I think that may be the greatest dammage they’ve done to themselves. They used to be trusted as one of the good players. Now they can’t be trusted anymore. Apart from unhappy developers leaving, who would start to develop with Unity after this?
The family of a man fatally shot in New Mexico by police officers responding to the wrong house sued the department for wrongful death and other claims in federal court, according to a complaint filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of New Mexico....
AMD is probably the best choice for Linux now, not that nVidia isn’t still as fast for gaming, but there are a number of limitations to using both the proprietary and open source nVidia driver, and proprietary is the only option for nVidia if you want decent performance.
My wife had huge problems with xruns due to some sort of bug in the nVidia proprietary driver running with a real time kernel.
Xrun is when the Audio doesn’t fill buffers in time, usually it’s just a few milliseconds and mostly inaudible, but it’s no good, if you are making music.
I’m sure for most either is fine today. But if you want to engage in open source development, AMD is by far the best choice, because the open source driver is much more well behaved, both than the nVidia open source and proprietary drivers.
Not exactly, Godot is 100% free and open source, Unreal is only partially.
Edit:
I misread, the meaning is that Godot and Unity is serving the same niche, which is true. Except for those who want true Open Source, then Godot is the clear choice.
IDK, but a lot of tech stock got a massive boost during Covid, then when that was over, and we instead got war in Ukraine, there has been a bit of a slowdown. So maybe they think the progress they had should continue, even if the economy doesn’t justify it.
Most other smartphone makers seem to have decided on having all of the buttons on the right side - power and volume ones too. OnePlus (and parent company Oppo) goes its own way with the power button on the right and the volume rocker on the left.
Ooops that foes NOT sound good.
When you press the power button, depending on how you hold the phone, you might also end up accidentally pressing the lower part of the volume rocker
When I press the power on my current similar sized phone, I have my long finger directly opposite, exactly where they put the volume.
IDK if anyone has experience with this phone, because I was seriously considering to buy this phone next month. But this seems so stupid I’m reconsidering now. Maybe it’s something you easily get used to?
condition myself to press on the volume switch above the power button
Thanks, but I don’t get it? The problem is the volume button is on the opposite side, so not above the power button. I’m not familiar with the layout of the 7 pro.
Ukraine has had some good days lately, inflicting huge damage on the Russians. Ukraine has also been praised by military experts, explaining that the Ukrainian operation is very difficult, but Ukraine is doing a stellar job militarily.
Of course it does, but that doesn’t change the fact that Ukraine is performing operations successfully that no NATO country would usually do, in part because Ukraine has very little air support.
Normal NATO practice is to start with ensuring air superiority, and Ukraine can’t do that with what they have.
But yes Ukraine depend on aid from NATO, EU and others who support their fight for their country, I guess probably about 50 countries support Ukraine.
In exactly the same way Russia has support from countries who support their effort of genocide, like Iran, Belarus, North Korea and China.
I hope you can see a trend on the difference of the countries here.
A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation....
The vast majority of “new” tech companies operate at a loss.
This is a bullshit hypothetical that has no relevance for Unity. Unity is a well established company, that has been very successful after they revised their model to be more Indie friendly. This is a money grab attempt pure and simple. And it’s a money grab that is so bad it might actually kill Unity.
I’m pretty sure that when Unity was headquartered in Denmark it made a profit. But I may be mistaken, because it was hyped as a danish enterprise success.
When they changed the license to be more Indie friendly a few years back, that too was hyped as a huge success.
But I can see on Wikipedia that Unity Software Inc. has a negative net income of $921 million on revenue of $1.4 billion.
That’s an insane loss, meaning that they basically operate at 50% loss! How or Why they ended up that badly is beyond me. It’s so bad it smells like something is not quite right with those numbers.
They work with you to make your code more performant
I wasn’t talking about whether they have expenses, If I recall correctly they have about 7000+ employees.
Generally that kind of company only collaborate on huge projects, smaller projects don’t get that level of service, bust are generally referred to a developer forum, where their questions may be answered by in-house personel. This is as I understand it common, but I’m not a pro gaming programmer, although I used to know a few decades ago.
Fun fact, the story now is that it was a Unity employee who made the death threat!?
Starting on January 1, developers will be charged a fee every time someone installs a game built in Unity after they reach certain revenue or install thresholds.
Obviously death threats are not ok, but for fucks sake, that change is insane. People may install games many times for many reasons, like switching drives, computer, OS or debugging, or corruption, or because they go back to it after not playing for a while.
How is it a good model to charge for repeated installs?
The decision sparked an astonishing backlash against Unity from across the gaming industry,
I bet, this will threaten some people on their livelihood, and if you are 90% finished on a project, it’s an insane change that will force you to switch to another engine, and could kill several projects.
Also as a user, this increases the need and amount of DRM mechanics, which we need less not more of.
I hope Unity will see a massive dive in customers on these policies. This is the kind of decision a company deserves bankruptcy for. And the CEO John Riccitiello deserves to be fired without benefits, and never hired as CEO again.
Edit PS:
The fee is up to $0.20, that’s steep and would mean the end of sub $10 games. This would hurt single and indie developers very much.
Luckily there are other engines, but Unity used to be among the good ones, now they’ve become an untrustworthy player, and that decreases competition for the entire field.
