Erik Makela

Minecraft Customization

The point here is all Quality-of-life mods with as little interference of new features to the UI. Exceptions include Roughly Enough Items, and Elytra FlightAssistant. Everything should not interfere, there is a few things at the bottom that I turn off manually.

What is my sensitivity?

Mods

  • Accurate Block Placement Reborn, WARNING: This mod may be considered a “cheat” on some servers (and detected as such)! Please check the server’s rules before using this mod.
  • AmbientSounds, Adds a rich ambience to the minecraft world
  • AppleSkin, Adds various food-related HUD improvements
  • Paginated Advancements & Custom Frames, This mod significantly enhances the Minecraft advancements UI with a modern, expanded interface that makes full use of your screen
  • Auto-Run, Hands-free walking and sprinting in Minecraft
  • BadOptimizations, Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
  • Better Chunk Loading, Predicts player movement to pre-load chunks and increases chunk load speed
  • Better Compatibility Checker, Changes the default server compatibility check to compare modpack versions
  • BetterF3, BetterF3 is a mod that replaces Minecraft’s original debug HUD
  • Better Statistics Screen, A Minecraft mod that improves the statistics screen
  • Better Mount HUD, Improves the ingame HUD while riding a mount
  • Better Ping Display, Adds a configurable numerical ping display to the player list
  • Block Gradients, A client-side mod that displays block gradients between pairs of blocks
  • Boat Item View, See your held items when in a moving boat
  • Bobby, Bobby is a Minecraft mod which allows for render distances greater than the server’s view-distance setting
  • Boosted Brightness
  • Chat Patches, A Minecraft Fabric client-side mod that touches up a few aspects of Minecraft’s mundane chat
  • Chat up!, Raises in game chat by 10 pixels to improve visibility of armour hunches
  • Chest Tracker, Client side item storage - remember where you’ve put things
  • CIT Resewn, Re-implements MCPatcher’s CIT (custom item textures from optifine resource packs)
  • Controlling, Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
  • CraftPresence, Completely Customize the way others see you play in Discord
  • Crash Assistant, Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs
  • Custom Crosshair Mod, allows you to style your crosshair
  • DashLoader, accelerates the Minecraft Asset Loading system by caching all of its content
  • Default Options, A way for modpacks to ship a default (key) configuration without having to include an options.txt file
  • Distant Horizons, add simplified terrain past Minecraft’s default view distance to improve performance and allow for longer draw distances
  • Durability Viewer, shows your item durabilities
  • Dynamic Fullbright, offering the ability to scale or clamp light levels to a desired range
  • Dynamic FPS, Reduce resource usage while Minecraft is in the background
  • Dysmixia, Minceraft easter egg on the title screen will always show
  • Enhanced Attack Indicator, Uses the attack indicator for more than just melee attacks
  • Enhanced Block Entities
  • e4mc, Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime
  • Neo Elytra Flight HUD, simple A-10C inspired flight hud that automatically activates when using the Elytra
  • FlightAssistant, configurable full-fledged avionics, situational awareness tools and advanced automation to Minecraft elytras, while still being friendly to casual users (does not have ability for barrell roles like MS flight simulator one)
  • Entity Culling, Using async path-tracing to hide Block-/Entities that are not visible
  • More Culling, A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
  • Cull Leaves, Adds culling to leaf blocks, providing a huge performance boost over vanilla
  • Continuity, A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
  • Extreme sound muffler, allows you to muffle sounds selectively
  • Ok Zoomer, zoom mod
  • FastQuit, Lets you return to the Title Screen early while your world is still saving in the background
  • Fabric Seasons, A simple mod that adds seasons to the game, dynamically changing biomes as you play
  • Fast IP Ping, Yeet the laggy reversed DNS lookup for literal IP server addresses
  • FerriteCore, Memory usage optimizations
  • Game Menu Remove GFARB, Remove the “Give Feed Back” and “Report Bugs” buttons from the game menu
  • ImmediatelyFast
  • Inventory Profiles Next, Take control over your inventory
  • InvMove, adds the ability to walk around while in inventories
  • Inventory Tabs, Allows swapping to other in-world screens (blocks, entities, etc) via tabs
  • Iris Shaders, A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
  • Roughly Enough Items REI, Clean and Customizable. Alternative to Just Enough Items/JEI.
  • Remove Reloading Screen, Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!
  • Flashback, Record your Minecraft gameplay, play it back and create stunning cinematic shots
  • Krypton, A mod to optimize the Minecraft networking stack
  • Ksyxis, Ksyxis doesn’t work for 1.21.9 and newer versions
  • Litematica Printer, This fork adds the missing printing functionality for Litematica
  • Lithium, No-compromises game logic optimization mod
  • Capes, A Fabric and Forge mod that lets you use capes from Optifine, LabyMod, and the MinecraftCapes Mod
  • microDurability, A very minimal armor durability viewer
  • Mini Effects, Automatically folds status effects view in inventory screen
  • Status Effect Bars, Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects
  • MixinTrace, Adds a list of mixins in the stack trace to crash reports
  • ModernFix, improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs
  • Mod Menu, Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed
  • Mouse Wheelie, featuring item scrolling, inventory sorting, item refilling and more
  • More Chat History, This mod increases the maximum length of the chat history, from the vanilla 100 messages to 16384.
  • No Chat Reports, Makes chat unreportable where possible
  • No Resource Pack Warnings, Disable warnings for outdated resource/data packs
  • No Telemetry, Disable the telemetry introduced...

