Posts by StevenNL2000

This is not actually a completely new product, they are mostly reusing the infrastructure of Azure Virtual Desktop. The difference is that Azure Virtual Desktop is for enterprise, this is (also) for personal use.

As for why you would want this, this allows you to have access to all your files and applications even if you don't have your own devices with you. You might even access your Windows desktop from a phone. In enterprise, it's used to make sure that an employee can sit at any computer and still have a dedicated work environment.

↩ @'Ryan' Sounds reasonable, but I don't recall that happening once in the 6+ years that the question has been there, so I doubt it's really that useful.

↩  Folfy_Blue Good question. The changelogs for the templates used to be purged occasionally, so I cannot find Mark's rationale anymore, but it has been there since April 7, 2015.

Lyicx is correct. The intended functionality of /skin is NOT to change your skin, but to import a skin .png from a URL or local file into Lib's Disguises so that it can be used in a disguise later. It's a helper command.

This is an issue with the meaning of "off". What you actually turned off is the custom tag, and when there is no custom tag, the server sets the default one for your rank. There are multiple ways to fix this: distinguish between turning the tag off and setting it to the default, only setting it when a player joins for the first time, or just not having a default tag for OPs at all.

This is definitely not the first time I've commented this: I object for the reason that this is purely personal preference. One color is not objectively better than the other, so what the community prefers today could be the complete opposite of what they prefer tomorrow. I don't see the purpose of turning it into a fashion show.

This will require some development work. A primitive way to fix it would be to limit the amount of item frames in a single chunk. The proper, more involved fix is to limit the amount of decorations that a map item can have.

↩  Shdwo It does overlap, because this has already been approved as part of that suggestion (FS-252).

I am going to close this since it seems it was based on a misunderstanding.

I have heard that the main reason that all of these optimizations aren't just included in Paper is that they are potentially unsafe and can cause compatibility issues. I have said this before, but I am in general not a fan of using forks that don't have widespread usage because it increases the chance of running into obscure problems that no one on the internet has encountered before.

It is likely that the shovel was invented earlier than the spoon, since it is much more tedious to dig a hole by hand than it is to drink soup from a cup.

Ryan is the owner of Superior Networks (linked above), so we are using a very custom setup that cannot easily be reproduced with any of the plans.

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↩  Tizz So basically AWE is actually an open-sourced, copyright-protected plugin?

It's a common misconception that open source software under a permissive license is not copyrighted. In fact, it is copyright that gives the author the right to put a license on their work in the first place.

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↩  Tizz It'd be nice to find inconsistencies / loopholes in the EULA voiding some of the articles.

The loophole I immediately noticed is that this old commit does not contain the limitations on compilation instructions yet: https://github.com/SBPrime/Asy…590b6eb2611d8c3d0a9f04949. Therefore, it is allowed to give compilation instructions for this old version, and if those instructions work for the latest version as well, that's just a coincidence.

↩  lyicx I definitely think it would be wise to appoint a specific person (not necessarily an event host) to manage the backend side of things. In my opinion, experience with server administration is not something that should be expected from the Community Manager. You don't have to run a one-man show.

I think whether it's useful to have the server log this depends on two things: how often the spawn is changed, and how much people care about old spawns. After all, nothing is stopping anyone from writing down the coordinates of the current spawn and sharing them with others.

↩  Telesphoreo Yes, you can do that. This particular website seems to be good for beginners and also gives suggestions for which model to buy:
https://www.wunderground.com/pws/overview

I get where this suggestion is coming from, but it seems somewhat weird to me to have an explicit toggle for "Allow players to do things to you without permission". I think you can also have a long debate about whether things like /give should work on others by default.

I think the main problem is that we don't actually care about the admin's activity, we care about their engagement. We are only using activity as a metric because we've decided it is too hard to measure engagement. "Doing the bare minimum to retain admin" would not be a thing in the first place.

In my opinion, the freedom concept is that we shouldn't be deciding what is allowed, everything should be allowed unless it is proven to be dangerous and have no legitimate uses. Unfortunately, that is not how permissions work: a developer explicitly has to go in and approve every feature. This is a potential concern because the development team has in the past been known to just block things instead of making them work with our server.

And even if it's not intentional, permissions make it more difficult to see what we haven't enabled, that is, what features are blocked. Most servers don't care about the permissions that players are missing, but we do.

It sounds like you're looking for an enthusiast-grade weather station. Just typing "weather station" into Amazon will give you plenty of those, but fair warning: the ones that actually have reasonable accuracy start at $150 and very quickly climb up to $300 or more.