Just the art for me, really. Fatfurs just look so cuddly and huggable. I'm not really into the more darker or messier aspects of this subset of the fandom either, just the whole "big round and soft" part.
Now, if I were to wake up one morning as my fursona, I would be willing to give it a try if I'm in my fursona's world as well, but that's partially because one of my fursona's friends is a witch who makes all sorts of body altering potions including a temporary weight gain one. If I was still in the real world as my fursona I'd probably only consider getting huge if it was through sumo training.
Could be something as simple as computers just being screwy sometimes. Or something as unlikely but still precedented as a bit-flip caused by an excited electron causing something important to actually be affected.
Doesn't hurt that Microsoft's official answer to "what if my computer doesn't meet the required specs to run Windows 11 or later" is literally "switch to Linux".
A motion sensor would get tripped by anything that passes by, but even so, a basic image processing algorithm designed just to detect whether that thing is a human or not would be more than sufficient, there's no need to identify specific people by face.
The fact that you can fork the code and make your own clean version, either for personal use or for distribution, is part of why most companies don't usually bother with open source licenses to begin with - it's just too hard to make the kind of monster-profits corporations and shareholders alike expect without inevitably provoking someone into forking their code and distributing a free, unmonetized version of the product. I'd be surprised if ZipoApps goes full-on monetization if they want people to keep using their versions of the apps, but if they do, it's going to be a short-lived inconvenience until someone inevitably distributes a fork.
Yeah, it has to stay GPL. So Simple Mobile Tools selling to a for-profit company doesn't really change all that much. Worst case scenario, the original apps get screwed over but someone releases forks of them. Best case scenario, ZipoApps doesn't actually change anything and just acts as a host for the projects.
Modern times are really “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people don’t want to move”.
More like "people should get off of X platform but don't because people they regularly interact with don't want to move, and because herd mentality"
It's the same reason why people tolerate YouTube's bullshit. The audience won't switch to a platform without content, and the content creators won't switch to a platform without an audience.
The day the Penguin goes mainstream is the day they decide to finally bite the bullet and start making distros with WINE preinstalled. Same goes for the other UNIX-derived FOSS OSs, like FreeBSD.
Or at least use the right plastic for them. PLA readily decomposes in only a few days under industrial composting conditions at 55-70ºC. Whereas ABS, a commonly used plastic in many applications, doesn't react to composting and can last 1000+ years in a landfill.
They're doomed to be niche (unless they go viral like XKCD), but that's not the fault of them being webcomics. It's because, like any other web content that isn't heavily commercialized, you kinda have to go out of your way to find it. Search engines favor sites owned by big companies, either because those companies are sponsors or affiliates for those search engines or because their sites generate a lot of traffic on their own (which looks good to search engines), and someone who just looks up "comics" is going to be bombarded with pages upon pages of DC and Marvel related stuff before they even see a syndicated newspaper comic, let alone a webcomic.
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