tigerjerusalem

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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

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The thing that irks me the most is that those things work. They'll see a little complain from the most vocal ones, and that's it. The revenue will increase, their shareholders will be pleased, the OS will be worse, and we'll have no viable alternative.

Unless governments start to regulate the hell out of tech companies, it's only downhill from there.

Edit: about Linux, it's not viable if you're outside IT or rely on commercial software. That's a debate for another post.

tigerjerusalem ,

Adobe Creative Cloud, which despite the name is pretty much local. And although Microsoft Office works online, it has a series of issues that the desktop version doesn't have, like broken formatting on Word.

tigerjerusalem ,

Ah yes, let's go back to that amazing time of pure innovation where every fucking company had their own connector standard for data, power and audio. Good times.

tigerjerusalem ,

Im cautiously curious to see if they can pull it off.

Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms ( techcrunch.com )

Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...

tigerjerusalem ,

Yeah, say that to professionals whose workflow rely on the thight integration and features of Adobe's software. I'm sure migration to a piece of crap software with a S&M name that can't even do CMYK will work great.

Affinity is a good alternative still, at least until Canvas implement the subscription model (which I still believe they will do).

tigerjerusalem ,

Yes, I am being a jerk because GIMP gets routinely thrown around as a Photoshop alternative,which is not. You say I cherry picked a user base, but who are the people that actually pays to use Adobe Cloud? I assure you that they are mostly professionals, because the subscription is expensive.

Now, the "many people" don't need Photoshop. In fact, there's no reason they should even install it. But people say "Photoshop" and hear "GIMP" as alternative, and this should stop because the app is objectively bad. There's Krita, there's Photopea, there's Darkroom, there's myPaint, there's even Inkscape. Anything is light years ahead that thing, yet it's recommended again and again like a sad joke made to inflict pain on its users.

GIMP is not a good tool. Stop using, stop recommending it.

tigerjerusalem ,

This also smells like "we're shrinking our catalog and dont want you to notice it, so algorithm!"

A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....

tigerjerusalem ,

People talking about pixelfed are missing a key point: Cara is super easy to find and join. You go, type your email or login with your google account and that's it. You don't even have to remember a password. Nobody wants to find a server, apply to join, hope to get accepted, then somehow find all other artists like you.

Also, it looks good. Like, really good. That's a thing that grab the attention of artists.

tigerjerusalem ,

Thats not fair, since everyone says the main app suck and you'll have a better experience with Moshidon. This is true if you're already there, but the comment makes it clear that it still lacks for newbies.

tigerjerusalem ,

This is hilarious, scrambling to get a golden parachute and live off some trust fund from the sale. The sad part is that they will probably get that.

tigerjerusalem ,

To use Recall, users will need to purchase one of the new "Copilot Plus PCs" powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, which include the necessary neural processing unit (NPU).

Well, I guess I'm keeping my current notebook for the unforseeable future.

tigerjerusalem ,

IF that's an option and IF it don't turn itself on after an update. Given Microsoft's history I wouldn't trust that. They invested way too much in AI to afford making it easy for the user not to use the feature.

tigerjerusalem ,

Unless there's a "database failure" that would resurface screenshots from your PC on Microsoft's cloud, or anything like that. I mean, its too many lines of code, what if something happened and oops, the local data was uploaded to your Onedrive, my bad, keep using our products, this will never happen again we swear.

The only way to be sure is not having it at all. Remember the CSAM filter Apple wanted to force on iOS? This is as bad as that.

tigerjerusalem ,

Well, I don't care about any company but seeing Samsung take the shot is always refreshing. I wish more companies would be at odds to call bullshit out publicly like that.

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It's not a "public narrative" when the product is objectively trash. You don't get to have an opinion about a fact like "don't eat plutonium because you will die" and say "oh, I don't think so, it's your narrative".

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There is NO appeal for this product. We already carry an AI device, it's called a smartphone. We already have an AI device on our bodies, it's called a smartwatch. This thing solves no problem and creates a lot of new ones, like being an annoying tamagotchi that doesn't even bring the pleasure to use it. It's a scam to pocket VC money.

tigerjerusalem ,

This piece of e-waste was DOA before launch. The founders were with their heads too much up their own asses to realize that.

tigerjerusalem ,

The company screwed themselves by hyping a nothing burger. The influencers just helped unaware consumers to not fall for this scam.

tigerjerusalem ,

I used to use and love miniflux, but then they migrated to Golang and PostgreSQL, neither which are supported by my shared hosting (namecheap).

I use Freshrss now.

tigerjerusalem ,

"oh, just switch to Linux"

Oh, just shut up already. On Linux my fingerprint reader doesn't work, my Adobe apps doesn't run, my Concepts app doesn't run. Not everybody works in IT, and many of us actually run apps other than Office ones.

This shit sucks, and I'll support every tool that fixes and neuters Microsoft attacks to the user space because my work apps are there.

tigerjerusalem ,

I'm sure the smartphone you're using right now is all under your control with no network access right? 🤦

Seriously, what's up with all those trolls on lemmy?

Why has the world gone to shit?

In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product's and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in...

tigerjerusalem ,

BACHORD

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but in all seriousness, what is the band’s name?

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