I think there is a lot that the author is right about.

However, removing X11 season was a decision of the Gnome Team not the Ubuntu team and I completely respect this.

Yes you can keep shipping it with the X11 optio, but someone has to maintain it. The gnome project has only limited resource so it’s either removed or an unstable mess… removing in this case is always the better option IMHO.

I think the core takeaways from all this is, we (as a community) should definitely no longer recommend Ubuntu as the default distro for newcomer to the Linux world.

We all have been idiot savants at some point of our lifes :)

I’m pretty sure those machines still run WinXP at best ;)

And yes that’s exactly what I said. You still can run Linux on a 486 for this special edge cases, it’s just that the Linux Kernel team will no longer provide the service for maintaining it. If it is such an important thing for crucial industry machines, they can definitely pay someone patching it back in.

For the overwhelmingly majority of Linux use cases it’s not a concern anymore. So why should they do the extra work, instead of spending the time elsewhere?

Exactly! Just because there is support for a stone age CPU in the Linux Kernel, doesn’t mean every single modern Linux compatible software is running smoothly on this.

Of course, from the Mac/Windows point of view it was the correct thing to ditch such old stuff. Because they are concerned about having a stable product that is running on modern hardware. Keeping this old stuff in, makes it more complicated to maintain their system and therefore more suspectable to errors.

Linux could only keep this support up for so long, because somewhere there where people that though it would be worth care about for 28 years. And even now it’s not over. You can modify the kernel and patch 486 support back in again on your own. So “incompatibility” doesn’t really exist with a open system. It’s just that nobody at the core kernel team will do this service for you anymore.

How can it be, that the Iranian terror regime appears more simpatic than the current US Government?

Windows …

Because I don’t want an OS that just works.

You mean Blobby Volley?

I’m pretty sure the individual componentens come from China… But good luck finding any electronic manufacturer that doesn’t use Chinese components. Don’t know what classifies as white labeled for you.

I think this libcudnn is a Nvidia CUDA thing. I guess you have checked that the correct CUDA libs are installed and blended has permission and knows where to look for them?

First start for learning blender Python API would be it’s documentation: https://docs.blender.org/api/current/index.html

In general you can skip anything that you can do on the user interface. But video editing is just a very small part of this and if you don’t have any programming experience yet this could be overkill for what you are looking for.

Perhaps someone had the same problems like you before and implemented something. Maybe searching explicitly for blender video editing automation or Python API will give you some results.

I know that’s not a ready to use solution but blender has a very powerful python API which should allow you to automate everything including doing calls to a AI backend of your choice if needed.

I think, the Area2D node doesn’t have any size. But you can use the underlying shape object.

If it’s a basic shape (rectangular, circle) it should be trivial to calculate. If you have a poligon2D as shape, I think there is no build in Godot function, but you could calculate it with shoelace formula, I think.

Does this make sense to you?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace_formula

Thanks man. This speech is really summing it up very well. Sad that this isn’t the type of talk that get the wide spread attention.

Please, someone make a movie out of it!

Dang! Those legs are tick!

Man this Story hat so many plot twists in it…

Takeaway for the Story is: If you don’t have a backup of your file and you don’t monitor the backup process and you don’t tested that your backup can actually be restored and you don’t have a redundancy backup… Than yours file isn’t saved.

The difference between AI and Coder:

The Coder fixes it’s errors. AI is just pretending everything would just run fine.

Out of context, but this video showing the amount of freshwater on the planet in perspective was eye opening for me… I see water availability different since.

https://youtu.be/b3_Abb2Vqnc

Maybe that’s just my view, but I feel like you could add Blender to a lot of those Boxes.

• Video Editing (check)
• 2D illustration (check)
• 3D Material Creation (check)
• Heating your Home (check)

I feel like the LLM guy should be the psycho doctor doing unethical experience with the clinic patients…

This meme is so fedi!