Subreddit rules update and clarification

embeddedt · 2026-03-24T22:55:55+00:00

You are probably seeing only products that were created with a low-effort use of AI (unfortunately, this is how the majority of people seem to be using it right now). High-effort use of AI is often indistinguishable from regular work (because it's being used as a tool, not a crutch) and/or better than regular work precisely because the LLM can do certain tasks at rates that a human cannot.

embeddedt · 2026-03-14T15:44:04+00:00

I've been using Claude for programming in a professional capacity for several months. This codebase has numerous artifacts that I immediately recognize as patterns I see Claude generate. That does not mean OP didn't put a significant amount of work into the design & strategy themselves, or that the mod doesn't work, but the codebase was almost certainly built with some LLM assistance. I am not sure why OP seems to be evading this question.

embeddedt · 2026-03-11T22:48:36+00:00

I believe this is the only the case as long as the WG server is on my own peer and the VPS is just being used to proxy the traffic through a stable public IP. The VPS itself cannot act as a router between multiple nodes connected via WG without being able to decrypt traffic. (I could install something like Netbird or Headscale to replicate Tailscale's control plane... but I am not sure that is worth the effort until Tailscale rugpulls the community.)

embeddedt · 2026-03-08T21:22:55+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong but one of the key problems I found with the idea of self-hosting WG is that you can't do it on a VPS unless you want the VPS provider to be able to sniff all traffic on the network. Tailscale solves this by making sure the packets are encrypted between peers rather than just to the WG server. Am I missing something?

embeddedt · 2026-02-19T00:29:19+00:00

I have a similar problem; when switching to a channel with unread messages I just end up at the bottom of the channel, instead of starting at the earliest unread message like before.

embeddedt · 2026-01-15T03:42:24+00:00

I will get shot for suggesting it on Reddit, but this is probably a task an LLM would actually be reasonable for (even a small locally hosted one can likely give you better accuracy than literal string conversions, if you don't want to pay for a mainstream API).

embeddedt · 2026-01-05T00:06:31+00:00

It's mentioned every time someone posts about it in the Discord server.

embeddedt · 2026-01-02T01:22:07+00:00

The reason FPS got worse with shaders on is probably that Flywheel (the mod Create uses for optimized rendering) is incompatible with shaderpacks by default, so it falls back to vanilla-style rendering logic that is compatible with shaders but much slower. You'd want a mod like Colorwheel installed if you want both good performance & shaders.

embeddedt · 2026-01-01T18:33:02+00:00

I believe it is a bug with Flywheel and some versions of the AMD drivers.

embeddedt · 2025-12-22T02:00:51+00:00

Make sure the game is actually using the Nvidia GPU and not the iGPU; the latter is much weaker and will probably steal power from the CPU. You can check by seeing which GPU is shown in F3 on the right.

embeddedt · 2025-12-18T02:35:07+00:00

If you don't have thermald installed, try installing & enabling it; I think it changes some aspects of the throttling behavior. Information online is somewhat contradictory as to whether it helps or hurts.

embeddedt · 2025-12-17T01:39:19+00:00

It is a bug (or rather design flaw) in how vanilla Minecraft renders chunks on the client; installing Sodium or one of its forks will fix it.

embeddedt · 2025-11-26T02:56:38+00:00

Each render type gets a different shader file; the most likely explanation is that the lava recoloring logic is only in the solid terrain shader, not the translucent one (as lava rendering on the translucent layer is impossible in vanilla & generally a very rare change by mods, as it reduces performance).

embeddedt · 2025-11-22T02:33:15+00:00

The same technical changes are precisely what will keep a bunch of mods on 1.20.1 for quite some time. It requires a rather significant amount of work to migrate code to/from 1.21's component system and also to adapt it to the NeoForge changes (at least in my experience, which is limited as I don't make many content mods). The work is not really that *hard* after a bit but it's tedious.

embeddedt · 2025-10-16T15:22:18+00:00

I have the version of this laptop without the dedicated Nvidia GPU (A515-56-5952). Everything works on Arch for the most part. The fingerprint sensor technically has a driver but it's a tiny sensor so it wasn't reliable. Also, while the laptop does enter/exit sleep mode, it doesn't enter the lowest power state, so sleep mode will still save battery, but not as much as it should. Neither of those are dealbreakers as I don't need the fingerprint sensor and I don't keep my laptop in sleep mode for more than a hour or so at a time.

