I believe Lula and his government appreciates anything that reduces the influence of the US.

ditto!

Someone told me once they used ChatGPT as a tool to practice a language. I thought it was quite invovative

I love Vital (Vitalium) and Zyn-Fusion. Surge and Odin are great too. all of them are open source and work great with bitwig.

fair point - noone on reddit buys awards so that they can contribute to reddit financially - people do that to draw more attention to the kind of content they like. So I thought you could use that to get more money to people who can make use of it. So to the donors it wouldn’t primarily be a donation. if lemmy.world is doing well for now - that’s great for them, but there are many groups who can make really use it.

well liberapay pretty much exists to give people a way to contribute to the FOSS they support. What I was thinking of is not much more than a way to do just that, just in a way that is more engaging than the typical donation system

I see your point, makes sense to me - it gets bloated and meaningless when there are so many of them

certainly not everything is about money. but servers do cost money, and if we want to keep lemmy servers independent they’ll need some source of income.

I haven’t found a FOSS Ableton/Bitwig replacement either, but the FOSS audio world has many wonderful synths a effects.

yeah, sadly. There is a lot of interest, and I guess the Blender Devs have a hard time managing it all of the contributions. they are actually hiring someone who can help out with all of that stuff

the post I quoted from is pretty much 10 years old - except for the license blender changed a lot since then. Both Corona and V-ray have some kind of ‘bridge’ implementation, but they are not nearly as well integrated into blender as cycles is, and therefore their userbase is quite small.

oh I use blender so much I have to put effort into associating the word with a literal blender

they give you stuff for free. Send them money if you want them to have more resources to manage all the contributions, or give money to someone who you think knows better than them. Calling them egomaniacs is absurd, wrong and rude, and will get you nothing but downvotes on Lemmy

yep! I laughed when I read that. GPL working precisely as intended.

I guess discourse in software development is very normal (and needed) and in the case of free software, it is generally held publicly. Well they still give away their code for free. Everyone is allowed to do the same thing the blender foundation does - aquire resources to fund blender’s development and sharing the product with everyone who wants to use it.

edit: reading the thread on blenderartists… that developer seems to be a bit of a drama queen… I can’t comment on the technical things as I know close to nothing about it, but him being rude like that is not good for any working environment.

I don’t really want to argue in detail as I don’t feel like your critizism is constructive or specific. You’re right though, the blender devs aren’t the good guys… they are the best!

as someone who works in that area, USD will be pretty awesome once it is well integrated in the respective 3D applications. Through MaterialX it’ll even be possible to export complex shaders through different applications. It’ll be much easier to use different programs on a single project.

Nvidia already pushes USD with their Omniverse thing. Whoever doesn’t join the new standards shoots themself in the foot. I believe Autodesk is seriously threatened by Blender (Adobe, Nvidia and Apple have invested in Blender already), and if they don’t implement the standards that studios demand they’ll just remain on the losing side.

right, since blender 2.8 it has been way more accessible for users to get into. I’ve always really liked blender’s unique approach to design though. The Blender Devs work in the same building as their in-house animation studio. This kind of synergy has always come up with unique workflows that are crazy powerful and useful once you get behind it. right-click-select is one of these things. The devs at the Blender Institute are always surronded by artsists who have tons of ideas on how to make things faster to use for the artists.

probably - I think most studios would be okay with paying more, the prices are pretty fair compared to what’s common in the industry. And on top of that they’d probably have to do without tech support from the devs which is quite important for studios

its true, but Autodesk’s walled garden approach is starting to crumble. FBX is on the way to be replaces by USD, Rendering is on it’s way to be streamlined by Hydra Delegates, and there are a bunch of projects by the ASWF that work on new open source standards for the industry.