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I'm definitely lazy, but my dad is pulling me to do DIY stuff. Sigh. ;)

@tunnel I played Minecraft since Alpha, and have been turning to modded Minecraft pretty darn early. Never ever touched Bedrock version myself because it was not 'modded enough' to begin with. I love the freedom that the Java version gives me, even though performance sometimes is abysmal, especially in the heavier modpacks.

So my knowledge of Bedrock is nonexistant I'm afraid. Just that my cousins are playing it on their Switches, but I bet that's probably vanilla Minecraft.

For modding Minecraft you actually don't really have to hack up Minecraft code. You can choose to go for Fabric, or Forge, or uh.. the other thingies, Spigot? They're all modloaders which already takes care of the hacking part and provides hooks for modders to mod into. So it's a bit easier.

As result, there really are a _shitton_ of mods available for the Java version. Forge's most popular but Fabric is gaining territory as well and is a bit lighter on resources I've noticed. Some modders choose to release their mods for both, some are exclusively the one or other.

Spigot (If that still exists) is another way but I've left that scene (from when it was still Bukkit, iirc) a long time ago for Forge. Mind you, I don't make mods myself.

I did notice a performance improvement with the latest Minecraft, though. 1.12 had this one great modpack but it'd make our badass server whine. 1.14 I didn't play too much. 1.16 made my client whine. 1.18 ... is an improvement. Even loading up the game somehow doesn't take 10 minutes anymore but just around 1 minute or so. So I'd say Java is improving.

I'm currently playing a new Minecraft modpack called All Of Fabric 5. It uses Fabric instead of Forge, so that part is new to me. Though Fabric is easy to put up on a server, it's basically automated.

Anyway! So I'm playing this modpack for two weeks now and some mods are pretty new to me. I wondered if there was anything akin to Ender Chests and I'm pretty happy that they have an alternative called Entangled Chests! And Tanks! And Buckets! And Bags!

Not seeing anything for wireless long-distance power yet, but that can be worked around by converting stuff into lava, pumping it over, and converting back to power!

So far I'm liking Fabric, it's faster to boot up and it's lighter on resources usage!

On Thursdays I do the space/astronomy news -- this week featuring:

○ Hubble's 32nd anniversary!
○ JWST is allllmost entirely cooled (4 primary mirror segments to go!)
○ all DNA/RNA building blocks have now been found in meteorites
○ good-bye Axiom-1, hello Crew-4!
○ β Pic exocomets are similar to ours
○ Ingenuity investigates landing debris

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Just returned from King's Day flea market in town. It was very busy! I wouldn't be surprised if half the city went there. The other half went to various music stages in town, loud enough for me to feel the music.

It is the one day in the year where people can put all their rubbish on display and try to sell them, lol. I enjoyed seeing all that trash. :D I think there was a bit more trash than usual thanks to Corona the past 2 years, people had been saving up. :P

I expanded my Loekie de Leeuw collection with yet another lion plushie. And a very old Sjors & Sjimmie comic. Total damage? 1 euro. :P

Also had delicious fat fries with mayo from de Belg, in a puntzak. I'm fine now for the coming 5 years with greasy food. Burp. It'll just be a sandwich for dinner later. :P

I'm glad that King's Day seems to be back to normal. Let people enjoy themselves.

Wow. No wonder we thought we were slowly becoming crazy. Turns out the spirit level we used is actually broken and it showed different information depending on which side is facing us.

So yeah, it was always 5cm too high or 5cm too low. With another one we finally managed to get it right, and yes, that was 2,5 cm difference. :P

Hey, if you are new here, and need a (temporary?) avatar, I updated my page with all my generators: cats, birds, fenestars and abstracts, have fun!

➡️ davidrevoy.com/article591/cat-

For if you are wondering who to follow or where even to start...

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To all new users: Welcome to the Fediverse. Enjoy the ride, be polite and all that. Just have fun. This ain't too different from Twitter features-wise, so it should be pretty easy to pick up.

Don't forget to set your profile text and picture so that you're your unique self. And remember, interaction is the easiest way to gain friends.

The Federated Timeline can be quite a busy place. You can mute people and whole instances when you think you don't like their content. Don't get agitated, just filter them out this way.

Don't forget to set your language preferences in the settings so that you might see less foreign languages that you can't understand coming from foreign instances.

And lastly, remember.. this ain't Twitter.

It sure is getting busy here. I wonder what Qoto's user stats will look like. Maybe we'll see a sudden spike? :P

Uhh... Ordered: A steel design laptop storage case.
Got: A plexiglass one where the seams are almost falling apart, screws are rusty, power strip is glued so we can't get to there, and missing one rubber leg.
This stupid thing is going back. Prutz0rs.

Weirdest reason to leave for job on time (or less late anyway): gigantic power outage in my part of town. :P

Buddy asked me to vectorize a logo he's designed. Thing is, he designed his logo very geometrically... even added notes of lengths, distances, etc.

So it was fairly easy! ;)

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