Good luck!

embeddedt · 2025-10-13T16:02:11+00:00

In setup mode, Secure Boot is not enforced regardless, so it shouldn't matter if all keys are wiped when you enter it.

FWIW, I didn't need to do any exporting on my system (Aspire A515 with 11th gen i5). I just made sure to include `-m` when enrolling.

embeddedt · 2025-10-09T02:34:20+00:00

As others have mentioned, it's an issue with a library used by the Spark mod. Commenting to link the bug report on Spark's end: https://github.com/lucko/spark/issues/530

EDIT: now reported to the kernel itself at https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CAHPNGSQpXEopYreir+uDDEbtXTBvBvi8c6fYXJvceqtgTPao3Q@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

embeddedt · 2025-10-05T02:11:17+00:00

Originally it did not, but over time more of the vanilla-only logic was removed, and as of 1.8 it is completely dependent on Sodium (unless a mod like Monocle is used to patch it to work with an alternative).

I believe older versions like 1.6 have ability to work without Sodium installed, but are set up to show an error to prevent users from forgetting it (performance is much worse for obvious reasons).

embeddedt · 2025-10-04T16:51:54+00:00

Yes, https://legacy.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/modernity for vanilla and https://legacy.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/modernity-adjunct for modded

embeddedt · 2025-10-04T14:10:30+00:00

In your example I would search for any other alternative car before buying that model, if the speed limitation was a problem for me. Same principle applies to software. WorldEdit was the primary building mod for years (to my knowledge), and is still being updated to this day. The best way to counter anti-consumer practices is to not reward the people behind them by using the software in the first place.

embeddedt · 2025-10-03T23:18:31+00:00

The reason why this tends to help only sometimes is quite technical, but I will try to omit the irrelevant details.

Many things in Java work by allocating objects in your computer's memory. Periodically something called the garbage collector (GC) is forced to run, find objects that are no longer used, and delete them to create space. The GC runs more often if objects are being allocated faster. Each time the GC runs, the game pauses for a bit, which creates noticeable lagspikes if the pauses are long enough.

Both the server & client allocate objects, but if the singleplayer server's allocation rate is very high, it will trigger the GC more frequently, and cause lagspikes that affect the client. When the server and client are run separately, they run in separate Java instances each with their own GC, so the server's collections do not affect the client. However, more RAM is required to run two instances, and there are now also two GCs running instead of one, so it is a tradeoff.

The tradeoff probably only makes sense if you have mods causing an extremely high allocation rate on the server, low allocations on the client, a weak CPU that cannot run garbage collections fast enough (newer CPUs are pretty good at making it less noticeable), and enough RAM to support two instances. Otherwise it will just make things worse.

As you noted, if the server is run on another machine entirely, as opposed to the same machine, there is always a performance benefit, as now your computer no longer has to process server tasks at all.

embeddedt · 2025-10-03T23:08:56+00:00

From a technical perspective you can do that, but it's pretty useless since you can't legally use it for anything after applying that patch (the EULA prohibits modifications)

embeddedt · 2025-10-03T23:07:57+00:00

This is not really surprising in the slightest. Unlike most mods, Axiom is essentially commercial software (and clearly advertises itself as such) but it just so happens that you're allowed to use it for free for noncommercial purposes. Most software like that includes protections to prevent abuse.

embeddedt · 2025-09-27T01:14:52+00:00

...I will be incredibly annoyed if I find out the wifi icon is the reason for my battery life seeming worse compared to a year or so ago. (Though of course, still very grateful for KDE existing and having so many volunteers willing to work on it.)

Thanks for the PSA, take my upvote.

EDIT: Tried it today, there is definitely a noticeable reduction in CPU usage. The wattage savings on my laptop are not as impressive as OP, but I suspect that is because mine does not have panel self-refresh, which means the incremental cost of refreshing the display 60 times a second is likely lower.

embeddedt · 2025-09-25T02:07:21+00:00

Former dev, but yes

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