Okay, now airbus do freecad.
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Someone do any CAD. I’m pretty surprised at how shitty the free cad options are. I just use it for 3d printing. Fusion360 (free) is the only decent product out there.
FreeCAD isn't terrible, especially since v1, it's rough round the edges at times, but definitely usable.
But compared to Fusion360, it’s archaic—borderline unusable imo.
What I really want to use is Shapr3D, but there’s no way I’m paying $40/m for the pleasure of making a model or two a month.
Plasticity looked promising, and I was willing to drop the parametric in a pinch, but I had trouble with getting the size right because it’s scale-agnostic.
What are you trying to model? It's far from unusable.
Well, they use Blender, so it makes sense. They’re probably giving Autodesk 7 or 8 figures a year to use Maya, but they throw a fraction of that at Blender and get praised because Blender doesn’t exploit copyright law to make payment mandatory.
Blender doesn’t have any less of a need for funding than Autodesk, although Blender devs do get paid less and work harder than Autodesk devs. They’re also a really motivated, talented and innovative group, so Blender is able to do more with less. That certainly doesn’t mean Autodesk deserves more funding than Blender. If anything, it’s the opposite—especially since Blender doesn’t have restrictive licensing that limits what can be done with it.
People have been begging for big tech companies that rely on open source software to support development. Netflix finally did the dang thing.
More, please!
Steam is big in there too. It makes sense for both companies because they make their money from content.
If an animation or game development team/studio can produce better quality content, cheaper and faster, that just means more money for the company providing access to said content.
They constantly do, it's just for less flashy stuff like drivers or kernels so no one cares.
I had to read it three times, I couldn't comprehend Netflix doing something good.
I have a conflicted view of Netflix. They're a classic big American corporation and come with all the bullshit that entails, but at the same time they do occasionally do some cool things.
Like releasing queer content despite the backlash from the right. They released that "gay boot camp" series recently and it absolutely enraged right wing bigots. This thing with blender is another example.
I am very nervous about their Warner Brothers purchase and am hoping they prove to be responsible owners of all those IP's. It seems quite unlikely, though. There are so few American corporations who aren't shitty.
That was a financial decision honestly. Else they would have dropped Chapelle.
It's good that they aren't activities hostile, but my bar is higher.
Did they loose money releasing that content? While they are at a pinnacle right now politically, right wing fascist bigots still are not a true majority. Netflix know their audience really really well (they are watching you). I bet they can typically laser predict viewership within 50k views or so. In the privacy of their own home many anti gay projectionist asswipes are watching gay stuff anyway too.
As a Batman fan, it just occurred to me that I really hope Netflix won't ruin the IP if they get the chance to buy WB.
Careful about the g word mate. Sometimes interests temporarily overlap, but "doing good" is pretty unlikely
They also recently reversed their cheapest tier restrictions. Now it can be ran from 2 devices, 5 profiles, 1080p and downloads.
Whoever inside of Netflix pushed for this, you're fighting the good fight!
Netflix may be the last one of the big tech corpos that still has some people that care in positions of influence as it's newer than the others and their business model isn't outright spying on their users.
Unfortunately it won't last forever. People burn out. Corporations burn them out.
Oh hell no, Netflix better not be trying to EEE Blender or be trying to buy them out.
If all the other top level donators haven't done that by now I don't think there's much to worry about. And if they had plans to, I think they would have to face off against the other top level donators. So it wouldn't be that easy either.
I don't see how that would be possible ? Blender is a foundation, not a company (although there's also a company, but.... that's another story) and the code is licensed with GPLv2... you'd have to have ALL contributors from the very beginning (=thousands of people, including the ones who passed away) to agree unanimously to a license change.
Blender is safe.
Blender is safe.
Nothing is impossible to fuck up when you have enough money and/or lawyers.
I don't think there's an incentive ?
Hopefully it will stay that way.
Does this give them any actual control over Blender development or is it just one of many groups saying "We like what you're doing, keep at it"?
Not saying there isn't the possibility of pressure because "If you don't do what we want, we'll pull our funding"... but again, if they're just one of many patrons at that level (amongst many at a smaller level) so that's not necessarily going to make that big a difference.
Doubt it
But there are other large companies sponsoring too
Incl meta, BMW, nvidia, amd etc
Well, those donating time and resources often get extra consideration. But Ton has been fiercely independent for decades. And even though he's stepped down from his leadership role. I think the board he helped put in place has things in good hands. They, KDE etc have forged their own path and shown the viability of their models. They'd be fools to abandon that or relinquish control after 30 years.
Tons have come and gone with little fan fair. Blender OTOH has quietly made inroads into industry and the hearts of many many people. I have used blender since the mid 90s. Where it is today compared to back then is unimaginable. I can't wait to have my mind blown by where they go in the future. Nodes and simulation are really shaping up. Who knows, between them and the love the NLE editor has been getting. Adobe, Houdini, and even Nuke might get some competition.
Is Netflix evil these days?
always has been
fast.com is the one thing I’ll applaud them for
There have several reports recently of Netflix pressuring writers/directors/producers to create shows and movies tailored to distracted consumers. Basically, telling them to repeat plot points in dialog so that people ‘watching’ while doing other things can keep up.
I’d put that in the evil category along with advertising and media company consolidation.
So they're evil for catering to their customers?
If you don't like that in movies don't watch their movies...
That's just knowing your audience.
Or maybe they're distracted because the show isn't that great, and doing this makes it even more not great lol.
I could accept that for the all the slop they produce as long as it would prevent stuff like Santa Clarita Diet from being cancelled, especially on a cliffhanger, basically do that attention grabbing, repeating shit for the mass audience and then use the money it generates to fund the more niche and high quality projects
Sure but I think that's the least evil evil thing they could do
Maybe they should give them extra money and resources so they can produce two versions: normal, and background mode with reiteration littered through it.
I was a subscriber from DVD rentals up until they blocked password sharing and raised their prices for the umpteenth time. They're not Amazon bad, but they're dead to me. They will never see another penny from me.
I would be quite tempted if (someone else) was offering DVD and game rentals by mail.
Honestly I just wish there was a place like Scarecrow Video in the UK. It's pretty much the one thing I don't get here compared to Seattle. I'm even getting the same weather.
Yes, more!