Nobody has to pay for anything Lemmy or ActivityPub related because its FOSS.

That means Free Open Source Software.

As in, you can get and use the source code yourself without paying a single cent.

Those alternatives are old tech that has way more limitations than a neural implant.

Just because there is old tech that SORT OF does this, doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. That’s the same attitude behind “not needing more than 4mb of RAM” back in the day. You can’t stop progress all because YOU are fine with the current state of the tech.

Based on your reaction, I’d hate to hear your opinion on AI. Let me guess, its corpo data theft and only data theft?

What about the multitude of FOSS projects that even you could use if you wanted?

For starters, it would need to have level streaming and a landscape system. The visual scripting system could use some work as well. It also needs a better GI solution. The stuff that currently exists is still a ways off from being production ready. Something like SVOGI so we can get some decent, voxel-based global illumination. I think that’s what they are trying for. But it still falls a bit short.

Only issue I have is its not quite close enough feature wise to replacing Unreal Engine for me.

Still impressed with how far Godot has come though. And currently using it for making non-game applications. Its actually quite good at that.

On android, I use Seal. Its basically a frontend for yt-dlp and has a sponsor block feature.

I started noticing how sometimes youtube just seemingly refused to load fully on my phone. I thought it was just my crap internet. But since I use Iceraven, a fork of firefox, it seems that may be why.