Google: Makes their money by using the content produced by the entire internet; has not shown signs of being big on sharing with the content creators.

Also Google:

Amazing to me that people are upset at someone saying that the creators of content should be allowed to make some of the money from other people using their content for profit.

Uh huh. And when you consider that in the specific instance, the streamers could make a serious case for the idea that the publishers should be paying them for the advertising, well, good lord.
(this is my before-reading-the-discussion take)

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This is great! Now I can not use Microsoft Edge on Linux at home just the same way I don't use Microsoft Edge on Windows at work!

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: setzer22This is the one thing I'll never understand about godot (and Blender has the exact same problem). Why do they have so little care for backwards compatibility? :sad:

Because backwards compatibility drags every project down with additional maintenance cost.
Windows STILL has to carry legacy code and support around that is by now ~20 years old.

Godot is in the position that they don't have to do that - and so they don't.
They already limit themselves to changes for major versions (and even backport improvements where possible) - that's more than reasonable.

If you think that doing a global find/replace for Node -> Node3D is a real problem, then I don't know what to tell you.
Though 4.0 will break a lot more than that. Porting a larger 3.2 project to 4.0 will probably take the better part of a week with API changes that go beyond renaming stuff.
I do hope they'll provide an extensive porting guide.

And that's still better than carrying legacy code around because it means Godot will actually be able to shed or replace old code instead of having to maintain it, making a much better use of their limited resources.

I think the pros and cons depend to some extent on the life cycle of the software. When software is young, many major features have yet to arrive, and use is growing but there isn't a huge installed base, you don't want to sweat backwards compatibility. You'd hamper your ability to add those important features, and all you'd gain is a bit of convenience for early adopters who can handle a bit of fiddling and are also waiting impatiently for those features.
When software is mature and already dominates the industry, or maybe doesn't but has a fairly static, loyal user base, then you want to think seriously about whether a bit more ease adding new bling which probably doesn't represent any kind of core feature ('cause you did those already) is worth pissing off all the users who are doing production work with your stuff.

Godot is still towards the early end of that, so it would be foolish of them to stress backwards compatibility.

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What the heck is that screen?!

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Quoting: NasraOne question,

Stadia games are ported on Linux (debian version in Stadia), or runs with Linux Debian in a VM ou hypervisor ?

As I understand it they've all been ported to a basically-Debian Linux. No hypervisors or whatnot, the servers are just running them directly on Linux.

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This is the kind of reason we shouldn't make the Internet of Things.

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Quoting: TcheyI played a little as a got a key,

First-person real-time combat

I really can’t truelly enjoy real time GRID BASE crawler, it makes every single combat awkward, and traps boring : find the rhythm, die until you do, go to next. I dislike "dancing combat", a lot.

That said, the background is nice, effects, sounds... General gameplay is fine too. Just this real time, quite killing the joy out of me. I’ll push forward a little more and see if i managed to set my mind to the pace, as other aspects of the game "fit" with my tastes.

Features mentions a stop time mode, maybe you could try that.

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I've had quite a bit of fun with it. I think it crashed on me once . . . just a random crash, not something like always crashing at a certain point or anything. I find the fighting system interesting and I also think it kind of fits the atmosphere of the setting. Like, there you are being these priests of the technology god, and you get more actions by getting knowledge about the enemy--almost violently ripping information out of the foe during combat. Plus you got these layman soldiers to help you . . . as befits Warhammer 40K, they are so massively expendable.
The odd little choice scenarios are pretty random though; the risks and rewards from getting them right or wrong aren't huge but I still have a tendency to savescum them somewhat. But they're not a big part of the game, and although in a gameplay sense they're slightly annoying, they convey atmosphere well.
And I enjoy the dialogue the senior priests get into before you send a group on a mission. All the little quotations from the machine god bible and so forth . . . it definitely feels like it couldn't be any other setting. The music really fits too, this sort of powerful but gloomy organ-type music, very much a creepy Catholic church kind of feel.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: mao_dze_dun

Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah I want a phone that's all cli.

How faster would it be to be able to type 'call john_doe' instead of having to click contacts, scroll through a huge list, hopefully click on the right one and then press the call button?

 
sms john_doe "hey bro, what's up?"
or
 
echo "hey bro, what's up?" | sms john_doe

Pretty sure voice dial will always win :)

I just can't get into the habit of talking to my phone. I turn all that crap off, too often have I been having a conversation about something random, and then having it show up in searches on apps...

Like one day in the office (back when that was still a thing) we were talking about Nintendo games, and out of the blue, Nintendo searches were popping up on my ebay account, and I never look for Nintendo stuff on there (at least I hadn't at the time). It was creepy to say the least.

I still don't own a cell phone. Canada is one of the most expensive places for phone plans; so far I just haven't been able to make myself spend some ungodly sum of money per month just so people can bug me when I'm off doing something by myself.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80It will take years for the effects to kick in too just like when the USSR broke up Russia did not have economy worth talking about until 20 years after it broke up but in terms of the new ryzens they will be out by November we dont leave the EU until December 31st so get saving or get the credit card ready.

Oh, that only happened to Russia because they ended up with a government that listened to the weirdest American free-marketeer rip-off artists as a guide to how economics should work. It could never happen in Britain . . . oh wait.

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