It is better than turf, but I'm not talking about grass lawns, I'm talking about plants like for a garden. It's better to have more garden plant masses, less grass lawn.
Most people don't need as much lawn as they have and reducing down to more what you actually use is great, but it's totally situational.
If you wanted a NorthEast suggestion for general ground cover I'd say wild strawberry. But if it's like ... Lawn then just stick with what you're doing.
Native plant patches can also absorb some of the harmful crap like pesticides to a degree. It does help.
Honeybees cant buzz pollinate for shit, lazy ass bee
Unfortunately, naturalized plants are not good. It's a scale, with invasive plants being extremely bad. Naturalized plants aren't as bad. But still bad
In the end, our native insects rely on native plants (with extremely few exceptions to not be distracted by). A native plant can support hundreds or even thousands of species.
A non native / naturalized plants cannot support even a fraction of that. They can also support... Non native insects. Which in turn fuck up the ecosystem, either by displacement or direct damage.
I'm not gonna tell you to rip out naturalized plants like clover. I'm not gonna say you should destroy your garden. You should just know that native plants are superior in literally every possible way, and your NEXT plant choices should be as native as you can get :)
Plant native. Plants that are native to your ecosystem. Those are the true pollinator powerhouse plants that bees need to survive
Please please please
I had radiant flooring piping explode so.. I feel you
Ah yes I was about to do the same myself! And it turns out it's maybe the worst possible time for it!!
What LainTrain said. But you might find yourself playing less powerful games - emulators, Factorio, Hades, stardew, modded mc, etc...
Any ole kitchen sink pack is great. "All The Mods" or "Enigmatica" are solid.
You should experience the Create mod specifically, it's extremely high quality for a mc mod. I really like the Create focussed one called CABIN, but it can get a bit.. factory like
Thaum and Xy were definitely fun.
Preach. I do couch gaming, so this machine is unbelievably nice.
Now I just gotta replace my battery so it can be a laptop again!