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Overcontrolling the Community and Illusions of Immortality: The Death of an 11-Year-Old Minecraft Mod

ByFrank March 13, 2022March 13, 2022

One of the biggest cult classic Minecraft mods, an entire ecosystem enabling beautiful world generation in Minecraft is currently on its deathbed. Odds are it won’t make it. The mod in question is OpenTerrainGenerator, and it’s one of the oldest and most complex Minecraft mods of all time. And I had a VIP seat to…

Where I’ve Been Recently and Just Some Updates on Life

ByFrank September 25, 2021September 25, 2021

So I don’t know how many of my fans follow the RSS feed and don’t join the Discord server. There’s actually no way of knowing. I can however tell from my analytical data that there is a returning audience. So, I’ve decided to write this article for all the people who either don’t pay attention…

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The Complete List of UNIX Operating Systems

ByFrank March 7, 2021May 4, 2021

I love UNIX. If you don’t love UNIX, why are you reading Info Toast? UNIX is fast, secure, and there are so many different choices available to you. This is why I have decided to list all UNIX Operating Systems in this article. This is going to cause me great pain. There are so many…

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Welcome to the New, Faster Info Toast

ByFrank May 30, 2020

How Info Toast Should Now be Faster than Ever I do a lot to improve the performance of this site. From making caches on the local server to making caches on Cloudflare, I want Info Toast to be as fast as it possibly can be. I don’t use a web server host to host Info…

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Join Our Discord Server!

ByFrank May 25, 2020May 25, 2020

We have a Discord Server Now! Join us! The site has gone somewhat viral over the past few days or so. I now feel like the site is ready to have a community. This is why I have taken the first step of creating a Discord server! Now, you can interact with me, as well…

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FreeBSD: Linux’s Linux

ByFrank April 6, 2020

FreeBSD: The OS Even Most Linux Devs Don’t Know Much About I’m going to go ahead and make a bold statement: Linux users know more about Windows than Windows users know about Linux. There’s a ladder of knowing more than the other guy that happens with the Operating Systems. It’s kind of a food chain…

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Paper, the Newest Technology in Minecraft: Java Edition Servers

ByFrank March 9, 2020

Paper Server for Minecraft: Java Edition My server has pretty much always had performance issues. Even though I run my Minecraft server on my supercomputer (see The Poor Man’s Guide to Making a Supercomputer), and allocate up to 24 GB of RAM to it, it still crashes sometimes. However, that has recently ended, since I…

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I Got a Chromebook

ByFrank December 31, 2019December 31, 2019

I Got Myself a Chromebook I did something that to a lot of programmers, sounds somewhat stupid. I got myself a Chromebook. At the start, this sounds a little bit weird. However, Chromebooks have begun to be able to support more than they used to, and I have gotten it to do some exciting stuff…

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Not-So-Fun-Fact: SSD’s Do Fail

ByFrank September 19, 2019October 4, 2019

Solid State Disks Do Fail So, I am not a hardware person. I am a programmer. If I were asked about hardware, I would know enough to get by, but I couldn’t tell you that much. However, I am going to talk about hardware today because there was something that happened to me recently that…

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Welcome to My New Blog!

ByFrank July 25, 2019September 7, 2019

Hello Interwebs, You may already recognize me from one of my previous endeavors. You may recognize me as OreDerp, that cringy Minecraft YouTuber kid who knew all sorts of redstone, seeds, and even had a few videos about the generation alogrithm. As well as some other crazy stuff: Others may remember me as the inventor of Oddball, the…