And regarding availability, Colemak is now included in Windows 11, which makes it available out of the box in all 3 major OS's. Also, Colemak is an easy way to upgrade comfort in cases where you can't change the keyboard, like a laptop or shared computer.
I think US culture overall frowns upon non-original works. From school there's some push against working on something that is a copy of someone else's work. In the meantime China has mastered copying and made it a big part of their culture and economy.
Nowadays I'm learning game engine techniques by reading Godot code and implementing the damn same thing in my engine... Also, nowadays I like tracing pretty anime drawings... I enjoy it more and end up with something I like better than if I were to draw something original.
Fun way to look at it, you at the north give us a lot of planned obsolence goods in exchange for our monies. North even gets into politics pushing developing countries infrastructure towards oil economies. and then, we consume what you led us to, and suddenly we're the bad guys.
but now they added this task switcher to iPad which also appears when dragging from the left edge, and now going back is like rolling a dice. you don't know how how to go back without triggering the task switcher so it ends up taking multiple attempts to go back without the OS consuming the input
godot ticks at that rate, but if you don't transform UI things, they don't get redrawn.
so maybe the framebuffer is switched every frame, but draw calls shouldn't be reissued unless needed.
also, I think it is possible to make it not tick from time updates, but only from input event updates, or maybe an animation actually running. similar to what the editor does.
I always thought of this as a gimmick from the government. Why would they risk an operation just to send hopes to the hostages. I always felt this was more to get good will from people than for the hostages themselves.
And as always, only part of the story is told. Who were the guerrilla? who where the hostages? not defending them, but in the countryside is common that the guerilla defends the farmers, and the hostages are corrupt politicans.
There is a world out there where people pay 15~20% of their annual income to buy a computer
seen under a different lens: you think that an effort a person does over 3.65 days to afford a computer is expensive, while many people would have to accumulate the effort of 73 days to afford it.
I switched to Colemak 4 years ago or so, and I think it is one of the best investments of my time ever made. Yes, you will feel similar to that feeling you get when you write with your left hand (something like, why tf I'm doing this, if i'm perfectly capable of living my life as I have been doing before), but it is a skill that will benefit you all your life and I would recommend you to do so.
Still, it is not perfect. The pinky getting tired is something that happens, but it is still so much better than QWERTY. I don't think I will try that QWYRFM layout, as I haven't felt big pain since switching (before switching I felt some pain, but after, I slightly feel something, but after a lot of effort, and not enough to feel worried). And I think if I start feeling something to worry, there are some things I could do before, like using a split keyboard, or optimizing the desk height, before switching to another layout.
Again, try Colemak (or if you want to try any other layout, welcome). It will do good for you.
I would also add their animation system is crap. If you try something like Animancer, you will never ever want to interface to the AnimatorController stuff because is so badly designed.
Overall their business model of providing some kind of foundation to be filled up with plugins is terrible. I don't have an issue with plugins, but needing to rely on plugins for the very basic things like input management, localization, animation, source control... Just so they do less, and earn more (because otherwise people would just wouldn't pay for that, presumably?). That's a shitty way to run a software company.
Only recently they have started to care, but I think it is too late, and it will be hard to beat the momentum that Godot already has. I would bet that in a couple years the tables will turn and Unity will be juggling to keep their market share.
That's an issue you don't have if you provide source code.
If a customer relies on bad architecture/undefined behaviour, that shouldn't pull back all the other customers that want their subscription materialize into engine improvements.
UE4 has been able to export to switch for a long time (Snake Pass notably released on switch, before any other console, 4 years ago)
For Godot, there are companies that do the porting (presumably they developed their own interfacing layer), these services seem to be not very expensive, and one of the Godot founders runs one of these companies IIRC.
That review at the end is strange in many ways, it shows the sad truth about economics between other countries and the US. If someone is doing something good, but is not for the benefit of the US, then it is bad. If we develop a technique to harvest locally, efficiently, imagine how much the rest of america would stop depending on US for their industrial needs. So it naturally it appears harmful to the US.
US media has done so much harm to the world, at this point I think THEY are the harmful thing, telling the story that benefits the US despite the truth of many places being better without the US imperialism.
What I can say is it has happened here for a long time, and no one questioned as they were also in control of the media. Just until recently it became widely known the 20+ years of smoke of “fight against drugs”.
Maybe over there is different, or maybe is not a big of a deal, as, even if there is a lot of money in drugs, there is orders of magnitude more money in big tech, and also from a cleaner origin, so who knows.
The skeptical part of me makes me think that it is just smoke... the police takes down large gangs as it draws too much attention, so they gotta do their job. But really big fishes never get caught, and everyone gets good scores in their reports.
Down here it is known that some cops are in the trafficking network, and micro traffic is the norm.