Code is easy; marketing, making user growth and get your bill paid are hard

Thanks for sharing with us. I personally don’t like subscription svc which needs internet connection,but at least they open source some part of whole app and offer free tier. Some bro/sis are gonna like it. Microcad looks like heading to programmatic approach like openscad. Anyway, begger cannot be chooser, I simply appreciate everyone’s hardwork and hope the best of all open source projects

With so many new repo because of ai, ignoring their quality, i haven’t seen much update on cad/cam field

I agree with op. lots of ppl miss key points and have fantasy with ai are on small guys’ side. Even with llm with open weight like deepseek, how close non-gov,non-com organisation can replicate results like deepseek? Where do you get enough training data, gpu, power? There’s reason why some area like hardware, payment are very hard to dominate by open source svc/prod/solution. Ai is very resources intensive and the need is from labor, capital in old day to labor, capital, hardware, training data. Ai make pay wall taller and stronger. We are fxxx. X.X T.T

Don’t know about much on this field, but it definitely looks really cool. Congrats for the team. So do you guys use it to create cool visual/videos for beat/audio? Or do I misunderstand everything?

In general, I agree with your idea. But this time we are not talking about another todo app or YouTube clients which have so many similar projects. Open source community doesn’t have new cad in the last 10 yrs (roughly in my memory) so I hope ppl can support them more. I hope they can interact with blender more.

Thx for fighting for us and with us. wish him for the best

Np. There’s special app for movie and TV renaming for jellyfin and kodi

Kodi

Enlightenment has animated wallpaper longtime ago including Linux

Kobo + Koreader

Ebook reader worth every penny. But I don’t want to pay big corp

Ppl actually moved away from helm because lots of small helm chart is abandoned. And lots of ppl’s matrix already integrated with oidc. I prefer desktop app and mobile app. Haven’t looked into web ui. The real problem for matrix is the bridges: support is minimal, lots of trial and err; code is in beta, make me worried.

Even without ess or this helm chart, lots of ppl can still run matrix in k8s. But it’s good to see them to release more open source code. Thx for the news.

I would worry about your bandwidth, network infrastructure, security and even electrical bill wayyy before your Linux choices.

Exposing your data and services are dangerous without domain knowledge. In terms of storage space and bandwidth, vps are wayy under charge. However, learning experience is also valuable. Have fun.

I think we actually have similar conclusion.

1. We do agree blender has been achieved a lot, but it’s an unfair and uphill battle.

2. I never claimed blender has not been used by real studios. But the market share for blender is bad, ~3% according to my quick search. And it’s probably not from big studios. If we love something, I think we also have to be unbiased, so we can improve it.

My point is that instead of blaming the blender team, we should cherish how much blender team has been achieved and offered in this harsh territory.

Good for you. Lucky guy/girl.

Good things for blender is the community is really strong and friendly. And lots of free high quality tutorials in YouTube and even in other streaming platform. Go donuts. We should cherish what the community have built and achieved.

Of course I took a look. I like pixelfed’s comment feature, but it lacks other features from immich and photo prism. Pixelfed is also written from php. I don’t know how many new developers will learn php and contribute to pixelfed. Thanks for the recommendation though.

I am more interested a self hosted Instagram solutions. I wish immich supports comments and emoji.

While I think some comments are true in general for other aspect of open source software zones, blender is a special case.

The target audience for blender are artists for movie, video and games. And these industries are very capital intensive and highly regulated by limited distributors. If you tell ppl you can only do blender instead of maya or other big names, it’s like a programmer tells ppl he can only do perl. Good luck for finding a job. Just like programming industry without microservice architecture, if the whole team use one language, you have to use that. Just do a job search.

Game engine is similar. If you don’t use unity or unreal. No aaa game for you. (Indie games are better in my personal opinion) So game assets made by blender is always second citizens.

Because of the above factors, third parties market place products’ price are always low. It’s good for buyers, but sucks for indie sellers. Compare the catalog between blender market place and daz3d’s market place.

Universities will only teach products like maya instead of blender, just like java. Policy makers don’t care about the best interest of students. Their policy is usually only outdated. Why java? They should only allow to use Nokia.

Unlike games, you can hardly try the indie route for movie. It’s either go big or go die. When do you see a blender movie being shown in your local cinema?

blender is the only free less professional choice. The problem is their target audience is so broke.

Maybe we should be glad about it