There is a cynical side of me that says the buzz surrounding "Gizmo sales crash site, gizmo sells out in hours" is bigger than the buzz surrounding "gizmo sells this many units out of a large stockpile" even if the second number is bigger. So, what's the motivation to fix it?

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I have now seen two or three games where the difficulty factor is about a bloodsucking landlord demanding more. I feel like that says something.

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Quoting: eggroleMore "normies" using it might lead to more "dumbed down" developments. Normies don't care about the unix philosophy or FOSS, they want it to "just work".

Meh. Engineers don't care about FOSS either. I remember when the Free Software Foundation was a big deal. I remember when people seriously avoided more permissive licenses in favour of the GPL for the sake of keeping software Free. I remember when people worried about "Tivoization" and cloud stuff making the openness of the source irrelevant and invented the AGPL in an attempt to deal with it, and this was taken seriously. It wasn't normies that changed that, it was corporate programmers.

And in any case, I personally am a "normie" in terms of whether I can or care to program, mess with the guts of the system etc., and I care more about FOSS than most programmers here.

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Quoting: Nezchanand Krafton's declaration they're now an "AI First" company a few months ago does not fill me with confidence.

Mind you, that might imply that them being pulled from the credits is a good thing.

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Anyway, these seem like good ideas. I do think going longer between releases on a distro that's already pretty conservative does create a need for some key updates in between.

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This actually seems like a pretty good idea. There are going to be standards and standards bodies, and what they do is going to have an impact. So apparently these guys are saying "Gee, it might be kind of good if some of the open source programmers who have to deal with the results, who write the plumbing of our digital world, could have a voice on those bodies that make the standards." That makes a fair amount of sense to me.

People bitch about bureaucrats, but without them what you have is Somalia.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksThat's actually pretty cool, especially the finding the printed source code in his garage. lol

Now if they wanna actually be cool, they'll open source all the way up to MS-DOS 6.22 and either open source Windows 3.11 or make it freely available on their site. They've got no money to lose in doing so and it'd just be easy PR for them.

If they do that, wonder if they'll first pull out whatever they did to make sure Lotus wouldn't run . . .

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Quoting: STiATPocket money for an AI company.

"Pocket money" that they pretty much can't afford to spend because they're not profitable in the slightest.

I find myself thinking that somewhere in the guts of the company someone said "You know, it's all gonna be over soon. But right now, we're still swimming in borrowed cash. What the heck, might as well send a little dribble of it over to Blender before the end."

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Quoting: Jarmer

So we've been working back from silicon advancements and architectural improvements

So basically a guarantee SD2 will be arm based? Especially with their recent advances in fex?

I know very little about hardware, so this question isn't a diss but is genuinely for information:
So, would that be good if it were arm based?

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They were going to release a week earlier, but decided that wouldn't be on brand. ;)

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