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Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name — Luanti
  • This is the most recent and performant tool I have heard off, to convert Minecraft worlds to Mineclonia specifically.
    https://github.com/rollerozxa/MC2MT
    I haven't tested it though.

  • Introducing Our New Name | Minetest rebrands to Luanti
  • Btw, mineclone2 also rebranded as Voxelibre, months ago, and for the same reasons. Voxelibre now actively moves away from copying Minecraft exactly.
    If you want the closest copy (and my personal recommendation) check out Mineclonia.

  • Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
  • Valve is holding the carrot, Microsoft the stick.

  • Minecraft players outraged as Microsoft deletes accounts that weren't transitioned
  • Well for the sake of context Mineclonia is a fork of Mineclone2, which has now rebranded itself as VoxeLibre. The project was forked due to personal and design disputes. In fact the most productive developer of Mineclonia, used to be the lead dev of mcl2.

    Currently VoxeLibre maintains the continuity of the original project and the community which explains its higher popularity. Mineclonia by comparison has very little presence, the discord server was set up like a couple of months ago I think.

    But in terms of code, mineclonia has been the faster evolving of the two. More features, more bug fixes, and advances from voxelibre that are deemed valuable are cherry picked. In terms of specific features, I really prefer the double digging depth, and the better villages. And voxelibre has significantly shortened the attack range which I find really annoying.

    Other than that, mineclonia is more commited to being a true clone of minecraft, with voxelibre going out of its way to diverge, especially after the rebrand, which might turn out to be wise if microsoft's trademark lawyers come knocking.

  • Minecraft players outraged as Microsoft deletes accounts that weren't transitioned
  • Indeed you can. Personally I find the phone interface a bit too clunky, but if your phone's hardware is up for it, it does run, and all platforms that support Minetest are compatible with each other.

  • Minecraft players outraged as Microsoft deletes accounts that weren't transitioned
  • Nope, you can just use these mods for the time being.
    On the flip side, it's orders of magnitude easier to write a Minetest mod, and keep it updated with later versions and compatible with other mods.

  • Minecraft players outraged as Microsoft deletes accounts that weren't transitioned
  • Friendly, and unsolicited reminder that the Minetest engine + its game Mineclonia (or alternatively Voxelibre) are a pretty good open source alternative as of late.
    Minetest is also getting some pretty nice upgrades to its graphics lately. The upcoming release should be looking quite pretty.

  • Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive
  • Here's a tip for YouTube, than might come in handy.
    In videos that have subtitles available, you can go to the bottom of the description and hit the Show Transcript button. It opens the transcript on the right, and you can search in it. The negatives are that it's not always available, and when it is, and it's automatically generated, it might be inaccurate/misspelled, especially for niche technical terms.

  • Heliboard 1.2 Released, Fixes Haptic Feedback Bug
  • Just figured out yesterday that OpenBoard is abandoned and jumped over to Heliboard, thanks to the announcement for 1.0 in this community. The top comment mentioning FUTO Voice Input, was also a great find.
    The only annoying part is that I now have to retrain my recommendations for HB, since OB unlike HB, offers no way to extract your settings, and I found no method to access the settings files in newer Android. Thankfully, since HB offers import/export, it will be the last time.

  • Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within maybe as far south as Alabama to northern California?
  • Event documented as a sidetrack in future Summoning Salt video transpiring as we speak.
    Sidetrack over, queue HOME - We're Finally Landing

  • Goodbye, Eevee!
  • What? EEVEE is evolving!
    EEVEE evolved into RAYTHEON!

  • U.S. Military Asks for Help Finding Missing F-35 Fighter Jet
  • Downside of making them so stealthy? Have they checked between the cracks of the couch?

  • I think I'm quite ready for another adventure
  • Don't forget your handkerchief

  • Television
  • I got a Kingston SSD once ( yes I should have known better) that kept freezing my laptop which needed to be restarted. I couldn't narrow it down and put up with it for an embarrassingly long time, until while looking for unrelated stuff I found out that the firmware version was associated with freezes. And then I found out that it was basically impossible to upgrade it, even on windows. After many hours, I was almost ready to give up, until I found some random Russian video (which I don't speak) that used some ancient version of their shity firmware updater that you could only find in sketchy forums and software sites that could actually upgrade the firmware to a non-crashy version. I think it still freezes, but it's orders of magnitude rarer.

    Long story short, Kingston, not even once.

  • Television
  • Sadly, if you are using Linux and want your firmware updates for your SSD through the proper native channels, Samsung was the only option last time I checked. Crucial used to have a half-assed solution that they abandoned recently.

  • 'High and Low' by M.C. Escher
  • The grain makes it look like he was using some ray tracing algorithm he had secretly developed, but he hadn't figured out denoising yet.

  • anon play the sauna game
  • (στον) κώλο μου / (ston) kolo mou. Ideally spoken, with an accent close to the dude in the middle:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyhXpx4Gis

  • anon play the sauna game
  • My contribution to the discussion is that the Greek phrase for "(in) my ass", if said in a hasty/hillbilly way, sounds pretty similar to Gollum. Might even call in to question the true nationality of this game's visionary inventor.

  • Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 6 nations set to join the BRICS economic bloc
  • Ah yes, China's and India's rivalry over supremacy over East Asia wasn't enough. Now they can have KSA and Iran fighting over the Middle East, plus Egypt and Ethiopia ready to go to war over a dam, under the same banner. I guess if half the members of a consortium want to murder the other half it balances out?

  • Steam Deck Stable Client Update: July 10th
    store.steampowered.com Steam Deck - Steam Deck Client Update: July 10th - Steam News

    We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Stable (default) channel. Note: This client was rereleased on July 10 to fix installscript support for some games General Added playing a sound to some notification toasts where it was previously missing. Fixed wrong auto display scale being c...

    Steam Deck - Steam Deck Client Update: July 10th - Steam News

    Again, not 3.5. but more fixes.

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    MineClone2 @lemmy.world walderan @sh.itjust.works
    Release 0.84 - The Very Nice Release

    Release Notes: https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/src/branch/master/releasenotes/0_84-the_very_nice_release.md

    Forum Post: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?p=426648#p426648

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    Steam Deck Stable Client Update: June 21st
    steamcommunity.com Steam :: Steam Deck :: Steam Deck Client Update: June 21st

    Note: This update was re-released on June 23rd to fix the following Desktop Mode issues: Fixed client window opening at login or when started with -silent flag for certain startup locations Fixed incorrect screenshots showing for non-Steam games Fixed adding non-Steam games on Windows Added note to ...

    Steam :: Steam Deck :: Steam Deck Client Update: June 21st

    Not 3.5 yet, but plenty of bugfixes

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    walderan walderan @sh.itjust.works
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