The only question is will they unsubscribe. If they won’t then it doesn’t matter. Their happiness is irrelevant to Adobe.
And therein lies the problem. People have started whining an awful lot without a single change in their behavior. It’s akin to the old joke “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”
Productivity is important for workers, means money (not in a greedy way, just as income)
Not sure I consider this futurology, but I definitely consider people that willingly use Adobe products silly.
Not sure I consider this futurology,
Yeah, its borderline. But I posted it as the the excuse/reasoning centers around AI. Microsoft’s plan for ‘Recall’ are a huge invasion of privacy and stem from use of AI too. It’s the topic of AI & privacy that merits discussion.
I have to fullheartily disagree! From my point of view this is an exciting dystopia - the same way Russian roulette is “exciting”.
I wouldn’t have thought that we as species speedrun the shadowrun tech dystopia in addition to the expected corporate oligarchy one - on not, not instead!
This feels like doing 200mph on a highway and someone telling me that they now can - and in fact started to - alter my breaks on the fly. “boring” just doesn’t cut it anymore for me.
There’s some in this giant list of free alternative software / web services to popular paid ones https://slrpnk.net/post/10162152
Yes, though for certain things, Adobe products are the industry standard and there’s no way to escape that. For others, it just requires learning new apps. There was a great discussion about GIMP the other day for example.
Has GIMP improved much in the last five years?
My partner uses Adobe products for one of his jobs, and he had installed their cloud software on one of my laptops on his user account. Which forced it on all other user accounts, too.
I found that it installed horribly challenging to kill or remove daemons that would relaunch and reinstall their spyware bullshit if you didn’t kill all of them in the right way, and it was spamming me a pop-up asking for my password to install other things, which I couldn’t prevent.
I was able to stop it after many attempts and then got my partner to uninstall that junk from my laptop.
That was all still more user-friendly than the last time I tried to use GIMP.
Sounds like breech of IP. If I were running a company with any IP I wouldn’t allow that.
Gotta love piracy
Sucks to be them, I’m still using Photoshop 3.05 on a Mac Quadra.
