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- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 1 week ago:
I’m not going to do all the work for you. Go into business for yourself or check indeed or some other job site. I honestly thought I was being trolled with how little you tried to understand or put forth some modicum of effort, but now I somehow think it’s genuine that you need someone to hold your hand through the entire process. Change is scary and often not easy. I don’t know how else to break it to ya.
If you are the audience, then the industry is doomed to be stuck in the Adobe abusive relationship until some self starters take over. All it takes is some effort to break a habit, effect change, or start something new. If you expect to have other people change things for yourself, well good luck with that.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 1 week ago:
How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products?
Watching YouTube videos, reading manuals, just using alternatives, and asking questions to other people in places like forums, stack exchange, and the like. The self taught route is a completely valid option when the whole world is-wrapped up in nonsense. My experience post school taught me more in 6 months in the field than schooling and prepping for certification exams ever taught me. If you watched that 2nd James Lee video he goes through what he did to switch to DaVinci.
Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market?
Many of these programs are free and open source and available across all platforms.
as far as jobs go, if it’s like mechanics, you bring your own tools and do the job required. Even if Adobe products are provided, use alternatives when and as often as possible. Then when the opportunity presents itself show how you did your work without Adobe to those with purchasing power at the company. Change isn’t going to happen overnight.
Where the easy path that most will take?
I never claimed that ditching Adobe would be easy. My opinion is that it is necessary for the health of the industry.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 1 week ago:
That’s the other half of that saying. Hindsight is 20-20. (I could’ve sworn the tree planting idiom was more well known, sorry for not completely explaining it) Obviously the best solution is to not get in an abusive relationship . The next best time to not be in an abusive relationship is right now.
Yes I know how many users the major centralized social media platforms have. I’ve chosen not to be on those platforms and with it the benefits that come with having those amount of users. Like I said though, I don’t blame one for staying and I cannot pity those that stay because there are options.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 1 week ago:
I thought my answer would be obvious, but the answer was to not use Adobe from the start and the next best time to stop using Adobe is right now. It doesn’t matter where you are at in your career. The answer isn’t always easy to implement and it isn’t what we want to hear. It’s why many of us are here on Lemmy and not Reddit. We decided that not having the good things at Reddit was better than the shit we had to put up with over there.
As far as the cloud goes, moving things back on prem is the best option to not be in that abusive type relationship. It’s what I’ve been learning in my skillset in IT over the past 2 years in my spare time with some junk parts I had laying around, a few hard drives, and retired PCs I acquired that can’t upgrade to win 11. My skills will be sharp as the momentum builds toward the tipping point of moving off cloud including running AI locally. My favorite thing has been learning pf/opnsense. If you’re old enough to remember the PIX before Cisco it was originally created with off the shelf hardware. pf/opnsense feels like a return to that adapting to a lot of different hardware.
Ultimately I don’t blame someone for staying in an abusive relationship, but I can’t pity them when there are options to get out. I just show them how to get out and the struggles that will come with my choices. Otherwise the next cloud thing will be User Operating Systems as a Service and that’s going to be a whole 'nother shitshow. Imagine $20+/mo just to boot your computer/phone/tablet.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 1 week ago:
It’s like the saying: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time to plant a tree is right now.
If James Lee’s videos are a barometer on how artists and creators deal with Adobe, I’m convinced that a relationship Adobe is abusive. He went from defending and offering to help Adobe to cutting them out of his life over the course of 5 months. No one deserves an abusive relationship, but leaving or staying in one is totally a choice that has real consequences.
- Comment on 4chan has been offline for over a week, and it's probably not coming back 5 weeks ago:
The .edu emails in the mod list didn’t spell it out enough?
- Comment on Former SIEA President Says Players Will Pay $80 For Switch 2 Games 1 month ago:
I think the good will toward players died with Iwata.
- Comment on The Entertainment Software Association have launched the Accessible Games Initiative 2 months ago:
In case you were wondering, this is about accessibility for the disabled, not game preservation or region locking.
- Comment on Australian man successfully receives titanium heart after 6-hour operation. 2 months ago:
Just under 7.5 years is the bar for longest lived with artificial heart.
!RemindMe 8 years
- Comment on Android Auto bug is breaking wireless phone connectivity 2 months ago:
So it begins. I’ve been expecting Google to start help push people to Android Automotive to get people off the free Android Auto platform.
- Comment on GM banned from selling your driving data for five years 4 months ago:
Where do we go to request they delete our data?
- Comment on 'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election 4 months ago:
Or they can crowd source instead of paying a firm and get the same results for practically free. It’s the same way Xitter and Wikipedia and other wikis operate.
- Comment on Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes' 5 months ago:
I always thought of diablo as a Gauntlet clone
- Comment on Comcast to ditch cable TV networks in partial spinoff of NBCUniversal assets 6 months ago:
Another streaming service in 3, 2, 1…
- Comment on Blizzard promise "something for everyone" in Warcraft's 30th Anniversary Direct next month 7 months ago:
Warcraft 4?
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 7 months ago:
Funnily enough I just filled out a customer survey yesterday about trying to by an unlocked phone. For all I’m concerned, they’re complicit in Google and Apple’s monopolies for not selling or much less unlocking phones.
- Comment on CD Projekt Red Still Seeking To Win Players Back After Cyberpunk 2077 Disastrous Launch 7 months ago:
Just for that clickbait description, heres the quote:
It might be a situation that never happens for some of them. But that’s unfortunately the price we have to pay for what happened. But I hope that, throughout the work that we are doing, throughout the things we are showing, we can actually win some of those people around – and when they hear someone talking to them about the incredible experiences they can have in, let’s say Phantom Liberty, or the next Witcher, next Cyberpunk, or next Hadar CD Projekt’s new IP, at the moment when they see there’s that incredible value in that game, they will actually reach out for it, play it and enjoy it. – Pawel Sasko
- Comment on More info on the Valve (Steam) collab with Arch Linux and potential future hardware support 7 months ago:
Valve is the company itself, Steam is just the platform
- Comment on Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison 8 months ago:
Until they hallucinate and fabricate something that didn’t happen and then nobody will trust them. If you can’t verify that the footage is real, getting it admitted into court is going to be a real issue.
- Comment on Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads 8 months ago:
It’s gonna be standard practice to pull the cellular modem out of cars when putchased, or at least pull the fuse.
- Comment on Intel sells stake in Arm, estimated to raise $147 million as part of business turnaround 9 months ago:
I don’t know how solvent Intel is, but I’d be willing to be that this capital might go to covering that
- Comment on Meta removes special restrictions for Trump's account ahead of 2024 elections 10 months ago:
It also makes me winner what his data is telling him about how the election is going to turn out.
- Comment on Meta removes special restrictions for Trump's account ahead of 2024 elections 10 months ago:
Makes me think that meta thinks Trump will win and meta wants to be on the winning side.
- Comment on Fisker reaches end of the road and files for bankruptcy 11 months ago:
Yes