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Previously, they had the versioning system 1.MAJOR.MINOR, where Major referred to a feature update, and minor referred to bug fixes or other non-breaking technical changes

The first instance where they broke this was 1.16.2 by adding the Piglin Brute, but this was so minor that hardly anyone really cared, and hey, free feature with a minor update!

Well, now they have update “drops” where the minor version means either what it used to, or it’s also a feature update, just not as big as a full update.

From the wiki:

  • 1.20: Trails and Tales Update
  • 1.20.3: Bats and Pots Drop
  • 1.20.5: Armored Paws Drop
  • 1.21: Tricky Trials Update
  • 1.21.2: Bundles of Bravery Drop
  • 1.21.4: The Garden Awakens Drop
  • 1.21.5: Spring to Life Drop
  • 1.21.6: Chase the Skies Drop
  • 1.21.9: Copper Age Drop


I think I’ll be popping this onto my wishlist. I’ve been slowly trying to 100% complete V-Rally 2 for the PS1, as the game is a childhood classic of mine that I never completed and I’ve been enjoying it (when the physics don’t bug out that is…)


Seems convenient, I never really felt assed to install and set up additional tools but this being built into the Steam client would make this kind of thing more likely for me to use.

That being said 95% of my games are going to be bottlenecked on my RTX 2050 anyway (paired with an i7-8700 that’s still holding strong)


From the FAQ of stopkillinggames.com website

Q. Aren’t you asking companies to support games forever? Isn’t that unrealistic?

A: No, we are not asking that at all. We are in favor of publishers ending support for a game whenever they choose. What we are asking for is that they implement an end-of-life plan to modify or patch the game so that it can run on customer systems with no further support from the company being necessary. We agree that it is unrealistic to expect companies to support games indefinitely and do not advocate for that in any way.


I meant it in the sense of using an obscure operating system to be less likely to be targeted by a threat actor.

Or to be more general, using obscure software for increased security, over actually correctly configuring and using secure software.

Viruses already exist for Linux and have for a long time. They are less prevalent than Windows but this obviously shouldn’t be the primary defense strategy for your device.


…security by obscurity? Guess when Linux finally explodes in popularity, you’ll see me over on FreeBSD instead