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Plex Lifetime Pass price is now $750 as Plex adds a new 5-year recurring pass at $250

Plex’s new Lifetime Plex Pass price has been in effect since July 1, raising the cost for new customers from $249.99 to $749.99 (three times the original). The increase was first announced in May, ...

Ashkenazi and Sephardic and Mizrahi

The difference between different groups of Jews arts with the Jewish Diaspora, the displacement of Israelites outside of the Southern Levant. Because Jews traveled to various parts of the known wor...

Brave Says This is Not a Privacy Feature, But Using Containers Has Its Perks

Brave Browser 1.92 introduces support for Containers that isolate cookies and site data per tab.

Collections: On the Declaration of Independence

Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open mu...

Proof of Something

You get to fuck off; I have to fuck off. That was a negative piece of self-talk I had in an internal monologue against the haters who probably don't even exist. What, you don't internally monologue...

The End is Nigh for Physical Gaming

Physical gaming collectors, enthusiasts, and preservationists got a lot of bad news over the last week or so. First, it was announced that the much anticipated GTA6, probably the biggest most antic...

The Star-Spangled Rebanner

Read The Star-Spangled Rebanner It’s a week before July 4th, and we’re selling holiday supplies. Customer: “Do you have any American flags in different colors?” Me: “Different colors?” Customer: “Y...

A New Twist on the To Do List

Humans are odd creatures, and no two are exactly alike, which is likely why so many different methods exist for tracking the progress of tasks that must be accomplished. [Simone …read more

Das Dr. Oetker Schulkochbuch

Über ein Kochbuch meiner Mutter, dass sie von meiner Oma geerbt hat.

I ran the same SSD health check on Linux and Windows—only Linux gave me the full picture

OK this was not “me” obviously, as I run Linux as my main OS. But interesting as I always thought CrystalDiskInfo was the best tool out there for SSD checking (or maybe that was the marketing PR th...

Elfquest Revisited

Following in the wake of their Kickstarters to put out special archival rereleases of old RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu material, Chaosium have done the same for Elfquest. In some respects this is ...

Daily News Stuff 3 July 2026

One... Dace Edition Top Story SK Hynix - the third of the Big Three memory manufacturers after Micron and Samsung - is planning to invest $712.5 billion to expand production. (Tom's Hardware) Which...

Immich 3.0 adds non-destructive editing & OCR on mobile, workflows, and improved backups

Immich 3.0 marks a major release for this open source, self-hosted solution for high-performance photo and video management. The update brings non-destructive photo editing to mobile devices, deliv...

Studio Ghibli releases a musical diorama based on a touching anime scene from My Neighbour Totoro

Beloved movie moment, brought to life in a beautifully crafted musical diorama. Throughout its four-decades-long history of making animated movies, Studio Ghibli has created some incredibly magical...

Weekly Notes 27/2026

It’s been a hectic week. Lots of work, meetings, and things to get done. I still have things on my list. I might have to work a bit tomorrow. I continued with my regular P.T sessions. I could also ...

Mike Huckabee's False-Advertising-Related Case Against Meta Can Go Forward

From the June 23 decision in Huckabee v. Meta Platforms, Inc., by Third Circuit Judge Peter Phipps, joined by Judges… The post Mike Huckabee's False-Advertising-Related Case Against Meta Can Go For...

A Complete Byzantine City Discovered in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities operating at the Ain el-Sabil site, located in the Dakhla Oasis, has succeeded in uncovering a fully articulated residen...

Rashi's Writings

The first book printed in Hebrew with a date on it was printed in Italy and dated 18 February 1475. It was a commentary by Rashi on the Chumash (the first five books of the Bible, the Torah, as dis...

Google Hardware Complaints Remind Me of BlackBerry Classic

I read an article on マリウス.com titled I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware. The author, Marius, goes through the issues he has had with various Google phones and tablets over the years. One of the iss...

Types of Tornado Alert