Friday, April 12
Daily News Stuff 12 April 2024
Squirrel Edition
New and talented vtuber.
And when I say "new" she's been struggling to get noticed for four years before creating a separate account to rant about things - and then that account is the one that finally took off.
That happens a lot.
Also, just noting, Midas sounds like Calli's little sister. If Calli has a little sister, which she might.
Squirrel Edition
Top Story
- The Humane AI Pin is the solution to none of technology's problems. (Engadget)
Ouch. Well, what about The Verge, they love pointless shiny toys...
- Humane AI Pin review: Not even close. (The Verge)
Maybe those idiots at Wired?
- Humane AI Pin: 4 out of 10. Too bare bones and not all that useful. (Wired)
There's just no pleasing some people, particularly when your product is garbage.
Tech News
- Western Digital has announced its 4TB SD card. (AnandTech)
Full size, not shipping until next year, and definitely not cheap, but still cool.
That's an entire library in the size of a postage stamp - as a consumer item, not a scientific curiosity.
And when I say library, I mean library.
- Intel's brand new Core Ultra 7 155H laptop chip gets put to the test... And meh. (AnandTech)
I mean, it's not terrible, but it's not particularly good either.
In most cases, the AMD chip they compare it with is faster and uses less power.
- Apple is focusing on AI with its upcoming M4 CPU lineup. (Bloomberg)
You will be made to care.
- A look at SpaceX's financials shows a lot of money spent on moonshot bets. (Tech Crunch)
In other industries that might indicate a gamble. Here it's their core business.
Minecraft Modpack Update
- Haven't had a lot of time to work on it the past few days, but I moved back from 1.20 to 1.19 so that I could get three animal mods in: Critters and Companions, Creatures and Beasts, and Zoo Architect
Unlike Untamed Wilds which tries to kill me every time I spin up a test world, or Naturalist which just has herds of elephants nesting in trees everywhere I look, these three mods - made by the same team - have the spawn rate dialed down far enough that I wasn't sure they were working with all the other mods in place.
But, well, squirrel. Yes, they're working.
Also I found another must-have mod called ModernFix which significantly improves load times. I can't run the complete modpack (323 mods total) on my 16GB laptop while I have all my work stuff running and expect a good gaming experience, but it runs fine if I shut a few things down. Without ModernFix it would really grind even if I killed every app in sight.
Quick list of major mods in this version:
General Utility and Building
Chipped
Chisels and Bits
Embeddium
Ferrite Core
ModernFix
Oculus
Quark
Starlight
Supplementaries
Technology and Magic
Applied Energistics
Ars Nouveau
Botania
Create
ComputerCraft
Immersive Aircraft
Iron's Spellbooks
Small Ships
Tetra
Thermal Series
Valkyrien Skies
Dimensions
Aether
Blue Skies
Bumblezone
Feywild
Incendium
Nullscape
Twilight Forest
Undergarden
World Generation and Biomes
Aquamirae
Caverns and Chasms
Deeper and Darker
Ecologics
Environmental
Frozen Up
Galosphere
Geophilic
Immersive Weathering
Regions Unexplored
Serene Seasons
Tectonic
Terralith
Windswept
Mobs
Bugs Aplenty
Buzzier Bees
Cane's Wonderful Spiders
Creatures and Beasts
Creeper Overhaul
Critters and Companions
Endergetic Expansion
Enderman Overhaul
Exotic Birds
Friends and Foes
Grimoire of Gaia
Insects Recrafted
Kobolds
Plenty of Golems
Pocket Pets
Productive Bees
Tameable Beasts
Unusual Fish
Upgrade Aquatic
Zoo Architect
Plants, Food, Cooking
All of them
It's amazing that it works. Hat off to all the mod developers.
Update: Splat.
Touch Tone Telephone Music Video of the Day
New and talented vtuber.
And when I say "new" she's been struggling to get noticed for four years before creating a separate account to rant about things - and then that account is the one that finally took off.
That happens a lot.
Also, just noting, Midas sounds like Calli's little sister. If Calli has a little sister, which she might.
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