I presumed their store is the only way to publish on Apple VR hardware? I’d be happy with just a free repository hosting it.

Does Apple Dev License provide any dev tools or services?

Being able to set a class as abstract is a nice addition.

Not sure how useful Apple VR stuff is, can you release open source games for Apple hardware?

I watched technical talks (like this) on GNU Taler ages ago so this might be out of date but the most difficult part to me would be the banks being interested in supplying the service necessary. You get money to your browser wallet by transferring it from your bank account.

I don’t live in Switzerland and can’t imagine banks or government supporting anything but their own version that gives them control.

It was mostly a playful comment on my part (indicated by the emoji) - I’ve waited this long so they might as well do it properly.

I would like to buy products/services online privately, “using cash” as it were. I also value software freedom and the Taler client is GPL. The API is LGPL but hopefully I can avoid using proprietary software for transactions.

I looked into setting up a method of donations on itch.io when I was focused on that hobby and the options of PayPal or Stripe just felt icky. I don’t want to use them, or encourage others to do so.

Been waiting for Taler for ages. I’m ready now, you wait 😝

You can hide the bookmark bar to save vertical space and then it’s just a more organized, forgotten bookmark list. Using a search engine to find the page again is more likely for me than a bookmaker 😅 (if no tab).

Bookmarks are great if I remember what I want is there. Usually bookmarking is like putting a piece of paper in cabinet that I will never open… A tab is leaving the paper on my desk for me that I will rediscover.

Plex is in control of their user’s computing in a way Jellyfin isn’t. You can remove anti-features from Jellyfin software and even redistribute it. So it’s much less likely they would do something like Plex and it even doesn’t matter if they did as you can find others to work on it in a way you want. Plex is proprietary software, Jellyfin is software freedom.

If no one discussed the value of software freedom on proprietary platforms then (hopefully) we’d be preaching to the choir here.

Linux has proprietary binary blobs in it. If any part of a software is proprietary then even if most of it is free why wouldn’t people call “Linux” proprietary? Libre Linux removes those blobs.

Do you indend to share the code and files for your game? If not then put it where you like. If you plan to share the code then I’d be tempted to keep the license for that code in a folder with it, and move that readme to it.

As long as you follow the GPL license you can redistribute it, for free or at cost. Linux is mostly free as in freedom and usually free as in free beer.

Wikipedia says ElementaryOS has a pay what you want model. So if your image is from them then you don’t have to pay (a 3rd party is free to charge you for it - bandwidth ain’t free).

AMD made an open source driver for HDMI 2.1 but HDMI forum won’t approve. They locked down the specification for 2.1 and say the driver would reveal it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/hdmi-forum-open-source-drivers-hdmi-2-1/

I don’t know if an earlier version can do 8k@60HD.

Did it download the original file or are there download options transcoded on the server?

Although Plex is running on your server it isn’t there to do what you want… unless Plex’s real owner permits it.

That’s how proprietary software works.

As long as good actors can still do good work in a fork of Linux then hopefully it’s resistant to corporate vultures.

Not got around to trying it out properly yet. Waiting on new AMD GPUs, hoping for a low-end encoder or I may get access to a RX 480.

What does Jellyfin use .NET for?

Communication is difficult. I felt like I gave a useful answer but evidentially it was not an answer for you. I hope someone else can answer your questions.

Has a software update ever changed something in a way you dislike? When it’s proprietary software your choices are to:

• tolerate the anti-feature
• downgrade and keep using an older version instead (if feasible also has demerits)
• hope someone reverse engineers a work-around
• stop using the software

When the software is free (libre) then a communities can change it (e.g. removing an anti-feature) via the source code.

Sadly it’s not enough to simply “then don’t use it” - proprietary software proliferates society (interacting socially, with the government, with banks, etc). Since it’s better to be in control of your own computing anyway then might as well promote the values of software freedom.

Godot’s MIT license certainly let’s you redistribute the engine as part of your proprietary game. However, it equally lets others redistribute their games under the same open source license, or even a copyleft license. So it’s spirit seems equally business, hobbyists or free software moralist.

Copyleft helps me by making sure my code can’t be included in a proprietary software. My code is there to be copied but if you make changes and redistrubte them then I get access to those changes. Maybe I use them in my software, thus improving it.