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Current Mood: happy

I forgot to say yesterday that when I checked the tracking on the replacement Stephen Colbert Pop that I ordered, it said that delivery had been attempted but they had been unable to get the front door opened so the package was returned to the shipping facility.

Today I got up at 10:00 and checked the tracking and it was out for delivery again. So I had breakfast and coffee and called

mashfanficchick and told zer that I would wait until it was delivered or 6:00, whichever came first, and then head over to zer place.

So I waited. I did useful things, I called and made an appointment with the sleep doctor for my birthday (actually first I made an appointment for the 24th, then discovered that was the day I have my gyn appointment
and had to reschedule), and made an appointment to have my taxes done on April 2nd. I put a new picture of the Kid in my wallet to replace the one I had there which was pretty messed up. I redownloaded VLC Media Player to the computer to use with the external dvd player. I filled in the application to renew my New York City ID. I put my unfinished stories that I saved to the external hard drive back on the computer, and I wrote a little.

I did take a quick shower, all the time listening for the door buzzer in case the delivery guy came. And I dressed.

Time went on. Finally it was 6:00 and nothing. So I put on my shoes and got ready to go.

And as I started down the street, got about halfway down the block, when an Amazon truck came around the corner and parked. (Funko uses Amazon shipping.) So I waited as the guy delivered packages to the first buildings on the block (I'm in the last building). I asked him if he had anything for my building and he said he didn't know but I'd have to wait. Finally he got to my building. He apologized he couldn't just give me my package, he had to deliver it to my apartment and take a picture.

But he had it, and I got it! All mine finally!!!

So I took it in and opened it and I have it here. Then, finally, I headed off to

mashfanficchick's.

Got there no problem on the bus. We ordered Indian food for dinner, and watched 911 and 911:Nashville. Had fun. The lamb korma was delicious. And the mango lassi.

After the TV, we talked for about an hour, and then I Ubered home. I fed the pets and started here, And now I'm about done.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB, sadly didn't get to Team tonight.

2. Got my Stephen Colbert Funko Pop FINALLY!

3. Easy to make the appointments for the doctor and tax preparer.

4. Good TV.

5. Yummy dinner.

6. Got some writing done.

starandrea

tip: try not to get so sick you lose your voice the same week you start a speaking challenge.

relatedly, apps that will let you whisper: duolingo, of course, since duolingo doesn't really care what you say and gives you points for trying no matter what you mumble at it. (thanks duolingo!)

apps that will fail you for whispering: talkpal, superchinese.

apps that will let you do something other than speak to keep your streak: ironically, speakchinese.

good news, recordings for the htlal output challenge only have to exist to count, regardless of content or quality. I have recorded at least an hour of me whispering this week.

tomorrow is day six!!

cornerofmadness

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Murder She Wrote

Since today was boring and no one would care about it (me included) so let's have another writing question.

Do you have something about your characters that you love and think about it, even though you know it might not be in the story? Tell us all about it. I want to hear it. Original characters or your favorite fandom characters.

Here's mine for my new characters Ezio and Remo (Remo might have a name change). They dance together. A lot of my characters dance. I might mention they're dancing but I don't do a lot of writing about it because it's not all that interesting to read. But it also has me thinking about what kind of music would these people have.

Yes it's a 1920s era tech level but that doesn't mean necessarily that the music is the same. that said I love the fast step, jive, boogie woogie styles and if by some miracle this novel ends up a movie...well then.

Anyhow I stumbled over this British version of Dancing With the Stars (kinda sorta, at least they allow gay partners) and thought these two would be exactly how Ezio and Remo learn to dance with each other (in book two, ha!) These are three of my favorites.

My favorite. I'm beginning to think I'm a reborn flapper because damn men in suspenders dancing does something for me

Watch on YouTube

And while not my favorite tango I liked this one because Ezio is genderfluid and just as likely to be in a dress as a suit. Also Layton does a fucking backflip in heels and I am jealous

Watch on YouTube

In theory I'm doing the

marchmetamatterschallenge but I have done nothing until now. Finally got some going. I posted it to AO3 but ( It's also under here )

musesfool

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Music: Mulholland Drive - Gaslight Anthem

I have watched some TV!

Shrinking: ( spoilers )

Abbott Elementary: ( spoilers )

The Pitt: ( spoilers )

Here is a cool video interview with Alexandra Metz, who plays Garcia. I don't think there are any spoilers past earlier s2 episodes.

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hannah

Current Mood: full
Current Music: nothing now

In DC, safe and well-fed on ramen, my friend and I waited for the bus to her place. I looked around in the full night of a city I’ve rarely been to, in a neighborhood I’d never visited, and couldn’t shake an odd feeling.

Then it hit me, and I had to say, “Holy shit.” I’d needed a specific spot for something in a novel, and it’d looked familiar because she’d taken me to a spot just around the corner.

It wasn’t quite deja vu. More likes dream where you know the building already, even though you’ve never been.

kaberett

Migraine World Summit is finished for the year and they chose an extremely good closing keynote about which I am cheerful and bouncy. (Messoud Ashina, CGRP, PACAP & beyond, say if you would like me to try to write more about this).
Got to spend time with The Child! Was summoned Upstairs to Rest and Read Books for a bit. Some really really excellent self-management and regulation in there around Lots Of Feelings.
BRONZE AGE LOOM.
Good therapy session.
There is now a box of veg cassoulet (+ suspicious protein chunks) in the freezer to be Future Food, and another two portions on the hob for dinner tomorrow.
I know I keep mentioning the Bedtime Ritual of Lebkuchen and Milk but this is because it is very good and very soothing, okay.
My watch continues a viable approach to biofeedback (so all I need now is to remember to actually do it...)

lirazel

Fic: boiling over
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Frank Langdon & Samira Mohan
Characters: Samira Mohan, Frank Langdon
Additional Tags: not tagging robby because he doesn’t come off well here, but he’s haunting the narrative, Missing Scene, Post-Episode 10, eldest daughter prodigal son, the kids from robby’s first marriage that he doesn’t care about anymore because he’s got a new family, oh sorry was that snarky?, anyway the senior residents should unionize, let them commiserate over the way robby treats them, my ‘langdon should be the brother of every woman in the ed (except mel)’ agenda, my ‘samira has done nothing wrong and someone needs to acknowledge that’ agenda, another name checked off of langdon’s amends list
Summary:

“How’re you feeling?”

Samira looks up to see Langdon coming through the door of the breakroom, pulling it closed behind him.

“I’m fine,” she says, aiming for wry, though it comes out more terse than she’d hoped.

“By which you mean ‘kind of tingly but also wrung-out’?” Her surprise must show on her face, because he shrugs as he sits down at the chair across the table from her. “I have some experience with panic attacks.”

“You?” It doesn’t fit with how she thinks of him, easy confidence that tilts over into cockiness more than it should. But then, she’s never known him well.

lirazel

Title: no-fault
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Melissa “Mel” King/Frank Langdon, Abby Langdon & Frank Langdon, Melissa “Mel” King & Abby Langdon
Characters: Abby Langdon, Frank Langdon, Melissa “Mel” King
Additional Tags: Future Fic, POV Outsider, abby does not deserve this but at least she’s going to get some amusement out of it, ‘just friends’ huh?
Summary:

She tosses the plastic bottle into the buggy just as Tanner says, “…and Mel says that ponies aren’t baby horses, they’re something different. A baby horse is called a colt.”

“That’s right,” Abby says automatically, the words snagging on long-buried memories of Saddle Club and Misty of Chincoteague. And then, a delayed second later: “Who’s Mel?”

Because she usually does listen when he talks, and she thought she knew the names of all of his friends and all of his friends’ siblings and that she and Frank have both trained him well enough that he wouldn’t call an adult by their first name without some kind of title in front of it. But she definitely doesn’t remember hearing about a Mel before. A new kid in class? Or, God, a character from one of the more annoying shows he and Penny watch, the kind whose shrillness and obnoxious flashing make Abby flee the room?

She absolutely isn’t expecting the explanation Tanner gives.

“Daddy’s friend.”

The buggy jerks to a stop, the broken wheel—there’s always a broken wheel—dragging across the linoleum. Penny giggles at the sound it makes, but Abby doesn’t hear her, her mind suddenly gone blank.

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Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/03/19/when-it-comes-its-so-so-disappointing-and/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=73318

Laurence Olivier did not "star" in As You Like It. He played Orlando. (Still catching up on old links and tabs.)

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/03/19/when-it-comes-its-so-so-disappointing-and/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=73318

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fancake

Fandom: The Pitt
Characters/Pairings: Michael "Robby" Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker, Trinity Santos, Jack Abbot
Rating: Explicit
Length: 24,437 words
Creator Links: cold_cereal on AO3
Theme: siblings,

Summary: When Whitaker accidentally sends a dick pic to Dr. Robby, he never thought it would end like this.

Reccer's Notes: Well now...

With a summary like that you would expect nothing more than a PWP, but this is the furthest from that. We all know that Whitaker comes from Broken Bow, Nebraska and grew up on a farm with 3 brothers. But we never get any of that backstory - toxic or good - in canon.

Well that backstory shows up here, almost like there needed to be a wonderful plot to go along with the accidental dick pic share. We get to see Whitaker's parents and his brothers - and how he and one of his brothers escaped that small-town/small-mindedness. I'm not saying his one brother that "escaped" the mentality is all that great, but I know these small-town folks. Hell, I'm related to a lot of them. And I can read a compliment from what sounds like a bigot trying to do better, even if they don't have a frame of reference for that.

