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Problem is, many existing Switch games use some nvidia-specific API (IIRC called "NVN" or whatever) instead of Vulkan.
As a person who's generally uninterested in exercise itself but who likes games, the alternative isn't "normal cardio exercises" but "nothing" :)
And in the corporate space, various training simulators and visualizations are popping up.
Facebook's "metaverse" sounds like a shitty version of VRChat with people you don't like.
And buttcoin grifters throw the "metaverse" buzzword around only to get you to buy into their ponzi schemes, pure and simple. There is no "there" there. And the "ideas" they're throwing out in their bullshit whitepapers are horrific. They want to financialize every moment of your life, invent artificial scarcity in a world where infinite copyability is the main advantage (if the words "virual real estate" don't sound utterly dystopian to you I don't know what to say…) and so on.
But of course using a mesh modeling engine for CAD is not the best idea. You generally do want to work in B-rep, if not for precision then for exchange reasons (e.g. export electronic component models as STEP to add to PCB software, import a whole board STEP model from PCB software to build a case for the board)
True. Well, it is usable, you can model a whole 3D printer or a (BIM) house or whatever in FreeCAD, people have done big projects with it. But OpenCASCADE really likes to give up (or even crash) on fillets >_<
B-rep solid export (STEP) is also very much a thing, you can exchange solid models between Fusion, SOLIDworks, FreeCAD, etc. (and import them from PCB design software and so on)
But this is just baked geometry of course. It's not parametric. There is no standard for parametric models, there is no way to exchange them between different programs.
Nothing becomes any more closed if you switch the ISA of the CPU used in your VPS to aarch64. The only closed ecosystem here is AWS itself, but what takes power away from you is using non-EC2 services like DynamoDB.
In fact the Arm ecosystem is way more open, because there are SoCs that can run completely blob-free firmware (e.g. from Marvell), which is just not happening with any modern Intel/AMD system.
What does being able to buy them have to do with.. anything?
The concept of renting a VM is not new. The introduction of processors that a VM hosting company designs exclusively for use on that service is, and the comments in the thread above seem to imply a fear of this causing some kind of lock-in or whatever. What I'm saying is, this is completely unfounded fear. Graviton instances are very much standard machines and you can run the exact same OS images on there as you can on an Altra or a HoneyComb LX2K or a MACCHIATObin. (Yeah, the OS needs a driver for Amazon's network card, but mainline Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD have that.)
There was! And it even booted Linux in some capacity: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware
> every chip is very different from one another
Eh, the usual embedded SoCs are not that different from each other — ARM GIC, ARM timer, lots of Synopsys Designware crap for SDMMC/XHCI/PCIe/etc.
For many SoCs it's totally feasible to make standards-compliant firmware, e.g. for the Rockchip RK3566 there is https://github.com/jaredmcneill/quartz64_uefi
And SoCs from the networking world (Marvell, NXP) are typically supported by upstream EDK2.
In terms of firmware openness, yeah, you don't get the firmware source, but you don't get to touch the machines physically either so you wouldn't have a chance to run a custom build anyway :D
(While Ampere Altras are supported by upstream EDK2, have fun)
YouTube Music is great – no DRM, one subscription for music and getting rid of YouTube ads (while supporting your favorite video creators far better than ads do).
The future dream mCAD for me is something where extrusions and fillets and other 3d stuff is code, but sketches are GUI edited.
Recent fun example I've encountered: doing a fillet in two places at the same time can result in either an unhelpful "resulting shape is invalid" or a crash inside OpenCASCADE, depending on the selection order (!) — https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/issues/202
Do they now?
I mean the most significant VR game is Beat Saber (exercise is a good niche it turns out) but by now the show-off game would be Half-Life Alyx rather than something tech-demo like.
Weren't they even originally marketed as such? At least the external enclosures that people like to shuck are usually called something like "my backup".