The cost of switching to an unfamiliar Interface and workflow is high enough, charging money to do it will further increase the barrier to entry.

Paying for open source software sounds good on paper, but if it is required, the software will never accumulate the users to make the development have any meaning.

There has to be a “try it before you buy it” too. Otherwise the permutations of scams are obvious and nobody will fall for that. Idk how you would prove that the software works, without giving an actual copy of the software.

Also, legalities between different countries. You will just not get your money back from “trustworthy nigerian software dev who just needs 50$ to give you some software”.

So no.

Do donate if you can though. If you value the software you use, you will pretty obviously recognize the utility and the cost to you, should it go away.

Downgrading to a Floor-Top device? Sounds like you can’t go any lower, no thanks.

That is true, nevermind me.

This is a good post, but I’m not sure it belongs in technology. Hmm.

Eh. It’s a bit more handwavey than that. It’s whatever you want it to be.

Virtual reality was supposed to be simulated, but “actual still science fiction” levels of simulated. seamless 3d environment, intercepting nerve signals to look and intuitively control an avatar or ready player one had a haptic suit.

AR stems from that and was supposed to be “the real world, but cyber”. Or “VR, but with real world elements”. In the novel “virtual light”, it’s supposed to overlay that “datasturce of cyberspace” on the real world. Even then it was never really clear what purpose cyberspace as a 3d world would have, what data looks like or should look like, and what the advantage of that visualization would be. Or why would rather see that than what the world looks like.

Mixed reality is also that. Imo. It sounds the same to me too.

The whole thing is like hand gesture control. It looked great in minority report, but we had it since one of the 2010s xboxs and it went absolutely nowhere.

This is their thought process:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/04/dutch-media-report-claim-boris-johnson-planned-raid-on-vaccine-plant-in-2021

There are just more (low paying) jobs available than there are people. The people are just working different, better paid jobs.

The guy I want to hear from, this dude:

https://www.youtube.com/@MrBtongue

posted every 3 months or less and he hasn’t uploaded for a 6 years.

I hope he’s alive and well tbh.

There may be a few catches here and there, but overall the game works, the world is pretty big / big enough and the features are well designed and well paced enough to keep people entertained for several dozens of hours.

That’s what I mean by “well made”. It’s not an actually unfun game with bad explanations.

I mean, I won’t deny that small bit of skill it took to construct a plausible sounding explanation for why the public should support your investment, because it’s “not illegal (yet)”.

It’s just a well made game in an era of badly made games that hype themselves up bigger than they are.

Palworld is “just” good monster collection, good combat and some good survival crafting. I’m not going to play it, but it’s very easy to see the appeal.

It’s like the newer doom games. They’re “just” good shooters. You “just” get to go through well built levels, nice visuals and good music.