It's in everything now. It became like a museum exhibit to me seeing the most wild things. Wifi toaster WHYY? Like I knew about smart fridges but I was seeing like overly technical smart phone connectable kettles and like some griddle made for just bacon?? Whyyy
I'm just gonna start buying every single "dumb" appliance I see at goodwill thrifting from now on. I'll make a little collection and gift some to friends who want out of the techno hellscape too. I keep thinking about the absurd amount of lights and screens on things that have no reason to have one and how fast they'll likely break. All that shit will be in landfill in like 10 years max
This isn't the half of it - because of the various machinations of licensing and money, Pantone will no longer allow certain colours and finishes in Adobe products unless you pay Pantone a bunch of money each month. So if you open an old document in newer versions, those process colours are blacked out and you get a popup saying Pantone want cash.
So now we are at the point where we are paying for colours - and using the RGB values isn't an alternative - Pantone exists as an industry baseline profile for printers, so if you specifiy a value, you will get the same result every time. So you have to pay if you want to produce print-ready designs.
Adobe have done this before - with Creative Cloud you can roll back to previous versions of their products, but a couple of years ago vast swathes of apps disappeared - turns out Adobe didn't want to continue their deal with Dolby despite having more money that God so any older product that used their audio/video tech - even Photoshop which can edit video - was removed. Real cool, man. So rolling back a couple of years to a nice, stable, version of Ps is impossible because it no longer exists.
I'm still using my torrented brain version of CS4 and I'm never gonna update.
Indeed. I know of a few illustrators who regularly use CS5 because it is regarded as the best version. I switched to Clip Studio a couple of years ago for my illustration work and never looked back - I only use Adobe at my professional job.
what year is it from?
Maybe 2015.
this is a hell of a wormhole i didn't ask for but i needed to hear. thats fucked
Yeah, it's a bit of a tangent from your post but it all eventually folds into things that will eventually become useless because of capitalist pressure and failure.
Like you constantly hear about why people's lightbulbs stop working because the firmware update wrecked everything or they used a cheaper, third-party bulb.