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Minecraft is famously under-optimized and needy in terms of CPU frequency. If running a vanilla (no server mods) version, then using something optimized, like PaperMC is a better idea for datacenter VMs. (Until you need to dupe sand or something.)
The other route is installing a bunch of optimization mods - some really do help.
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Have you never just built something for fun?
I have built a panel like the one I mentioned for fun with friends! The goal of my comment was to highlight opportunities for more fun and less what seems like toil. Furthermore, this is an article about a telemetry solution posted on a site of that telemetry solution. They make money from this.
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This is a real-time game. What the computer is doing is directly in front of your eyes.
I know I sound like a freak to you, but you sound like a deranged freak to me too. Who would opt for ignorance? Who would opt not to have data? Who would opt not to see more? Its insanity to me to resist enrichment so. Limiting yourself to only naive senses is a wild proposition to me. The scientific mindset compels us to see further: it is a wild privilege to see more, to build and use tools that expand how we can s…
Furthermore, to me useless or excessive data is very much a reality (if you do not agree that it is a possibility and a thing that happens, we have clearly no way of understanding each other), and per my criteria it is just that sort of data in this use scenario.
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I have built a panel like the one I mentioned for fun with friends! The goal of my comment was to highlight opportunities for more fun and less what seems like toil. Furthermore, this is an article about a telemetry solution posted on a site of that telemetry solution. They make money from this.
One persons toil is another persons fun.
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One persons toil is another persons fun.
And sometimes a person is paid to pretend toil is fun. We are talking about spending hours setting up telemetry instead of playing a game .
> I am a man of simple tastes, and running the “vanilla” Minecraft server as a Systemd unit on a Linux VM in the cloud Minecraft is famously under-optimized and needy in terms of CPU frequency. If running a vanilla (no server mods) version, then using something optimized, like PaperMC is a better idea for datacenter VMs. (Until you need to dupe sand or something.) The other route is installing a bunch of optimization…
However, they may be a problem if players are sensitive to possible non-vanilla behaviour (as you mentioned, and it’s not limited to cheaty duping). Thankfully, spinning up a server with a selection of performance mods is very easy these days. Various tricks like pre-generating chunks in advance also help.
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And sometimes a person is paid to pretend toil is fun. We are talking about spending hours setting up telemetry instead of playing a game .
Not everyone is into gaming. I rather code on my side projects than use my console. Or people tweak and customize their Linux installation instead of doing work on it. Some people like to work on their cars, driving is a small part of it.
> So, the Minecraft server should work reliably and, if it goes down, I should know well before they do
How are metrics helpful? There is so much fun that could be had in setting up an actually resilient system instead.
Why worry over metrics and alerts when you could orchestrate an infrastructure that grants you the superpower of being able to spin up a server with a copy of the world on a whim instead (or even a system that auto-starts one whenever there is demand)?
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Not everyone is into gaming. I rather code on my side projects than use my console. Or people tweak and customize their Linux installation instead of doing work on it. Some people like to work on their cars, driving is a small part of it.
I agree, and I am as guilty of procrastination. However, the author is not really procrastinating—he gets paid for this. Me, I do in fact procrastinate on setting up a Minecraft server infra in the cloud. Maybe that’s precisely why the solution to this problem strikes me as inadequate: > So, the Minecraft server should work reliably and, if it goes down, I should know well before they do How are metrics helpful? Ther…
As you said "There is so much fun that could be had in setting up an actually resilient system instead.", maybe the author has more fun setting up alerts and metrics instead of a resilient system like you do?
The truth is that in most real-world scenarios getting alerts, metrics is much more important than building a fully resilient system (Expensive, maybe overengieering for early stage etc.).
> However, the author is not really procrastinating—he gets paid for this. As the first sentence in the blog post says "One of the secret pleasures of life is to be paid for things you would do for free.", which I can very much understand as I often work or play with things I could use at work in my free time.
No C# in Bedrock. No Java unless you're talking about the Android versions. Very little C.
It's mostly C++.