Death threats are not OK, but this can destroy years of work for people, and it can threaten their livelihood. I’m guessing this has pushed some people into a sense of desperation. And these threats are acts of desperation, not threats that have a huge chance of being carried out.
John Riccitiello needs to be fired, if he isn’t Unity deserves bankruptcy for this move.
Despite that, I doubt gamers are very involved in payment methods of game engines, or even know which game engine their games are running on.
So unless some VERY popular game developers have been out saying expansions for their favorite games will not be released because of this, I don’t see the mechanics for what you claim working at this point.
that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because … the US Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force,”
Jesus Christ, what a sociopath. So the ability to take it by force, should justify it? Elron Musk has zero empathy and zero morals. His existence is absolutely a net negative for humanity.
Yeah it helps if daddy is rich, like Donald Trump who claims he did it all by himself, on a “small” ($ 60 mill.) loan from his dad, and then he inherited a huge fortune.
Or Elron Musk who grew up on the benefits of daddy owning an emerald mine.
Both are absolutely the worst kind of narcissist sociopaths that come from privilege, so the old claim of the rich having heavy responsibilities they learn to manage, is complete bullshit too.
Kind of makes it easier if you can get a 60 million dollar loan from daddy like Trump did.
Or if White Daddy owns an Emerald mine in Black South Africa, taken by force by military from Europe, like was the case for Elron Musk. So how was that fair to all South Africans?
You are completely blind if you think there is an even playing field.
Yes there may be the occasional anecdotes, like Jeff Bezos who weren’t born rich, but for them it requires both insanely hard work and luck.
Anecdotes are not a statistic that proves anything. And the statistics clearly say that if you are rich, chances are overwhelming that you were born into it.
Yet the rich have a sense of entitlement that they somehow deserve to be rich, but not the people who have to work two jobs, and never have a vacation. How do you arrive at that is a fair system?
For the record, I don’t want a no-defederation instance because I want to browse Nazi or pedo instances. I want a no-defederation instance because I have a principled objection to others telling me what I can or cannot view.
There are laws you know, claiming a fediverse server should work outside the law is idiotic and not at all principled.
If this is true, it may also cause users on smaller instances to migrate to bigger instances, because there is more activity. Undermining the power and freedom of the decentralized structure of Lemmy and the fediverse.
Many great tidbits, and interesting how Jake says Russia moved troops from Donetsk to the south to defend the breached defense line. And now we hear Ukraine is progressing towards Donetsk. 😀
I understand why you are tired of seeing his ugly face all the time, but I think many use his face because this war is the responsibility of Putin personally.
Yes Jack Ma got a bit to loud. But although I don’t support authoritarian systems like the Chinese, I kind of respect the Chinese politicians for shutting up Jack Ma. There is no reason the filthy rich should decide our policies. They will almost always have a self centered and extremely skewed view on things.
We’ve had some of it here in Denmark too, and it’s sickening when the rich make campaigns because they can afford it, to support their own interests.
Except we now know Musk is a full blown narcissist. The pedophile incident is just one example, but there are also other examples, like how he treats minorities, and frequently behaves like a bully on twitter. Together with his support for Trump who also support Russia, the picture is crystal clear. That when it regards Elon Musk we could apply what we could call a reverse Hanlon’s razor, never apply to ignorance that which can be explained by narcissist malice.
PS: I’m guessing you didn’t watch the video. Because the consistency is pretty clear.
Developers fight back against Unity’s new pricing model (www.theverge.com)
Just pick one! (lemmy.world)
Family of man killed by police responding to wrong house in New Mexico files lawsuit (www.cbsnews.com)
The family of a man fatally shot in New Mexico by police officers responding to the wrong house sued the department for wrongful death and other claims in federal court, according to a complaint filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of New Mexico....
Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself. (themarkup.org)
It kind of held up wouldn't you think? (lemmy.world)
Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out (lemmy.today)
From The Internet Archive: web.archive.org/…/Unity Software Additional Terms…
OnePlus 11 long-term review (www.gsmarena.com)
Russia Takes Devastating Losses in Crimea (www.youtube.com)
Another day another victory for Ukraine. Or rather a couple victories.
My reaction to "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates" (feddit.uk)
Unity will quietly waive controversial fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation service - report (www.eurogamer.net)
A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation....
Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes (www.engadget.com)
Taiwan tells Elon Musk it is ‘not for sale’ after latest China comments (www.theguardian.com)
Reproach comes as Taiwan says it has detected a large number of Chinese aircraft crossing into its air defence identification zone...
Robots (lemmy.sdf.org)
Ukranian UAV, RQ-20 "PUMA", survived an encounter with a Russian anti-aircraft missile. (streamable.com)
t.me/combatfootageua/6745
Defederated from Feddit.nl. Update: Refederated!
Lately we have been dealing with a few abusive members from Feddit.nl and we were unable to get in touch with the instance administrator....
Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy (lemmy.world)
Russia Suffers Another Massive Defeat in the Black Sea (www.youtube.com)
Many great tidbits, and interesting how Jake says Russia moved troops from Donetsk to the south to defend the breached defense line. And now we hear Ukraine is progressing towards Donetsk. 😀
Elon Musk Protects and Defends Russia (www.youtube.com)
Although this is from yesterday, I thought there were some good points, that makes it worth seeing.