Play Battlefield 2142 Reclamation and Project Remaster on Linux

Version 1.0.2 - 2026-21-01
Author: Morschi

Having issues or in need of help? You can always ask questions in the Battlefield 2142 Reclamation Discord as well as Battlefield 2142 Project Remaster Discord. Feel free to also ping me directly on those servers, I am always happy to (trying to) help.

Introduction

This tutorial will show you how to install and run Battlefield 2142 on a Linux based distro.

Note that this tutorial is based on EndeavourOS, if you are feeling insecure and just want to precisely follow the guide step by step I recommend installing EndeavourOS. Else continue with your distro of choice.

Disclaimer: When using other distros, please note that I can not guarantee this to work exactly as shown here. While many steps will be (near) identical, installation steps in other distros can always differ and/or not be compatible with this exact setup.

Useful information and workarounds for other distros are found in the Other distros section of this guide.

Prerequisites

We are setting up your system so it is generally ready to play most games, not only Battlefield 2142. We will therefore install various components to ensure a smooth gaming experience on Linux using Wine and Lutris for Windows games.

The application where we will run the game from will be Lutris. Lutris is a comprehensive open-source gaming platform for Linux. It acts as a unified library to install, configure, and launch games from various sources, including Windows games (via Wine).

1. Updates and drivers {#1.-updates-and-drivers}

Before starting, ensure your system is updated and the correct graphics drivers are installed, you can use the console to do so and run the following commands:

Update the system using

| yay | | :—- |

Install graphics drivers

Select the command matching your hardware:

  • For AMD GPUs

| yay -S mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon | | :—- |

  • For NVIDIA GPUs

| yay -S nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils | | :—- |

  • For Intel GPUs

| yay -S mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-intel lib32-vulkan-intel | | :—- |

Verify Vulkan support

Check if Vulkan is working correctly:

| vulkaninfo | less | | :—- |

If the command is not found, install the tools:

| yay -S vulkan-tools | | :—- |

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2. Installing Lutris {#2.-installing-lutris}

| yay -S lutris | | :—- |

Once installed, launch it from your start menu or terminal by typing `lutris`.

3. Installing Wine and Dependencies {#3.-installing-wine-and-dependencies}

Lutris can manage Wine versions for you, but installing a system-level base ensures better compatibility and prevents dependency issues.