Basically, this is a fic about getting out of a small town, and leaving the small-mindedness behind.

Fanwork Links: Fic on AO3.

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Posted by Jake Peterson

https://lifehacker.com/tech/apple-is-finally-letting-you-use-your-own-payment-method-in-family-sharing?utm_medium=RSS

Apple is making a big change to Family Sharing with iOS 26.4: Once the update hits, you'll be able to use your own payment method in Family Sharing groups that have Purchase Sharing turned on. This might sound small, but it's a significant change to how Apple handles payments in these situations.

Payment Sharing no longer exclusively goes through the family organizer

Payment Sharing can be a convenient way for Family Sharing groups to take advantage of shared plans and content. That could include subscriptions, like Apple One, Apple Music, Apple TV, or Apple News+; purchased music from iTunes; movies and TV shows from the Apple TV app; books from Apple Books; or apps bought on the App Store. It means anyone within the family can access these items, but it also traditionally came with a limitation: With Purchase Sharing turned on, you couldn't buy your own shared things. All purchases went through the payment method set up by the organizer of the family group, unless you happened to have an account balance from a gift card or allowance.

This makes a lot of sense when the family members are children, but not as much when those family members are adults. Not all Family Sharing groups are necessarily "families," either: Friends can pool their accounts together to take advantage of shared services like iCloud plans. When all shared purchases go through one person's credit card, it's a bit of a pain.

That's what iOS 26.4 is changing. Once you update, you can choose to put new shared purchases on your own card—assuming you are an adult. (Minors still need to go through the family organizer's payment method.) If you want to sign the group up for Apple Fitness+, you can pay for it; if you want to buy a movie on the Apple TV app that others can watch too, that can come from your card. It's a long overdue update to the system that will make Family Sharing groups a bit easier to use for adults.

What else is new with iOS 26.4

Apple has a number of new features and changes coming with iOS 26.4. In addition to this Family Sharing update, Apple Music gets a visual overhaul, plus you can now generate playlists with AI. There are eight new emojis rolling out here, following the Unicode 17 standard, plus Apple finally fixed iOS 26's buggy keyboard.

While iOS 26.4 is still technically in beta testing, Apple rolled out the Release Candidate this week. Barring any major bugs, this is the version of iOS 26.4 that will launch to the public, and we'll likely see it sometime next week.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/apple-is-finally-letting-you-use-your-own-payment-method-in-family-sharing?utm_medium=RSS

wychwood

Current Mood: accomplished

( 17. An Academic Affair - Jodi McAlister ) Enormously fun and I'm hoping for sequels!

( 18. The Shots You Take - Rachel Reid ) Fairly forgettable, but still entertaining enough to keep me reading.

( 19. The Spy Who Loved Me - Ian Fleming ) I don't think Fleming is for me, but there was some enjoyment available.

( Greenwing and Dart - Victoria Goddard ) Fluffy, fun (despite a substantial amount of mortal peril) and a generally satisfying binge.

( 26. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie ) Dated but I think still worth reading.

( 27. Holiday in Death, 28. Festive in Death, and 29. Framed in Death - JD Robb ) I always enjoy these - but particularly liked the opportunity to revisit the early part of the series in contrast to the newer state of things!

( 30. Derring-Do for Beginners - Victoria Goddard ) I was hoping for more actual, you know, Red Company, but this was so much fun I can't have too many regrets.

( 31. Jane Austen: A Life - Claire Tomalin ) I think this is probably as enlightening as it could reasonably have been, but I was a little disappointed, somehow, despite learning a fair amount. It's not badly-written at all, but it never really won me over somehow.

( 32. Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ) Ultra-violent, really thumpingly Message-y, and strangely compelling; I don't think I'll ever want to re-read it, but I am interested to see where Adjei-Brenyah goes from here.

( 33. Blood Sport, 35. The Edge, and 37. Risk - Dick Francis ) A trio of delightfully exciting nonsenses; I'm so sorry I didn't discover Francis years ago, but on the other hand at least they are a source of joy for me now.

( 34. Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit ) A short but concentrated dose of feminist rage.

( 36. Outcrossing - Celia Lake ) On paper this absolutely should be my jam, but it entirely is not.

( 38. Batman: Wayne Family Adventures vol 2 - CRC Payne and Starbite ) Adorable. This series is just so fun.

( 39. Just One Damned Thing After Another - Jodi Taylor ) This is a fun concept, but the archaeology / history is worse than in Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel books and that's saying something. I didn't hate it, but I had to disconnect my brain way too much to enjoy it.

( 40. Ambiguity Machines - Vandana Singh ) A really excellent collection, even though I couldn't muster quite the delight I wanted from it.

( 41. Get A Life, Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert ) I enjoyed this, although I'm not sure if I'll read more Hibbert.

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Posted by Naima Karp

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As useful as robot vacuums and mops are, they can sometimes be clunky eyesores. If you’re looking for a hybrid cleaner that actually prioritizes design, you’ll want to check out the well-reviewed Roborock Saros 10R robot vacuum and mop. It’s one of the slimmest models on the market, getting into areas that bulkier vacuums can’t, and, just as importantly, the base it comes with is sleek and compact for all the functions it packs in, so it won’t look out of place in your home. Right now, the Roborock Saros 10R is $500 off, bringing it down to $1,099 (originally $1,599).

Roborock Saros 10R Robot Vacuum and Mop

$1,599.00 at Amazon

The Roborock Saros 10R combines performance, automation, and aesthetics, making it one of the best robot vacuum and mop combos available. At just 3.14 inches tall, it can easily glide under low-profile furniture where dust collects (and areas that taller robot vacuums often miss) and it climbs thresholds over 1.5 inches. It checks all our boxes, with strong 22,000Pa suction, AI navigation, a built-in voice assistant, and obstacle-avoidance tech via Roborock’s StarSight Autonomous System. A built-in front-facing camera helps with navigation and lets you monitor your home from the dock. The anti-tangle dual-brush system collects hair and fur, while an extending side brush and rotating mop pad get around tight spots and clean along baseboards.

Despite having a fully automated charging station that charges the robot in around 2.5 hours and handles self-emptying, hot-water mop washing, and drying, it has an understated look with a black mirror finish that blends into most spaces. That said, the glossy surface can also make fingerprints more visible, especially if you’re refilling the water tank often. And while it does have impressive suction when set to the highest level, the trade-off is more noise and faster battery drain—while it’s advertised as lasting 180 minutes, that time drops to 120 minutes when set to Max+ mode. Pet owners should also note that it may struggle with heavier fur and require multiple passes.

Ultimately, if you’re looking for an attractive, low-profile robot vacuum and mop that performs well on mixed floors with minimal hands-on assistance needed on your part, the Roborock Saros 10R robot vacuum and mop is the total package in most areas. At $500 off, it’s one of the most highly rated cleaning assistants on the market—especially if design and space-savings matter to you just as much as cleaning performance.

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sabotabby

I feel guilty every time I post about something shallow and trivial. However, I enjoy shitposting and we could all use the distraction. The way I distract myself is being spicy in fannish communities.

If you have emotional attachments to a certain cancelled sci-fi show and its creator, skip this post.

Still with me? Okay.

So I want to propose a new TV show for you. It's set IN SPACE in the far-flung future, think gritty space dystopia, think found family, think QUIPS and BANTER and BIG DAMN HEROES.

Our heroes are the crew of a spaceship. They dress in snappy black and silver uniforms. They're all played by white guys and women, most with blond hair, all of them extremely fit and attractive. They have a cool logo that looks great on merch. Their ships are very cool looking and the best in the galaxy. They stand up for the common man.

They are fighting a snivelly and sinister enemy, a vast galactic conspiracy that is secretly pulling the strings behind every bad guy of the week. Maybe they turn out to be, IDK, some kind of lizard alien or something.

By the way in case you're getting ideas about historical analogies here, I should make it clear that the first officer on the heroes' ship is a Jewish woman and the heroes don't commit any genocides on screen. In fact, one of them has a speech about how violence is bad in the first episode! They are shown to be very against war crimes in fact, it's the antagonists who are doing all the war crimes.

Now, a poll:

Poll #34385 Which would be less bad?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

View Respondents

Which would be better, if this show concept HAD to exist?

View Answers

Depicting the protagonists doing war crimes
5 (50.0%)

Not depicting the protagonists doing war crimes
5 (50.0%)

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Posted by Stephen Johnson

https://lifehacker.com/tech/meta-isnt-shutting-down-metaverse-app-horizon-worlds-for-vr-after-all?utm_medium=RSS

Meta has pulled a 180 on its flagship metaverse app. On Tuesday, the company announced the date it planned to shut down virtual hangspace Horizon Worlds. Then late yesterday, the company announced it will actually keep Worlds open to VR users "for the foreseeable future." In an Instagram story, Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth said, "We decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for existing games, to support the fans who have reached out."

According to Bosworth, Meta won't be working on any new VR games within Worlds, but the current content will still be around for VR users. "People who already have games they like, that they're using in Horizon Worlds, will be able to download the Horizon Worlds app and use it in VR for the foreseeable future," Bosworth said.

While Worlds will remain open to VR users, Meta is focusing on mobile users. Any new Meta-made content will be geared toward users on their phones. "Most of our energy is going toward mobile," Bosworth said, "because that's where most of the consumer and creator energy already was."

