Dominion may be the pioneer of this? Bgg classify it as variable setup and deck, bag and pool building. Dominion is not a small box but it is just cards really and plays well at 2.

Ostrikov said US financiers expressed interest in backing the film on the condition that the main character be changed from a man from Khmelnytskyi to an American, he declined.

Good to know, a pity about the ISP

How was your experience with it?

It would be good to know how these figures compare to e.g. pypi, npm.

I like the pomodoro technique. Breaks your time up into focussed chunks so you guarantee to make some progress on one thing within a chunk and helps build momentum.

If you get into routine you may even be able to plan whole days e.g. spend 8 pomodoros on your essay and the remaining pomodoros can be distributed across chores, other small admin.

The focus helps avoid overwhelm. You can put other concerns out of your mind whilst in a pomodoro as you know they will get their own pomodoro later.

Can also be adjusted for your energy levels, maybe some days you’re only going to get a few pomodoros done but that’s ok, you’re still moving forward.

The regular enforced breaks are also helpful to avoid sitting still for too long and paying attention to bodily needs.

Doesn’t help with prioritisation directly but knowing you’ve got a fixed number of daily pomodoros to ‘spend’ may help you think about where your time goes in a systematic manner.

https://github.com/bonukai/MediaTracker

Self hosted media tracker for movies, tv shows, video games, books and audiobooks

There’s an unofficial desktop version of Newpipe now it seems:

https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe

I’ve not tried desktop but I do use it on Android. Taps to the left\right advance video in multiples of 10s. Dragging vertically on left/right adjusts volume and brightness. It’s a pretty decent touch interface I’d say.

Stow cannot do this as far as I know. Chezmoi can though you’ll need to fiddle with templates and ignores to achieve it:

https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/manage-machine-to-machine-differences/#handle-different-file-locations-on-different-systems-with-the-same-contents

However as others have said a dotfile manager may not be appropriate for all apps. It assumes a certain kind of behaviour of the app - known config locations, text files etc.

I think your suggestion to backup/clone/restore your ideal Firefox config onto new machines is probably most practical if you do want to use a dotfile manager with it. That way you ensure the dir name is the same across all machines. Then you can use stow to manage parts of the profile going forward.

I would consider FF’s own sync solution also though - I believe you can self-host it too.

One example the ORG used

After former US president Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the court over its arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports emerged that the email account of chief prosecutor Karim Khan was blocked. Microsoft denied cutting off access, but the ICC later confirmed that in October 2025 it had stopped using Microsoft services altogether, switching instead to openDesk, an open source European platform.

Looks like this long-standing issue affecting all flatpaks run under MATE/marco:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/301

Applications launched under Firejail and Flatpak include “(as superuser)” in their window’s title even though they’re not actually being ran as root.

North by Northwest 1959. Feels like the forerunner of Mission Impossible and James Bond. Though it’s superior to both in my opinion for the fact it avoids excessive plot and technology instead favouring situation, circumstance and suspense.

Fedi directory has some entries under culture:

https://fedi.directory/culture-entertainment/

See also

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

…and look at curators and culture there too.

It turns out however that the developers of virglrenderer also don’t want to have to run a VM to run and test their project and thus added vtest, which uses a unix socket to transport the commands from the mesa Venus driver to virglrenderer.

It also turns out that I’m not the first one who noticed this, and there is some glue code which allows Podman to make use of virgl.

Nice if podman and flatpak both gain from this work in future.

If you have one of these phones be great to hear some personal experiences.

IIRC in Die Hard whilst guarding the lobby he reaches under a shop counter to grab a snack which makes me like him immediately. Apparently it was an improv!

In the UK The Great Escape (1963) has become synonymous with Christmas through a mixture of nostalgia, seasonal hope and just plain repetition in the broadcast schedules:

https://www.eckleburg.org/the-big-x-why-the-great-escape-still-captures-a-particularly-british-christmas/

Newpipe {mob) or Freetube let you watch without sign in?

Why different DEs for laptop/desktop may I ask?

I did 4dx for Paddington 3, it was a hit with kids, less so with the adults. There is a river scene and the water effect was used to great surprise. You could turn individual effects off.

As an adult I would not want these effects during a ‘proper’ film, they are a novelty only I’d say.