Gabe was in the office during the Scranton Strangler police chase (assuming that was the real strangler that got caught).

In Firefox there’s an option to copy links without site tracking. Kinda wish it was the default behaviour.

Song.link is the simplest I know of and seems to work pretty well. Just go to song.link/YOUR_TRACK_URL. For example

https://song.link/https://music.apple.com/album/never-gonna-give-you-up-2022-remaster/1624945511?i=1624945512

will take you to this page https://song.link/i/1624945512 with links to Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube and what not.

Bonus tip: if you’re on macOS and use Velja there’s an option to automatically convert all copied music links to songlink.

Reeder, my favorite RSS reader, seems to be compatible according to this.

Why is there an iMac under iOS?

That’s pretty much the same size as an iPhone 15 Pro. Not even close to the size of the mini.

Just use a password manager and a unique, long, random generated password for every site. There’s no need or reason to know the password to anything other than your password manager and your primary email.

Porkbun is awesome. A few months ago I transferred most of my domains from Namecheap to Porkbun and I’ll be transferring the rest soon.

Namecheap are still in my top 3 after Porkbun and Cloudflare though.

I’ve never been entirely happy with automated switching so I just use a keyboard shortcut to switch manually between light and dark when I feel like it but this looks good.

I really doubt an automated database dump is going to hurt them a whole lot. However, if you’re looking to eliminate everything you’ve ever posted (and I mean everything, not just the few recent posts you see on your profile), redact.dev (possibly others too) can use that zip to find all your posts and comments and edit/delete them.

Now I’m not saying you should delete your data. I know many people believe that leaving it there benefits humanity as a whole or whatever, but if you are going to do it that’s the only effective way.

The macOS firewall can only block incoming connections. If you want to block outgoing too you need something like LittleSnitch or LuLu.

A lot of people seem to have forgotten (or maybe just weren’t around at the time) but there were tons of duplicate communities on reddit during the first years too. Over time their mods either agreed to close one and point everyone to the other or the less active ones faded away naturally.

One problematic scenario I can envision with that approach on Lemmy however is the mods of news@lemmysite1 and news@lemmysite2 agreeing to keep the first one alive, but then after a while lemmysite1 closes for whatever reason. So we’re left with news@lemmysite2 which is a ghost town. Probably not a big deal for a news community, but for something with a lot of info on a particular topic it’s not really ideal.

Haha well then it’s a good thing they’re only giving an option to turn if off and not removing it completely :)

Personally I don’t mind it as much as other people but it just feels kinda cheap. The beep makes me think of a microwave or a dishwasher, not a gaming console.

It also finally brings an option to mute the startup beep!

questions if you want to block something or not

Interesting because that’s exactly how LuLu works too. Or did you just whitelist everything and block only what you needed manually?

I like how minimalistic RadioSilence is, but I found it a bit too limited for my use case. Does the job if you want to just block an app or two and allow everything else.

Lulu is awesome, free, and open-source (so… triple awesome?). I’ve personally used it for a couple of years and I can definitely recommend it.

Unfortunately there have been 3 separate times that it seemed to completely forget its configuration and having to allow or deny every single connection all over again gets old pretty fast. Little Snitch also looks nicer and has a few more features, although nothing life changing.

With that said I just saw a decent discount and decided to share it. I’m not saying you should use one over the other or anything like that.

Looks good, but as far as I can tell there’s no option to keep your data offline only.

After using old.reddit for ~15 years (of course back then it was called just reddit) I have to say I don’t miss it one bit. It had so many issues, but was still infinitely better than the abomination they came up with to replace it so I stuck with it. While far from perfect, I much prefer Lemmy’s UI.

With that said, having the option is great. I’m sure it’ll help a lot of people with the transition.

I’m also going to wait a bit before updating (for the first time in a very long time) mostly because of the docker downgrade. Don’t have a whole lot of time to tinker with stuff right now in case something breaks. 6.12.1 is also running smooth on my machine so I’m not really in a rush.

Edit: nvm, upgraded. All good.

Corporate vehicle, borrowed car from a friend/family member, rent-a-car, etc.