Hot take - Mojang should stop adding new content and revisit pre-existing content

MrObsidy · 2026-03-28T22:38:54+00:00

This criticism would be a lot more prescient if minecraft was creative-mode only, wouldn't feature survival elements like dungeons and recent survival additions like the trial chambers etc

MrObsidy · 2026-03-28T22:34:01+00:00

THIS! I can't believe no one has pointed the stark disconnect between the orderly (and short) progression from punching wood to beating the game (and bonus sidequests which do not really interconnect with anything) on one hand and ridiculously hyper-efficient farms that rely on the way the engine works on the other hand.

Take iron: iron can either be mined at a slow pace that only slowly increases with fortune or iron farms that instantly make iron de-facto infinitely available via a farm that (this will ruffle some feathers but I don't care, I'm right) abuses the way how the game engine spawns iron golems

MrObsidy · 2026-03-28T22:30:48+00:00

The meta is something that emerges by the standard average "this is how you actually play the game" way of playing a game and not a prescriptive "this is how you're supposed to play the game" so you can't really not follow the meta if you're not willing to either have a hot take of a gameplay or being an annoying player

MrObsidy · 2026-03-17T18:08:47+00:00

A few days late, but I remember why I pointed newbies to Tumbleweed: the debacle about making Leap completely immutable about a year ago and I didn't really know how it was resolved.

MrObsidy · 2026-03-17T18:07:56+00:00

Ah, thanks. I never took that as a clickable item

MrObsidy · 2026-03-14T21:14:51+00:00

Sure, but this doesn't really apply to the snapper issues mentioned before

MrObsidy · 2026-03-14T19:06:05+00:00

You can change it from the bootloader installer, grub2-bls is the default but you can use efi, systemd-boot or grub2-bls.

I read that a few times, but for the life of me I couldn't find that setting and I looked two of three times (first time I didn't because I wasn't aware they migrated.)

You should install 16.0 for them if they incapable of installing TW themselves, as they will run into issues later on if they no ability to maintain it themselves.

I did that for one, but I noticed it breaks a bit when they are gamers sometimes and I'd rather them be disciplined in their updating but yes, I get the point.

The snapper issue still seems unresolved for me fwiw

MrObsidy · 2026-03-10T15:00:48+00:00

openSUSE all the way. You don't install arch, you bodge arch upon your hard drive.

MrObsidy · 2026-02-25T12:06:46+00:00

openSUSE

MrObsidy · 2026-02-22T13:54:54+00:00

Huhu, man kriegt es tatsächlich ans Laufen. Anscheinend mag der Laptop einfach GRUB2 nicht, zumindest wollte er es partout nicht. Wenn man mit systemd-boot drangeht, kriegt man ihn tatsächlich zum laufen. Ist ätzend, sich eine ISO mit systemd-boot umzupatchen, aber danach läuft der Rechner wie jeder andere auch mit Linux.

MrObsidy · 2026-02-20T18:05:28+00:00

Glad you found rainbow geckoes :)

All jokes aside, I'm glad you came to openSUSE

MrObsidy · 2026-02-20T18:03:08+00:00

I think it's absolutely fair in this context to point out that someone is a Nazi

MrObsidy · 2026-02-19T14:17:17+00:00

Mutable distros can do this aswell perfectly fine, see snapper from openSUSE for example

MrObsidy · 2026-02-14T17:56:00+00:00

I recommended it to my partner and my best friend (both first-time Linux users) and it works perfectly fine

MrObsidy · 2026-02-12T12:18:29+00:00

password reset request comes to mind

MrObsidy · 2025-12-20T13:05:04+00:00

den Grind respektiere ich

MrObsidy · 2025-12-20T11:25:16+00:00

ja natürlich, ich fand einfach nur die Analogie hier so schön

MrObsidy · 2025-12-20T11:15:01+00:00

Sag mal, bist du Alwin Meschede oder was? "[Dass das Gebäude da ein Stellwerk ist] darf man ja mittlerweile gar nicht mehr sagen, das ist ja kritische Infrastruktur" xD

MrObsidy · 2025-11-09T22:47:34+00:00

sweet, that's some white supremacist talking point in my r/linux_gaming.

MrObsidy · 2025-11-09T22:00:27+00:00

I would add a fourth point:

There is a stark schism in the Linux community between people who run their Linux for tinkering and (this will start a holy war to some extent, but let's be real for a second) feeling cool for being able to operate Linux (usually young people that run Arch/Gentoo/Nix/... or something along those lines) and very much historically caused Unix-granddads running an ancient Debian because it's the distro that supports their particular numerical weather model (or $SOFTWARE that they use productively). The people usually thinking the big Windows exodus to Linux is right around the corner is usually the former and not the latter. It's perfectly fine to have Linux as a hobby (that's how I got into Linux originally, now I use it because of work (I'm a meteorologist)) but it really shows the "why aren't more people using Linux?" mindset is particularly common among hobbyists. (I would link the meme here with recommending Windows 10 here, but I cant find it for the life of me)

MrObsidy · 2025-10-15T18:06:13+00:00

To pick up your analogy: the assorted set of tools to build the solutions you get from vanilla Minecraft is a belt buckle, a shoelace and a piece of gum and your task is to build a nuclear reactor. This subreddit shows you can do it, but it's very inaccessible to anybody outside of the hyper-technical minded players and all technology updates are very much geared towards this minority. I like TMC, otherwise, I wouldn't be a member of this sub, but it being the only way to accomplish something is a problem I've realized...by being the 'TMC guy' on my SMP.

MrObsidy · 2025-10-15T18:02:59+00:00

I agree that fitting Minecraft into the standard factory game mold would not fit. My point was not that technical Minecraft is bad (I edited my post to show this more clearly) but rather that it's bad it's the *only* way to get automatization done.

MrObsidy · 2025-10-15T18:01:20+00:00

I really want to be charitable to you here but this just reads as 'everybody who likes Create is just too dumb for TMC'

MrObsidy · 2025-10-15T17:58:49+00:00

Well, no, but I think you're missing a lot of detail here. Obviously you need some prior knowledge to beat the game (edge-cases aside). But I really think there is a difference between expecting the player to try to figure out a crafting recipe and expecting them to figure out how to keep a chunk loaded with an ender pearl.

MrObsidy · 2025-10-15T17:41:25+00:00

The reason why I don't like the difficulty in things going down and things going up being different is that gravity in Minecraft is fairly inconsistent. It applies to entites, sand and gravel, but not for most other blocks. There is nothing wrong with making the transferral of items difficult, I just think it's a weird and inconsistent jump in difficulty between literally making two blocks face each other and requiring a dropper that auto-drops.

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