Meta initially revealed its plan to shut down Horizon Worlds to VR in February, then announced concrete plans to pull the plug on Tuesday.

A shaky future for the metaverse

Putting its flagship metaverse app in maintenance mode for VR users is a huge turnaround for a company that rebranded itself as "Meta." CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled both the name change and Horizon Worlds itself at his company's Connect event in 2021, touting the metaverse as "a successor to the mobile internet" that would eventually host over a billion people. That's not how things have worked out: Meta's Reality Labs division, of which Horizon Worlds is a part, has burned through an estimated $83.55 billion since 2021, and Meta has since slashed jobs at the division, cutting loose departments devoted to first-party VR game and fitness content.

At its peak, Horizon Worlds reportedly had only 200,000 monthly users. For comparison, Roblox has 381 million monthly users. But it's nice that Meta is at least keeping the lights on for that relatively small number of fans. There might not be as many as Meta would like, but there are definitely passionate members of the Worlds community, who will now still be able to gather in their VR spaces.

Headsets are out; smart glasses are in

Even though Meta has recently reiterated its commitment to supporting third-party VR developers and promised "a robust roadmap of future VR headsets," the company is clearly focusing on AI and smart glasses moving forward. Its scaling back of Worlds and other first-party Meta VR content reveals where the market is: Unlike the Quest line of headsets, Meta's AI-powered smart glasses have proven an unqualified success for the company, which reportedly plans to manufacture 20 million pairs of smart glasses in 2026. "Face computers" that interact with and augment the world we actually live in are more popular than headsets that transport us to other worlds.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/meta-isnt-shutting-down-metaverse-app-horizon-worlds-for-vr-after-all?utm_medium=RSS

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Posted by Daniel Oropeza

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Ever since I came home from a trip to Japan in 2019, I've been using a bidet. Japan takes its hygiene and bidet game seriously. Their bidets were incredible, with features and technology I've never imagined people were using on their toilets. But I decided to start simple, with a basic $56 bidet that got the job done. But as winter arrived, the water and toilet seats in our non-insulated bathroom became intolerable, so we decided it was time to upgrade. The Coway Bidetmega 500S has impressed my wife and me so much that we sometimes hold our necessities until we get home just to use our shiny new bidet.

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But I urge anyone spending over $400 on a luxury bidet to first upgrade to an <a href="https://zdcs.link/a56lnj?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=elongated%20toilet&short_url=a56lnj&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">elongated toilet</a>, which you can find for $100 at Home Depot. The installation is not hard— did it myself by watching YouTube videos, but you can always get a plumber to do it for you for around $150. The experience on an elongated toilet makes a big difference. The toilet seat on bidets are already smaller than regular seats, so a smaller round one makes things rather cramped (I tried the round version first and did not enjoy it). One important thing to keep in mind is that you'll need a grounded outlet close to the toilet to plug the bidet tino.</p><div class="eloquent-imagery-image"> <div class="flex justify-center"> <img class="border border-gray-100" src="https://lifehacker.com/imagery/articles/01KM3QE0YJEC1KSBTG0N0CAYZX/images-2.fill.size_2000x1500.v1773946733.jpg" alt="Coway 500S in my bathroom" width="2000" height="1500" loading="lazy" srcset="https://lifehacker.com/imagery/articles/01KM3QE0YJEC1KSBTG0N0CAYZX/images-2.fill.size_800x600.v1773946733.jpg 800w, https://lifehacker.com/imagery/articles/01KM3QE0YJEC1KSBTG0N0CAYZX/images-2.fill.size_1400x1050.v1773946733.jpg 1400w, https://lifehacker.com/imagery/articles/01KM3QE0YJEC1KSBTG0N0CAYZX/images-2.fill.size_2000x1500.v1773946733.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px"> </div> <div class="mt-2 font-akshar"> <span class="image-caption block text-sm leading-4 tracking-wide text-[#1F2937]"></span> <span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-xs tracking-normal text-gray-600">Credit: Daniel Oropeza</span> </div> </div> <p>As I mentioned earlier, my bathroom is not insulated, so mornings are freezing cold. That has made us appreciate the seat and water heating features a lot. There are three levels you can use to adjust the temperature levels with the remote: green, orange, and red, with each getting gradually warmer. There's also a neat user profile on the remote that saves the settings under that user, that way my wife and I don't have to keep fighting over the settings. </p><div class="eloquent-imagery-image"> <div class="flex justify-center"> <img class="border border-gray-100" src="https://lifehacker.com/imagery/articles/01KM3QE0YJEC1KSBTG0N0CAYZX/images-1.fill.size_2000x1500.v1773946733.jpg" alt="Coway 500S remote in my bathroom" width="2000" height="1500" loading="lazy" srcset="https://lifehacker.com/imagery/articles/01KM3QE0YJEC1KSBTG0N0CAYZX/images-1.fill.size_800x600.v1773946733.jpg 800w, https://lifehacker.com/imagery/articles/01KM3QE0YJEC1KSBTG0N0CAYZX/images-1.fill.size_1400x1050.v1773946733.jpg 1400w, https://lifehacker.com/imagery/articles/01KM3QE0YJEC1KSBTG0N0CAYZX/images-1.fill.size_2000x1500.v1773946733.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px"> </div> <div class="mt-2 font-akshar"> <span class="image-caption block text-sm leading-4 tracking-wide text-[#1F2937]"></span> <span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-xs tracking-normal text-gray-600">Credit: Daniel Oropeza</span> </div> </div> <p>As much as I enjoy the heating features, there's another aspect that makes this bidet worth every penny: the self-cleaning nozzle. With my old bidets, the self-cleanings were not great, meaning every once in a while, I would have to put some elbow grease on the bidet to get it decent again (I hated it). The Coway 500S does the self-cleaning automatically and leaves it looking brand new with three methods: a UV light, a nozzle cleaning spray, and a water shield that catches particles from moving up and out of the bowl. So far, I've been very impressed with this feature.</p><p>There are other features, too, including an air dryer (I personally don't find this especially effective), a touch button on the remote to open the lid (works about 80% of the time), a night light, and a deodorizer. If you're a bidet lover, the Coway 500S is an amazing bidet that transports me back to Japan. 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If you have an iPhone, listen up: There's a new security risk that hackers have been actively exploiting since at least November. While you're not likely to be the target of such an attack, your iPhone is nevertheless vulnerable, unless you take the following (albeit simple) action: update your iPhone.

What is DarkSword?

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified the new "full-chain exploit," in partnership with security firms Lookout and iVerify. The exploit, called "DarkSword," takes advantage of six zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise iPhones. GTIG says, as of November, it observed "multiple commercial surveillance vendors and suspected state-sponsored actors" using DarkSword in malware campaigns. As of now, those targets have been in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine.

DarkSword can attack iPhones running iOS 18.4 through iOS 18.7, according to GTIG (though iVerify and Lookout say the exploit they tested ends at iOS 18.6.2). The chain uses three malware families (GHOSTBLADE, GHOSTKNIFE, and GHOSTSABER), and is similar to a previously-discovered malware kit named Coruna. As it happens, Apple recently issued patches for Coruna exploits for older iPhones.

DarkSword is designed to quickly and stealthily scrape credentials and personal information off your device, including passwords, keys, documents, emails, crypto wallets, usernames, photos, among other data points. This is done in seconds or minutes, so it doesn't take long for DarkSword to work. An attack works like this: You're browsing a website in Safari embedded with a malicious iframe. Once Safari encounters it, DarkSword can breakout of the WebContent sandbox, which typically prevents unauthorized services from running in areas of iOS they're not supposed to. As such, it quickly gives itself permission to access privileged processes, and gains access to sensitive parts of iOS.

This is concerning, since the malware only requires the user to visit a malicious website to work. You don't need to be tricked into downloading a malicious file; just clicking the wrong link seals the deal. That's how GTIG initially discovered DarkSword: Hackers targeted users in Saudi Arabia with a fake Snapchat website called "Snapshare," which brought the user to a legitimate Snapchat site while silently stealing their information in the background. In another example, a group suspected of working with the Russian government targeted users in Ukraine with malicious versions of official Ukrainian government and news sites.

How to protect yourself from DarkSword

Luckily, GTIG reported DarkSword to Apple back in late 2025, and since then, Apple has fully patched the exploits involved. The company didn't issue the patches all at once, however; rather, Apple ran individual patches through various updates, releasing the final fixes with iOS 26.3 and iOS 18.7.3. As such, you need to be running at least those versions of either iOS 26 or iOS 18 in order to protect yourself from this malware kit.

Updating your iPhone isn't hard, and it makes it easier that Apple doesn't require you to update to the most recent version (i.e. iOS 26) in order to patch your device. However, there are many iPhones in this world, and getting everyone to update to the proper version isn't easy. According to Apple, 66% of iPhones in the world run iOS 26, while 24% still run iOS 18. While we can't know for sure which of those iPhones are running iOS 26.3 or iOS 18.7.3 or newer, it's safe to say many are running outdated versions of each. There could be millions of iPhones at risk.

That risk, in my view, is quite low: Based on the current reports, these threat actors are targeting users in limited areas, and are being run by sophisticated networks, including those funded by governments. If you don't have reason to be in the crosshairs of a government agency, especially one that would target users in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine, you're not likely to be a victim of DarkSword.

Still, why take the risk, however small? If DarkSword continues to spread, perhaps its affects will as well. When the solution is as simple as updating your iPhone, what's the harm?

