The undeservedly little-known Planet Explorers¹ has a rather nice voxel engine and is using it well. Mine anything, dig tunnels in any shape, modify terrain, etc.
That depends. If you're on a slow connection, the 40 minutes to unpack something are nothing in comparison to the week it took you to download it. If used by the game publisher, the decompression could happen during download (I believe this is how steam does it).
If you're on a metered connection (common in many of the more forgotten parts of the world), the bloated download costs you real money or is simply not possible (or you have to spread it over several periods of data allowance).
Well, whatever the repackers (e.g. Fitgirl) use seems to work a lot better than what the game publishers use (often no compression at all).
Original Size: 93.1 GB -> Repack Size: from 35.5 GB [Selective Download]
Original Size: 3.1 GB -> Repack Size: 844 MB
And these are lossless, bit for bit reproductions. In many cases assets (audio, video, images/textures) could be using lossy compression for even greater reduction in size with no significant loss in perceived quality (but maybe some loss of advertising/bragging rights).
I've relearnt keyboard layouts once and know I can do it, but I also remember how long it took to get fast on the new one and how I don't want to do that again.
Not to mention all the other issues with getting your new fancy layout to work in every operating system and app and then being really thrown when you try to type on any other "normal" person's keyboard for a minute.
It's already hard enough spending 15 minutes in every new computer game to change the default WASD keybinds to the superior ESDF.
This has never bothered me until moving on a boat, where top-loading fridges (often ice boxes with a compressor kit retrofitted) are the norm. Because energy supply is very limited. They are integrated into the kitchen work surface and double as a temporary workspace when closed.
So it's possible to save space _and_ energy.
Now the standup kitchen fridges in houses really bother me. Every time I see someone open one, I imagine seeing all that cold air being sucked out by the opening door and falling on the ground.
They're very common here in Europe. Although when shops get remodeled they usually are replaced with newer models that have doors (and now doors that close themselves, because people). Seems the energy costs have risen sufficiently to make them care.
getlazarus.org appears to be a fan site. The builds are unofficial, but unlikely to be harmful. Might be safest to get the software from the official site or your distro packages though.
Imagine being groomed to do this job from birth, with no real way to opt out[1]. You wanted to breed horses, become a blacksmith or start a business? Get that nonsense out of your head, you're a princess!
Then, when you're 25, your daddy dies aged only 56 and after a rather brief period of mourning you get pushed into taking his job in a pompous ceremony. Now you're going to be doing this until you die. No retirement! I bet there were times where Lilibet just wanted to go to her room and cry.
I wouldn't have wanted her job for all the wealth and power that came with it.
[1] Well, you could make a big scandal about marrying an American divorcee, but that didn't go down too well for the last guy.