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It does have a decently-sized modding scene, though? Like, it cannot compete with the popularity of Minecraft and therefore doesn't have as many modders.
But it has a modding API, which makes it a lot easier to mod and means that the mods don't break with every new version, so the effective output of those modders is actually pretty good.

Or well, just look at it: https://content.minetest.net

I believe, they increased it a little while ago, so it's actually -64 to +320 now.

But yeah, I don't think anyone's actually happy about the limited world height. It's so limited, because of the way Minecraft works on a technical level. It loads the map in chunks, which are just massive pillars, reaching from the bottom of the world all the way to the sky, across the whole 384 blocks.

As a result, if they increase the world height, they increase how many blocks have to be loaded at once, which increases the lag.
Luanti doesn't have this problem, because it uses cubic chunks instead.

Man, I saw them initiating discussions around the name like a year ago. I did not expect anything to actually come from that after all this time. But yeah, glad that it did.

Now we just need a better default font. 🙃

I find the increased world height much more important. Luanti can generate actual mountains, and caves where you'll want to bring ladders for your descent.
It was the first time, I felt like it made sense to build minecarts and intermediate mining bases, because the ores reach far deeper.

Oh, I didn't mean to say that balenaEtcher actually had gone unmaintained before. I just meant that it's likely to do so in the future, like pretty much all software.

dd is kind of in a unique position, in that it's so simple, that it'll hardly need maintenance, and it's useful enough that it presumably gets this maintenance.

With balenaEtcher, it's developed by a company. If that company folds or changes strategy, then they'll stop maintaining balenaEtcher.
It's also implemented with Electron, i.e. browser technologies. If it goes unmaintained for a few months, you'll quickly have security vulnerabilities in there.
You might also not find anyone willing to maintain such a comparatively thick tech stack...

Well, you can also file a formal complaint with your regional data protection officer. Usually, this is resolved outside of court, though, so it doesn't necessarily prove that the behavior was illegal (although a judge might take the data protection officer's opinion as expert input for future trials anyways).

There's a condition where people may sweat less or not at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypohidrosis

Not as great as it might sound at first...

I feel like the main problem with balenaEtcher is that it requires downloading 150 MB, for a software that many people will use only once before a reinstall.
If you're in a rich country, you might hardly notice, but for poorer countries, this is an insane ask, especially if it just improves convenience mildly.

But yeah, ultimately any such tool is going to face the problem that no matter how easy it is to use, you need to first install it, which needs to be explained.
The usage of dd also needs explaining, but you don't need to install it.

Well, and another factor is that dd has been around since the dawn of time. Software like balenaEtcher tends to go unmaintained after a few years, at which point any documentation referencing it, will need to be rewritten. And it's usually rewritten to reference dd instead, before a new convenient software emerges...

You can pick out a company and sue them.

Yeah, I had to start out with videos, too. It's certainly not a small amount of information to take in...

It's the way Markdown works. If you put two spaces at the end of a line
before hitting enter, then it will only do a normal linebreak.

My favorite is !dcss@lemmy.ml. 🙃

Gameplay is similar to Shattered Pixel Dungeon, i.e. traditional roguelike, almost like a puzzle game. It is a bit harder to get into, though.