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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Friends and I have had servers up for years now. It only looks like Minecraft on the surface, it plays pretty differently beyond placing cubes of stuff down. It’s survival focused, so there’s cooking and hunting etc. Making in pretty minimal and then you need to smelt the ores down, hammer ingots into what you’re crafting voxel by voxel, and climb up the ladder of materials while dealing with more and more complex processes to make better items.

    There’s seasons that affect crop growth and animal health, and your internal body temp is tracked so if you don’t wear warm enough clothing or let it go to tatters you’ll freeze to death in winter. If that starts to suck hard enough you can travel thousands of blocks toward the equator and the average temp will go up as you do. There’s no biomes like MC, areas are populated based on average seasonal temps and rainfall dynamically. Altitude affects these too.

    It’s neat.








  • Maybe I could, but I’m not using it for gaming so battery life, portability, and fan noise don’t have to be sacrificed for a few more FPS when I wanna play something light on the road.

    The Tim Taylor approach to hardware was great when I was a kid, less so in my 40s looking to do some moderate coding and radio projects on the road away from my massively overbuilt gaming rig I already own. This lil guy checks all those boxes. I was just wondering what specific hate there was on newer models.


  • Maybe I’m missing something, but I finally retired my old laptop for a ThinkPad X13 a few weeks ago and it’s been perfect for my use case. Build quality is solid, battery life is alright, it’s small and light, and everything worked out of the box with the preinstalled Ubuntu. After testing it all I slapped EndeavourOS in there and have had zero issues. Specs are solid and I got it for like $1200. Even the AMD integrated graphics are punching way above what I expected.

    Just curious about what folks are complaining about with the newer Lenovo models.







  • Anecdotal like the rest of the posts here, but I recently built a new rig for gaming/lab testing and used a Gigabyte board for the first time in a decade after seeing good reviews and a solid sale price.

    About 3 weeks after setting everything up it just crapped out. Would reboot seconds after you pressed power. Checked and verified absolutely every other part, no luck. Tried to contact support, got the runaround for a few days until I was directed to a site to submit an RMA request.

    That was a month ago, zero movement still. About 4 days into it I bought an identical part of Amazon and “traded” em. I’m usually pretty ethical about that kind of thing but this was ridiculous and I needed the PC working ASAP.

    Who’s decent anymore? I always used to go with MSI.