It’s a masterpiece of anti-functional design.

From the company that brought you subscription seat heaters.

And don’t care.

Yep. I have 1 app that requires Windows (or Mac) that I use once every 4 or 5 weeks. I run Win 10 in a VM for that.

I doubt they’re worried about that. Protest implies that the gun is symbolic or defensive. ICE is there to shoot, and will shoot first.

If it turns into a gunfight, one side gets a gov pension when the smoke clears, and the other side gets prison if they live.

That’s the one group of people who could leave a platform and bring the people with them wherever they go.

Probably involves leaving money on the table though. So unlikely to happen.

Edit : typo

The corporate version of good people on both sides.

Recently learned about cachy and installed it yesterday to give it a try. I love it. It’s like arch, so that’s nice if you’re already familiar with arch, but a little less manual, and more functional out of the box; literally every bit of hardware wierdness on my 2in1 laptop just worked out of the box. Also, I love the fish terminal.

If you already use Android, Graphene is even easier than switching to Linux. It’s a very well-polished, well documented, and just a dead-ass simple process.

I don’t have a keychain. I try to avoid keys, and most things I need a key for any more have electronic keys. The few things I need physical keys for any more just have that single key on a lanyard, and I’ll just grab that specific key when I need it.

I’d say around 80% of then time, I don’t have any keys with me at all.

Would be a useful tip in a world where ICE follows the law.

Ah, I didn’t initially catch that it applies to tax year 2026.

I did a little reading this morning on case law of retroactive taxes, and while I’m certain this would be litigated, not really sure where it would land. It might depend on the jurisdictions that hear the case. I’m not at all optimistic that they’ll collect what they think they will, but they have sure attempted to craft it to tax people before they can exit.

Yeah, I only used Lightroom Classic. I tried regular Lightroom once, did not like.

And I agree, I liked aperture better than Lightroom at the time too, but Lightroom progressed while Aperture started pushin daisies.

I’ve recently given Darktable a try. It seems promising, but it’s different enough to be a frustrating transition.

I’m well aware. California loves to tax people as residents and not give them the benefits of residency. I’ve lived here my whole life. It’s mostly the plebs they get with that, like you don’t get in state tuition, but you get to pay state income tax. But if I were a billionaire, the 50 million I’m not paying the state could fund a lot of careful legal and tax planning.

Yeah, pretty much. Any decent display on a TV is gonna have all the shit you don’t want, but you can (at least for now) just not connect your smart TV to the internet. You;'d have a good TV with the “smarts” neutered. But you’re still paying for it.

It’s a bit like the ATSC broadcast stack. You likely aren’t using it, but the industry still makes you pay for it (and it’s not cheap).

Yeah, I liked aperture too. I do think Lightroom got a ton better in the ensuing years than aperture ever was, but it’s like $15 a month now iirc.

It was cheaper, but mostly they refocused the product from filmmakers to youtubers. The latter is a 10x (or maybe 100x) bigger customer base, so it sorta makes sense, but unfortunately for Apple they threw away the filmmaker customer base and failed to acquire the youtuber customer base. And the filmmakers didn’t forget being cast aside. FCP usage in the industry fall off a cliff and never recovered.

Premiere has a lot of the market share Apple wanted, but even they are losing ground to Resolve; a highly capable product that’s inexpensive, and made by a company that doesn’t have the baggage of fucking over its customers. Resolve right now is free if you don’t need the studio features, and $300 for life if you do.

Why would a single resident billionaire continue to remain a resident if this passes? It’s not like they can’t come here and spend time here while being a resident of another state. Hard to see how this would make a meaningful bump to state revenue.

The AI slop image of Altman here is kinda funny.

Yeah, competition is good, but I’m not sure this is competition. These products were mostly free already, and the paid stuff in the bundle is, I guess… Pixelmator and FCPX, and at what appear to be much higher prices.

Then of course Apple is pretty famous for fucking over creatives by just dropping products. Film professionals still haven’t forgiven Apple over FCPX, and then Aperture… they just dropped it one day and kinda forced people over to Lightroom. It’s gonna be hard to earn back trust of people who’ve been burned by Apple in the past.

Gimp, and millions of dollars are entirely immaterial to Adobe.