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Date WatchedTitleDescriptionNotes and Rating
07AUG2026About Last NightChicago singles meet in a bar, live together and call it love. Based on David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.Netflix. Rating 5/7
04AUG2026Bend It Like BeckhamJess Bhamra dreams of playing professional football, but her Sikh parents have plans for her: a law degree and a marriage. Jules, a white female striker, spots Jess playing football and invites her to join the local women's team.DVD. Rating 5/7
03AUG2026LaggiesIn the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes. She takes an opportunity to escape for a week, hiding out in the house of her new 16-year-old friend Annika and her world-weary single dad.Netflix. Rating 5/7
03AUG2026Spider-Man: HomecomingPeter Parker tries to stop Adrian 'The Vulture' Toomes from selling weapons made with advanced Chitauri technology while trying to balance his life as an ordinary high school student.Netflix. Rating 6/7
31JUL2026The Perfect DateTo save up for college, Brooks Rattigan creates an app where anyone can pay him to play the perfect stand-in boyfriend for any occasion.Netflix. Rating 5/7
25JUL2026Deep CoverThree improv actors are asked to go undercover by the police in London's criminal underworld.Prime.
22JUL2026FletchWhile working undercover, wisecracking newspaper reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is offered a large sum by a millionaire with a terminal disease to kill him. Intrigued, Fletch decides to unearth the full story behind the offer.Netflix. Rating 5/7
17JUL2026AnacondaA group of friends are going through a mid-life crisis. They decide to remake a favorite movie from their youth but encounter unexpected events when they enter the jungle.Netflix. Rating 5/7
13JUL2026The Best You CanStan Olszewski, a security guard foils a home robbery attempt at Cynthia Rand's residence. A charged friendship develops starting with late-night humorous texts. Their deepening bond shakes up both their lives.Netflix. Rating 5/7.
10JUL2026IdaA novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.Kanopy. Rating 6/7
05JUL2026Dirty DancingSpending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.DVD. Rating 5/7
04JUL2026National TreasureA historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.DVD. Rating 5/7
03JUL2026SupermanSuperman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned.Prime. Rating 5/7
02JUL2026Enola Holmes 3Detective Enola Holmes heads to Malta, where her aspirations merge in her most complex and dangerous case yet.Netflix. Rating 4/7
01JUL2026Enola Holmes 2Now a detective-for-hire, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends - and Sherlock himself - to unravel.Netflix. Rating 4/7

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I am planning a self-hosting build and am currently trying to decide between a full Docker setup (I'm comfortable installing the OS, but Docker is still relatively new to me) or exploring options with a bit more user-friendliness, such as Yunohost or CasaOS. I don't mind working at the command line, but additional helpful interfaces might make the experience feel less like a second IT job. If anyone has experience with this I'd appreciate your insight.

| Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:59:57 +0000

Audio reveals moment American Airlines passenger's laptop EXPLODES in flames mid-flight as smoke fills cabin and five people treated for burns in Dallas | Daily Mail Online dailymail.com/news/article-160 'American Airlines Flight 2398 was carrying 133 people from Atlanta to Dallas on Friday when a passenger's laptop suddenly began smoking before catching fire about 30 minutes before the aircraft was due to land.'

| Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:09:14 +0000

My internet went out and ISP couldn't get it working so service appointment Monday. Shut off the modem for an hour and internet is back. I think there is a heat issue.

| Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:46:24 +0000

Interesting article explaining what data centers are and their impact on the community they are built in. | Did you know most of your daily online activities rely on data centers? Here’s how it works – PolitiFact politifact.com/article/2026/au
Key numbers from the article:

* Typical AI data center electricity use: up to as much as 100,000 households per year
* Largest data centers under construction: about 20× that amount (per the International Energy Agency estimate… techlifeweb.com/blog/2026/08/p

| Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:06:54 +0000

Are mass layoffs coming? Most states let you check – here’s how | FOX 5 San Diego & KUSI News fox5sandiego.com/news/are-mass 'A federal law called the WARN Act, which stands for Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, requires medium-sized and large companies give notice before they slash staff. Those notices, in most cases, are publicly available – if you know where to look.'

| Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:02:47 +0000

Rating Scale

I quite like Steph Ango's system of rating 1 to 7 so I'm adopting it. It is more granular than 1 to 5 and 1 to 10 is too many.

  • 7 — Perfect, must try, life-changing, go out of your way to seek this out
  • 6 — Excellent, worth repeating
  • 5 — Good, don’t go out of your way, but enjoyable
  • 4 — Passable, works in a pinch
  • 3 — Bad, don’t do this if you can
  • 2 — Atrocious, actively avoid, repulsive
  • 1 — Evil, life-changing in a bad way
    Source: Steph Ango - How I Use Obsidian