Pirate an old, pre-CC version.
That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.
Pirate an old, pre-CC version.
That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.
Tribal psychology is a helluva drug.
As someone from a country with single-payer: this still seems backwards and barbaric.
When I’m in medical distress, the last thing I want to worry about is what it’ll cost. That’s why I pay taxes to make all this work.
“Price transparency” seems like a way to avoid the core problem.
There’s one notice, and it’s in the System Settings app. And it’s a little red dot beside the iCloud section. That’s not really the same league as what Microsoft is doing, or Even Google’s nag to use Chrome across all their Web properties.
You’re right about the first-party apps that you can’t remove, but it’s also not the same as, eg, Edge where those apps are used constantly and your preferences are reset on every update.
On my Mac I set my browser to Firefox in 2018. It’s never reverted to Safari, not once, where Windows really wants me to use Edge and goes so far as to not just reset it periodically, but also direct start menu searches and in-app web links to an ms-edge: url instead of using the http handler.
Apple has problems, but this isn’t one of them.
Microsoft would like to introduce you to EntraID.
That’s the enterprise version of this.
Apple doesn’t actually make it at all difficult to use a Mac or iOS device without an Apple account. You’re asked once during setup and that’s it. At most there’ll be a red dot in Settings>iCloud.
This isn’t going to stop until the rich are afraid.
In case you’re wondering why fascism is on the rise, it’s seen by the wealthy as a safe way to manage populist rage; get people angry about out- groups and they’ll ignore the rich picking their pockets.
The wealthy don’t think they’re a line in Niemoller’s poem.
It’s not that, it’s more that two raging narcissists can’t occupy the same space at the same time.
You end up with a kind of NPD supercriticality.
I maintain we need to measure social group distance in a unit I’ll call “Niemollers”, after the pastor and poet.
As in “how many Niemollers am I away from '…and there was no one left to speak for me '”
Because the Log Cabin Republicans are probably three Niemollers. He’ll Clarence Thomas is five, maximum.
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China being authoritarian is a “Dog bites man” story. It’s expected.
Same with police misconduct in the US: it’s also dog-bites-man.
Trump and his team realized that outrage fatigue is a thing: fuck up daily and with such magnitude that being a corrupt fuckup becomes a non-story and then you can get away with anything.
Steve Bannon even had a term for it: “flood the zone”.
Lada can’t be enshittified because it was always shit.
Line must go up!
This’ll be great at the business level: do you use Outlook, or Outlook?
Kind of like Teams: do you use Teams, Teams (New) or Teams (Home)?
Microsoft: failing at branding since 1992.
Oh, I don’t disagree that it’s a design choice. 1990s id Software had, we’ll, let’s not call it a style…
One of the things I really enjoyed about Marathon (versus Doom or Quake) is that Marathon had colours outside of brown, reddish brown and greenish brown.
Remove a wheel, seat and/or handlebars when you lock up. A lot, and I mean a lot, of bikes are stolen out of convenience, and not having a wheel means that someone can’t easily ride it away.
This won’t deter a motivated Igor Kenk-style thief that steals tens of bikes a day, but it’ll make you less of an opportunity to casual addicts looking to for a ride for the night or something they can flip for cash or drugs.
I’ll try to explain my concern with UBI, because I’m genuinely curious:
I like the idea of UBI in principle, but my concern is that it–especially without curbing runaway inequality on the top-end and a pivot away from neoliberal “the market does everything” policies–it doesn’t really solve much at best, and at worst it’s yet another way to transfer money to the wealthy and absolve government of actually providing services.
Are we going to tax the wealthy to pay for it?
Because otherwise this is basically corporate welfare at best, and inflationary at worst.
Does it work the other way? Can I follow Threads users without being on threads.net myself?