We’re in a mature software stage for these art software applications. Easier to catch up than create new features that people make essential to their workflow. Today it’s commercial alternatives that have closed the gap well enough. Someday in the future open source stuff will. It’s inevitable

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From what I interpret off the Wikipedia page, it had sold single digit millions by COVID and then went viral in China during COVID and that’s how it ended up selling tens of millions more

Didn’t think the Witcher 3 had caught up to infinite releases Skyrim. TW3 will have another big bump when the new expansion hits. It’ll probably get rewnewed interest from modders as well

I just want to see people out there figure out how to rip applications out of Amazons walled garden and see how difficult it is to run them on regular Linux desktops. Maybe React Native here ends up being a win for Steam Machines and home theater Linux

Being 9060xt based is the main bonus over the Steam Machine. It’s a good bump over the 7600

I remember a study that had Duolingo as the most egregious data collector by far on people’s phone

That controller is the lynchpin for making a mini PC my future home theater center. I care for it more than the steam machine

A lot of the stuff towards the bottom were hit by the long age of automation that we responded with indifference or stuff like, now you have time to pursue the arts or learn IT or learn a trade, etc. At least most of that time there was other manual labor to move to as previous manual labor was automated. Autoworkers from the 70s and 80s finally get to say to all the college educated folks, now you know how I felt. Farmhands have probably been able to say that many times over the last 200 years

One thing is that I email and receive emails from almost no one that uses an encrypted service on their end so I have nearly zero expectations when it comes to email. Regardless, as long as it’s encrypted so they have been demonstrated in court to not being able to provide the content of my emails and you can pay with some crypto, then I consider it good enough. Other thing is that regardless of what country you live in, a service outside of the country you live in. Preferably even countries that have the least if not just about no significant information sharing treaties. Maybe hostile to the country I live in is best. I have no concerns about law enforcement in other countries. My concern is the authority that I live under practically every day of the year regardless of their behavior in the present

Other types of services I have higher expectations for privacy like cloud storage and VPNs

I’d absolutely use crypto if it was more available in anything I’d want to pay for. So far it’s mostly just VPNs and donations

At the size of transactions they’d be doing, it’d probably be worth it to set a high fee so that it gets picked up and processed faster. Should still be peanuts compared to the value of cargo these tankers are carrying

Friend one day added me to his family plan because they had one space open. I’m still in the habit of always going to youtube in ways I can ad-block but am always pleasantly surprised when I go in the normal youtube app and I have no ads. I’ll pay for the service though

It should work. I haven’t done that but I’ve been using Blu-ray drives with Linux for like a decade now and haven’t had any trouble reading and writing discs

Vanilla

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks

A git hooks on your pi that is a post commit hook to push to codeberg

Their ko-fi has been exploding in the last couple of months. They’ve made a bunch of really nice quality of life improvements in the past couple releases. I’d expect it to end up matching the user friendliness of GameHub by the end of the year. Depending on where the main devs live, they may be able to dedicate a good amount of time to the project

I’m hoping by the time googles Android goes to shit, GrapheneOS is readily available on more phones or PostmarketOS. Same with Linux with KDE Plasma Bigscreen running on a minipc rather than using an android TV box

Like others, desktop I’m using Firefox with ublock origin. Android phone, Firefox with ublock origin. Android TV, SmartTube. Ad blockers have always outpaced Google in my experience though I use youtube maybe like twice a week and I don’t randomly browse reccomendations. Just there for specific stuff

For the most part no. Exceptions being like if some high budget game came out built with Godot, that’d be something I’d consider as a showcase for open source game engines. Same with other lesser known ones like Bevy or O3DE. Once any becomes fairly common, the novelty for me wears off like 2D games made in Godot. It was the same for me and Blender Open Movies ~15 years ago