AdrianTheFrog

he's like xkcd.com/1112

The itch.io desktop app is open souce, but afaik the website isn't. It does actually allow devs to get paid though, through charges or encouraged donations. There are some games you can get from flathub or the standard linux package managers, but they don't have any built in features to pay devs.

https://flathub.org/apps/category/game

The expensive part of hosting game files, pages, and mods isn't really any different from what flathub or similar already does. I suppose cloud saves would require extra storage space, but I'd imagine an open source game store could charge for their cloud while also allowing p2p or a selfhosted cloud, which is a similar model to what a lot of open source projects with cloud features already do. That would be a fairly sustainable monetization scheme for the store I think, especially with donations on top of that.

Devs can be paid partially through donations, although I doubt that would be nearly enough without a system like Itch.io has where it always shows a payment screen that you have to click through before you can download the game. There are a couple more models, ArmorPaint is open source but you have to pay for binaries or compile it yourself, and Aesprite is source available (restrictive license) but takes a similar model. Overall though I don't think open source games will ever become the standard, even for indie devs, and even if open source platforms do.

When I first joined lemmy local AI was pretty popular here. Popular opinion has shifted a lot in the anti-ai direction recently, especially after the recent internet-wide outcry after OpenAI announced that model a few weeks ago. Corporate AI was never liked, but there used to usually be popular comments defending local AI.

It's probably partially because the last notable advancement in local image gen AI was about 8 months ago now IMO (the flux model release). Also, 'open source' ai has become progressively less of a thing, with most models (even ones with released weights that you can run locally) released under restrictive licenses, probably turning away the foss-leaning fediverse population.

I think I have personally realized, since then, that the benefits of from-scratch image generation on society as a whole are almost nonexistent and "it's fun to play with for a few hours" isn't enough really justification for the potential harm to artists.

Someone got some cut down versions of Stable Diffusion to run on a Pi Zero 2 a couple years ago ($15 computer)

Apparently it takes between 30 minutes and 10 hours to generate an image, but it's still fairly impressive that it can do that at all

Make sure to take a photo and line up the camera to find the most distinctive moire pattern you can, for extra style

Brainrot is commonly used as just a general term to refer to later genz or gen alpha humor I think

It's the sort of thing that every generation does to make their sense of humor sound unique and new

I think you can open PDFs in libreoffice and edit them, although you have to manually reexport as pdf when you're done

Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don't refer to their friends

If you plan on plugging in a monitor and keyboard and using it as a more general computer it's a lot easier to justify

You could still keep the fountain pen style of the top while making the colors actually loop and while keeping functional antialiasing

lol, I switched to a steam deck from using a linux-ified chromebook for travel gaming so I see what you mean

How powerful is it? Just based on the graphics of what I'd seen I assumed it was around the same.

Anyways, I think the switch can get away with worse hardware as every game is specifically optimized for that exact soc, while the steam deck has to play games optimised for a PS5 or a midrange gaming PC for example.