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Cardio zones aren't real—not in the way your fitness app makes them sound, anyway. Yes, heart rate zones are a way to describe how hard you're working during a cardio workout, like running or cycling. But the cardio zones everyone's always buzzing about are just a way of bucketing exercise intensity into digestible categories. They're a useful shorthand, but there are no physiological lines in the sand where your body suddenly switches from "zone 2" to "zone 3." It's a spectrum, and the specific cutoffs vary depending on who you ask (or what app you're using), what formula they rely on, and whether they measured your lactate threshold in a lab or just guessed based on your age.

So when "zone zero" started circulating in wellness circles, my instinct was to roll my eyes. Relying on the zone framework in this way seems to add a layer of pseudoscience to what is essentially just...moving around more. To be fair, the underlying idea of "moving around more" certainly is a positive one, so allow me to break down what "zone zero" cardio even means, and how you can incorporate it into your routine.

What is "zone zero" cardio?

"Zero" sounds like nothing, or if not "nothing," then at best, it sounds like rest. But rest is already informally called "zone 1" in many popular frameworks (never mind that it's arguably not a real zone, since sitting still is in no way a cardio zone). So, we now have zone zero slotted below zone 1 (rest), which means we've invented a category below doing nothing.

The semantic confusion is worth calling out, because it reveals how the wellness industry tends to work: take something intuitive, give it a technical-sounding name, and suddenly people feel like they need an app, a heart rate monitor, and a six-week program to understand what they were already doing, or should have been doing all along.

Strip away the branding, and zone zero is a way to call out the sort of movement that falls between "workout" and "total inactivity." This might mean your 10-minute walk after lunch, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or pacing while on a phone call. These movements might not register as strict exercise, but cumulatively, across a day—across a life—they can make a real difference.

The research behind this practice is solid, even if the zone label itself is flimsy. Prolonged sitting is independently associated with health risks, even in people who exercise regularly. One way to think about it is that the body doesn't bank fitness like a savings account; it responds to the totality of how you move (or don't) throughout the day.

Who zone zero cardio is for

Armed with this understanding of what zones are and are not, zone zero can be a great framework. For instance, if you're an all-or-nothing exerciser, then zone zero is a way to remember that light movement still counts for something. Or if you're someone recovering from injury, illness, or burnout, or for whatever reason structured cardio isn't accessible to you right now, then zone zero is a great way to remember that you haven't failed by not hitting the gym. Gentle movement—even the kind that barely registers on a heart rate monitor—is still movement, and it still has value.

But if you're someone with a robust, consistent approach to cardio, zone zero is probably not a concept you need to think about at all. There's no need to add yet another source of noise in the fitness world.

The best fitness trackers for tracking your zones

If you want to monitor cardio intensity—whether that's the coveted zone 2 work, harder efforts, or just making sure you're moving enough throughout the day—here are the trackers that do it best:

Garmin Forerunner 570

Garmin's heart rate zone tracking is among the most accurate on the market for wrist-based monitors, and as my colleague Beth Skwarecki writes in her review, the Garmin Forerunner 570 has shockingly good heart rate accuracy. Unfortunately, the price (currently on sale for $496.97) might be a dealbreaker for casual users.

Garmin Forerunner 570

Apple Watch Series 10

This is the best Apple Watch for most people, and it gets the job done for most people's heart rate zone tracking. Plus, it's the most seamless option if you're already in the Apple ecosystem.

Apple Watch Series 10

Fitbit Charge 6

When it comes to heart rate, the Fitbit is a perfectly solid budget option. If you want more than a minimalist approach, you might find yourself longing for a proper fitness watch, like the Garmin or Apple options above.

For more, I recommend reading this piece from Beth to see how Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, Oura, and Whoop all compare on measuring heart rate variability (HRV).

The bottom line

To put it bluntly: You don't need to track so-called "zone zero" cardio. You don't need a new metric for it, a dedicated workout, or a wearable that vibrates to remind you to stand up (though your existing wearable might already do that, and it can certainly be useful). The whole point is that it's supposed to be below the threshold of effort.

What is worth taking seriously is the underlying behavior change this concept encourages. Take a look at your day and honestly ask yourself whether movement is woven through it, or confined to a scheduled block. If it's the latter, consider incorporating some walking and stretching breaks into your day. Maybe zone zero didn't need a name, but now it has one, and if knowing about it helps you move more, that's a win.

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I had been reserving judgement on the Buffy reboot until it actually existed because before that all is rumour
but apparently it is back to Not Existing
so apparently now I have thoughts.

The thing with Buffy is:

We need a theme.
- It has to be a socially conscious theme.
One that reflects the students' growing awareness of...
...and involvement in the world around them.

That's the movie talking about naming the school dance, but compare any given season of Buffy.
We grow up, we notice new and stabbier problems, we realise we are the ones meant to deal with this, however unfair that seems.

And you get that pretty smoothly in the high school seasons, culminating with the theme and practice of Graduation Day.

But there are people who are less impressed with the development of the characters after that.

I read in a screenwriting book that you have to bear in mind that the vast majority of your viewers went to school, but only a majority of the writers room went to college.

The way society is set up for the past few generations we have this unifying experience of sitting in rooms where everyone has to be, being told a bunch of stuff that's meant to get us ready for the world outside school, with varying degrees of success.

But after that everyone's experience fragments, and the viewers reactions cannot be relied upon to come from a similar point of view.

Which, yeah but no but. A, could they ever? And B, Buffy did not spend overly much time in a classroom.

The core shared experience of the characters was
we have all this compulsory stuff to deal with that we're being told endlessly is Super Important
but now there are Things
which are actual life and death important
yet must be dealt with after and around school.

You can build out a lot of experiences from there. Like season six and the quest for more money. There is compulsory stuff, and now, also, Trauma. You somehow have to juggle both.

But part of what makes that heavy is the way even the closest support systems of the main characters simply do not acknowledge the life and death stuff. The trivial and transitory is compulsory, the being attacked by vampires is somehow not a problem anyone needed to prepare you for or admit is happening.

Relatable!

... no really, there is a very light metaphor skin on so much that is super relatable there.

And a lot of that is being prepared for the wrong things the wrong way. There's so much pressure on You, Yes You, Personally, Alone, doing things perfectly right first time Or Else End Of The World.
... exams must lead to the perfect start or life is wrecked forever, etc.

And this is all wrapped up in Patriarchy and how the Important tasks are *somehow* not the ones that Someone needs to do every single day or everyone dies. Home Ec is not a high status set of lessons despite the fact they're actual baseline essentials. You are not expected to make bank by doing the things that keep other people alive. Someone has to clean, cook, care, patrol every night, and hey, look who it is again.

Watchers get paid, Slayers get Called. Patriarchy at its finest, core to the metaphor.

(Making it Patrol, defense safety violence and therefore traditionally gendered and valued differently, is part of the defamiliarisation that makes Buffy work.)

And who can you go to for help?
Actually varies by season, and to some extent having the help crumble out from under you and growing to replace it is a core mechanic.
Parents, teachers, Watchers, government, all the support systems and institutions do what they can, demonstrate why they left the world the way the youngers find it, and crumble out of the way, while the protagonists grow to fill their roles.

Change that and you change the genre significantly.
Horror believes in the injury but not the hospital, in crime but not policing, in the threats but not defenses.
Coming of age stories see all that and say, our turn now.

So you put together all these constraints and you get the framework that the actual plots and characters build out on. You get Giles being slightly useless because he's an older in a story about growing up, you get schools that purport to help but become the source of threat, you get youngers that have to push back and take over.

So what do you do with all that
twenty years later
when you still have *Buffy* the vampire slayer?

It's easy enough to posit a world that still has vampires, but what does that say about *Buffy*? Yes, that the task is never ending, but also, why is someone still in school being Chosen to step up and help with it?

Buffy ended the show by sharing her power, so everyone that can stand up will stand up. Slayers all.
Equals, and within the framework of the show, as grown up as they are getting.

She went from the new kid in school to the general of an army.

What institutions did she set up after that?

How did they fail?

If they didn't fail, why do we have a plot?

And I think this is a fascinating set of questions, if Gen Z ask Gen X about them.
... I just had to look up the likely generation age ranges and apparently Gen Z are the ones who got born after Buffy started saving the world and are at youngest 14 now, so quite the age range there.

What world did they get born into, how did Buffy fail to fix it, who has she become in response to that, who can the youngers go to for help and Why does that fail in such a way we get plot?

Seems like we could look at the world and mine a rich seam for all of that, even if we focus primarily on gender.
If the text looks in the eye the race problems of the original we start getting proper interesting.

And I personally would start with the core concept of Slayer and the assumption that the ability to stake your problems will ever make them go away, but that's because I look at the genres I prefer to read watch listen to and tend to go But What If Completely A Different Thing.

... diplomatic solutions with non humans would change the baseline metaphor so much. but. So many years of BtVS and Angel presenting vampires and demons as basically people? The stabbing gets problematic.

The problem is all this either shifts Buffy into a different character with a non protagonist status, or leaves you running parallel coming of age and middle age stories. Which would be tricky! But the thing Giles had to reckon with in the background where the institution he gave his life to was... kind of sucktastic, and the person he thought he wanted to be in his early twenties turned out to just leave problems for the next generation, well, that's a start.

I think Buffy restarted right now could be fascinating.

But it could not be the same story. Writing the same story already makes it a different story. You would have to grapple with the differences.

