There are actually some rare mainboards for 6000/7000 series that still use DDR3.

Indeed, no one is really interested in using fake money (aka crypto currencies). But that doesn’t mean Taler depends on banking APIs. Taler is a complete digital bank software package and some unofficial regional currencies (most notably a bigger one in Italy) have started using it fully independent of the officially recognized fiat banks or their APIs.

Again, according to the Taler website, the exchange tracks every transaction in order to prevent double spends. If it has a full view of the network, it can employ statistical analysis.

Again, you spend max. 5 minutes browsing the website and now claim you are the expert on Taler 🙄 Just because you track if a token has been spend or not, doesn’t mean you can track who spend it, or what on. This is all well explained in the Taler documentation and it has been explicitly designed to be resistant against such statistical analysis.

Why would that be better than your current solution?

It depends on the banking system with its proprietary APIs and centralized money issuance.

It does not. That is as optional as fiat exchanges with cryptocurrencies.

In order to spend money, you need to receive it first. I don’t know if it makes you a “seller” in Taler, but in any case, this partial protection probably makes de-anonymization of all transactions via statistical analysis much easier.

No, you get it from an exchange. And the resulting tokens are like physical cash and can not be de-anonymized by the exchange or anyone else in the chain. That’s like the entire point of Taler. I think you should really inform yourself better before making yourself look really stupid by confidently spreading such non-sense.

Yes, but open-core will come back to bite you in the ass anyways. Enshittification built in.

https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/vikunja/

Taler is centralized and has poor privacy protections

This is non-sense. It’s not centralized at all and the privacy protections are excellent, just designed to different specs (privacy for buyers, but not sellers).

This is not a new argument, but the author is a bit confused with the terms. Usually it is phrased as “social network” Vs. “social media”.

Wero is a trap at best or more likely a figleaf that is meant to fail.

EU private banks much prefer the status quo over systems like the Brazilian PIX taking over the digital payment systems.

So when the EU central bank started looking into a sovereign alternative to Visa/Mastercard etc. the private banks scrambled to put together Wero to delay and maybe prevent the central bank from coming up with a system like PIX.

Sadly GNU Taler was never really an option for these banks, as it is an open standard and thus even if they supported it, the central bank could still plug into it with their own system and thus they would be forced to compete with that.

I think it is mostly that people have a very scewed idea what a mod means when we are not talking about a closed source single game like Minecraft.

It is probably better to compare Luanti to something like Roblox.

That is why Luanti is a game engine where you can have many different games to cover all these different ideas. It even has a built in “store” where you can easily download and install these games and play them together.

The whole point is to work together on the game instead of reinventing the wheel with millions of often incompatible mods.

You don’t need a mod for that, you can just fork the game.

It is a joke to compare Minecraft to Luanti because Lunati has significantly more features and game-types than you could ever get with mods in Minecraft. It is just a different development model where “mods” don’t make much sense.

This is not how open-source development works. All the various mod authors can just include their additions in the game if it is open-source. And most Luanti games already include vastly more features than vanilla Minecraft because of that.

That wasn’t my point. Mods get developed because the game itself can’t be modified otherwise. The Luanti games that are like Minecraft include already a lot of functionality that is only available with mods in Minecraft and it doesn’t make much sense to ask for mods in this context.

You can just edit the game? Why would you want mods for an open-source game?

It has equivalents for most Minecraft mods (and more), but no, it is not directly compatible with Minecraft.

I think you should rather ask if Minecraft mods come even close to what Luanti games can do 😅

The “Minetest” you tried was likely just the barebones example game that used to ship with the engine. Since so many people got confused by that, they stopped distributing that example game with the engine and now you get asked what fully featured games you want on first start. Voxelibre is the one that is like Minecraft but better.

https://www.luanti.org/ has long surpassed anything Minecraft had going for it.