gift cards and virtual app balances allow companies to operate as unregulated banks, and take out massive loans using their unspent balance as collateral. It's a clever way to avoid the typical regulations in holding client money
Blows my mind that 50% of mobile visitors are Apple, when 80% of the world uses Android (Though I guess Ph is probably more popular in anglo/european countries which uses more iPhones anyway)
Phoronix is going to be flooded with almost identical headlines like this if they make an article every time the (brand-new) NVK Mesa driver gets a commit that improves performance somewhere
Fundamentally speaking, none of these people would've ended up as billionaires for long. Most FOSS heavyweights already gave up their chance at being much more wealthy for their current roles. That being said, I'm pretty sure Linus and a few others here aren't exactly short on cash
itd be easier to port the mods if anything, since Minetest is meant to be a lot easier to mod and extend than Minecraft. In fact, many of these Minecraft-like games for Minetest are an amalgamation of dozens of individual mods
These are some good tweaks! Personally, especially the smaller changes like uniform sizes for controls, would be worth taking up with the KDE community because they might consider merging them into breeze proper. Unless it doesn't work like that for theming of course!
Good. On one hand it's good to see fediverse stuff coming mainstream, on the other hand the last thing we want is a load of celebrities and brands trying to cannibalise said fediverse as an opportunity to corner the market instead of genuinely useful resources for communication
Looking forward to this coming to Godot. Personally unlikely to ever need it but there are some impressive projects going on in godot right now that could use it!
The text editor that'll be coming with Cosmic looks pretty slick! I've got a loooong way to go with learning rust so maybe I'll take a look at the iced/pop libraries when Cosmic comes out 👀
A directors cut you cant even watch until you watch the regular cut that no one cares for