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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/switch… I ran a full upgrade on my desktop workstation (EndeavourOS, which is based on Arch). One of the upgraded packages was nvidia-open-dkms. After the upgrade was complete […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

Modified photo of flowers on a coffee plant.

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/christ… Today is Christmas Eve. This brings back a special memory for me. Seven years to the day, I had surgery to remove 8 inches of my colon on this festive day (I was discharged on the […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/things… I knew that we had three consecutive Supermoons from October-December (_see_Newsletter Leaf Journal 253). I did not however remember the date of the recent December […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/apples… While reading about iFIXIT’s new FixBot, I learned that IFIXIT has had app difficulties with Apple’s App Store in the past. Back in 2015, IFIXIT “tore down the Apple TV and Siri […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/ifixit… I am a fan of IFIXIT and I have used its guides to make repairs/upgrades to computers and other electronics (still on my to-do list is following its guide to replace the […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/bpl-re… I read an article about the completion of the renovation of the Brooklyn Public Library in Gerritsen Beach. Although I am a life-long resident of […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/unsoli… Ryushiki07’s _Higurashi: When They Cry_ is one of the better-known Japanese doujin visual novel (or “sound novel”) series, with the original eight main entries […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/uzbeki… The Republic of Uzbekistan gained independence from the former Soviet Union on September 1, 1991. But according to Eurasianet, the most recent census in Uzbekistan was […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/things… I had never heard of “Mixue” before reading Tom Whitwell’s 52 things I learned in 2025. To learn about Mixue, I turn to the post cited to by Mr. Whitwell, The story of […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/blind-… My good friend and _New Leaf Journal_ colleague Victor V. Gurbo once published an article on trying to ascertain whether his cat was deaf. There was no doubt however that his cat cold […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/things… I read a Basketball Network report in Arkansas college basketball coach John Calipari complaining about the new Name, Image, and Likenesses (“NIL”) rules in college […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/presid… Courtesy of Daily Mail, President Donald Trump on “tiny cars”: > They’re very small, they’re really cute, and I said, ‘How would that do in this country?'” > > President Donald […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/like-l… I used Marginalia Search’s feature to look for links to _The New Leaf Journal_ in its index (see search page). I was aware of most of the backlinks, but I found a new […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/bloggi… In making the case for taking blogging seriously, Tom Critchlow described blogging as a “a way of seeing the world with fresh eyes…” This is a sttrong take. Speaking for myself as […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/blog-d… I read a November 7, 2025 post by James Zhan about his blog (hosted on Bear Blog) being de-indexed by Google. As a threshold matter, I note that Mr. Zhan has a nice-looking and […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/brave-… From a December 11, 2025 report by Paul for AlternativeTo: > Brave has launched its experimental AI browsing feature in the Brave Nightly development channel. This […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/ai-fea… I recently wrote about installing Calibre on Linux the _official_ way. Calibre made news recently for rolling out new AI “features” in the comprehensive open source ebook management […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

Calibre menu plugins listing default AI providers (GitHubAI, GoogleAI, LMStudio, OllamaAI, OpenRouter).

Calibre menu plugins listing default AI providers (GitHubAI, GoogleAI, LMStudio, OllamaAI, OpenRouter). They have been disabled.

