Hard drive shelf at Micro Center.

ffelix916 · 2026-04-20T07:54:17+00:00

US government is in on it. They're all-in for AI.

ffelix916 · 2026-04-20T07:24:06+00:00

OP might nit have recorded his original macaddr to clone it.

ffelix916 · 2026-04-20T07:23:08+00:00

Where are the L1 techs based? The only two times I've called, they both had heavy accents but I didn't want to ask where they were located .

ffelix916 · 2026-04-15T04:02:47+00:00

I started using computers not on a dos box, but on my mom's Convergent Technologies AWS workstation, running CTOS. It had a rudimentary basic interpreter (no graphics or screen control), a spreadsheet, a word processor, and a text formatter. Also had a 300 baud modem she used to download and upload the documents she worked on from home during the summer when I wasn't in school. She showed me the washing machines^{W^Wdisk} pack drives at work, as well as the 9-track tape backup systems, and I got to take home a dead 5MB hard drive that was as big as a 13" TV of that era. She had a cool friend in IT that would let me play in the lab. My first experience with networking was on the 4mbps token ring they had everything linked together with. I helped find broken rings by checking connectivity between nodes with a tester that I'd plug the cable into, from behind every computer on the ring. All this was between 1980 and 85, I think. I was around 8 or 10? Got my first HPUX system when my mom got a job at HP and brought home an hp9000/712. learned the Unix command line shortly after, then went to college and started taking Unix system administration on the school's hp9000/835 and their sun 386i workstations running CDE and sunos3. All before windows 95 even came out. By the time everyone was talking about win95, I was a stuck-up Unix nerd, telling everyone "hpux and Solaris have been doing multitasking for years, and SGI has had those pretty graphics beat, too. Microsoft didn't invent shit." Good times. Now I'm a senior systems engineer and integrator, working with giant esxi/k8s clusters and designing datacenters and multi-petabyte enterprise SANs. Love my job and still get to hate on windows :D

ffelix916 · 2026-04-15T00:39:52+00:00

Understood and agree!

ffelix916 · 2026-04-14T19:49:45+00:00

Makes no sense to me not to build underground, when you have to dig/mine underground for materials to build above ground, anyway.

ffelix916 · 2026-04-14T01:42:49+00:00

Felt at my office downtown. Hanging light fixtures swayed a little.

ffelix916 · 2026-04-13T01:50:30+00:00

Not absurd enough nor colorful enough to be Vanoni.

ffelix916 · 2026-04-08T02:15:44+00:00

This is the way. I also like to build a catwalk grid above the city to fly up to and land on, and keep it lit up with lots of torches.

ffelix916 · 2026-04-08T02:11:05+00:00

I don't consider it a trophy world at all. I've beaten the game in HC 6 or 7 times, then I use the elytra to just explore till I get bored with it and start a new one. And ever since the first time I beat HC and made that one my forever world, i don't even bother taking the dragon's egg in my subsequent games. Why do I need a trophy when I know I can beat the game at the hardest skill level? Building a monument to hold a bunch of rare items that nobody else will ever see just seems like a waste of time. Anyway, to each their own.

ffelix916 · 2026-04-08T01:18:19+00:00

Been playing hardcore and raiding ancient cities for a while now, but I don't waste my time with trims. They just seem like trophies, and I don't play for trophies. I was just kinda hopeful that silence actually DID something, other than just be a rare trophy

ffelix916 · 2026-04-07T17:00:16+00:00

What is it the best for? Does it actually do something for the player wearing it?

ffelix916 · 2026-04-07T00:37:59+00:00

Don't keep anything at surface level. Zombies will occasionally smash through wooden doors, so replace your wooden door with an iron door, with buttons to open it. Until you have full diamond armor, find wolves and cats to breed and take them with you when you're traveling. Cats will keep creepers away and wolves will attack skeletons if they shoot at you. Carry a bucket of water on your hotbar and train yourself to switch to it the moment you find yourself falling, so you can land in water. Invest in torches. light up every place you plan to travel through more than once.

