[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 4 points 4 hours ago

My answer is the original BioShock, just like OP. The story, setting, soundtrack, and overall vibe made a lasting impact on me.

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 7 points 1 month ago

The Wikipedia article has these relevant quotes from the court opinion:

The question is thus whether the Betamax is capable of commercially significant noninfringing uses ... one potential use of the Betamax plainly satisfies this standard, however it is understood: private, noncommercial time-shifting in the home.[7] [...] [W]hen one considers the nature of a televised copyrighted audiovisual work... and that time-shifting merely enables a viewer to see such a work which he had been invited to witness in its entirety free of charge, the fact... that the entire work is reproduced... does not have its ordinary effect of militating against a finding of fair use.[8]

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 133 points 1 month ago

In 1984, this issue made it all the way to the US Supreme Court, which ultimately decided that recording television to tape using a VCR for personal use (“timeshifting”) is fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc.

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 3 points 1 month ago

A free, open-source app that does this system wide on macOS: https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper

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[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 22 points 5 months ago

Alpine.

I’m a longtime Arch user, and would have preferred to use Arch on a particular system, but didn’t want to deal with needing to babysit ZFS packages from AUR.

So, I decided to use Alpine after never having tried it before, and ended up sticking with it. Like Arch, it’s both lightweight and has a capable/sensible package manager, which are the main things that are important to me.

I haven’t had any growing pains from Alpine’s use of busybox/musl/openrc, things mostly Just Work!

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 6 points 5 months ago

I self-host https://miniflux.app/ and it has been working great for my needs.

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 4 points 6 months ago

Endless Sky is open-source, completely free, and might be what you’re looking for!

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 3 points 7 months ago

Some I haven’t seen mentioned yet are Interplay and MECC.

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 8 points 8 months ago

I’m curious if anyone dailies Alpine for desktop use. (I don’t.)

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 21 points 8 months ago

From Ricky Mondello, who works on passkeys at Apple: “If it’s device-bound, it’s not a passkey”:

https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/111188643228872151

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 24 points 8 months ago

Q-Tips (cotton swabs.) Generics seem universally worse.

[-] synthsalad@mycelial.nexus 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nightly automated runs of the chkbit script is the only thing that alerted me to the fact that either the SSD or storage controller in my Mac Mini had issues and was corrupting data. I was very thankful to have already had the automation in place for that exact scenario.

It theoretically shouldn’t be necessary for filesystems that have built-in checksumming.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by synthsalad@mycelial.nexus to c/bean@lemmy.world

To my eyes, post comments in Bean are drawn with a fair bit of extra whitespace/padding, which increases the amount of scrolling required when reading comments. It would be great if Bean had a "compact" display setting for comments that reduced the padding and packed comments together more densely.

Thank you for considering my request and for all of the work you do on Bean!

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