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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Why is Pirate Software a fraud?

    I appreciated his take on it. Don’t trust politicians to come up with a good solution, always present the issue when you have a good solution ready. And the solution proposed by that petition was weak at best and outright dangerous for the industry at worst.

    If you want to force specificity on buying v getting limited time access, that’s fine, but that’s not what the petition focused on.

    If you wanna force devs to plan ahead with huge infrastructure cost to make sure servers will be online for a specific time, this might result in online games being unjustifiable for smaller studios.

    If you want to shield independent people hosting unofficial servers to games, now that’s a different conversation that we first need to have to figure it out, before proposing an exact solution through a petition. Mind you this is a more complicated topic, as this gets into licensing and IP law.

    And I really don’t think stop killing games is clear on those, and that makes this endeavor a lottery with the entire multiplayer games industry in limbo.

    Give me another more precise initiative and I’ll join, but until then I’ll definitely not sign anything. If we change things, we should change them for the better, so let’s do our due diligence first.






  • 1000% agree.

    As a software dev, I’m using windows and I know I shouldn’t switch.

    Tbh it’s even worse, I can not switch. And that’s why it’s even more ridiculous. Linux power users like to say that you can do everything you can in windows but with more control. And with “control” they are right, but with “everything” more than wrong. Everything that’s not working out of the box is a gamble on time wasted getting said thing to work. For the simplest thing you can be stuck for weeks just by sheer bad luck.

    Say you are a software dev? Yeah Linux is pretty solid.

    3d artist? Meh. Blender is the last thing that works, otherwise you are stuck. Octane, 3ds max, Maya, c4d, Houdini, v-ray, real flow, … You gotta be lucky to find them to be compatible even if it’s only with a workaround.

    Music production? Well you are stuck on LMMS, which is basically only used by very specific experimental artists. Also plugins, especially those with copyright protection will give you one hell of a hard time.

    Images? Well gimp is not Photoshop if we’re honest, and stuff like coreldraw is also hard to replace on Linux.

    Video cutting? You have to carefully tip toe about everything Adobe, and that’s an awful hassle. And because everyone would love to give Adobe the middle finger, we are slowly realizing how hard it is to replace Adobe and that if you go somewhere, it is not working as well by default, you have to really make it work.

    And especially in big enterprises time is money. So every time someone thinks about where to migrate to, how to migrate, or when they are migrating, and than when they have to propose new workflows, new solutions, a bunch of workarounds, maintenance pipelines, etc. it’s just not worth it. Not on a big company scale, and unfortunately also not on a me scale.

    At the end of the day, an OS is a tool to me, not a lifestyle choice, a hobby or a commitment. And it shouldn’t be. As long as Linux is at least 2 of those things for everyone that’s not using it, it’s not very compelling to switch. And that goes for every distro.

    Btw. this is the reason why I can understand people using apple over windows. Yeah it’s 1000 bucks to take like 20min less to do a thing. But it stacks up exponentially with every device that integrates into Apple’s universe. And if you spend even 20min less per day, that’s already more than 2h per week that you now have to dedicate to other things.

    I’m not rich and this doesn’t entice me, but I get it.

    So yeah, make a distro that’s not only modular and expendable,but make it also very easy to understand and make it as easy. And make it either as compatible with Windows software or add those features in a different way. And then people like me can dream about a FOSS universe for everyone.






  • Gunfire Reborn

    I love this game so much, been honing in on the achievements now.

    Also Backpack battles is such a great indie game, the concept can hook me for hours as well

    And to everyone who wants a small local co-op game to play with friends or your kids, pizza possum has been blowing me away for a while and it’s always nice to dig it out again if I have someone new over.

    Otherwise been still grinding Warframe. Getting towards 4k hours now. An insane grind game, but if you’re down for the grind, this game never ends. It just changes over time.




  • I mean this stuff does not incentivize me to invest money in this project. Idk if it’s a bug but that stuff was really annoying and for no reason.

    I do like this app, this is why I made the post, but you can’t make me buy the app when I just had bad experience wth it. Makes no sense to me whatsoever. If I buy it, it should be for positive reasons, not negative reasons.