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Current Music: The National, "Don't Swallow the Cap"

I can't believe I dreamed an entire opera whose closing performance by a small local outfit I was all set to attend before it was canceled at the last unavoidable minute. It was a Gian Carlo Menotti from 1948 and had never before received a Boston premiere. I had read its libretto for years because it was full of sand and sea-haunting: No body that presses its mouth to the shore closer than your mouth to mine. No eye that fades into the haze of the sun more fixed than your eye to mine. No ship of a letter that crosses the seas faster than my hand to yours, unless it has foundered, unless it has torn on the black rocks of the heart. It had one of his terse, enigmatic titles, The Visitor. The company that had put it up was called Marmalade and Gold, an allusion whose meaning did not escape the event horizon of waking, and specialized in bare-bones, slightly more than concert performances of oddities or undeserved obscurities of the twentieth-century opera world: I remember perusing the catalogue of previous seasons on their website and approving of their choices, all of which I suspect of not existing outside of the hour or so I was asleep. Erich Wolfgang Korngold did write a bunch of operas, mostly before—very popular choice—leaving Germany, but I do not believe a 1932 Der lahme König was among them. I am having a terrible week for which the external world offers nothing in the way of respite and even if I didn't get to hear any of its music, I appreciate the inside of my head attempting to furnish a break of art.

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I’ve been sick for the last week or so which meant there was a lot of time to sit around reading but I didn’t have a lot of energy to write things up. But now I’m doing better so have a media roundup! (This isn’t everything I read while sick because some of it I didn’t have the energy to write up, and also I’ve been slowly reading Batman: No Man’s Land and if I write something about it, I’m going to do so after I finish the whole story. )

Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi— For kiddo’s school book club. This is so not my kind of book and I wouldn’t have read it if the kiddo hadn’t insisted. I just find contemporary books with political themes really really stressful! So this book about a Syrian-American boy in 2016-2017 was really not my cup of tea. So I think it was doing ok at being the book it wanted to be, but that book is not for me. Also the whole book was in poetry, and I don't think that actually added much – but also I’m not really a poetry person.

Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton by Ryan North and Mike Norton— Since I've been reading a lot of superhero stuff an algorithm showed me this, and it's got a cute dog and is written by Ryan North so I thought I'd check it out (What has Ryan North been up to since Squirrel Girl? Maybe I should find out. Maybe I should reread Squirrel Girl)* This was a bit darker than I was expecting! And did really feature the elements of North’s style that I remember enjoying alot (witty dialogue and certain wacky over the top-ness) Though still mostly a sweet story. (Content note: abusive training/animal harm, animal death, children in peril)

Lumberjanes: Bonus Tracks and Lumberjanes: Campfire Songs— These are single issue Lumberjanes stories by a bunch of different writers and artists. I enjoyed the variety! I think my favorite story was the one that had Last Unicorn vibes (Look I watched that movie a lot as a kid)

Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass by Lilah Sturges, polterink, et al— Lumberjanes original graphic novel – this was honestly a little disappointing, I didn’t feel like it really captured the vibe of the original comic. It did not help that this was one of those graphic novels with a very limited color palette (black, white and green) and I really missed the colorfulness!

Lumberjanes: The Shape of Friendship by Lilah Sturges, polterink, et al— Another lumberjanes graphic novel – I liked this one a lot better. It probably helped that my expectations were lowered after the first one but I do think it was a better story overall as well.

The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novell by Cameron Mukwa— A middle grade graphic novel about Anang, a two-spirit and nonbinary Anishinaabe kid, who wants to wear a ribbon skirt to an upcoming powwow. This is very sweet! There are talking turtle spirits! There’s also Anang’s friend who is uncomfortable with Anang’s identity and kinda transphobic about it as heads up

* after writing this I did look up what Ryan North has been up to, some library holds have been placed. Also I noticed that he has PDF’s of all of his academic papers available on his website and I think that’s very charming and helpful of him.

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Smart home technology has really changed the way we live and work in our homes, giving us more control over our environment and appliances. We can now adjust the climate, monitor our resource consumption, and stream our media anywhere in the house with a tap of the finger or a few spoken words. But that convenience and power has come with a cost, and that cost is the, well, aesthetic of some of that smart tech. Smart devices are often clunky plastic monstrosities that insist upon taking over more than their fair share of flat surfaces. If you’re hoping for a more elegant, analog look—while still enjoying the benefits of modern smart tech in the house—the good news is that there are a lot of options for smart home technology that can be easily hidden (or at least made less obvious).

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class="-mt-[2px] inline-block size-3 fill-current text-brand-green"> <use href="https://lifehacker.com/images/icons/spritemap.svg#sprite-chevron-down"></use> </svg> </button> </div> <h2 id="use-a-wall-mounted-minimalist-wifi-router">Use a wall-mounted, minimalist wifi router</h2><p>Perhaps the ugliest device in your smart home is the most fundamental: Your router. You won’t get far with your smart home if your devices can’t connect to a robust network, but routers have become unattractive enough that people try hiding them in baskets or behind plants. Instead of hiding your router, try minimizing its visual presence. The <a href="https://zdcs.link/aMKA3q?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=eero%20Pro%207&short_url=aMKA3q&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">eero Pro 7</a> is a solid WiFi 7 mesh router that not only has a sleeker look than most routers, it can be <a href="https://zdcs.link/9gXYGP?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=wall-mounted&short_url=9gXYGP&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">wall-mounted</a> to get it off flat surfaces and out of the way. This isn’t exactly hidden, of course, but it’s a lot less noticeable and obtrusive than most routers.</p><h2 id="hide-your-smart-outlets-locks-and-security-systems">Hide your smart outlets, locks, and security systems</h2><p>Smart stuff like outlets, locks, dimmers, and security tools offer a lot of peace of mind and control over your house, but they can also be bulky, making the place look cluttered—not exactly the sleek, cutting-edge vibe a smart home should offer. You can eliminate the clunky, though, with these products:</p><ul><li><p>The <a href="https://zdcs.link/QG82d8?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Level%20Lock%20Pro&short_url=QG82d8&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Level Lock Pro</a> is a smart lock that looks like a traditional deadbolt and integrates inside your door, giving you a cleaner, more traditional look.</p></li><li><p>Smart outlets like the <a href="https://zdcs.link/QK84JD?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Kasa%20KP200&short_url=QK84JD&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Kasa KP200</a> or the <a href="https://zdcs.link/zj8Xop?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Eve%20Energy%20Outlet&short_url=zj8Xop&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Eve Energy Outlet</a> eliminate the need for a bulky adapter, and they look like every other outlet in your house (and it’s not hard to <a href="https://lifehacker.com/home/you-dont-need-an-electrician-to-upgrade-to-three-prong-outlets" target="_blank">replace your outlets DIY</a>).</p></li><li><p>The <a href="https://zdcs.link/QPxWBj?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Lutron%20Diva%20Smart%20Dimmer&short_url=QPxWBj&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Lutron Diva Smart Dimmer</a> works with Alexa, Apple Home, Google Assistant, Ring, and more, and offers a range of useful smart functions. But it also looks just like every other dimmer switch in the world, so you don’t have to worry about making your house look like the set of a bad sci-fi show.</p></li><li><p>Home security can be smart, too, and when it comes to exterior cameras you might actually <em>want </em>them to be obvious so they can act as a deterrent. Other security options, like motion detectors, can add to your sense of safety but are often unsightly. Instead, choose the <a href="https://zdcs.link/z64EX3?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Aqara%20Zigbee%20Vibration%20Sensor&short_url=z64EX3&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Aqara Zigbee Vibration Sensor</a>, which is a slim, easily hidden tab that detects motion and alerts you immediately.</p></li></ul><h2 id="make-your-media-less-intrusive-with-flush-mounted-smart-speakers-and-hidden-smart-tvs">Make your media less intrusive with flush-mounted smart speakers and hidden smart TVs</h2><p>Smart media devices let you take your entertaining to a whole new level and also make relaxing in your home more fun—but even the sleekest Bluetooth speaker can be an eyesore (and one more thing you have to keep track of). Products like the <a href="https://zdcs.link/z3OedV?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Sonos%20In-Ceiling&short_url=z3OedV&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Sonos In-Ceiling</a> speakers are <a href="https://youtu.be/FHwPpBpSgxs?si=ADH62bKwlbzFyMbR" target="_blank" title="open in a new window" rel="noopener">installed flush with your ceiling</a> and can be painted to match, making them all but invisible. Another option is in-wall speakers from <a href="https://www.aminasound.com/invisible-products/invisible-speakers/" target="_blank" title="open in a new window" rel="noopener">Amina</a>, which can be installed inside cabinets or covered by drywall, making them almost totally invisible.</p><p>Another smart device that sticks out in most homes is the television. There’s no shame in having a TV as the focal point of your living room, but if you’d rather not have an enormous hunk of plastic and glass dominate the room, modern frame TVs like the <a href="https://zdcs.link/9wBJep?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Samsung%E2%80%99s%20The%20Frame&short_url=9wBJep&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Samsung’s The Frame</a> transform into framed art when not in use as a TV, so you won’t have an ominous black screen marring your next cocktail party.</p><h2 id="keep-your-bathroom-clean-and-orderly-with-a-smart-mirror-tv">Keep your bathroom clean and orderly with a smart mirror TV</h2><p>Having a smart device in the bathroom is useful for checking the news and weather while you prep for your day, or jazzing up your bath time with some music or other media. But having a hunk of plastic on the limited counter space isn’t ideal, and wall-mounted TVs can be an eyesore in an otherwise clean and calming space. The <a href="https://zdcs.link/QW6v0K?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Sylvox%20Magic%20Mirror%20TV&short_url=QW6v0K&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Sylvox Magic Mirror TV</a>, however, looks just like a bathroom mirror when not in active use, but blooms into a smart TV at the touch of a button, so you can play music, movies, live TV, or just get news and weather information.</p><h2 id="make-your-kitchen-sleek-and-tidy-with-smart-counters">Make your kitchen sleek and tidy with smart counters</h2><p>Kitchens have always been magnets for clutter. Countertop appliances, groceries, junk mail—everything winds up sitting on the counters, and there’s never enough counter space. One solution is to install smarter countertops. Products like <a href="https://www.invisacook.com/the-invisacook" target="_blank" title="open in a new window" rel="noopener">Invisicook</a> install induction burners <em>under</em> your countertop, so you can use it as both prep space and cooking space—no separate burners needed. This creates an elegantly minimalist look and gives you extra prep space when you’re not cooking. These have to be installed by professionals, and you might need to replace your current countertops as they have specific thickness and material requirements.</p><p>Another way to make your kitchen invisibly smarter is the <a href="https://www.freepower.io/home-business-owners" target="_blank" title="open in a new window" rel="noopener">Freepower</a> wireless charging countertops. This requires replacing your existing countertops with pieces that integrate the Freepower chargers, but once you do that, you can literally just <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IP1cYvrnLMk" target="_blank" title="open in a new window" rel="noopener">drop your devices</a> on the counter and they’ll charge—no bulky chargers or unsightly wires needed.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-hide-these-smart-home-devices-into-your-decor?utm_medium=RSS">https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-hide-these-smart-home-devices-into-your-decor?utm_medium=RSS</a></p>

