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MC Forge Mod Dev Blog: Migrating to Minecraft 1.16

Updated: 13 minutes to read

It is no longer news that Minecraft Forge has stable Minecraft 1.16 support, as the first recommended build for 1.16.x, which is Forge 34.1.0, was released in September 2020, very soon after I published the previous blog post for this serires about an update to my mod project. Development of Forge for Minecraft 1.16.x already had significant progress when the update for my mod was worked on, and I contemplated adding support for 1.16 along with that update. However, after a hard attempt to port my mod to Minecraft 1.16, I decided that because many method names in the Minecraft API source code decompiled by MCP were still not fully deobfuscated, Forge on 1.16 was still immature, and my mod’s update would not ship with 1.16 support. …

My Gentoo Hands-on Experience

Updated: 14 minutes to read

It has been six weeks since I published the last post on this site. Myriad new topics and ideas to write about have accumulated in my drafts for new articles, but I was too busy to find enough time for converting them into high-quality articles I have been endeavored to deliver. Now, as I finally have got some free time, I want to talk about one of the things I did during the past period: trying out Gentoo, a source-based GNU/Linux distribution famous for letting its users compile almost every component of the operating system, including the Linux kernel. …

Use Btrfs on Fedora Installed from a Raw Image

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Fedora is moving to Btrfs for its default file system on its “desktop variants” in Fedora 33. This change is welcomed by some users because of some benefits Btrfs is offering. Other Fedora variants still default to ext4, although users may elect to use Btrfs during system installation with the Anaconda installer. But for non-desktop-variant raw image distributions like the Minimal aarch64 image, you do not have the chance to choose a file system other than ext4, because you are applying the image directly instead of using Anaconda. This post will show you how to use Btrfs on a Fedora installation derived from such image by converting the file system after the image is applied. …

USB Issue on Raspberry Pi 4 Running Fedora - Complex Solution

Updated: 7 minutes to read

In the previous post we looked at a very simple solution to fix the USB ports on Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB/8GB RAM models running Fedora, which involves a trade-off between the USB ports' functionality and the amount of RAM available to the operating system. This post will give you another solution that takes more steps but no longer limits available memory to 3 GiB. As said in the previous post, no action is required for the 2GB model. The symptoms of this issue are available there as well. …

USB Issue on Raspberry Pi 4 Running Fedora - Simple Solution

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When Fedora runs on Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB/8GB RAM models, the USB ports might not be working out-of-box as of Fedora 32 and Linux kernel 5.8. In this post, I will introduce a very simple solution to this problem that only requires you to add one line to a configuration file. Notes and Caveats If you are using the 2GB model, then rest assured - the USB ports should work out-of-box, and you do not need to do anything. This issue exists only on the 4GB and 8GB models. …

MC Forge Mod Dev Blog: Adding a Configuration GUI

Updated: 19 minutes to read

Minecraft Forge had been shipping a configuration GUI framework which mods could use to provide customization options, but the framework has been gone since Minecraft 1.13. This post describes how I created a mod configuration GUI without using that framework by directly using APIs of Minecraft. The procedure shown in this post is applicable to Minecraft 1.14.4 and 1.15.x. I did not check its correctness on Minecraft 1.13.x and old 1.14.x releases since those Minecraft versions do not have stable Minecraft Forge builds, but chances are the majority of the steps are also applicable to those versions. Nevertheless, I would recommend developing mods using only stable Minecraft Forge releases. …

Perform Manual dnf history undo

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My choices of GNU/Linux distributions are Fedora for desktop computers and CentOS for servers. Both of them feature DNF - Red Hat’s package manager front-end for RPM, which is the primary reason I use these distributions. Although one might argue that it is slow, DNF is very clear on not only what it will do for an action but also what it has done: it maintains a history of package installation and removal operations, which are called “transactions”. You can undo a transaction with dnf history undo or roll back to a previous state with dnf history rollback. Other common package managers, like APT and Pacman, also save operation logs, but they generally do not offer a similar operation reverting functionality. …

Install Raspberry Pi’s vcgencmd on Fedora

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This post is a continuation of my previous one about setting up a cluster of Raspberry Pis running Fedora. After I got the cluster to compute something, @ColsonXu, the cluster’s owner, asked me if I could monitor the CPU temperature of each Raspberry Pi by running this command: $ /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp The vcgencmd program is included in Raspberry Pi OS (formerly called Raspbian) as a utility for retrieving information about Raspberry Pi’s hardware. However, it is not included in Fedora’s software repositories. Luckily though, the source code of vcgencmd, along with the entire userland package that contains the program, is available, so we can compile it on our own. …

Set Up Fedora on a Raspberry Pi Cluster

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First and foremost, I would like to thank @ColsonXu for giving me this opportunity to play with some Raspberry Pis. He had got a few Raspberry Pi 4’s and built a cluster with them for computing purposes, but there was nothing to compute until the morning when @mrdarcychen found an article about running Rosetta@home on Raspberry Pi from Fedora Magazine, and Colson approved the plan. I was able to take the job of installing software required to run Rosetta@home on the Raspberry Pis. …

Use grep as a Substitute for cat

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I came across a fascinating and educative article, Unix Recovery Legend, when someone posted a link to it on Reddit. The article presents a story of the writer, Mario Wolczko, and some other colleagues attempting to recover a system partially destructed by rm -rf /. The rm command was interrupted before it scraped off directories like /usr, but it was too late to save /bin, /dev and /etc, which were respectively the directory for basic executable programs, device files, and system configuration files. Commands like ls and ps were now on strike since their executables were in /bin, the backup tape could not be mounted because the tape deck’s device entries were gone with /dev, and absence of network configuration files in /etc denied any possibility to rescue the system through the network. …