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LG TV AirPlay troubleshooting guide

I have an LG C5 TV. Great display, dogshit software. AirPlay often stops working mid-stream or won’t connect at all. Both my iPhone and my Macbook try to connect for about 30 seconds, then fail. It...

Can Trump v. Slaughter be Used to Challenge the Continued Legality of Executive Agencies Congress Intended to be Independent?

If the laws requiring such agencies to be independent are unconstitutional, it may be that very existence of those agencies is also now illegal.

Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War (Review)

Within the history of cryptography, the tale of how Bletchley Park broke Germany’s Enigma cipher has been told many times, in both print and on screen. With so much emphasis on the “plucky Brits ov...

After a week with my new Pebble Time 2 watch I’m really happy with it

I see it arrived just on a week ago now, and although I’ve been using it a lot with testing apps, exercising, monitoring sleep, etc the battery is only now dipping below 50%. It is supposed to be g...

How to Keep Metal Roofs Cool During High Temperatures

Metal roofs can be durable and affordable, but they can also make homes unbearably hot in the summer. Fortunately, there are several ways to protect your roof from extreme heat. Here are some energ...

Summer Season 2026 at the NLJ: America at 250

The summer 2026 theme for The New Leaf Journal: America at 250.

Daily News Stuff 29 June 2026

Suffering Sassafras Edition Top Story Tokenmaxxing is dead. Long live tokenmaxxing. (12 Grams of Carbon) We have reached a tipping point where spending infinite amounts of money can sometimes make ...

Studio Ghibli combines anime and craftsmanship in new Totoro and Jiji Gobelin tapestry bags

Traditional craft brings hand-drawn anime characters to life with unique warmth. Studio Ghibli is known for championing old-school traditions through its animated storylines and love of hand-drawn ...

CachyOS adds Hyprland Noctalia, DNS-over-QUIC support, and Python & GCC performance boosts

CachyOS has released its June update, marking the fourth distribution release of 2024 and enhancing its focus on CPU-specific package builds and advanced kernel scheduling. The installer now includ...

SPI Joins Apple, and Swift Moves Toward Self-Hosting - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #142

A few days ago, Swift Package Index (SPI) announced that it had joined Apple. The two sides will work together to build a comprehensive package registry for Swift developers. At the same time, SPI’...

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 69

The attempt to limit contact with Jews in public and keep their public authority diminished forced them to wind up being more crucial than ever to society.Canon 69 of the Fourth Lateran Council dec...

A Complete Self-Sufficient Settlement from the Second Intermediate Period Discovered in the Eastern Nile Delta

The discovery, the result of excavation work carried out by the Egyptian archaeological team in this eastern delta site, offers an unprecedented overview of the social and economic organization of ...

[dVerse] June 25th — Ars Poetica with a Faulty Exit Door

A poem seldom arrive clean.It comes in through the windowwith dust on its knees,carrying one cracked cup,one unpaid bill,one mother’s voice pressedagainst the wrong side of a door.It rarely ask for...

You Can Spend Up to $11,944 on Purism's Librem 16 Linux Laptop

The laptop starts at $2,899 and scales up to an eye-watering $11,944 for a custom config.

2026W26

Building race telemetry for a ’92 Honda Accord — The RPM measurement bug is the part I keep thinking about. Reading frequency from square wave pulses sounds trivial until you realize that during en...

Autodidacts Newsletter #26

Twenty-four new posts to hitch your mind to

OPNsense on a Palo Alto Firewall Appliance

I picked up a Palo Alto Cloudgenix ION 2000 off of eBay and decided to try and stick OPNsense on it. It has a ethernet ports, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, and an Intel Atom CPU. What I hadn't considered ...

Turley on “White Time” “Scholarship”

Jonathan Turley, a notable constitutional scholar and law professor, runs a popular law blog where he covers legal matters and other topics. On the matter of other topics, we have “White Time”: Dut...

Asteroid Threat

Yet Another Pursuit

Since I started my job search, the leads I've been using have gone cold. I know I have to send out another wave of applications and make more phone calls, but I've been reconsidering whether I even...