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There's nothing sweeter than listening to your favorite album or watching your favorite movie with pristine audio. And if you're a true audiophile, few brands approach the quality Sonos can offer. Right now, Sonos is offering major discounts in the lead-up to Amazon's Big Spring Sale, and the Sonos Beam G2 + Sub Mini combo in particular stands out; it's currently $749, a 25% drop from the $998 list price and the lowest price it yet reached, according to price tracking tools.

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<p class="syndicationauthor">Posted by Daniel Oropeza</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://lifehacker.com/tech/sonos-soundbar-and-woofer-combo-deal-march-2026?utm_medium=RSS">https://lifehacker.com/tech/sonos-soundbar-and-woofer-combo-deal-march-2026?utm_medium=RSS</a></p><p>We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication.</p><p>There's nothing sweeter than listening to your favorite album or watching your favorite movie with pristine audio. And if you're a true audiophile, few brands approach the quality Sonos can offer. Right now, <a href="https://zdcs.link/ak1Ylg?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Sonos%20is%20offering%20major%20discounts&short_url=ak1Ylg&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Sonos is offering major discounts</a> in the lead-up to <a href="https://lifehacker.com/tech/amazon-big-spring-sale-2026-details" target="_blank">Amazon's Big Spring Sale</a>, and the Sonos Beam G2 + Sub Mini combo in particular stands out; it's currently $749, a 25% drop from the $998 list price and the lowest price it yet reached, according to <a href="https://lifehacker.com/best-price-tracking-tools-1692745053" target="_blank">price tracking tools</a>.</p><div class="shadow-b-2 mb-12 mt-10 rounded-md border-2 border-[#F0F0F0] px-6 py-2 shadow-lg md:px-12" role="region" aria-label="Products List" x-data="{ showMore: false }"> <a href="https://cc.lifehacker.com/v1/otc/06ZVRiLmglGs4QA6plTXzTC?merchant=05kie42h3YvHwjr4G1w80Qq&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSonos-Beam-G2-Sub-Mini%2Fdp%2FB0DVH15ZX1%2Fref%3Dast_sto_dp_puis&template=Deals&module=product-list&element=offer&item=offer-btn&position=1&element_label=Sonos+Beam+G2+%2B+Sub+Mini+-+White&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss&product_uuid=04itsVUBKoj35GaYFvylyo6&offer_uuid=01pDEoU4RwtgwjW9LQVHNoK&pageview_type=RSS&object_type=01pDEoU4RwtgwjW9LQVHNoK&object_uuid=04itsVUBKoj35GaYFvylyo6&data-aps-asin=B0DVH15ZX1&data-aps-asc-tag=lifehack088-20&data-aps-asc-subtag=01pDEoU4RwtgwjW9LQVHNoK" data-commerce="1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow sponsored" data-parent-group="affiliate-link" title="(opens in a new window)" class="flex flex-col py-8 gap-5 border-dotted border-[#CFCFCE] cursor-default no-underline md:flex-row md:gap-y-2 md:py-7 border-b-2" data-ga-click="data-ga-click" data-ga-module="product-list" data-ga-element="offer" data-ga-item="offer-btn" data-ga-label="Sonos Beam G2 + Sub Mini - 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This is Giffen, Jones,
and Mike McKone’s
story about zones
full of dead bones
and a grieving guy who groans
and moans
when the plan he hones
ends worse than Game of Thrones.

The two Justice Leagues are getting together for an “ice cream social” to mix and mingle. It’s healthy and good workplace management from Max and Catherine. So, naturally, it somehow leads to League-adjacent personnel f#cking around with the fabric of time.

( Last time the X-Men had a casual Friday, it gave rise to a version of the Phalanx made out of denim. )

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Current Mood: busy

Today is mostly sunny and mild. :D

The stump grinder guy has come and gone. He did an excellent job. The stump in front of the garden shed is gone and the hole mostly filled, though I'll add some top soil to smooth it out more. The east path is nearly smooth, might need a bit of raking. I'm particularly impressed that a ring of daffodils around the plump stump is still there! I had expected to lose those, so the precision is noteworthy. The parking lot is also nearly smooth. He got right up to the edge of the sidewalk and rock wall, although he advised there are some buried rocks and concrete that we didn't know about. I may need to rake some areas, and certainly need to see about removing the last stubs from the sidewalk to recreate that defensive zone. My partner Doug plans to drive over the parking lot to press it down some before ordering a load of fresh gravel to top it. Progress!

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches. Cardinals are singing.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 3/19/26 -- I put about half a bag of topsoil into the hole in front of the garden shed to smooth it out. That may need more later after it settles, but it'll do for now.

EDIT 3/19/26 -- I filled a flat of 12 pots with potting soil and in each pot I planted 5 seeds of short landrace marigolds. These are similar to Shithouse Marigolds but shorter. If I can get them growing well, I can save money buying nursery marigolds. I covered them with a plastic tub to serve as a greenhouse. I still need to label them though.

EDIT 3/19/26 -- I labeled the marigolds.

I checked the east path. It doesn't really need anything but grass seed. We'll need to buy a big bag of that. Recommended time for spring sowing is late March to mid-April.

I checked the parking lot. I picked up a few pieces of junk that were churned up, but it's also pretty good. I do need to work on clearing more of the sidewalk, but a lot of that will just be brushing dirt off it.

EDIT 3/19/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 3/19/26 -- I started working on the sidewalk again. Much of what covers it is just loose dirt that needs to be scraped off. Some is still packed dirt and roots.

EDIT 3/19/26 -- I watered the seeds under tubs.

It's 71°F now. Over the next few days, it's supposed to reach 80°F. 0_o

EDIT 3/19/26 -- I started the process of topping up troughs on the new picnic table. I want to finish those first six with the self-mulching potting soil.

EDIT 3/19/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 3/19/26 -- I finished topping up the troughs. I'll need to get more American Countryside potting mix. I like how it self-mulches. Soon I'll be planting peas in these. My plan this year, instead of putting the peas in their own container, is to space them out so they fertilize other plants. We'll see how that works.

While the deep freeze killed a fair amount of things, much has survived. Crocus have already put out new flowers. The bluebell leaves weren't as damaged as I expected. More squills are blooming.

It is 7:20 PM and not quite full dark. This was my first after-supper yardening session. :D

I am done for the night.

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Posted by Jake Peterson

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If your browser of choice happens to be Firefox, good news: Your web surfing is about to get a bit more private. On Tuesday, Mozilla announced a number of upcoming updates to Firefox, all under the theme of user customizability. One such option happens to be a built-in VPN that Mozilla will offer users free of charge.

This new VPN option in Firefox rolls out March 24, as part of Firefox 149. There are no downloads required, since the VPN is baked into the update: Once it hits your browser, you'll be able to turn on the VPN and start hiding your IP address and location while you use Firefox.

The only caveat here is that Mozilla is capping VPN data usage at 50GB per month. The company doesn't say what happens once you hit that data limit, and I've reached out for clarification, but my guess is that the VPN will simply switch off, sending you back to Firefox's default browsing experience—at least until the next month starts, and your data limit resets.

Why you should always use a VPN

If you use the internet without a VPN, you're being tracked (yes, even if you use an incognito window). Without a Virtual Private Network, your IP address is exposed to the internet. Trackers can follow you around the web, and your internet service provider can keep tabs on what you're doing. A VPN alone won't make you impervious to tracking, but it does go a long way—all without having much impact on your browsing experience.

