Tangentially related... I work IT in a CNC shop. Most engineering prints that we get to make parts to have various specs on them for materials and various finishes. Those specs used to be free years ago, but they've most all been replaced, but not really updated at all. Now everytime they have a revision change, we have to buy the new revision from SAE for like $70 a piece. As shitty as that already is, in recent years, they have DRM locked them to a single user. So while we have 50+ employees with multiple needing to reference these for quality inspection or processing, it's against the ToS to share those specs. We are supposed to buy one for each user which is fucking bogus.
Fuck em. I screen snip each page and make a new PDF, or that one user prints it out and scans it in. The extra kicker is that while that's not allowed, you can buy a paper copy that can be shared for the same cost, you just have to wait for it to be delivered.
As someone that had to deal with adobe for 5 years for an 800 person studio. Fuck Adobe. For the rest of forever.
Ah yes true sysadmin energy in this post
A friend of mine is about to be interested in digital photography and is soon going to commit on a photo finishing suite. She already attended some courses and - of course - the mayority of those had users of and applications from Adobe, usually Lightroom and Co.
I know Adobe is scum (fuck Adobe), she knows Adobe is "bad". I think I could steer her into free and/or open source or one-time-pay software but for this I have to have an alternative that is a viable substitute, especially to Lightroom.
As for alternatives I know of Darktable, Capture One, Affinity Photo and RawTherapee.
Any more recommendations? Or an opinion on these or other products?
Thanks for your help!
I literally just wanted to esign a document the other day, and in order to get the functionality I wanted ONE TIME, I had to create an account, give them my credit card info for a free trial, let Acrobat Reader download all the other functionality I didn't need, which took 10 minutes. The program crashed, buttons didn't work, it didn't save the first time.
I fucking hate Adobe.
What's a good PDF editor that does e-signatures that I don't have to pay a long-term subscription for? Foxit is nice, but requires a subscription.
Ah, sorry, your required sacrifices have entered the stage where premium quality virgins are now required.
While I often have to use Adobe stuff in my line of work (its unfortunately the industry standard) I made the decision a couple of years back that Adobe software isn't allowed to touch my personal devices. On the Mac, Creative Cloud is essentially malware. I use Affinity to replace photoshop and illustrator, while Apple Photos has been enough for me so far to replace Lightroom.
Yeah I’m super glad I don’t deal with the procurement side of things
Hey chatGPT, what would Blackbeard have to say about Adobe licensing?
Adobe, be drivin' me to madness with their confusin' schemes. Ye need a map just to make sense of it all! They be chargin' a king's ransom for their software, and what do ye get in return? Aye, a license that's as flimsy as a ship's riggin' in a storm.
It's a never-endin' voyage through their terms and conditions, and I can't fathom their logic. It be like navigatin' the high seas with a broken compass. They be restrictin' the use of their software, demandin' we pay a ransom every month, and heaven forbid ye want to use it on multiple devices! They'll make ye walk the plank for that.
And don't get me started on their audits, me heartie. They be sendin' their parrots to check if ye be usin' their software properly, threatenin' to keelhaul ye if they find a single violation. It be daylight robbery, I tell ye!
After their fallout with Pantone, I was done.
I immediately switched to Affinity and haven't looked back. Yes, there is a learning curve and you will have to spend a few hours Googling how to do the same thing but it's easily been able to do the same thing that I was doing before.
The ONLY two features I miss from InDesign is GREP and scripts. Other than that, FUCK ADOBE.
Adobe is cracked in torrents, the master’s collection. Adobe to me was just pdf editor and an animator or maybe designing clothes, the other stuff was new. Before all websites were done through Java.
It was cracked and put on there by the guy who was selling it because if he went somewhere else he had to pay to use the programs, and other employees did as well, it’s a group that does it. The same group that watched Warner bros cartoons in the early 2000s and looked over shoulders of others using computers. I said not to let anyone see the monitor turned on or they get addicted to it. It was that risky with computers or smartphones.
The union does this as well with auto desk. But in the original computer or in Linux studios, or steam, I mean in Xbox, the programs had no name.
Apple or Adobe as Apple and the reverse, does this intense marketing economy thing, and no one going anywhere besides them, they all used Mac products only because Mac was always smooth to use or something or they had older ones and made newer ones without Intel. Apple/Adobe keeps everyone broke or in debt or with small amounts of money or all the same or similar, but it’s like it capitalist potential or habitual drug use and using or buying anything that existed and traveling in automobiles even short distances. It became all porn/only fans with them or something.
They’re after all the boxed and bagged food and Mc Donald’s. But Mc Donald’s created that software.
Adobe makes it simple to do stuff like animations and website creation, and all that, there’s a long list of programs, designing clothes and movie editing, game stuff.
He kidnapped me by having me sit here in 2014 after I sold him a phone that was almost better than a computer, but he thought he was getting the master banking phone computer. A parasite did this pretending to be Mac thing then ran into Adobe which is where Apple stuff was sold, next to the Bank of England near the Ohio turn pike or further south east of Columbus. He was my biggest fan, the biggest fan of Warner Bro/Walt Disney, he won a contest where he got to meet me. What he really wanted to do was ruin the internet and online shopping or economics even drugs entirely and stock up on old boxed bagged processed food and run off somewhere to sit around watching free television like he was Italian in the 90s. You know why they call it the 90s right? Because it’s in the 90s in the summer and at least 75 the rest of the year. But we preferred the 90s but it was also the 1980s and 1990s.
Maybe that’s why the union had Kirk hit me with a dodge challenger in a blizzard on foot in 2014, I liked walking in a blizzard. Sometimes cartoons were to brainwash everyone and keep them sitting there or our lives were ruined, these people only eat and multiply like crazy, only capitalism went on for food or they got a job there. Nothing was durable and anyone just grabbed anything and took it somewhere else and used it or got whatever they could out of it.
