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2 months agoI noticed a change in your titles a few days ago. What happened to “until l forget to post Screenshots”? I don’t think you forgot, did you?
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Qt is still the only excellent cross-platform desktop GUI framework.
It’s a pity that its current custodian’s commercial licenses:
- are subscriptions
- are painfully expensive for a solo developer or small group
- have a reputation for triggering legal threats and badgering from The Qt Company if one ever wants to end their subscription or (separately) use the open-source license for a FOSS project
This situation makes me afraid to use their commercial offerings, which in turn means they won’t get any money from me at all; I feel that I can safely use their libs only in open-source code. Their business model is their decision, of course, but I can’t help wondering if their whale-hunting approach actually nets them more money than a more accessible, lower-cost, one-time (or one-major-version) license option would. In many other industries, high sales volume reaps more profits than high price.
Thank goodness for the KDE Free Qt Foundation.
4·2 months agoI wish we had generic links for posts and comments like we do for communities. It’s problematic in several ways to have to follow an URL like this one:
Looks like others have noticed the problem as well:
Yes, this is the way.
Sure.
You might want to subscribe to !newcommunities@lemmy.world, and browse here once in a while: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
related: !sustainabletech@lemmy.sdf.org
2·3 months agoI don’t follow Meta services, but for the record, I think you’re talking about the EU Digital Markets Act and its interoperability requirements of gatekeepers.
https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en
https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/questions-and-answers/interoperability_en
Long ago, I solved all of the ways in which PHP made me sad…
…by abandoning it.
Nowadays we have better languages that can do the job at least as well.
if the FDA is dismantled to syncopats
Did you mean sycophants? Psychopaths? Something else?
A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.
Do these accept cash, or only ATM cards? (The latter would link your transaction to your bank account, of course.)
What do they give? A printout of a wallet address?
What makes you think that? It’s possible that they did it in-house, of course, but there’s no precedent for it. No previous Civ had a linux version done in-house.
I don’t think so. There’s no mention of it on their site.
Do you know who made the port?
Thanks for the perspective. :)
Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper
Requires 3rd-Party Account: 2K Account for Online Interactions
Somebody please wake me up when these atrocities are gone. (And thanks, Steam, for making them easy to discover.)
I’m with you.
Also great: Willow, Tombstone.