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Considering I didn't know a single consonant until row 4, I'll take it.

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I found an interesting Obsidian plugin called Tray. Tray lets you start the app automatically when your system boots up and run it in the background. It adds global hotkeys and a tray menu so you can easily hide/show the window and jot down quick notes from anywhere on your computer.
You can find it on the Community Plugins page obsidian://show-plugin?id=tray. Here is the GitHub link for more information as well. GitHub github.com/dragonwocky/obsidia

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TIL about "Brushing" Scams. Got a package you didn’t order? It’s probably a scam | Consumer Advice consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-aler 'Scammers or sellers of knock-off merchandise find your address or other personal information online. They send you goods you never ordered and use your information to write fake online reviews about their products in your name — which helps them boost sales.'

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Anyone know what's up with FIFA not using the corporate names of stadiums? I just saw the Levi's sign covered up in a video from Santa Clara (Levi's even leaned into it by covering up their logo on social media. Props to them.) An Sofi is called Los Angeles Stadium. I'm sure it's all about money but I haven't heard.

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My Obsidian vault was getting slow to load. It only has about 4300 notes. I'm now doing a test where I turned Restricted Mode back on (Settings -> Community Plugins -> Restricted Mode turn on and reload). This disables all your Community Plugins and reloads Obsidian. For good measure I restarted Obsidian a couple of times. Then I turned Community Plugins back on. So far, so good and loading is much faster. techlifeweb.com/blog/2026/06/p

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Has anybody seen Google ask you to run a Powershell script? I was browsing, it said something needed to be checked because of network activity and asked me to run a script. Nope, not doing that. Nothing looked to me to indicate it wasn't from Google.

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tl;dr : How do you feel about rehosting a web page for a domain that has gone dark?
The issue: You've done some research in the past and found a wonderful page about your topic that helped you. A long time later you have the same issue or want to do a write up about the fix and link to the site. The only problem is, the site is no longer on-line. Despite all efforts to find any replacement by the author, the only one you can find is on archive.org. My… techlifeweb.com/blog/2026/05/p

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Thanks to all who replied to my query earlier today about sunscreen. Compiled results so far:
Oil of Olay Complete, SPF 30 (2 votes for Oil of Olay)
Riemann p20
Aussie sun sense daily face spf 50 (just for face)
Trader Joe's clear sunscreen
Look for some made in Korea

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This looks like an interesting device if you live with people that aren't techy and have to coexist with your home automations | Home Assistant now works with this clever snap-on switch for smart home controls howtogeek.com/home-assistant-n 'With Home Assistant integration, the Slate Switch becomes a trigger panel for anything that’s connected to your smart home ecosystem. '
About $40 at Amazon amzn.to/3PJD6Qh

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Clearing an app cache is such a terrible solution. It's too technical. I get that a cache can become stale but an app should just do it and automatically delete the bits that can cause common issues on log out/in.

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Have you noticed what is happening next month??
Friday the 13th (says what it is on the tin) 🔪
Saturday the 14th - Valentines Day ❤️
Monday the 16th - Presidents Day 🇺🇲
Tuesday the 17th - Mardi Gras AND Lunar New Year 💜💚💛🧧🐴

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Today is Epiphany, aka Three Kings’ Day. This is the day that Mary, holding the sleeping infant Jesus, says to the little drummer boy, "you wake this kid up and His Father will NOT be pleased!"

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If I find an interesting post on another instance, say via RSS or someone sends me a link, and I then decide I want to interact with the post (e.g., Like, Repost) I'm greeted with "<snipped nice greeting> You are not logged in to this server. Where is your account hosted?" That's the nature of decentralization but it is a rough edge. Are there any browser plugins or other ideas to smooth that edge?