and a bunch of “professional” apps.
It is in fact a bunch of pre-installed free software. I like Zorin, but Zorin Pro just seems like a way to trick businesses into paying for the distro. I guess having access to a support team is nice, but otherwise it's not worth it at all.
It's Arabic. The pic is a pun on "Good morning" which is written sabah el-fol. The picture says sabah el-farawla which roughly translates to "Good Strawberring".
There aren't any alternatives that are as good or feature-rich. If you're willing to settle for less there's Revolt that's trying to be a 1-to-1 clone but is still in alpha, then there are apps based on Matrix which somehow makes using a chat app 10x harder.
Just finished the video, and I think it's a fantastic intro to using lights in Godot! I want to mention though that SDFGI runs terribly whenever you move the camera quickly, so I wouldn't recommend it for any serious projects. There's a PR to replace it with something better (also mentioned in the video) but there hasn't been movement in a year, so who knows when that'll come around.
Sort of. If you earned >$1 million in revenues in the past 12 months, you have two options:
Pay 2.5% of your monthly revenue
Pay a runtime fee based on your monthly downloads
So basically, they made it optional, but you still have to pay 2.5% which is still significant. Otherwise you can use the runtime fee and report data yourself (it will probably be cheaper)
I've noticed in the community that there are a lot (legitimately good) open source games in development with Godot! The issue with open source games 5+ years ago and further is that they were really complicated and hard to get into, often written in C++ using frameworks like OpenGL. Having such a good open source engine makes it soooo much easier to find people willing to join projects.
One game I have my eye on is JDungeon, an open source 2D MMORPG made in Godot. It's still in very early alpha so there is barely a game to play right now, but it seems to be progressing quite nicely.
git pull
git add *
git commit -m "Some stuff"
git push
And occasionally when you mess up
git reflog
git reset HEAD@{n} (where n is where you wanna roll back to)
And occasionally if you mess up so hard you give up
And there you go. You are now a master at using git. Try not to mess up.
We have a big conference every year where I live for the tech industry. It's hit or miss depending on the person presenting, and it's usually a miss. Many talks can last over an hour when they could've been a much shorter youtube video and are just there to pad time. Also 95% of the people are there for other motives. Looking for investors, trying to get hired, browsing the booths, etc. Despite being very crowded it's very clear most of the people don't actually care about the talks and do anything else on their phones.
I think in-person conferences can be great experiences when done right but I really got anything out of it. For all the talks about networking with others they give very little opportunities to do that. When everyone is looking for opportunities from other people it felt almost like a competition to try and talk with companies and important people, and it usually boils down to them asking for my contact info so they can flush it down the toilet. I don't know, I just have a bad experience with them.
I would say so, but the sample size isn't big enough to be sure of it.
DALL-E 3 is the only model that gets text right. It usually yields consistent results but can still jumble on words if you ask it to say too much. It's a big step forward regardless.
Godot 4 is a major overhaul of the engine, it's not meant to be compatible with 3.x projects. Godot 4 is stable and won't change any time soon.
The Linux phones that exist today (including Pine Phone) are more like early dev kits. They have really weak specs, are incredibly buggy, lack all sorts of features you'd expect, and I'm not totally sure if you can even make calls through them because phone carriers require a verified device and proprietary tech to work.
There are efforts to get things in order but these will take maybe 10 years at this rate.