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I'm an open-source/Linux exclusive artist. Creating music and sound effects. Sharing my knowledge and passion through videos. Proving open-source for pro-audio.

Also a game developer and project lead at https://libla.st

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unfa, (edited ) to godot
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As of late I am deeply conflicted about 😿

  • I love the design philosophy; I think it's [one of / the] best libre 3D-capable engine out there. I use it and promote it.
  • I've learned shocking things about reduz (Juan Linietsky) that made me really sad and I don't trust him in regards to money and power within the project.

I don't want to go into specifics, because it won't fit a toot.

Don't downplay "haters" without evaluating their points.

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@gamingonlinux There's also many past contributors who were bullied and kicked out of the project; many instances of moderation being worse than absent in the community; industry veterans who wanted to help but were treated like idiots; FOSS developers who were open to collab but noped out ( @jrouwe ), there's also reduz's unsubstantiated claims of Godot's supposed tech superiority over industry leading engines. An then there's "borrowing" code from Box2D violating it's license...

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@yurisizov I am not blindly trusting anybody. So far I have always been defending Godot and Juan and I found a lot of the negativity to be unsubstantiated or based on misunderstandings, but I also see some worrying things that I can't explain favorably. And seeing ahow people rising various issues with Godot governance are treated, I feel like even asking for details will get me banned from the community regardless of my history and contributions to the project.

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@yurisizov I'm afraid to ask the specific people because I see how they react to such questions and I don't think I'll learn anything other than "yup, it was a bad idea to ask".
For example what happened to the recently kicked out contributor from Russia? The guy was part of the team for so long...
Or what happened to the person who wrote Godot Physics? I found their comment that they were "bullied two times by different people and each time the management sided with the bully"...

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@yurisizov I am aware that many things can be made up or misinterpreted.

I've seen some "conspiracy videos", I don't trust that.

I've had someone make up nasty stuff about me once and it changed my optic a bit. They even fabricated "evidence".

But I have never met so much trouble in any FOSS project before and it's not all organized provocations.

I see myself how Juan interacts with people on Github sometimes. And how he writes mutually exclusive things avoiding taking blame for anything...

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@yurisizov Maybe I will ask directly one day. I'm just worried that I'll be labeled as another conspiracy theorist idiot and expelled.
About the Foundation - I am looking forward to the first financial statement and I am wondering who decides who gets paid for their work and who doesn't in Godot. If it's all open, shouldn't the payroll be open too? I use Open Collective for Liblast and every expense is publicly documented. I don't see legit financial transparency so far, and that's worrying.

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@Roglozor @gamingonlinux Who exactly do you mean? I read in the next toot :D

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@gamingonlinux @jrouwe Sorry for not provided more organized sources. I linked two twitter threads in alt text for images. Toot lenght is a challenge.

unfa, to gaming
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Important video regarding preservation of video games, and fighting publishers making them unplayable after a while.

https://youtu.be/w70Xc9CStoE?si=bndPZOEIh7_aY-E_

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@niclas @Mazzo Well, the only realistic option is at making things substantially better for the history of games (and consumer rights) is to use this Ubisoft Crew faceslap to the max and have govts. worldwide look at it and determine how legal is it that something you paid for is being rendered worthless remotely after a few years.

unfa, to godot
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Nakama is a open-source self-hostable server for games and apps. It has a native Godot integration among a hundred other things. Heroic Labs are making something incredible.

I enjoyed making my own (super basic) user account and auth system for , but to get things done, I'm gonna rather learn !

https://heroiclabs.com/docs/nakama/client-libraries/godot/

unfa, to archive
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Is there's any libre software that could maintain an offline index of my disks?

I'd like to be able to search for files without having to plug them in one by one, so I can fetch the right one right away.

I imagine something lie this must exist for tape archives, but I don't use TAR files for archival, and I suspect the offline tools I've heard about are proprietary to companies selling these huge LTO systems.

So far my searches didn't get me anywhere.

Maybe you can help me?

unfa, to foss
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ZL Equalizer is a new open-source dynamic EQ plug-in with an excellent sound and UI!

https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer/

What a time to be alive! :D

unfa, to random
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I'm testing this as a replacement for Gboard on my phone. And what's awesome is - it does work with Voice Input. So I can have voice typing without requiring any online services. And without having to click through menus each time I want to use it. Awesome!
You can find both of these open source apps in the F-droid app library.

FUTO Voice Input voice typing app used via FlorisBoard. Its also open-source and uses Whisper for local speech recognition. No Google servers involved!

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@js0000 Hey! Yeah, I've realized you need to first add their F-droid repository.

unfa, to android
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Could this be the FOSS replacement do Gboard? Time to try it out!
https://florisboard.org/

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@gcrkrause I guess that's what you get when your writing is predicted by models trained on Reddit and Twitter...

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I'm powerless now

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@YoSoyFreeman Words to live by.

unfa, (edited ) to random
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KDE Plasma 6 brought HDR support to Linux!

And this reminded me that my Gigabyte G27Q monitor is broken. I've sent one back before when it started flickering first only in HDR + Freesync, then without HDR, then without Freesync and finally turned into a strobe.

Now this unit has the same problem, just a longer onset.

Can't I actually get working hardware for my money? Please?

Same with Sony Linkbuds S. Three pairs. All of them broken in similar ways. Still can't get my money back for two...

unfa,
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@Woodcat Do you mean Gigabyte is known for making flaky monitors?

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@vacuumbeef I feel you.

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I think I’m done with KDE Activities. I’ve really tried to use them but after a while it just feels like I’m over-complicating virtual desktops because I don’t really use any of Activities’ features.

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@nebunez I use activities with Latte Dock for screen capture. My main activity has a panel there and a mess on the desktop, the other one is clean with no panel or folder view (moving these to my 2nd vertical display).
Since default Plasma panels don't allow different configurations per activity though, this isn't possible in vanilla Plasma 5. No idea about Plasma 6.

unfa, (edited ) to music
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Rob Swire (or someone else from Knife Party?) alluded that Pendulum concerts were played live using Linux computers running VST plug-ins via Wine.

Here's proof from Knife Party's AmA on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2pi4ek/comment/cmwynld/

The mo' you know!

Supposedly the "PC"s were devices of this variety:

https://www.museresearch.com/products/index.php

hendrik, to foss

keyboard is getting better and better on a daily basis. It is a highly configurable Android keyboard in which you type not only by pressing letters but also by swiping. This dramatically speeds up typing. Try it out on your phone via

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@hendrik Thanks, Il'l give it a try!

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@hendrik Its not on Fdroid yet: https://github.com/nightkr/flickboard/issues/15
i have no idea how to use it. oh nowido

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