thesmokingman
@thesmokingman@programming.dev
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 1 day ago:
You haven’t linked actual jobs and programs. Your snide Google search was a GitHub repo, not school programs or job postings that show your anecdotal dream is a reality. Your foundational assumption is that everyone wants to grow exactly like you did (ie not the easy path) which is completely wrong.
You do not appear to actually understand the audience you’re holier than. This the same conversation that’s been happening in the Linux world for more than two decades. Good luck changing the world.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 1 day ago:
How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products? Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market? Where the easy path that most will take?
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 2 days ago:
I’m somewhat flabbergasted. How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products? Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market? Where the easy path that most will take (do you know how many active users Facebook, Reddit, and X the Everything App still have?)?
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 2 days ago:
I agree with everything you’ve said. What I think you’re missing is that some people don’t want to be the best in class. Some people don’t take their work home with them and because employers are not required to give time to grow skills some people will just work the line. If your assumption about labor requires labor to spend their whole life working to be better at getting exploited, you have a lot to learn about the majority of labor.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 2 days ago:
This doesn’t answer the question at all. Don’t get me wrong; I have zero interest in supporting Adobe and I tell anyone they’re toxic. What I’m frustrated with is blaming users of their software. To use your real world examples, that’s like blaming millennials for the myth of plastic recycling. You can attack them writ large for something they have no control over or you can go for the source.
A very similar argument can be made about cloud software. The cloud engineering pipeline is geared toward forcing you into Azure, GCP, or AWS. Attacking the DevOps engineer just trying to make a living for the AI abuse supported by Azure is the wrong idea.
Your response is a much better way to change the picture. Education and connection, not blame.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 3 days ago:
- Why?
- Are employers legally required to give employees time to grow their skills?
- If there is no regulated time for employees to grow their skills, should employees spend their free time growing their work skills?
You’re using lemmy.world. How much time did you spend deciding that was the place to be? Why did you pick Lemmy over the *bins? How much time have you put into your posting and commenting workflow? How much do you actually know about how ActivityPub works? What tools have you written?
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 3 days ago:
I really hate it when people blame consumers for problems instead of producers. Let’s go ahead and examine your hypothesis.
- someone wants to learn how to be a designer
- they spend time and money being taught Adobe products in a bootcamp or school
- since they aren’t defined by their job, they do literally anything else in their free time rather than bringing school home with them
- occasionally they see other stuff like Affinity or GIMP but the interface is radically different from what they’re learning or an important feature requires more time to figure out than they can budget
- they get a job that requires Adobe
- years later, when they have purchasing authority, they’re told they need to cut costs and decide maybe researching is a good idea
- the first results for Adobe alternatives are just a bunch of Lemmy threads calling them lazy
Can you point out where in this process our hypothetical user should have done something different? And more importantly why it’s this person’s fault they’ve been vendor-locked their whole career? Note that a critical assumption I’m making here is that not everyone is a power user because, unsurprisingly, not everyone is a power user.
- Comment on Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board 1 year ago:
I’d expect Timnit Gebru to be on the board, not highlighting how ridiculous the board is, if we were meant to take this seriously.
- Comment on FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps 1 year ago:
Do you know why places don’t come close right now?
- Comment on FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps 1 year ago:
Which sites are you using? TestMy.net is usually a good benchmark when your ISP is attempting to game things. Netflix’s fast.com is a good measure to see how well you can stream even if other traffic is throttled. Cloudflare’s test is a good measure of well you’ll be able to hit most of their infra. Many ISPs and majors (eg Google) just white label the Ookla speed test which is one I really don’t trust. On Spectrum I’d get an order of magnitude difference between Ookla and TestMy. However, collecting all of the tests will give you a good idea of the spread.
- Comment on Sam Waterston Exits ‘Law & Order’ After 400+ Episodes, Tony Goldwyn Set to Replace 1 year ago:
Say what you will about copaganda shows. I think they’re great trashy entertainment if you just need something simple you can yell at. Losing Waterston is the end of a fucking era.