Quick note to say I have spent a whole year now on mastodon, having loads of rewarding conversations with so many lovely and interesting people. Thanks for reading ❤️
Let me do the math. A month of Unity seat license = ±3× full month Adobe Creative Cloud seat licenses, starting next January. Okay.
(Unity Pro = $170, CC = $55)
It's days like today that expose the income inequality. I recently gave a 14-year-old ThinkPad to a family who were happy because they couldn't afford a $300 low-end laptop for their kids to do homework on. Today the Internet is full of people who can't wait to drop $2000 on a phone that is marginally better than what they already have in their pocket. 🤯
@sesivany Btw. Yesterday I have bought a repurposed ThinkPad (16gb ram, 256gb SSD and 2y warranty) for about 130 USD. Quality is cheap and kids should not be left behind.
I sometimes hear people make fun of the fact that Berlin has a huge empty field right in its core area where Tempelhof airport used to operate which is now a public park and left almost entirely unchanged, runways and all.
They talk about it as if it's an example of the city's inability to do something "useful" with this land. And what they mean is build stuff on it.
But just the way it is, it is hugely popular among the people of Berlin, it's a unique space where the sheer size of it enables anyone to basically do whatever without annoying anyone else. Even at peak times like Saturday afternoon, it still doesn't feel crowded and the further away from the edges you go the emptier it gets.
It refuses any commercial "usefulness" and instead gives people space to use how they see fit. It's absolutely beautiful.