Installing Wine (Base, Gecko, and Mono)

| yay -S wine wine-gecko wine-mono | | :—- |

Install critical 32-bit libraries

Many Windows games/applications are 32-bit and require these specific libraries to run with audio and controller support:

| yay -S lib32-gnutls lib32-libldap lib32-mpg123 lib32-openal lib32-v4l-utils lib32-libpulse lib32-alsa-plugins lib32-libxcomposite lib32-libxinerama lib32-ncurses lib32-libxml2 lib32-freetype2 lib32-libpng lib32-sdl2 | | :—- |

Install Winetricks
This helper script allows you to easily install various Windows libraries (DLLs) needed for specific games so it never hurts to install this.

| yay -S winetricks | | :—- |

4. Installing DXVK {#4.-installing-dxvk}

DXVK translates DirectX calls to Vulkan, vastly improving performance for Windows games. While Lutris often handles this per-game, you should install it system-wide.

| yay -S dxvk-bin | | :—- |

Installing Battlefield 2142

This section covers installing the game using original media or a backup copy. As most of us have no DVD drive at hand anymore, you can safely go the backup copy route.

Before beginning the installation in Lutris, ensure you have the following files ready:

  • Installation Media: A physical DVD of Battlefield 2142 or backup copy
  • Serial Key: A valid key for installation.
  • The 1.51 Full Patch: Available here
  • The Reclamation Project Hub Installer: Available here

1. Add and configure the environment {#1.-add-and-configure-the-environment}

  1. Open Lutris and click the + icon (Add locally installed Game).
    Important: DO NOT pick “Install a Windows game from an executable, it will fail!)

  1. Game Info Tab:
    • Cover: (optional, if you would like to add a cover image in the launcher)
    • Name: BF2142
    • Runner: Wine

  1. Game Options Tab:
    • Executable: Browse to your mounted media or backup copy and select setup.exe. (unzip folder first in case you are using a backup copy)
    • Wine Prefix: Create a new folder on your system for the game and select it here. (e.g., ~/Games/bf2142).
    • Working Directory: Set this to the same folder as the Wine Prefix, (e.g., ~/Games/bf2142)

  1. Runner Options Tab:
    • Wine Version: Select a recent System Wine build (10.20 was used for this initially).
      1. Wine build 11.0 has now been tested by me and is compatible as well.
      2. Some distros such as Nobara have issues with this version. Refer to the Known issue area for an alternative configuration in other-distros.
    • DXVK Version: Ensure a recent version is selected (v2.6.2 was used for this tutorial)
    • Enable Esync: Toggle this On.
    • Enable Fsync: Toggle this On.
    • Settings are left pretty much standard as is seen in the screenshot below.

  1. System options
    • If you are using a laptop with both a discrete and dedicated GPU, I recommend selecting your dedicated GPU here to prevent issues.

  1. Click Save in the right corner on top - We do not want to lose everything we just configured. 🙂

2. Install the Base Game {#2.-install-the-base-game}

  1. Select Battlefield 2142 in Lutris and click Play.
  2. The standard game installer will launch. Proceed through the installation steps using your Serial Key.
    3. ...

2026-01-22-anti-ai-hype

It is simply impossible not to see the reality of what is happening. Writing code is no longer needed for the most part. It is now a lot more interesting to understand what to do, and how to do it (and, about this second part, LLMs are great partners, too). It does not matter if AI companies will not be able to get their money back and the stock market will crash. All that is irrelevant, in the long run. It does not matter if this or the other CEO of some unicorn is telling you something that is off putting, or absurd. Programming changed forever, anyway.

via Don’t Fall into the anti-AI hype (from Simon Willison)

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With the easiest setting, computer moves would happen immediately. I knew I had all the time I wanted but I was compelled to move fast. I could not take the time while the other side was immediately reacting to my moves.

A Society that Lost Focus - Ploum

Scambaiting Tutorial

What is Scam baiting?

“Scambaiters pose as potential victims to waste the time and resources of gather information useful to authorities, and publicly expose scammers.” It is the most fun activity I have ever participated in because you can go ham wild on whatever personality or mayhem you want to make up during a phone call.

0. Watch the Possible Fun to Guage Interest

1. Download the newest version of VMware Workstation Pro

(Note: Be prepared to have a brain hemorrhage by [how difficult they make downloading]Pre-made Windows 10 Scambaiting Virtual Machine (2022) - Information LITERALLY FREE software)

2. Download the pre-made Pre-made Windows 11 Scambaiting Virtual Machine

3. Have tools ready to fake your identity, voice, etc.

4. Get an alternative phone number otherwise your real number is going to get spam called

5. Get the latest active phone numbers and start calling