I’ll probably hop on when I’m feeling froggy

PolyMC has a toxic lead dev. Google it to learn more. PrismLauncher forked from it about a year ago taking nearly all the active devs, and it remains my favorite launcher of all those I’ve used.

Fuck PolyMC.

Hi5! I’m 45 and I have played MC from the beginning, still play it more than any other game. Now my little kids play it with me and it’s their favorite too.

for me, reddit nearly always has way more quality content and news for me though for the time being

It’s not just you.

As constructively as I can put this, reddit has been building community and goodwill for many years. Lemmy has only recently become an option and it’s done wonderfully in the short time it’s had.

The challenge is the catch 22. People go where there is more content, they produce content there, and then there is more content there. There no vacuum, reddit didn’t disappear. It became toxic and people apparently care less about avoiding toxicity than filling up on dank memes.

All I can say to that is we all need to be the change we want to see in the world. Adopt a Lemmy First mentality, and go to reddit only to pick up legacy slack. Continue the conversation from there over here. Link it up.

Look forward to talking to you!

The same could be said of literally every single product that magically became way more expensive post pandemic for no justifiable reason.

First, let’s consider that up until fairly recently in human society, writing has been the domain of the wealthy and not entirely accessible to everyone. The rich could write whatever they want or patronize those who could write what they wanted for them. The rarity - relative to the greatest developments of proliferation being chiefly the printing press and recently the internet - of written works, demanded that anything someone bothered to put into physical written form must have considerable innate value to someone. If they didn’t, nobody would have bothered with the effort or expense.

I no longer have access to the reference for a citation and am having trouble digging it up, but I saw (probably on a blog about AI) some figures recently describing the amount of written “material” produced by humanity on a daily basis (or some other comically short time) in 2023 being comparable to the amount produced in the ~five thousand preceding years since the written word is thought to have been invented.

With as much “writing” being produced, most of it being spam or low-effort shitposting, the signal to noise ratio is unbelievably high. Regardless of the profundity of the thought being born and described, the chance of having anything written today - randomly on the internet - recognized for its quality is infinitesimally small.

I believe that there IS a fantastic amount of truly remarkable writing being done every day all over the internet. Nearly all of it will be retained on some form of media basically forever, even until the media is woefully obsolete / destroyed / the heat death of the universe. Most of it will never be set upon by human eyes again after this weekend.

Today, like hundreds of years ago, what rises to the surface does so due to commercial pressures. If you are awesome and impress a publisher with deep pockets, your words could be preserved in a form that will be read in 2434. Of course, it will have to continue to be impressive long after most of the books selected by Oprah’s Book Club.

Everyone thought it could have been an honest mistake. After all, she was home schooled. But then, they found out her name is actually Margaret.

Hey, @AvaddonLFC

To answer my own question for future Lemmy students.

The work in the above question is absolutely doable, to degrees of satisfaction that will vary depending on your level of pickiness and how large an area you are trying to impact.

The area I was trying to lower totaled a bit over 100m blocks. This requires a lot of memory to accomplish. When I tried on my server with 6GB allocated, it crashed over and over. Following instructions I received from a dev on the Worldedit Discord:

You can use the //move command to move it, and //regen to regenerate the underground area after it’s moved based on current MC generation You can also try disabling things like updates & neighbours in //perf Probably everything except lighting is fine to disable

With that advice combined with my own experimenting…

• Increase RAM to 24GB
• Disable autopause
• Disable backups
• Disable Coreprotect
• disable updates & neighbors in //perf

…I was able to move, about ~20m blocks at a time, the whole mess in about a half dozen operations, down 30 blocks from where it was. Entities did not move with the structure, most notably armor stands and item frames.

With the same considerations, I was able to “fill in” all the empty space down to -64 using //regen.

Now, while this was all happening, I got booted, the threads fell behind, could not reconnect, etc - but until I’d disabled a bunch of stuff and increased resources, the operations would not complete at all.

I hope this helps someone!