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/using-… I keep my ARRIS SURFboard SB8200 modem in my TV cabinet next to my MikroTik hAP ac3 router, which sits between my work desk (two monitors, speakers, mouse […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/offica… I have been running the Arch Linux-based EndeavourOS on my desktop workstation since the summer of 2022. I use Calibre to manage my ebook library. I had previously […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/what-h… How can a talented NBA player have “negative” trade value? Because the NBA has a salary cap and various rules making it impossible or financially punishing to add players beyond a […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/accoun… From Reuters on Pope Leo XIV’s recent trip to Beirut: > Five years after losing her daughter in a devastating chemical explosion at Beirut’s port, Nelly El Helou […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/our-ad… I added an Ads.txt file to this site (see our Ads.txt file). That may sound odd. This site doesn’t have ads! That is true. But I like collecting text files and I learned how to create a […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/on-the… I learned about an upcoming smartphone called the Lotus Diplomat from an article on NotebookCheck (HT to Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony).The Lotus Diplomat looks much like my […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/origin… I have seen the famous 1939 _The Wizard of Oz_ movie. But was that the first theatrical adaptation of L. Frank Braum’s _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_? Had you asked me before […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/lacros… I recently read a November 23, 2025 Morning Brew report by Adam Epsttein titled _America’s oldest sport is drawing up new plays. _The artticle is about a new professional lacrosse […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/vendin… I just published a short post on The Vending Company’s 2025 snacks and drinks survey focusing on my surprise that Pepsi took the first place ranking over Coca […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pepsi-… The Vending Company surveyed 1736 respondents about their favorite snacks and sodas (see survey summary and article about the survey). Pepsi narrowly won the soda […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/button… I mentioned in my previous post that I could not send our regular weekly newsletter due to a formatting issue in Buttondown. Fortunately, my support request was answered quickly. It […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/what-d… I use Buttondown to host my weekly newsletter, wherein I share links from this site and _The New Leaf Journal_ as well as 21 links from around the web and […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/2025-t… On November 25, 2025, President Donald Trump proclaimed that November 27, 2025, would be a National Day of Thanksgiving. From the start of the Proclamation: > In 1789, just […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/the-so… I subscribe to a couple of RSS feeds from _The Washington Times._ On November 25, 2025, I opened an article from one of those feeds titled _‘AI elves’ dominating holiday shopping […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/nfl-gr… From _What are we gonna do about turf fields? _by Molly Liebergall in Morning Brew (November 23, 2025): > Rip ’em all up, if it were up to NFL players. It seems nothing has been able to […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/happy-… November 25 marks New York’s Evacuation Day. What is Evacuation Day? I humbly cite to me: > New York’s Evacuation Day, not to be confused with Massachusetts’ Evacuation Day, is a […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/tokyo-… I just published my thoughts on chapter 2 of _Tokyo Mirage Sessions._ I also played through the intermission between chapters 2 and 3, so I will offer […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/tokyo-… I recently finished chapter 2 of _Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Encore_ for the Nintendo Switch. I previously published my thoughts on the prologue, chapter 1 […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/helpin… “They” say that my main internet writing project, _The New Leaf Journal, _is one of the “most popular” websites on the world wide web. Many fledgling websites link to my writing […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/white-… I have been writing about my play-through of _Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Encore_(see prologue, chapter 1, and first intermisson takes). I am in the middle of chapter two […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/anothe… I suspect that most people who follow this site know that my main project is _The New Leaf Journal. _We control two domains for NLJ: thenewleafjournal and newleafjournal dot com. But there are […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/unaffe… From Macy McCue Bell in _The Washington Times_ this morning (link): > Many internet users woke up Tuesday morning and logged onto social media, video games or news sites […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/bike-l… I recently wrote about ordering Copper Moon’s “White Christmas Blend” coffee beans. In my first article (I noted the arrival of the beans in a second article and can now confirm it is […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/re-why… I read a fun post by Wouter Groeneveld at Brain Baking titled _Why I Don’t Need a Steam Machine. _The post ends with a humorous twist that I will refrain from spoiling […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/my-gif… I subscribe to Anime News Network’s feed. I saw the following headline: _My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha TV Anime Reveals 5 More Cast Members, 2nd Promo Video_ […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/re-fir… I use Firefox. I have mostly missed its new “AI features,” but a good post by Cybrkid alerted me to Firefox’s newest in-development AI “feature”: AI Window. Cybrkid is (correctly) nonplussed […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/copper… Five days ago, I wrote about ordering Copper Moon White Christmas coffee after an entry in my feed reader caught my attention. The coffee has arrived. It arrived as […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

A large black two pound bag of Copper Moon Coffee, White Christmas flavor, with a small Copper Moon postcard.

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/tokyo-… After finishing chapter 1 of Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Encore, I learned that there are between-chapter intermissions. The intermission allows you […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/cade-c… I read that Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham scored 46 points on 45 field goal attempts in a 137-135 ovetime win over the Washington Wizards on November 10, 2025. This […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/2025-v… Three years to the day, I covered the first Veterans Day Proclamation, issued by then-President Dwight Eisenhower 51 years to the day. The proclamations continue. On November 10, 2025 […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/tokyo-… I finished chapter one of Tokyo Mirage Sessions: FE just over three weeks after completing the prologue. I published a short “impressions” post after finishing the […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/the-da… Anime News Network reports that “ _The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie,_ the compilation film of the television anime … will get a theatrical elease in the United States […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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Nicholas A. Ferrell @naferrell.social.emucafe.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

social.emucafe.org/naferrell/re-the… Over on Brain Baking, Wouter Groeneveld offered a critique of the thumbs up reaction emoji, noting correctly that it is an _at best_ ambiguous response to substantive messages. I largely […] [Original post on social.emucafe.org]

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