Idk if it makes me elderly, a child, or a non-gamer, but I fucking loved BOTW/TOTK. Nintendo, through those games and countless more, have repeatedly proven frame rates and fidelity aren’t what make games great. Sure, some games (especially competitive ones) benefit from better performance, but just as many get by on their creativity, story, etc.

Get dat flatpak.

Yes, it absolutely can, it’s super easy! Just swap your Minecraft .jar with Paper and it’ll do the rest. It’s a tiny bit harder to go back, but only marginally.

Out of the box, aside from huge performance benefits, Paper is virtually indistinguishable from vanilla, but it also opens the door to a whole world of easy-to-use server-side plugins.

Edit: (you should still make a backup before swapping, just in case)

CPU intensive servers like Minecraft are where you start to run into problems with older hardware. If it’s just you on there, a 10 year old CPU is fine, but if you’ve got a few friends, the server may start to struggle to keep up.

Not sure how recently you ran this, or what all your were running, but in the past couple of years Paper has hit some pretty major milestones in unlocking threaded processing. Barring some sort of spammy 0-tick redstone nonsense or over the top plugins, I’d wager a Raspberry Pi 4 could handle up to about 5 or 6 friends without seeing any TPS dips. Its really remarkable how far they’ve pushed performance recently.

Could I get a larg HDD and ad it in an enclosure to the Mini PC to handle the media volume?

Like an external USB drive? Absolutely.

if OP doesn’t keep their honey in a bucket in the basement they should be fine

First time on the internet huh? Pretty good odds OP is right now trying to figure out where to store that 5-gallon bucket of honey he just purchased, and that basement is looking mighty tempting.

I’ve also used some really crappy gas stoves but none have struggled that hard.

You must not be going to the right crappy AirBnBs, I’ve had gas stoves struggle to stay lit, which is not just bad for boiling water, now you’ve got a gas leak in the house!

If you really want to burn your house down flame your home wok, you can always get a handheld blow torch to do the finishing ignition. Could probably flame 1000 wok dishes for a single torch canister.

Photons cause cancer so I guess I may as well do nothing at all.

Yes, and you can test it pretty easily by just seeing how much faster a pot of water boils on induction, on-par with the boiling times of commercial burners.

Also, in a commercial setting, induction stoves cook just as effectively with less energy which means they don’t put out nearly as much heat to the environment. For a chef, its the difference between working all day in 90-degree spaces to 70-degree AC. I’m an engineer who works on a lot of commercial kitchens (among other things), and our chefs love the electric kitchens we’ve delivered.

When you’re cooking for work, 8+ hours a day, being comfortable while you do it is a major game changer.

The other thing they enjoy is the level of control and consistency - many professional induction ranges will let you control on temperature, which means you can quickly adjust to specific values in order to, say, sear a steak at 500, then finish it at 300 until it hits the desired internal temperature.

Aside: WTF is that cover photo? Is Trump dancing? Is it supposed to look like he’s trying to throw a punch?

I was like “Wow, did they roll it back already?”

Dear lord I can’t believe this is only now becoming a feature - those redirect spammers are the worst! What do you gain from making my life more difficult? I just close the tab and search again, this time with your website blacklisted.

Just in case you want to do nothing, nowhere in particular.

Can someone please get that man a copy of Battle Rush: Build Up Robot Tournament before he sells it all?

If I were him, I’d at least make the sale conditional on having enough time to acquire the game with the new funds before shipping.

Read the title as Oxycontin and was like “damn, slow down Lemmy”

And if OP’s password vault is their Firefox account? Somehow some way you have you remember at least one password!

When you start getting up to/past 1080p, better texture quality >> higher resolution. I’d rather they spend the extra GPU cycles to take their 540p content from “Low” to “Medium” quality before upscaling than take it from upscaling 1080p to 2160p.

If I share profits, then how do I, a lowly CEO, keep all of the profits for myself?

No sharing in Notesnook