Technology

And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.

GIMP 3, Krita, Darktable, Inkscape, Kdenlive

I use Affinity Suite for work. Paid for it once, have it forever. Free updates until new editions, which are discounted if you own an older edition. Buy it for one platform (Windows), that's a license for that edition of any other platform too. AND they regularly go on special, often to 50% off.

It doesn't have AI content generation, but it does a few things Adobe doesn't - like being able to use Photo and Designer from INSIDE Publisher, seamless like its a single program!

Affinity Photo (Photoshop), Designer (Illustrator), and Publisher (InDesign). Then Krita for raster illustration. That's all I need as a professional

I (distantly) knew an indie software developer who was putting up a pretty good Photoshop alternative in 1996: ONE GUY alone in his bedroom was making a decent living selling a Photoshop alternative that he wrote himself. And he wasn't exactly a super-wunderkind coder, just a guy who knew the photo manipulation space well enough to get enough customers to float selling his software for a few years - in direct competition with Photoshop.

Adobe isn't selling magic dust ground from precious gemstones by thousands of artisans. They had a decent product that they marketed the hell out of and eventually got overly greedy.

GIMP, Krita, and many others are right up there if you haven't been sucked into the Adobe addiction vortex.

And billionaires, especially the Nazis variety.

I quite enjoyed Elon getting bullied over POE2 stream.

Consider X's current audience and you'll have your answer

That's weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don't have a bluesky account.

Ahh hang on, this one doesn't work but all the rest do

https://bsky.app/profile/megzavala.bsky.social/post/3lmdz2tu6xk2x

Ahh here we go: it's a user made setting not a bluesky one

"Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author."

great, cant view it because it wants me to log in...

I remember reading a story a while back about someone who owned a legit CS version with a proper serial and activation.

They had to change computer, and in doing so had to reactivate Photoshop, but it wasn't working. They contacted Adobe support and explained the situation but support basically told him nope, not a chance, we aren't helping you. You need to subscribe to new Photoshop.

So Adobe accepted that yes, he bought a perpetual licence for Photoshop and that yes, the reason it isn't working is the online activation, but they still refused to help.

Scumbags.

I have to open PDFs all day long at work to read our schematics. No I don't want an "AI assistant" or an "AI summary" on drawings of electrical wiring. And I need to close multiple menus to get rid of them, and the only option is "disable for this session", no way to permanently turn them off

Honestly nah, there are lots of other good options. Support the devs and people fueling real creativity rather than staying in Adobe's ecosystem, paid or not.

I only used kdenlive an open source Video editor, I do not know how similar it is to AE though. With kdenlive I can …

• cut and arange video snippets in a timeline
• apply effects like transform/lens (many more) to video
• I can apply simple audio effects with the pitch effect, or generate white noise. Slow down Video
• they have AI-effects and audio editing in their roadmap …

Sounds similar to AE from what I read on its wiki entry

proton did it to themselves by embracing the us and their fascist leader.