The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café Social
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The Emu Café Social is a social-publishing site powered by WordPress. Members will be able to use the site to post about what interests them and discuss their external projects. While the site is conducive to short-to-medium-length posts, it also accommodates longer-form writing. By advertising feeds and user profiles, it will be easy for visitors to follow individual writers or to follow the project as a whole. In general, members of the site can and will post about subjects of interest to them.
Latest Posts
I came across a guide on Flamed Fury to disabling new AI “features” in Firefox. I run Firefox with Arkenfox and a separate overrides file. I had not noticed any AI features with my set-up, but Flamed Fury inspired me to check my...
I read a Hacker News thread about a new Android browser called Helium Browser. Helium is an open-source browser project based on GrapheneOS’s Vanadium, which in turn is based on Chromium, adding extension support to Vanadium while losing...
From an October 14, 2025 report in Brussels Signal: “A group of protesters gathered outside Microsoft’s EU office to complain about the company’s decision to end security updates for its older devices running the Windows 10 operating...
If you had asked them whether someone could bring teaser trailers for The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten season two, Allen Iverson’s shooting sleeve, and George Costanza’s insights on hair together under the umbrella of one article,...
I have never used NordVPN and have no plans to (happy with Mullvad VPN), but I must credit on two points NordVPN for a recent October 14, 2025 news release titled NordVPN for Linux goes open-source, with the GUI also available via Snap....
I am playing Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore (TMS) for Switch along with a friend (not in person). He beat the prologue ahead of me. Thanks to work and a certain article project, I took a while to get around to finishing the prologue....
I ran some different Google Search queries to look for backlinks to The New Leaf Journal. I found a few. For example, New Novel ‘Under the Neon Sun’ inspired by real conflict between Yakuza and Chinese Gangs published by K. Kjelsberg on...
I subscribe to DistroWatch’s feed in Miniflux. Through this, I learn about different Linux distributions. Today I saw an update for FunOS. That is a fun name, but what is FunOS? [A]n Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring the...
I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice...
I had a Microsoft Teams call with my boss. I run Teams in Brave on my Linux workstation. My sound set-up is two Creative Pebble Pro speakers, with the left speaker having 3.5 mm jacks for a headset and microphone. For whatever reason, he...
Back in July 2022 I wrote about Mullvad VPN offering 12- and 6-month activation code cards on Amazon (see Mullvad news release). I had my Mullvad account set to auto-renew back then. Last October, I decided to use the Amazon card option...
My test running Ubuntu Touch on my Pixel 3a XL as my primary phone continues. I received an MMS for the first time today. Instead of displaying the MMS, the default Ubuntu Touch messaging app told me it could not be downloaded. I tried...
I had been using Balena Etcher to write Linux ISOs to USB sticks since I installed Linux on my current workstation back in 2020. I read something late last year or early this year about Etcher sending telemetry about the ISO being...
I noted in my most recent New Leaf Journal article that I am temporarily daily driving Ubuntu Touch on my phone. One problem on Ubuntu Touch is its limited native app selection. But that may not be a problem for my feed reader. I run my...
I have purchased and played (or read) visual novels on Steam. You can read my reviews of ACE Academy, Kaori After Story, and Return to Shironagasu Island, and LoveChoice for four examples. Setting those four aside, I have also discussed...