The AWS credits donated by @adi.barda were about to expire, so @RiccardoBlb recently switched us to a cheaper service provider (Hetzner Online GmbH) which should keep our hosting expenses low.
Way to go, Riccardo!
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With October and November behind us, itās clear that (with Hetzner) our monthly hosting expenses are trivial:
- charged on 3 November: USD 4.70
- charged on 3 December: USD 5.55
Compare those charges with our OpenCollective balance of USD 2,807.93 (as of 4 December).
Thereās a Forum/Hub topic to discuss host migration and funding: Community Update: Host migration and funding
@xuan asked whether the project should consider buying a used Mac for testing: Next release of the Engine - #154 by xuan
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Not sure, which mac should we buy? Since they changed architecture recently afaik. How much will it cost?
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All I know about macs is theyāre shiny and expensive.
But I think the new non-intel ones would be too costly for simply testing compatibility.
which mac should we buy?
I donāt know.
How much will it cost?
In the topic I referenced, both Intel-based and ARM-based macs were discussed, and I priced some used Intel-based macs. Appleās ARM-based macs currently start at USD 999 (MacBook Air).
I would not get an Intel one for development. Apple is moving 100% to their ARM chips, if we want to reliably be able to test jme moving forward, it needs to be the new ARM ones.
In this particular instance, I would say that any mac purchased for jme development needs to be a decent machine. I would expect such a machine to cost roughly $1500 to $2000. I would not go cheap on one just to find that it does not have the necessary specs to provide a good test machine in the future.
I personally have been considering getting the macbook with the MAX edition of the arm chip for development work and testing. This is because it has several features that the PRO version of the ARM chip does not have, which would be useful for testing.
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Wouldnāt it be better if we were to rent a physical or cloud machine with the latest hardware for the time needed to test new releases?
For example Apple silicon M1 as-a-Service. Cloud Mac | Scaleway | Scaleway
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sounds good. Better than buy physical machine that could not meet expectations.
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Hi, I started with JME about a week, and just finished my last tutorial!
Come from libGDX, and have some minimal experience with cryengine,
and Have to say this engine is really great! I love it, after a week i can easily do everything! so powerful , so easy, lotās of actual real world examples! Thank you Team 
I wanted to donate but canāt use your donate solutions, please provide Payeer, Webmoney, or crypto like tron-usdt or BEP20 stable-coins or any cheap fee chain stable-coin!, as through any payment processor you like, or just simply A bep20 address!
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Hello, for the sake of transparency we are accepting donations only through opencollective atm, and while they support crypto, they donāt support anything on the BNBChain yet. (yeah thatās unfortunate, since it would make a lot of sense to use it ā¦)
If you still wish to donate, the most straightforward alternative might be Polygon since it is supported by several DEXes and it is possible to do cross-chain swaps from BNB/BNBChain to MATIC/Polygon (eg. on Rango Exchange (dex)).
If you are donating from a centralized exchange you might also consider converting the donation to LTC or DOGE, as they both have low transaction fees and the donations are in any case converted automatically to USD by opencollective, so it wonāt matter which crypto we receive.
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Ok, Sorry didnāt see that
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