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I wonder if anybody ever made fancy shadertastic replacement assets for #Descent 1 and 2?

Modders have done a fantastic job with #FreeSpace, with high-detail models for every ship in the game, but from what I can see, Descent looks pretty much the same as it did 30 years ago.

#retrogaming

@JakobFel

How old is considered "retro"?

Off the cuff, I have enjoyed the #Descent trilogy (and it's more modern successor #Overload), Descent: #Freespace, and Thief 3: Deadly Shadows

Explainer: Storage settings

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/20/explainer-storage-settings/

<p>Storage information provided in macOS has a chequered history. While that provided in Disk Utility has remained a benchmark, a separate <strong>Storage</strong> feature introduced some years ago in <strong>About This Mac</strong> quickly became notorious for its fragility and inaccuracy, with many reporting huge discrepancies. Over the last couple of years, and with its transfer to System Settings > General > Storage, it has become more reliable and useful. This article explains where it has reached in macOS Tahoe 26.2.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/storage1a.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-89878" height="942" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/storage1a.jpg" width="668" /></a></span></p>
<p>Its view has three sections.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/storage1b.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-89879" height="177" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/storage1b.png" width="910" /></a></span></p>
<p>At the top, the <strong>Storage Bar</strong> shows a breakdown of space used on the boot disk into categories, total used, and total free space that now correlate better with figures shown in Disk Utility. The <strong>All Volumes</strong> button extends that to cover other disks, but as no detailed information is provided for them, you’re still better off checking in

@wyatt

I'm reminded of when some modders made some sweet high-resolution FMVs for #FreeSpace.

I think they used a modern video format, though, not the old Interplay MVE format that the original game used. Modders integrated #ffmpeg into the engine, so it can play FMVs in basically any format.

Why did that macOS upgrade take so much space?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/02/why-did-that-macos-upgrade-take-so-much-space/

<p>If you bought an M1 Mac with just a 256 GB internal SSD and have kept up with macOS upgrades and updates, should you be worried that it’s running out of space by the time it makes it to Tahoe? Dare you look at Storage settings to see how much of the SSD is now swallowed up by System Data? This article explains why macOS 26 shouldn’t devour the last of your SSD, and how you can ensure that it doesn’t.</p>
<h4>What’s on your Mac’s internal SSD?</h4>
<p>Internal boot disk layout is most complex in Apple silicon Macs, as theirs is divided into three partitions (or APFS containers). Two are hidden and contain pre-boot and other low-level support files, and amount to around 6 GB. The Macintosh HD partition then takes the lion’s share, the whole of the remainder. Even on a 256 GB SSD, that’s about 250 GB.</p>
<p>Volumes within Macintosh HD include:</p>
<ul>
<li>System, just over 12 GB,</li>
<li>VM, varies in size according to how much virtual memory is swapped out to disk,</li>
<li>Preboot, just under 8 GB,</li>
<li>Recovery and others not normally mounted, a total of less than 2 GB,</li>
<li>Data, whose size is determined by what you store there.</li>
</ul>
<p>The system your Mac actually boots into isn’t the System volume itself, but a snapshot made of it, occupying the same space, plus a little extra for the snapshot’s metadata including its tree of hashes to form its seal and signature. Because this is a snapshot it uses t

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It's a bit of a shame that #StarTrekEnterprise never saw the Enterprise get a shield system. Could've been a fun “oh crap they have shields now" moment, or maybe a “oh crap our heroes will never survive this…but wait” moment.

The show did have several episodes where the Enterprise got some cool new equipment, but aside from an alternate-future episode, shields were not one of those upgrades.

I'm thinking of #FreeSpace, in which you don't have shields at first, and getting them is a big deal.

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A two story house but it is a stage prop just a front wall basically with windows a door a balcony. To it's left there is a prop tree

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I heard yesterday's #pixel_dailies was a quite a weird one: #freespace ... Weird, PD HQ must be overcooked

#pixelart @pixel_dailies #aseprite

A sign on a chunk of floating dirt spelling "FREE", in the background (top left) earth, along with the sun and some stars

Another experiment in exploring the edges of pixel art by using a Processing sketch (and the #jgs font by @adelfaure ) to turn a photograph into a 1bit ASCII artwork. #freespace for #pixel_dailies #ASCII #portrait #1bit #blackandwhite #processing #cyberpunk #pixelart #ドット絵 @pixel_dailies

ASCII portrait of a young man in pure black and white pixels, the portrait is rendered through a monospace pixel font called jgs5.

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Spend #Caturday afternoon with a lover of cats!
It's my "birthday gig"!

Saturday April 26th 2025 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.

John & Peter’s
96 S Main Street
New Hope, PA 18938

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The REAL birthday bash in 2 days!

Saturday April 26
3 - 6 PM

John & Peter's
96 S Main Street
New Hope, PA

Do not miss these afternoon shows!

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A Disgraced Hunter Biden Informant Had Ties to Trump Social Media Bid

Alexander Smirnov, whose case is now under review by Trump’s Justice Department, had a stake in the firm that lost out to Truth Social in the rush to launch a Trump-branded platform.

#AlexanderSmirnov #Smirnov #TruthSocial #Trump #FreeSpace

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alexander-smirnov-trump-biden-impeachment-doj/

#FreeSpace

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