There are a lot of VPNs out there to choose from, and not all of them are equal. However, the general rule of thumb is to be wary of free VPNs. This is often a case of "you get what you pay for," as many free options aren't necessarily "upstanding." The companies aren't making any money off you directly, after all, so they may seek out data-sharing solutions to make money instead. As such, they may end up compromising your privacy in the end, defeating the purpose of the VPN in the first place.

I don't see Firefox's free VPN raising those red flags, however. Mozilla has a better track record than most when it comes to user privacy, and, in fact, already offers a paid VPN. From where I'm sitting, adding a free, limited VPN to Firefox is only a win-win for Mozilla: The company gets points for boosting user privacy for free, and if those users are looking for more flexibility while preserving their internet anonymity, they can check out Mozilla's paid VPN option.

What else is coming to Firefox in the next update?

In its Tuesday post, Mozilla announced some other Firefox news in addition to its free VPN, including the following:

Smart Window: This feature, previously called AI Window, uses AI to offer "quick help" while you browse, without actually leaving the page you're on. This help can include things like definitions, article summaries, and product comparisons. Mozilla says the feature is optional and opt-in, following the company's stance on opt-in-only AI features.
Split view: This places two webpages side-by-side in the same window, following similar features in other browsers like Chrome.
Tab notes: This feature lets you add notes to tabs, up to 1,000 characters. A note will stay attached to the webpage until you delete it, even if you close the tab.
A new look: Firefox is teasing a "fresh new look," including updated themes, icons, toolbars, menu, and the homepage.

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Posted by Ross Johnson

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From humble beginnings, Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone has grown into TV's one inescapable franchise. The Kevin Costner-led original ended its run after a relatively compact five seasons, but that doesn't reckon with the three official spin-offs, the three others in development, nor with the Sheridan shows (Landman, The Madison, Bass Reeves) that feel like they could extensions of the Yellowstone universe, even if they technically aren't.

But given that success only feeds our appetite for more, here are 15 other shows that play with the themes and tones that have made Yellowstone such a phenomenon.

The Madison (2026 – )

I don't want to make this a list nothing but Taylor Sheridan shows, but they're definitely a vibe. It's early days yet for the latest, but it's already been renewed for a second season, a testament to the power of its creator and the inspired casting of Michelle Pfeiffer in the lead. She plays Stacy Clyburn, the matriarch of a rich New York family who decides to pick up stakes following a tragedy, reconnecting with what she's lost by visiting her late husband's isolated piece of land in Montana for a break from the show's horror-movie version of NYC. In the process she learns lessons about love, grief, and fishing in the folksy great outdoors. Stream The Madison on Paramount+.

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Queen Sugar (2016 – 2022)

Another intense family business drama with a dash of a succession crisis. In Queen Sugar, three estranged siblings in distant cities are brought together by the death of their father, who has left them each an equal share in an 800-acre sugarcane farm in rural Louisiana. The Ava DuVernay-produced (and sometimes directed) series offers plenty of scandal and soapy drama, but ultimately, it’s a show about a family coming back together to preserve its legacy. Stream Queen Sugar on Hulu.

Queen Sugar (2016 – 2022)

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Landman (2024 – )

Thornton plays Billy Norris, a crackerjack consultant, fixer, and general hired gun for a major oil conglomerate in present-day West Texas. Beyond the complicated economics and politics of the oil industry, the poor guy's also dealing with extremely complicated family drama, debt, criminal ties, and substance-abuse issues. Call it Dallas for a new generation. Stream Landman on Paramount+.

Landman (2024 – )

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Dallas (1978 – 1991, 2012 – 2014)

Speaking of, you can draw a pretty straight line between the Duttons of Yellowstone and the Ewings of Dallas, even if they're separated by time and state lines. (Also, the Texas-based Ewings specialize in Big Oil, with only a sideline in cattle ranching.) Led by Larry Hagman's implacable J.R., the primetime soap finds the family caught up in more than a decade's worth of shady business deals and personal trials, often overlapping (as when Ewing heir Bobby elopes with Pam, from the rival Barnes family). The revival series, a direct continuation, is also pretty fun: Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and Larry Hagman return, joined by a new generation of greedy, horny oil tycoon types, led by Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalf, and Jordana Brewster. Buy Dallas from Prime Video, same for the revival.

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Mayor of Kingstown (2021 – )

Another Taylor Sheridan creation, this one stars Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky, head of a family that’s been keeping the peace, more or less, in the title's company town for decades. The "business" of the corrupt burg just happens to be incarceration, and the McLuskys thrive when business is up, even if Mike himself has different ideas about how to run things. The show deals, at least broadly, with systemic racism and inequality in the prison system, but mostly it's a modern day western about bringing justice to a corrupt town. Stream Mayor of Kingstown on Paramount+.

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1923 (2022– 2025)

Hard to ignore the casting here: There’s certainly some TV work on the CVs of both Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford, but getting these two legends together for a spin-off series certainly represents a coup (especially when you throw in Timothy Dalton as the baddie). In this mid-quel, set between Yellowstone prime and the more western-themed 1883, the show sees the Dutton family of the era take on Prohibition, with the Great Depression looming in the background. Stream 1923 on Paramount+.

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Joe Pickett (2021 – 2023)

A vibe match that, while it doesn't replicate Yellowstone's family and business drama, still runs with the neo-western feel that defines a Taylor Sheridan show. Michael Dorman stars as Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden with a violent past and, well, a violent present too. Pickett is less of a tough action hero type, and more of a likable, everyday guy who just happens to be wrapped up in a murder via his day job. It’s not a comedy, but is definitely a bit weirder and more surreal than the more literal style of other modern neo-westerns, which generally lack flourishes like Pickett's memorable emu wrestling scene. Stream Joe Pickett on Paramount+.

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The Son (2017 – 2019)

The popularity of Taylor Sheridan-esque neo-westerns leads us, inevitably, to something closer to an actual western. In this series, adapting Philipp Meyer's 2013 Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel of the same name, Pierce Brosnan plays Eli McCullough, a ruthless cattle baron making moves to get in on the burgeoning oil industry in the Rio Grande Valley of 1915. A parallel narrative sees Eli as a young man, kidnapped and raised among a Nʉmʉnʉʉ family. While his backstory lends the character welcome complexity, in the present, he's as determined to build his empire as he is to prepare his son and grandson to take over when he's gone. Stream The Son on Prime Video.

The Son (2017 – 2019)

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Reservation Dogs (2021 – 2023)

While including several Indigenous actors and characters, Yellowstone gets...let's say mixed marks when it comes to representation. Though minus the big-business stakes of yellowstone, Reservation Dogs plays in a similar neo-western landscape, following a group of teens from the Muscogee Nation who resolve to honor the death of their friend by making a trip to California, experiencing a broader world for the first time. From producer/director/writer and Seminole citizen and Sterlin Harjo (alongside Taika Waititi), it's a dramedy that manages to bring both solid laughs and moments of heartbreak in dealing with issues and emotions common to rural teenagers who dream of going elsewhere, yet specific to these Oklahoma Rez teenagers. Stream Reservation Dogs on Hulu.

Reservation Dogs (2021 – 2023)

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Empire (2015 – 2020)

Terrence Howard leads an impressive cast (among them Taraji P. Henson, Gabourey Sidibe, and Vivica A. Fox) in this juicy, glossy, hip-hop infused soap opera. Howard plays Lucious Jackson (neé drug dealer Dwight Walker), who changed his own fortunes by building Empire Entertainment from the ground up. As the series begins, the music mogul is diagnosed with ALS and given a life expectancy of only a few more years. Refusing to watch his work die, he sets his three sons at odds to determine who’ll be the one to control things when he’s gone. His schemes are complicated by the release from prison of Cookie Lyon (Henson), the co-founder of the company and Jackson’s ex-wife. Drama! Stream Empire on Hulu and Tubi.

Empire (2015 – 2020)

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The Waterfront (2025)

Swapping Big Cattle for a family fishing business may seem like a big leap, but we've still got plenty of crime, shady dealings, and family angst in this Netflix series. Holt McCallany plays Harlan Buckley, returning to manage the family business, which is tied up with multiple dueling drug cartels, as well as unreliable family members—at least one on whom is looking to escape her legal problems by working with the FBI against her father and brother. Stream The Waterfront on Netflix.

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Dark Winds (2022 – )

Adapted from a series of books by Tony Hillerman, Dark Winds takes up back to the 1970s and the Four Corners region of the American Southwest (where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona meet). Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, and Jessica Matten lead the largely Native American cast as three Navajo Tribal Police officers brought together when a bank robbery on the border of the Navajo nation becomes entangled with the deaths of two Native residents. The show blends hardboiled crime and police procedural elements, but stands out for its exploration of the fraught history and relationships between these neighboring, interwoven communities. Stream Dark Winds on Netflix.

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Bloodline (2015 – 2017)

Maybe you can't relate to the Big Cattle drama of Yellowstone. Fair! How about a seaside inn in the Florida Keys? It's all relative (pun intended), and big family drama can crop up anywhere. Starring Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, and Sissy Spacek, the show finds Mendelsohn's black sheep Danny returning home for the 45th anniversary of the family business, only to stir up a whole bunch of buried trauma that leads to his dad dying due to a series of strokes. That's before we learn of the drug-trafficking, cover-ups, and murders past and present. It all makes the Dutton dramas look a tad tame, honestly. Stream Bloodline on Netflix.