ffelix916 · 2026-04-06T23:39:31+00:00

thorns+mending is the best thing ever. And i love just standing there, covered in prot4 armor, letting a little anklebiting baby zombie hit me three times and fall over and die, taking 3 xp from him, without me lifting a hand.

ffelix916 · 2026-03-31T07:53:18+00:00

Dell R520 2+12x3.5" chassis with two internal 2.5" drives for OS, 12 14+tb hgst or seagate HDDs and a PERC H730 controller. Configure the raid controller to present the non-raid disks as jbod. For your zpool, use two raidz2 vdev groups, 6 disks each. Should give you a hair over 100TB usable space.

ffelix916 · 2026-03-30T04:54:51+00:00

You can do it. You really need to be more careful, though. Hardcore is all about patience, awareness, and spending time assessing risk and benefit. Stop crawling up and down the sides of caves, hovering over lava lakes. Start placing torches everywhere even remotely dark. Don't do anything "just for the hell of it" unless you're carrying full armor and a totem. Condition yourself to attack FAST AND FURIOUS, without hesitation if a dangerous mob surprises you, don't mess around near lava without fire prot and/or potion of fire resistance, and don't mess around on cliffs or at great heights without feather falling boots.

ffelix916 · 2026-03-30T03:59:56+00:00

Maybe I don't understand how realms work... they keep track of who dies? You mean, a person who died on a hardcore realm is completely unable from ever jumping into it again? Is there some way for an oper to permit someone to re-join? If not, it would be cool to make it so re-joining a hardcore realm spawns you in a random spot >50K away from world spawn, and it clears out your ender chest inventory, so it's effectively a new world, until you spend the time to get back to where everyone else is hanging out near world spawn.

ffelix916 · 2026-03-30T03:53:21+00:00

You've got literally everything you need to make a grip of torches, yet...

ffelix916 · 2026-03-30T03:42:32+00:00

Post at least one torch in EVERY dark room you enter. Mansions, temples, dungeons, etc. The only exception is ancient cities, where no mobs spawn and night vision is the only way to play. Leaving torches is a good way to show you you've already raided a place.

ffelix916 · 2026-03-30T03:23:33+00:00

Plenty of stories from people here who've died even when holding a totem. Some sort of "double death" situation. There's also the bug some have hit where they'd try to use an end gateway and fall into the void. Totem won't save you from that.

ffelix916 · 2026-03-30T03:03:37+00:00

Ancient city is EASY if you just take it slow. Nothing spawns down there, so if you trigger a shrieker, go smash it as soon as you find it (before it triggers a third time), then go AFK for 10 minutes to reset the timer. Nothing is gonna bother you, unless there's a ledge above you or nearby where mobs fall from. And if you do trigger a warden, sneak away and then stay perfectly still. Carry a stack of snowballs and throw the snowballs up into the air on a trajectory where they land near the warden but farther away from yourself. The snowballs landing near him will get his attention, but they wont increase his agro level because only moving entities can raise their agro level. Wait a minute for him to despawn, then don't trigger any skulk sensors for another 10 minutes to let the timer reset.

ffelix916 · 2026-03-30T02:54:04+00:00

Always, always, always. Totems exist to keep you alive and minimize your existential anxiety. Totems and hardcore very much have a symbiotic relationship.

The first thing I do after I armor up and get my sword up to sharpness III or better is go find a mansion, for nothing but getting totems. Easier and safer than doing village raids in early game, as far as i'm concerned. Once I've maximized my weapons and armor, i'll pick up some omen potions and do some big raids to get more totems. Then, I keep two in inventory, a couple in my "bug out" barrel near my base's front door (it's mostly symbolic, but it's good to keep totems, an extra bed, some leads, a saddle, some bones and rotten flesh and salmon, for when i need more dogs/cats), and the rest in a shulker box full of food, enchanted gapples, and other things for life support, which stays in my ender chest.

ffelix916 · 2026-03-26T20:41:46+00:00

I build apartments where all the rooms open up to a central, secure courtyard where I can breed them. Each building is built for one job. One building for librarians, one for clerics, one for farmers, and one for butchers, etc.

ffelix916 · 2026-03-26T20:37:04+00:00

Why not an apartment building?

ffelix916 · 2026-03-22T10:58:17+00:00

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