• 0 Posts
  • 20 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 19th, 2023

help-circle





  • I took a breaking DM’ing after running a group for nearly a decade. During that time I started playing 40K. Which, some may not know this, is quite expensive if you don’t know how to 3d print. So I picked up the hobby.

    Now that I want to DM again many of my players came to prefer virtual over in person. It makes me sad because I could do stuff like this now without too much effort. What gives?





  • Well, I wouldn’t call it a “brain dead take”. I usually keep an Android and an iOS handset and I view each with a set of drawbacks and payoffs. The former (usually) allows you to unlock the boot loader without drawbacks and the latter does not. The latter is exclusive to a set of hardware. So if you want to have iOS you’re consigned to using the hardware deemed acceptable by Apple — but if someone were to accomplish “the brain dead take” a whole host of hardware would be available to you. There’s utility to that for some people.








  • itsJoelle@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlTitle
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Not a problem. Also FOSS orgs pay their devs as well. Off the top of my head OS developers with a large userbase often pay their devs through donations to foundations that fund the project. Often donors are companies as well, but it gives a developer the option to get paid without working for a massive company.

    (I suppose indirectly they do, but that’s a whole different ball of wax)


  • itsJoelle@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlTitle
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    I don’t understand. I reread back to the top comment and went down the chain. They made a rhetorical question about how devs of software being paid. Someone clarified the definition of Foss. Then there was a an inquiry about how someone could make a living with FOSS software and another commenter claiming millions do it (which a majority are these exact devs I pointed out).

    I simply gave the list, that’s all.



  • itsJoelle@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlTitle
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    See: RedHat devs and all the FOSS orgs that actually pay devs to work on their shit.

    Google, Meta, and AMD have people on their to team they pay for development on FOSS projects because their operations rely upon them, so they have a vested interest in maintaining them.