hoshikarakitaridia

Blender is indeed really good, but depending on what you wanna do you're at the mercy of an external renderer, which could either be EU (e.g. V-Ray out of Sofia) or from outside (e.g. Octane is from California).

I'm very new to open source but I'd love to get involved but is there a discord or something to get up to speed?

That's what I'm saying.

• 3d composition
• rendering
• particle simulation
• music production ...

Yes, you might be able to do it in European software but even if you might, it always means you waste a lot more time on it. And if your job's competitive, there's no way you have that to spare.

Don't get me wrong,I want things to change and I'm honestly really hopeful, but we're not quite there yet.

Disgraceful

I second this.

Proton is alright as well but mullvad seems to be stuck at #1.

I mean blocking specific countries is stupid anyway. Historically China has been playing games with the EU and the US on a geopolitical level. But: Chinese, European as well as American researchers have been at the core of research on current topics like AI, security, etc. Btw. ironically the scientific landscape is very collaborative and borders on a federated model, it's actually pretty neat how much researchers don't care about country of origin.

What I'm saying is introducing geopolitics into open source development or research is one of the most stupid things to do, because it punishes both your and the other country and only benefits uninvolved third parties. It's literally shooting yourself in the foot.

This is a very interesting perspective.

Although I do think if we don't have a gigantic leap, AI will never replace programmers, but it sure as heck will make some stuff easier and faster for them.

I wanna go camping with this shit so I can get revenge.

Everything about this is petty and at the same time I'm impressed.

Yes. The answer is yes.

Keeper

Interesting read.