Didn’t noticed till you mentioned it. Hilarious touch.

Every capitalist wants to invest as little and profit as much as possible.

• A history of the world in seven cheap things (p.21)

Yes, but we’re talking about 2 different moments. 3D software was in it’s infancy in the 90’s. Things were evolving rapidly, and you’re paying a premium for basically developing prototypes. Every innovation, additional competitor, or even merger will likely bring prices down.

More comparable to today’s desktop/software market, is after autodesk gobbled up the market in the 2000’s. They might offer discounts on bundles after acquiring a new software, but then they’d often stagnate or abandon development shortly thereafter and they gradually made moves to spend very little on dev while continuing to charge customers. So autodesk’s actions were hardly a consumer (prosumer?) victory. I’m simply saying they were increasingly hostile to their customers until blender became competitive.

Dang. Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll fully commit like bitwarden did, but I think I’ll pause my donations till this ones settles.

Substantially improved Affinity Designer files (.afdesign) import

The feature i didn’t know I wanted till now.

May be similar to the 3d software world where autodesk created a monopoly and could charge around 5k USD for something like Maya, and then go the adobe route and only rent once innovation dies off. Only when Blender started getting more hype and attention did autodesk start offering cheaper indie versions and licenses.

You’re scapegoating ai’s misleading sales tactics on “dumb people who have always existed.” Many people use ai and chatbots because they believe the ai hype and are unaware of how faulty it is. If that’s dumb, it seems there’s a lot of dumb ai users.

100%

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

- Marshall McLuhan, Culture is Our Business (1972)

Bill Gates the farmer?

Just trying to find a decent link led me past so many deceptive headlines like Bill Gates owns a lot of American farmland, but not the majority.

So… he’s the largest private owner of US farmland , but he doesn’t own a majority-- What a relief /s

For most of the US, true. Though I think it’s fuzzier if you work it into a commute or other errands. I’ve moved a lot and favor places that have grocery stores, libraries, parks, etc within walking distance. Get groceries and a brisk walk. Win win.

Plus delivery usually takes less than an hour when you do it yourself.

Open Prices is something that’s crossed my mind many times. Excited to see it exists and is associated with open food facts.

Well played. Glad to assist.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.

- Cunningham’s Law

Stumbled across a game that teaches the command line as you play it. Seems like a good place to share https://gitlab.com/slackermedia/bashcrawl

personally, writing and saving simple scripts - IE project based learning - is how i got time in the saddle.

Never have I ever read a single book or watched a single movie of the Harry Potter series.