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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
A diode in series is definitely the way to go IMHO
Quite a lot of commercial PSUs give 9.7v anyway and the 0.6V drop just gets us back to the nominal supply. Those that don't are easy enough to lift by adding a diode to the regulator.