I have some artist friends who saw the writing on the wall after Adobe told Apple to fuck off with the iPad and Affinity said hold my beer. One owns her own publishing company and as of a few years ago all new projects were Adobe-free workflows. She still has Adobe but will only use it for older shit that might still need something later. Going forward, she (and therefore her entire operation) are fucking done with Adobe. Another friend learned both so he could adapt to whatever the market has in store for him and since the market sucks for artists he’s going freelance too and has said absolutely no to Adobe.

Adobe is officially legacy software. Vendor lock in won’t save it as the creatives don’t need industry titans to survive.

Sounds like that senior has a career in sales.

It’s inferences derived from pattern recognition of large data sets! Jesus, it’s not hard!

The Linux community isn’t like most groups. There is a great deal more tech knowledge they have in common compared to other communities. They like genAI, but they are absolutely aware of the abuses possible with a model that learns by watching you work.

The windows community isn’t like that generally, though there are certainly those there who sound the alarm. They tend to be the people who need MS office or a legacy app for work, or some kids playing a video game. They have no idea how shit works. They only know “it came with windows so everything I use must be windows.” Most windows users are what people think Mac users are anymore. It’s not particularly great at anything.

Copilot is a terrible idea for Microsoft from a publicity standpoint. But they are taking the risk because business majors learned two new letters and now it’s all anyone can talk about. I would like to see more non-x64 PCs out there but that they push the spyware in the marketing for the ARM devices as a blessing of some sort. that sketchy sentinel being built in gives me pause. Because it’s Microsoft, we know they don’t respect users and turn things on after updates that the user had already turned off all the time.

Didn’t Intel do this with 3D cross point or something like that? Then it failed and was repurposed to optane, which also flopped?

I’ve found it useful in providing scripts for me that I can use as templates. You still have to fix a lot of stuff as it makes crazy assumptions and hallucinates a lot but it’s useful.

Probably but there is literally zero reason to do it. There is no overlap between people who use Linux and people who want copilot.

I mean, it’s probably in their best interest to avoid us. We are a terrible country.

Are you aware of how much open source work comes from Russians? Russians != Russian govt.

Manufacturers are contemplating how to win back control over the UI of their vehicles. They remain completely oblivious to why CarPlay succeeded in the first place.

I see this going further underground as fascism takes over. The corporate influence was bad enough before but with the Nazis in coming to power again, many of us are going to have to dive underground.

Imagine such absurdity. The Internet. The land of “forbidden knowledge.”