Thursday, January 23

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Daily News Stuff 23 January 2025

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  • The review embargo on the new RTX 5090 lifts in just a few hours.  (Tom's Hardware)

    The 5090 is the only model in Nvidia's 2025 lineup that has seen a significant improvement over its 4000-series predecessor.

    It's also the only model that has seen a significant price increase over its 4000-series predecessor.

    The rest of the range is around 10% faster than last year's refresh models and about the same price, which is underwhelming at best.

    Nvidia's claims of providing 4090 performance at 4070 prices are based on AI frame interpolation, or to use the vernacular, bullshit.


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Minecraft Modpack Minimalism

Well, minimalism-ish.  Minimalism-adjacent.

The modpack now sits at 228 mods.  Since it was at 350 recently, yes, it's come down a lot.

Some of the things I've been experimenting with came back out; other new mods went in.  Load times and world creating times have improved a lot, as has memory usage.

I'm using Sinytra Connector to merge Forge and Fabric mods into a single pack, and it seems to work.  No crashes from that, and the expected features all show up correctly.  The main problem is with, well, problems.  If you do something wrong it all falls apart and you are left to figure it out yourself.  So...  Don't do something wrong.

Ad Astra is out - the planets turned out to be dull.  Ars Nouveau is out - if you have character classes, it doesn't make sense that the player is a wizard.  And three magic systems is rather a lot for a single game.

Create is out for now, but you can build steam-powered land, sea, and air vehicles via Laendli's Transport.

Chipped is out, because nice as it is, it only works with vanilla materials.  Chisels & Bits and Domum Ornamentum not only work together with other mods, they can combine material from two entirely different mods.

As for biomes, the main mod is Regions Unexplored, coupled with (deep breath) Atmospheric, Autumnity, Ecologic, Environmental, Geophilic, Immersive Weathering, Luminous, Mystic's Biomes, Serene Seasons, and Terrain Slabs, which each do their own little thing.




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