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I use Ungoogled Chromium as my primary web browser on Manjaro. My 2FA SoloKeys generally work... except for my Google account that I use to access the Search Console. I thought it was curious that my keys only failed to work for Google, so I looked for the reason why. I did find the answer on GitHub along with how to fix it were I so inclined.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/google-2fa-with-a-fido-security-key-in-the-ungoogled-chromium-browser/

#google #chromium #fido #solokeys #ungoogledchromium #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal #foss #manjaro

I relied on a 1923 book about reading tea leaves to discover the symbolism behind various musical instruments. My take-away is that you never know what you may find on Project Gutenberg.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/reading-tea-leaves-the-symbolism-of-the-guitar-and-other-instruments/

#tea #tealeaves #guitar #music #fortune #projectgutenberg #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal #lute #drum #piano #violin #tambourine

After my nostalgic post about the end of BlackBerry 10 yesterday, it was time to get down to business. How could I get move photos from my Classic to my computer? As much as I tried to avoid it, I ended up completing the transfer with a combination of KDE Connect and Syncthing.

(Do I have the only photo of a BB Classic pinging an /e/ OS with KDE Connect on the internet?)

https://thenewleafjournal.com/transferring-the-photos-from-my-blackberry-classic-using-kde-connect/

#blackberry10 #blackberry #kde #kdeconnect #syncthing #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal #eos

As I looked into the screen of my BlackBerry Classic on the last day of BB10 (PS: I forgot to strip the BB ID before Jan 4, is that unfortunate?), I felt a bit wistful. But while I recalled spending 2011-2020 with QWERTY-keypad BlackBerrys, I felt optimistic that the QWERTY phone will rise again. As I noted before... if record players and instant cameras can come back...

https://thenewleafjournal.com/farewell-to-blackberry-10

#blackberry #blackberry10 #qwerty #phones #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

I was one of the later BlackBerry 10 hold outs, only moving off my BlackBerry Classic about 10 months ago (now happily with /e/ OS). Yet I only just saw that today is the last day for BlackBerry 10. ...I wonder if I can still do something with my Classic. But I digress. I revisit an article from October 2020 wherein I tested the Open Camera App from F-Droid on my BlackBerry.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/trying-open-camera-on-blackberry-classic/

#blackberry #blackberry10 #fdroid #opencameraapp #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

In October 1922, then-Vice President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, delivered remarks on the subject of "better homes in America." In my post, I considered the applicability of Coolidge's remarks on physical homes to the idea of digital homes for individuals - or what he described as the longing in each person to be able to say "this is mine."

https://thenewleafjournal.com/applying-coolidges-remarks-on-the-home-to-the-digital-home/

#coolidge #history #digitalhome #selfhosting #property #bigtech #foss #freedom #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

I purchased a refurbished 2013 Asus Nexus 7 to try Ubuntu Touch. I used the UBports Installer and got it working with little hassle. In this post, I describe the process and offer some (very) early and brief impressions of Ubuntu Touch. I look forward to learning more about it and writing a longer piece in the future.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/installing-ubuntu-touch-on-an-asus-nexus-7-2013/

#tablet #nexus7 #ubuntutouch #ubuntu #ubports #ubportsinstaller #manjaro #snap #openstore #nextcloud #foss #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

After Phil Mickelson broke a 53-year old record for the oldest major champion, I was curious how many golfers had threatened the record between 1968 and 2021. Under the criteria I used, there were 15 cases - all documented in my new article.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/oldest-golfers-to-contend-for-majors-between-the-1968-and-2021-pgas/

#pga #golf #philmickelson #juliusboros #pgachampionship #golfmajors #sports #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Inspired by a recent duck rescue story, I searched for duck/duckling rescue stories for an Around the Web post. Little did I know that there were so many ducklings in need of rescue that I could fill a nearly 3,000-word post with rescues that occurred in the last 3-4 weeks.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/duck-and-duckling-rescue-stories-from-around-the-web/

#birds #ducks #duckling #animalrescue #ducklingrescue #stormdrain #city #birdrescue #aroundtheweb #TheNewLeafJournal #newleafjournal

For Mother's Day, I published a long article about Anna Jarvis and the origin of Mother's Day, using original newspaper articles from the earliest observances in the United States and Australia. The early celebrations of Mother's Day highlighted the original concept of the occasion before it become commercialized in later years.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/anna-jarvis-and-the-origin-of-mothers-day-in-the-united-states/

#history #annajarvis #mothersday #mother #carnations #australia #ushistory #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Last September, I published "The Red Car on Roosevelt Island." There are times when a post's title describes the content exactly. This is one of those times.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-red-car-on-roosevelt-island/

#nyc #rooseveltisland #manhattan #QueensboroBridge #car #redcar #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Since I have been on the subject of privacy-friendly search engines lately, here's a post on a less-than privacy friendly search engine. Yandex returns an interesting result for a straight search of my website's name: An aesthetic carousel. In an earlier post, I highlighted how this can be amusing if one of your article thumbnails is a picture of the result.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/recursive-fun-with-yandex-search-carousels/

#yandex #searchengine #seo #bigtech #searchresult #thumbnail #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Spring is springing. To celebrate - an anecdote about seeing a black squirrel and blue jay in the same scene in Brooklyn two decades ago - a bit unusual. Accompanied by a haiku - written on my Ti-89 (because why not, when we're being nostalgic?)

https://thenewleafjournal.com/ti-89-haiku-boerum-blue-jay-and-black-squirrel/

#brooklyn #nyc #spring #bluejay #blacksquirrel #squirrel #ti89 #graphingcalculator #haiku #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

I once used Microsoft Paint to illustrate a clear and distinct idea. The result was a drawing that depicted an unclear and indistinct idea of a tree of truth tree (it really is a tree, not a mushroom cloud). And thus, I stuck with my philosophy major, resisting the siren call of the art department.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/an-unclear-and-indistinct-idea-of-a-truth-tree/

#descartes #philosophy #microsoftpaint #tree #idea #stickfigure #baddrawing #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

It's good to see Pixelfed trending. I have written about Pixelfed on my site. I decided to try following my own Pixelfed profile via Aton Feed in the QuiteRSS feed reader to see how things look. I also thought it would be an interesting way for readers of my site who do not have Pixelfed to see our extra content and get a feel for the platform, so I turned it into a New Leaf Journal article.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/follow-the-new-leaf-journal-pixelfed-atom-feed/

#pixelfed #atom #rss #foss
#newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal #quiterss