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Succession (2018 – 2023)

White-collar coastal-elite types can have just as much fun with business and family drama as cattle ranchers. Succession is the darkly comic story of the Roy family, owners of media conglomerate Waystar RoyCo, and the chaos and backbiting that ensue when patriarch Logan (Brian Cox) suffers a stroke, prompting the family to begun fighting over who will take the reins after his inevitable demise. Prior to his medical incident, Logan has just given his third wife a say in his succession plans and elevated an estranged nephew to a position of power in the company, setting the stage for a (slightly less bloody) modern-day Game of Thrones scenario. Stream Succession on HBO Max.

Succession (2018 – 2023)

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Heartland (2007 – )

It's a foreign show. From Canada! Based on a popular book series from authors Linda Chapman and Beth Chambers (who write under the name Lauren Brooke), this series follows the lives of a family of horse ranchers in western Canada led by sisters Amy and Lou (Amber Marshall and Michelle Morgan). This is more family drama than Yellowstone, with the stakes a bit closer to home, but it's very much got that western feel—even if we're talking about western Alberta. If you're not familiar with it, there's a lot to catch up on: It just completed its 19th season. Stream Heartland on Netflix.

Heartland (2007 – )

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If the cost of signing up for a Spartan Race or Tough Mudder has ever given you pause, good news: You can now use your Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Spending Account (FSA) funds to cover race registration fees. Spartan has partnered with Flex, a platform that enables HSA/FSA payments across fitness and wellness brands, to make this possible.

How using your FSA to pay for a race works

A quick refresher on how HSA and FSA accounts work: Both are funded with pre-tax dollars, meaning the money goes into them before the IRS takes its cut. When you spend those funds on a qualifying purchase, you're effectively getting a discount equal to your tax rate. For most people, that translates to 30 to 40 percent in savings compared to paying out of pocket. So a $150 race registration might only cost you $90 to $105.

How to use your HSA/FSA to sign up for a race

The process is straightforward: If you have an HSA debit card or FSA card, it works much like any other payment method, where you just need to select it at checkout. Register for a Spartan or Tough Mudder event and pay using your HSA or FSA card. Flex then handles the eligibility verification on the backend, so you don't have to jump through hoops to prove the expense qualifies. (If you don't have an FSA/HSA debit card or didn't use it when you registered, it's unclear if you'd be able to submit you claim after the fact under this partnership; I've reached out to Flex and Spartan for clarification.)

The Flex partnership covers registration costs for Spartan's portfolio of events, which includes Tough Mudder races. And it may not stop there—Spartan and Flex are reportedly looking into more ways to extend HSA/FSA eligibility for things like training programs, recovery tools, and other athlete resources down the line. That would mean the full journey from training to finish line could eventually be (partially) funded with pre-tax health dollars.

The bottom line

In the big picture, a move like this is part of a growing shift in how fitness and wellness brands are thinking about access. Gym owner Equinox announced a similar partnership with Flex last month, allowing HSA/FSA funds to go toward select memberships, personal training, recovery services, and women's health programs. The underlying logic is the same: Physical fitness is an important part of preventative health, and your pre-tax health dollars should be able to work toward that.

If you've been sitting on unused FSA funds, or building up an HSA balance you haven't fully put to work, race registration is an unexpected but worthy way to use those dollars.

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Got the syllabus for the next symphony season today. The only evident choral works are the Mozart Requiem in October, the Messiah in December, and Holst's Planets in May. Nothing that I haven't done before. Also I would much rather be in the audience for the next Planets performance instead of waiting in the wings to sing the difficult high notes for Neptune and missing out on the rest of the piece entirely. So. I am entertaining other options.

The obvious one is to go back to handbells, especially since our church's handbell group hasn't had enough participants to perform for a couple of years now. If I'm not rehearsing with the symphony on Monday nights, I'm free to rejoin the metro handbell group that I've gigged with in the past. They will definitely want me back if I'm available.

There's also another high level choir that is holding open auditions over the next few weeks. I've heard them perform once before and they're very good. So I'm going to see if they're interested in me. But I don't know yet what their rehearsal schedule is if they are.

Meanwhile, Robby has expressed tentative interest in joining the symphony chorus himself, since the last time he did any large scale singing was in college, and it was the Mozart.

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So we set out to determine how Banksy did it – and who he really is. Weeks later, a reporter visited Horenka with a photo lineup of graffiti artists often rumored to be the artist and showed the pictures to locals to see if anyone recognized him. Not long after, we heard that a famous British musician – one of the people often whispered to be Banksy – had been spotted in Kyiv, giving us a theory to pursue.

Reuters interviewed a dozen Banksy-world insiders and experts. None would comment on his identity, but many filled in details about his life and career. We examined photos of the artist, most of which obscured his face but contained critical information. We later unearthed previously undisclosed U.S. court records and police reports.

These included a hand-written confession by the artist to a long-ago misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct – a document that revealed, beyond dispute, Banksy’s true identity.

And in the process, we learned how and why the man behind the name Banksy vanished from the public record more than a decade ago.

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Hello all!

I'm very new to Dreamwidth (showed up with the latest wave of Tumblr ex-pats) but thinking about using it to post some of my media-criticism thoughts that I've been collecting in a private journal for the last year or so.

However, I want to make sure I can tag these appropriately, so I have some questions.

1. What's the etiquette for posting tagging discussion of a piece of media that paints it in a negative light?

On Tumblr, it's often considered rude to bash something in its main tag, so if I wanted to make a post criticizing the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I'd tag it something like #mcu hate so that it doesn't show up in the main #mcu tag where people are trying to enjoy their thing.

(I'm primarily asking because I have some quite critical pieces about Harry Potter.)

2. Does Dreamwidth allow users to block tags? Is this something I should anticipate when tagging entries?

On Tumblr I'd tag something like #eating disorder / to hide it from people who are avoiding that topic, including the slash so that the tag isn't searchable (on my own blog or in general). Is that a thing here?

I think that's all I've got for now, but I'll probably think of more later.

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The Meta Quest Pro launched as Meta’s vision of what high-end virtual and mixed reality could look like without dragging a gaming PC into the equation. At $679.99 on Woot, it’s now $320 off its original $999 price and still more than $100 cheaper than Amazon at the time of writing. This deal runs for the next four days or until it sells out, with free standard shipping for Prime members and a $6 fee for everyone else.

This headset won PCMag’s Best VR Headset award in 2022, and while it’s no longer the newest thing Meta sells, it’s still positioned well above many entry-level VR sets—the newer Meta Quest 3 offers faster performance and more advanced mixed-reality features at a lower price, but the Quest Pro still holds its ground if you prioritize comfort, tracking accuracy, and its more premium build over raw power.

The Quest Pro uses a balanced halo-style strap with the battery placed at the back, which spreads the weight more evenly than front-heavy headsets. That makes longer sessions more tolerable, though “long” is relative—the battery lasts around two hours, which can feel limiting if you’re deep into work or creative apps. Inside, you get a Snapdragon XR2+ chip, 12GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage, which is generous for a standalone headset. The displays push 1,920 by 1,800 pixels per eye, with better contrast and richer colors thanks to local dimming. In practice, this means sharper text, deeper blacks, and fewer washed-out scenes compared to older Quest models, especially in mixed-reality apps.

The controllers are another upgrade. Meta removed the tracking rings and gave each controller its own cameras, so tracking doesn’t depend on where your headset is pointing. That pays off in tasks like 3D sculpting, painting, or precision-heavy productivity apps, where hand movement feels steadier and more predictable. Eye and face tracking also come built-in, which lets avatars mirror your expressions in supported apps. It’s impressive, but not essential for everyone.

One downside, according to this PCMag review, is immersion: The default open-style face interface lets in light from the sides, and full isolation requires an optional light blocker that costs extra. Still, if you're after a standalone VR headset, this is the lowest price the Quest Pro has seen.

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This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool other kinds of fanworks/fancrafts/fanart/fics/fanvids/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

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The Razer Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition wired gaming controller is down to $54.99 on Woot right now, which is the lowest price it has ever hit. It usually goes for around $99.99 on Amazon, and even previous deals didn’t dip below about $59, according to price trackers. If you’re a Prime member, you get free shipping, while others pay an extra $6. This deal is live for 12 days or until stock runs out, and Woot only ships within the contiguous U.S.

Razer Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition

Wired gaming controller

This is essentially the same controller as the Wolverine V3 Pro, minus the wireless battery. That means it’s wired only, using a long 10-foot cable. For PC setups, that’s rarely a problem—in fact, it’s part of the appeal. The controller supports a 1000Hz polling rate, which only works over a wired connection, and it’s built for players who care about responsiveness. Inputs feel sharp and clicky, more like a high-end gaming mouse than a standard controller. You also get six extra programmable buttons, which can make a real difference in games where reaction time matters. In something like a fast-paced shooter, mapping reload or weapon swap to a rear button can shave off just enough time to feel noticeable. The Hall Effect sticks are designed to avoid drift over time, and the textured grips help during longer sessions. All said, it feels solid in hand, though slightly heavier than you might expect.

Where it falls short depends on how you plan to use it. This is not a living-room controller. There’s no wireless option, no Bluetooth, and no flexibility if you like to game from the couch. The customization also leans on Razer’s software, which you’ll need to download to remap buttons or enable that 1000Hz mode. It works well and lets you create profiles for different games, but it does add an extra step. You also can’t tweak everything, like the main button layout or D-pad. Still, if you mostly play on PC and want something that feels closer to a competitive tool than a casual controller, this deal makes a strong case.

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