BackAgainLikeBadHair congratulations on the MS Paint courtroom drama, that must have taken you at least 15 minutes of precious firmware-avoiding time.

let me break this down for you since reading comprehension seems to be the firmware YOU haven't updated since 2002:
1. my sister sat in the room with the meter for 47 seconds because she was ORAL TESTING the thermocouple leads against known reference junctions - her MOUTH is a biological calibration medium, not a methodology error. I posted about this. CommitCipher referenced it. ListMasterPrime's List 3.2.5 literally says "the oral reference method is nonstandard but internally consistent". You quoted that post three times to argue with it and somehow missed the word "reference" every single time. learn2read.
2. she can identify the pre-2003 paint application date on the van because she wrote her THESIS on industrial paint degradation curves for her materials science program at OSU. she can read the oxidation patterns on a Chevy door the way you can read the back of a cereal box. the fact that this is the detail you're hung up on while ignoring that the van has been seen at mile marker 267 TWO DAYS RUNNING is genuinely impressive levels of missing the point.
3. what is her name? what is her firmware date? what does 0x47 say on the meter she -
you know what BackAgainLikeBadHair, my sister's name is [REDACTED BY SIS WHO IS NOW READING OVER MY SHOULDER AND SAYS I'M NOT ALLOWED TO POST HER FULL NAME BECAUSE "YOU DON'T PUT REAL NAMES ON FORUMS, J, THAT'S DAY ONE INTERNET SAFETY" - okay fine, valid actually, but also ((bro just use M like always))]
fine. her firmware date is the same as the commit she's been citing since page 3 - 2004 rev, offset 0x47, verified by CommitCipher's own dump in topic 288. and she didn't "have the meter in her hand for 47 seconds doing nothing" - she was holding the thermocouple bead between her molars to stabilize it while I tried to read the display, because the leads were TWISTED and she was the only person in the room with steady hands. she literally had a type-k thermocouple in her teeth, BackAgainLikeBadHair. that's not a blank stare. that's a scientific procedure.
[sis says: also I have my name in my profile bio from like April, if he'd clicked it before drawing his courtroom stick figures he'd know I'm not a ghost, I'm just not willing to dox myself to satisfy his demand for a witness statement he could get from actually reading the thread. but the 47 seconds was real and the firmware date is posted. anyway I'm going back to the archive, you can handle this one.]
but HERE'S the thing I actually logged on to say, and it's not to you BackAgainLikeBadHair, it's to FlameFury24 who is STILL in this thread posting

emoticons at people while his OWN hex dump from the April VU meter thread is MISSING IN ACTION
FlameFury24 you have quoted me four times. FOUR. and every single time you've answered a question I didn't ask and ignored the one I did. I asked you on page 6: post your firmware date or withdraw the demand for everyone else's. you posted a screenshot of a gravestone from MS Paint. I asked you on page 9: show us the photo of your calibrated meter with the calibration sticker visible. you posted a thermal kiosk gamma curve from topic 277 that YOU didn't even take, that was TruthSeeker_2020's image. I asked you on page 12: where is the hex dump from your own Fluke 87V. you posted a three-line reply about how I "dodged reference junction compensation" while my sister had a thermocouple in her teeth.
you keep saying "nobody has posted a firmware date except CommitCipher" but CommitCipher's dump IS the firmware date and it's the same one my sister has been running since the Euclid vigil. you keep saying "I already posted mine three times" but you haven't. you posted a gamma curve. you posted a quote from ListMasterPrime's list. you posted a crayon drawing. you have not posted a single photo of a multimeter with your username on a sticky note next to it showing the calibration date.
you know what CommitCipher, CharcoalSoul_88, even GuardiaoDaNoite with his broken walkie glow toy LED - at least they're posting SOMETHING physical. GuardiaoDaNoite posted a green glow photo even if it's a 99 cent store LED. CharcoalSoul_88 posted a handprint on plaster. CommitCipher posted a dead printer with a mustard stain. you have posted NOTHING but demands and

faces
and one more thing while I'm on a roll - AuroraQuill I see you in three threads now posting "author's notes" mid-reply like we're reading your diary installment #12. nobody asked for chapter metadata in the firmware date thread. nobody. if you want to write a novel about the charcoal smoke carrier wave, start a thread in the basement and link it, bu