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  • My concern is we are solving a wrong problem from the beginning.

    GNU/Linux is an OS designed by hackers for hackers(at least in my age). The target users should be admin, not end users like grandma. That’s why Linux desktop is never mainstream despite our community put so much effort on the user experience (but the effort has not wasted)

    Before you yell at me, on the other hand, android (shipped with Linux kernel) has a great success because it’s dummy proof design. Even a 2 years old can mess around tablets by his/her own. We can invent million theories, argue and hate each other all days. But there is only one fact. The fact is that mainstream users enjoy the fruit of open source is brought by Android from tablets. Unfortunately, tablets’ gui toolkit is dominated by big corps.

    When do we start to put focus on gui toolkit for tablets? We did try, but far away than enough. When do we able to admit new generation use tablets way more than desktop? Seeing the open source communities keep heading the wrong direction make me sad.


  • In server and gpu world, true. Laptop, desktop world. Not really. Most ppl don’t need that much computational power anyway.

    Also, ppl usually not include the shipping, collecting ewaste and recycling ewaste in the carbon footprint cost. Our ewaste recycling is extremely inefficient compared to our manufacturing side.

    For power, solar becomes so cheap now.


  • My rimworld works fine in my 10+ yrs old ddr3 desktop. Amd or Nvidia gpu are all fine. Spend more on ram for Linux built. The estimate lifespan of my new desktop is 10 yrs.

    Linux gaming experience is okish. You really have to chk the compatibility because some games claim they support Linux, but not really.


  • grapemix@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlCheapest new device that can run linux?
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    Not trying to blame anyone, I just wish more ppl prefer old good stuff over new cheap stuff. Sigh.

    Recycling those ewaste is a lot more expensive than manufacturing them. Of course that’s edge cases, but I think reusing old devices works better(and more environmentally friendly) for most ppl.

    Nothing wrong with brain storming, just please consider reusing old devices when you start a cool project.


  • I feel sorry for your situation. But at least in lemmy the dev are willing to try to resolve this problem. Low chance is still better than zero chance.

    Here is an wild idea. Since a few communities are so divided and clearly they only have a good time when they talk to ppl exactly like them. Flame war happens when two groups of hardcore opposed users argue. Since normal users won’t have all days to argue with either side, if one side leaves, the wars is ended.

    So instead of banning users by admin or blocking one users each time by users. Can we have allow users to create their own public group (or a gang)? Users can join any groups. Instead of blocking one user, users can simply block the whole group. Posts and comments will be hided if blocking.

    Advantages:

    1. No banning is needed means admin’s time and gang members’ time can be saved.
    2. finally no one disagree with those gangs members anymore, so I guess they’re happy
    3. instead of using time from admin and uninvolved users, users who frequently involved controversial topics everywhere should spend their own time to create a group for staying in their comfort zone.
    4. uninvolved users don’t have to read all those flame war

    Disadvantages:

    1. those gangs become more extreme cuz they miss the opportunity to understand each other
    2. dev have to do more work
    3. server may have more load
    4. some users might say those gangs should host their own instances

    Ps: I don’t use the term community because our board is also called community. I don’t want to mix them up. May be i should call it users group, but I am too lazy. I do agree better word should be used.


  • I love lemmy the project. But there has too much political arguments in some communities and they will hate you if you aren’t 100% agree with them. Even the post and the group/community are not political, comments will turn it to political. I am kind of tired(although I know some ppl are thrilled with political arguments). There is not much the devs can do, but the content does affect the user experience quite a lot.

    Nevertheless, thanks for all the hard work, nutomic and dessalines. I will donate.







  • Looks professional. I am always wondered if any video editor is client server based and/or api driven based.

    For example, if the video editor can directly use tlmy server’s disk io and gpu instead of my desktop one, so my desktop client is only for controlling. Non concurrent multi users across network would be awesome.

    If we can build a simple video by using APIs then fine-tune the project by using video editor, that would also awesome.




  • I think we actually have similar conclusion.

    1. We do agree blender has been achieved a lot, but it’s an unfair and uphill battle.

    2. I never claimed blender has not been used by real studios. But the market share for blender is bad, ~3% according to my quick search. And it’s probably not from big studios. If we love something, I think we also have to be unbiased, so we can improve it.

    My point is that instead of blaming the blender team, we should cherish how much blender team has been achieved and offered in this harsh territory.





  • While I think some comments are true in general for other aspect of open source software zones, blender is a special case.

    The target audience for blender are artists for movie, video and games. And these industries are very capital intensive and highly regulated by limited distributors. If you tell ppl you can only do blender instead of maya or other big names, it’s like a programmer tells ppl he can only do perl. Good luck for finding a job. Just like programming industry without microservice architecture, if the whole team use one language, you have to use that. Just do a job search.

    Game engine is similar. If you don’t use unity or unreal. No aaa game for you. (Indie games are better in my personal opinion) So game assets made by blender is always second citizens.

    Because of the above factors, third parties market place products’ price are always low. It’s good for buyers, but sucks for indie sellers. Compare the catalog between blender market place and daz3d’s market place.

    Universities will only teach products like maya instead of blender, just like java. Policy makers don’t care about the best interest of students. Their policy is usually only outdated. Why java? They should only allow to use Nokia.

    Unlike games, you can hardly try the indie route for movie. It’s either go big or go die. When do you see a blender movie being shown in your local cinema?

    blender is the only free less professional choice. The problem is their target audience is so broke.