I haven’t used it myself, but maybe look into 2D animation software that offers bones and rigging. You may run into the same limitations you mentioned for Blender, but who knows, maybe not?
Here’s an open source one that appears to have this: https://www.synfig.org/
Awesome! If this is your type of thing, you may be in for some amazing experiences, particularly if you can play it multiplayer with friends or on a good server. Look up some good Project Zomboid video reviews or fan trailers to get an idea.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks!
It doesn’t have much of a pre-defined story to it, but I would say Project Zomboid is pretty moody and has a lot of gameplay depth.
I don’t understand it either, but thanks for identifying the leaf.
That’s cool ASF! /s
But I wonder why they changed the logo from a feather to a weird leaf.
A couple of years ago someone had developed a web front-end for Lemmy that looked like old.reddit, but apparently didn’t keep maintaining it.
You’re welcome, Aurora Chrysalis. I’m glad that it helped provide some validation for not selecting Balena.
And you think Rufus with magnitude of options and Ventoy will leave users with fewer problems?
I agree with most of your post except this item. Balena Etcher caused major problems for me when I tried it (to be fair, years ago, so I don’t know if they’ve resolved/improved the issues), and I’m an IT guy. It borked my USB drive pretty bad, and I had to jump through hoops to get it working again. I don’t remember the details, but I do remember that Ventoy has been much less problematic so far. Rufus was also OK.
Yes. Microsoft says that most Windows will get updated by them, but I’m sure a lot of Windows machines will break in 2026.
My experience is that the “subscribed” feed only shows me posts from the specific communities that I’m personally subscribed to.
“subscribed” is the exact same thing as “all”
It shouldn’t be! If you subscribe to a couple communities, your “subscribed” feed on the front page should only show posts from those communities. The “all” feed will show posts from all communities that everyone on your instance (server) subscribe to. “Local” should show posts only from the communities hosted on your own instance.
Block the ani.social instance and it takes away 90% of the anime groups.
If you’re using a browser and follow a direct link to a Lemmy post or comment in another instance, the link takes you to that other instance where you don’t have an account.
If you wish to interact with that thread by commenting, voting, etc., one easy way I’ve found to get to my local instance’s copy of that thread is to copy the URL of the other instance’s thread and search it using your own instance’s search menu. This will usually bring up the local copy of that thread as one of the top results. You can then interact with that thread through your instance with your existing account.
Links to communities have a mechanism that automatically translates the link to the local copy, which is to add an exclamation mark in front of the community address and then select the correct community in the inline search that comes up, which produces a link like this: [email protected]
Unfortunately, I don’t believe that kind of mechanism exists for posts (threads) or comments yet, but perhaps it’s something that the developers will consider in the future.
Probably brain worms (literally, if you’re not aware of RFK Jr’s brain worms!) rather than steroids.
When you suggested that Android is licensed because the government restricted who could use it, that’s what you said. I don’t understand why this is confusing.
That’s not what I said. What I said was that the fact that Google blocked Huawei’s ability to use Android’s Google Services on their devices at the government’s orders meant that the they had a mechanism that allowed them to do so. Namely, the proprietary license for the Google Services. Do you dispute this exact thing, not some twisted version of what I said? I don’t understand why this is confusing either.
Any other open source project is susceptible to the same fate, ergo they’re the same thing. I already explained this.
How so? Do you have any examples of an organization blocking someone from using a common open source license like GPL, MIT, or Apache License, with the possible exceptions of GPL license violations or export controls for things like cryptography, etc? The fact that Google didn’t block Huawei from using AOSP most likely means that it was easier for them to ban Huawei through their proprietary license to Google Services than through the Apache License for AOSP.
AOSP is Android. This seems to be where you’re getting confused.
This seems to be where you’re getting confused too. I’ve already explained multiple times that what I mean by “Android” is the full suite (AOSP + GPS + GMS) that an OEM would need for a mass-market phone. AOSP is not enough for that. No OEM in their right mind would try to market a mass-market phone with pure AOSP and no Google Services.
Yes you are. You are claiming that open source and “licensed” are the same thing, because the government can get involved and take away someone’s right to open source.
That’s not at all what I’m saying. Please point out where I said that open source and licensed (i.e., proprietary licensed) software are the same thing? First, I’m not saying anything about AOSP, which I recognize is fully open source and which I use myself. I’m talking about full Android, the trademarked, licensed product, which includes AOSP (open source) plus GPS and GMS (proprietary) components. We’re talking about Android phones here, before you go “but but but”.
From the link above:
“The “Android” name, the Android logo, the “Google Play” brand, and other Google trademarks, are property of Google LLC and not part of the assets available through the Android Open Source Project.”
“Use of the “Google Play” name and the Google Play Store icon is allowed only in association with devices licensed to access Google Play. For a list of devices licensed to use Google Play, refer to Supported devices.”
Second, a combination of open source and proprietary components is not fully open source, do you agree with that at least?
It doesn’t matter if it’s useless or not, because it’s not part of Android
It very much does matter in the case of Android because AOSP without the proprietary components is limited to a market niche. Show me one really popular phone or phone brand which does not use Google’s proprietary Play Store. Maybe there’s some edge case that doesn’t, I don’t know, but it would be the exception that proves the rule.
Its obviously not useless because Huawei continued using using Android, minus GPS and GMS, as does Amazon.
Both had to either develop their own app store or rely on a 3rd-party app store, I don’t know. But they’re definitely not using Google’s Play Store, and thus are limited to market niches like I mentioned above.
It’s either failure to understand or you’re intentionally twisting my words. I’m not challenging the definition of open source and I’m not claiming open source and proprietary software is the same.
Let me restate and clarify what I’m saying:
I hope you understand my points now. If you still want to argue either of them, I think we’ve reached a dead end.
Sure, I agree and am not disputing that.
I’m pretty sure blocking (if you’re using a Lemmy instance anyway, which looks like you are) doesn’t block users, but only the communities from the instance you’re blocking. I think I’ve heard that Piefed blocks more extensively though, probably including users.