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If you're still using Adobe's products, stop. Better late than never. Adobe had some great products. Then they over charged for them. Then they required a "cloud" subscription. There are alternatives. Support one of the startups or open source projects that are competing with them. Don't give Adobe another cent.
I wouldn’t even look at startups if there is a viable open source alternative. Most startups are just looking to get a big enough user base to get bought by the big players.
However as the team grew and we needed seats for our talent, Creative Cloud was a small added cost worth paying.
This might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
But, Libraries were a game changer - especially for those who needed quick, easy access to assets generated by other artists on the team.
And generative fill in photoshop is exceptional.
Still, we’re a much smaller team now and we can absolutely transition our skills to other suites/applications.
I’ve long been an affinity customer just to encourage the development of the alternative. Time to start playing more seriously.
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> You understand the copyright, but you don’t respect it. That’s the idea. I understand stupid ideas, but I'm not required to respect them. Make the copyright last 3 years instead of an eternity, or make copyright holders pay an exponentially increasing tax, per copyrighted work, to extend it every year, then I'll reconsider. > You’re okay with having your Photoshop, but for free. Yes I am. Proudly. Why should I care…
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I'm a software developer myself, by the way. And because of how much I despise the current idea of copyright, I release all my projects under The Unlicense, and since 2016, I no longer work on anything proprietary and/or requiring an NDA.
I'm going to be using their service for another year and then cancelling (my "annual" plan starts on march).
https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-a...
Including a diff of what actually changed in the TOS.
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> Haven't had any problems so far. That you know of. For all you know you could be infected and part of a botnet. Viruses don't open a big popup saying "haha you've been hacked!". This line of thinking is extremely common and absolutely nonsensical. The point of a virus is to remain undetected.
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If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Does this only relate to things you put into their cloud, or does Photoshop now upload your offline files to Adobe servers as well? By the way, it's always morally correct to pirate Adobe software for personal use. Which also allows you to fully firewall it because it no longer needs to talk to the activation server.
It's only for people nutty enough to use their cloud services like Behance. And I agree with your second point.
I remember a number of years ago getting a cheap 1-year Lightroom susbscription as part of a promo. Got it installed, loaded up a few photos. Then went back to the directory to load the photos in a different program for comparison. The photos were deleted from my hard drive! They were loaded into Lightroom's cloud service, and without my knowledge or permission (and I was using the just-installed defaults) it had del…
Ah, the new Lightroom CC! I was a happy, delighted, enthusiastic Lightroom user from the moment it originally came out and threw Aperture into the bin where it belongs. Lightroom was fast, brilliant to use, a fabulous wrapper around ACR and managed all the photo files perfectly. It was, to me, as perfect a piece of consumer software that has ever existed. The moment CC turned up, not only was it a cut-down version in…
Yes, but Lightroom Classic is still here for years and no end in sight. So I feel like the backslash is still strong enough.
Given the fact that Adobe Cloud is absolutely unusable outside of the US, I have a strong feeling that local file support is not going anywhere soon.
I remember a number of years ago getting a cheap 1-year Lightroom susbscription as part of a promo. Got it installed, loaded up a few photos. Then went back to the directory to load the photos in a different program for comparison. The photos were deleted from my hard drive! They were loaded into Lightroom's cloud service, and without my knowledge or permission (and I was using the just-installed defaults) it had del…
Ah, the new Lightroom CC! I was a happy, delighted, enthusiastic Lightroom user from the moment it originally came out and threw Aperture into the bin where it belongs. Lightroom was fast, brilliant to use, a fabulous wrapper around ACR and managed all the photo files perfectly. It was, to me, as perfect a piece of consumer software that has ever existed. The moment CC turned up, not only was it a cut-down version in…
9 out of 10 ransomware vendors support this strategy!
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Wtf? Obviously you can't post slurs like this to HN, regardless of which population you're slurring. Since we've asked you before not to do this and you've continued to do it, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
If that is targeted to me, I don’t understand which slurs are you talking about. Calling Russians Russians is a slur now? Explaining other parts of their culture, maybe? Explain me please. To me that looks like you (or ycombinator which policy you follow) side with Russians. Are you even aware of the genocidal war they place at Ukraine right now for over two years? Is it allowed to mention on hacker news? Besides that, I’m not calling names. I’m just telling others, ‘look he’s Russian, unfortunately they don’t understand the concept of paying for software, respecting its license. Since, after all, they don’t have human rights to start with’. I would prefer to get your public explanation of these policies rather than telling me in email in private. I remember similar occasions in other threads, one with me, and with others as well. So my assumption is that some kind of policy I didn’t get from the rules.
The previous ban was on a similar occasion. So my assumption is that you just chose your side already. And it’s not allowed to say not even some bad words about Russians, but just mention the true parts of their culture here on hacker news. That’s how I see the issue, if your comment was targeted at my communication. Not my opponents that are obviously harassed me for expressing my point of view. As they’re flagged, I don’t understand if I interpreted you correctly.
Thanks, looking forward to your comment.
P.S. As I was allowed to comment, looks like the whole ban thing is targeted at someone else, isn’t it? I am perplexed.