISP's exchange/cabinet equipment (sync rate, line quality parameters) can degrade and a reboot often re-establishes a cleaner sync.

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Reconnects to the best channel/frequency — for Wi-Fi specifically, a reboot lets the router re-scan and pick a less congested channel if neighbors' networks have crowded the one it was using.

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Resolves firmware glitches — like any embedded computer, the router's firmware can hit an edge case (a bug, a stuck process) that only a full restart fixes

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Resets connection state — routers track thousands of active connections (NAT tables, session states). Over time these tables fill up with stale or orphaned entries that slow things down or block new connections. Rebooting clears them out.

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Refreshes your IP address / DHCP lease — your ISP hands out an IP address that can develop routing issues at their end. A reboot often forces a fresh lease and clears stale routing table entries.

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Claude says ... "Rebooting your router helps for a few practical reasons: Clears memory leaks — routers run software that can accumulate small memory errors over time (weeks/months of uptime). A reboot flushes RAM and resets processes to a clean state.

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Coz turning stuff off and back on again fixes everything 😉

Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Great pod, one minor complaint about the length ... 10 mins shorter and it would have been perfect to soundtrack the morning dog walk ... but it wisnae long enough to let me get the grass cut tae and I had to listen to a bit of Shug's nonsense at the start of the @clydessb.bsky.social pod 🤬 😂

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The production on the new Arab Strap album "Half-Told Tales" is seriously outstanding, Paul Savage has done them well proud on this one. Its sounding like the soundtrack to my current existence as a mid-50's bloke with a teenage son 😂 @arabstrap.scot arabstrapband.bandcamp.com/album/half-t...

arabstrapband.bandcamp.com

Half-Told Tales, by Arab Strap

14 track album

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Take 2 ... looks like they are going with Halcyon 😬 www.instagram.com/halcyon.band...

Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I took 3 of them to their first Mogwai gig earlier this year ... one of my proudest moments as a dad 😉

Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Serious potential though, they have been playing together over the last few years at school but have all recently left ... my son has started a sound production course at college so its his passion. And the wee sh*te is a 10x better guitar player than I'll ever be! 😂

Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Too early for that apparently ... there is a work in progress name but they're not going public with it yet 😂

Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My son & mates have started a band and have been given a rehearsal shed by Michael Forbes on the land he refused to sell Trump for the Aberdeen course ... its right in the middle of both courses! Any donations of really loud amps / pa equipment to facilitate noise genuinely welcomed 😉

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Westside Cowboy followed by Chelsea Wolfe for me ... Will then check out some others that have decent reviews / scores

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Here's me thinking this originated as a Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine lyric 😯 #yelearnsomethingneweveryday

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Totally agree ... TWFM is almost perfect and SWB is only slightly flawed ... Outstanding band all round!

Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My son is a bigger QotSA than me ... But we watched this on the 'big telly' together last night and it's pretty special! youtube.com/watch?v=GL-I...

youtube.com

Queens of the Stone Age - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A friend of mine and I regularly debate whether "Alligator" or "Boxer" is peak National ... I'm a "Boxer" man myself 😉

Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri - 'Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun"

Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

COVID didn't help to be fair but Brexit and the subsequent rise of the right has made the UK largely ungovernable as it stands

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Check you! Tour profits must be good 😂

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The best 34 minutes of new ambient | electronic sonics you will hear this week courtesy of SHHE (fae Dundee via Portugal nae less) and ably supported by the genius that is Ben Chatwin @benchatwin.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/5I4f9F...

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THALASSA

Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If I had to call a top 3 albums of 2026 so far, this would be in it, but as it's not on streaming services, most won't hear it unfortunately ... So get it bought! Other two albums would be The Twilight Sad and deathcrash for the record 😉 wulyf.bandcamp.com/album/a-wave...

wulyf.bandcamp.com

A Wave That Will Never Break, by WU LYF

7 track album

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

If it was one with a credible plan for serious wealth redistribution I'm with you ... they could be as incompetent on other stuff as they like!

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just had my first listen to the new Crippled Black Phoenix album and ... holy shit its good, seriously good! Recommend listening to the whole thing before judging and then suggest that the desire to hit 'repeat' will be strong 😉 @cbpofficial.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/0b3EGc...

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Spotify – Web Player

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Ach well, at least it prompted me to put 'Street Horrsing' on headphones while watching this dull (so far) Scotland game 😉 #everycloudandthat

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Did they not want to actually write "Fuck Buttons" which was actually Ben's criminally under-rated noise duo 🤔

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The new Twilight Sad album is pretty special ... They have always been good but this powerful stuff @rockactionrecords.scot

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Title for the next b-side 🤔

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

History will show that Trump is / was merely a puppet of multiple masters including the tech bros, Putin and Netanyahu ... The question will be if the various masters were connected 🤔

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I use the rich text editor exclusively and have never got this plugin to work in the way this post and the plugin page suggests ... am I missing something? I previously used Upnote and Notesnook and relied heavily on their respective collapsable section functionality ... really missing it in Joplin

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I was planning to drive down and back to Edinburgh from Aberdeen for the Usher Hall gig with my 17 year old for his first Bunnymen gig ... But recent reports are putting me off big time ... I did it for Shane and The Pogues too many times 😔

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Anything with Mark E. Smith qualifies as the best 😉

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

You missed deathcrash "Somersaults" that is shaping up to be one of the albums of the year 😉

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Mark Murphy @markm-scot.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Any excuse to share this from the most intimate gig I've ever had the pleasure to attend ... youtu.be/0SR07ubxjVc?...

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A Mote of Dust - "Black Path" : Aberdeen, January 2016

YouTube video by Mark Murphy