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That is true for some apps, but not others. Lightroom is not available monthly at all.
Lightroom is available at $1.99, $4.99, and $9.99 monthly for 40, 100, and 1000 GB of cloud storage, respectively. This is what Apple’s App Store tells me. See: imgur.com/a/Gk2S01k
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Citation needed. I guess you’re probably right but companies are way more accountable than random internet person who modified the dll/binary to work without copy protection.
I remember hearing about at least one game that was significantly more performant when pirated (I think it was by Ubisoft). They had so much code for DRM and network tracking that it was faster to just stop that code from executing by hacking the game.
A modder distributed a tool to bypass the anti-cheat and restore performance the same day the expansion released. It took over two weeks for Capcom to get the game playable again, and many more before they improved performance back to roughly pre-update levels.
For reference, I'd been using Steam Proton to play the base game on Linux and was getting 60fps at nearly max settings. After the update, I got 1. One frame per second. I saw a number of similar reports from native Windows players.
My wife tells me to never update apps on phones. The updates are never worth it, they are just mucking around, no real progress is made on these apps, and worse, sometimes the updates introduce ads. The red circles beckon me anyway, all the time. I can't stop myself. I just disabled my updates, and I'm finally going to listen to her. Beyond this major disaster, I updated my phone about a month ago. Ever since Chrome…
If nothing else, you do want to get the security updates that are released.
In general: Update but if possible, don’t be the first one to update to a new version, wait for a day or two
In another story, I needed Lightroom for about a week to do some photo work. I started with their subscription for the month and I wanted to let go if I'm done in the first month. While trying to cancel my subscription, I realize I can only do that after paying for the remaining 11 months (rough calculation). With no other option, I paid my penalty and left Adobe for good. I have deleted my 15+ year old Adobe account…
In another story, I needed Lightroom for about a week to do some photo work. I started with their subscription for the month and I wanted to let go if I'm done in the first month. While trying to cancel my subscription, I realize I can only do that after paying for the remaining 11 months (rough calculation). With no other option, I paid my penalty and left Adobe for good. I have deleted my 15+ year old Adobe account…
I went through a similar experience - in fairness Adobe do say that the prices advertised are the monthly fee based on a 12 month subscription, but the way in which it was presented felt like they went out of their way to hide that fact. I then discovered that you can only cancel that 12 month subscription within a short window at the very end of the 12 months. In the end Adobe retired one of the products from Creati…
Is that legal?
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Are there any subscriptions on Steam to do this to? I thought temp credit cards were meant to solve passing your real cc details to a merchant for 1 off transactions or when things like adobe do sketchy stuff. If you're buying games on steam it shouldn't matter if you use a temp credit card or not.
I think the situation is before steam had refunds people would try to make a chargeback and have their whole account locked.
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I don't know about software, but pirated games are generally more secure, stable and performant with less spyware than the official games with all the DRM.
Citation needed. I guess you’re probably right but companies are way more accountable than random internet person who modified the dll/binary to work without copy protection.
This is kind of expected for online gaming due to many folks fucked up mentality of using cheats and playing with rest of the crowd (some psychologists could probably go quite deep on breaking this down to mostly childhood issues). If you play on your own, its just a pain in the a.
Many people buy the game and then play pirated version, just to avoid this kind of punishment of the lawful citizens.
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On the audio production side of things... people are still pretty skittish when it comes to upgrades. I like to think of an audio production system as an appliance rather than a computer. There's a quote from George Sanger that goes something like "the difference between an appliance and a computer is that a computer breaks down more often". He was speaking about audio production. There's a photo in his book of a com…
On a side note, I think that will make the Intel Macs still valuable for years to come. Audio production software is notoriously conservative when it comes to updates.
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You don't have to worry about that BS if you use free software alternatives either. Plus you get to contribute to an alternative ecosystem that is also a lawful and moral alternative (Because piracy is both illegal and immoral in many circles.)
How do you contribute by using free software? You contribute if you give something, mainly coding or money.