Yeah but nobody buys it at full price. You can get it for 35 by just asking. Thats most likely not the highest subscription of the person using their apps.

And I don’t want to defend them at all. Finally I don’t need them anymore after almost 20 years. Stoked about it.

That works. I think I could probably get away with using Inkscape instead of illustrator, but it would be a struggle, because with it I can’t copy paste vectors to other apps. InDesign is completely alone in it’s category.

Adobe is the standard everyone uses. You can’t be a pro and collaborate without it.

It’s like 35€ per month. There are so many subscriptions out there now. Everything is a subscription. 35€ isn’t even that much anymore, considering all the apps you get.

Exactly, you are not their target user.

Many people, including myself until recently, would also do a lot to rid themselves of adobe, but for us it just isn’t possible.

On the other hand, their subscription isn’t that high, compared to so many other subscriptions.

You would be wrong. There is nothing close to Photoshop and many others. Sadly that is the case.

I got double hernia from working on the computer. I started doing exercises and got this chair called spinalis and was good ever since.

Extremely interesting. Some technical challenges remain, but so many applications if solved.

Great thread, thanks everyone

But Twitter now has a legit alternative that many have gone to. Unfortunate that’s not mastodon, but still.

It’s beyond me that after all this people are still using Twitter

Cheers!

Cool. I thought it’s all Steam right now? Is that a stupid question?

What is wine primarily used for today?

Honestly, affinity is just a company. They will make a Linux version if it makes business sense for them and it won’t. Adobe is far ahead in almost every way. Their software is competing in the market of amateurs. And for an amateur, it should make more sense to pick up Gimp, inkspace. Affinity publisher is ok, but pros will have adobe and for anything less inkspace or figma free tier is good enough. Affinity has no market.

At first I thought this tactic with this deal would be fantastic. The US could make this deal and bring in companies and have forces there to defend the investment. It would be a really strong showing, not only to Russia but also domestic audience, but not directly.

Too bad its just a dumbass Trump tactic.

I don’t understand this. It’s really unlikely Ukraine has so many mineral resources and even if they do, the investments needed to extract them would be huge. Wouldn’t the investments alone and manpower needed be worth it for Ukraine. It’s not really likely that Ukraine will be able to finance this extraction themselves?

All this assumptions rely on how I understand this deal to be structured, but I really don’t know how this works.

You hate ai or not, maybe you just found one more excuse to be an asshole online, don’t know, don’t care, bye.

You are insulting a person, because they said ai helps them.

Your comment is on capitalism, not scaling ai or ai being used with effect.

I don’t think any designer does work without heavily relying on ai. I bet that’s not the only profession.

Thing is, same as with GHz, you have to do it as much as you can until the gains get too small. You do that, then you move on to the next optimization. Like ai has and is now optimizing test time compute, token quality, and other areas.