I just got some J. Herbin “Emerald of Chivor” ink for my Lamy Safari and I love it!

The amount of creativity Adobe products unleashed upon the world is staggering. Decades ago they were groundbreaking. Just about any piece of media you have ever seen from the past 35+ years has been touched by them in some way.

The Adobe we know now was not the Adobe of back then. Just like the Apple of 1985 is not anything like the Apple we have today. Back then it was about actually developing useful technology, and not just coming up with innovative ways to squeeze every last dollar from every possible customer for the same bloated and tired piece of software.

Back then you had a problem (eg. people wanted to create artistic stuff), and then you had a solution (powerful software to help you). Now software like that is everywhere, so the only way for companies to “compete” is by adding bloat and jacking up the price. Hence the Adobe we see today, full of pointless crap and complex licensing schemes.

To be fair, Spotify might suck for artists, but for users it’s a good value in my opinion, and the price was $9.99 for like 10 years. I don’t begrudge them a small increase. In fact, I wish all the price increases we’ve seen lately would be so modest.

I remember when it was FutureSplash Animator, and my young mind was blown by the possibilities of animations in only a few kb.

I totally agree with you, all this has been just what I needed after witnessing the rapidly escalating enshitification of, literally, everything.

$20 to remove ads, $100 for Ultra.

Imagine the confusion when people order a “Big O”.

Yeah… But maybe not ANYONE… “Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has already registered an ‘X’ logo in connection to ‘online social networking services’ and ‘social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and application development.’”

Kinda like the names of his kids.

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That would have been a fantastic idea, tbh.

Not that anyone asked, but if you’re looking for an amazing weather widget with a timeline style, check out Meteogram. It’s one of the best, most customizable widget I’ve ever seen. Not affiliated, just been a happy user for 3 years now!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloud3squared.meteogram

Wow, calckey has one of the best GUIs I’ve ever seen.

They DID do that, when they bought Alien Blue. Then they promptly destroyed it. Good UX != profits. So they butchered it into some sort of zombie app where everything was designed to make them money. And that’s why they are pushing so hard to make EVERYONE use it.

If anything, they hate 3PA devs because they show users what the experience could be like - how good and clean it could be - if they didn’t have a greedy corporation trying to sabotage everything.

They don’t need to hire anyone to pacify them. Reddit doesn’t gaf what happens to the devs, whether they are pacified or not. It’s like a tiny baby fish cursing the ship that just harvested 120,000 fish in a net. The ship laughs, and sails away.

Hopefully things will be better once federation grows in popularity. I know I’ve been using it daily since this all started. But sadly I have to augment with reddit because there just aren’t enough people here yet.

The fediverse is the way. But there’s nothing wrong with browsing reddit, just as long as you remember to keep coming here. We need to get more reddit posts mirrored to fediverse communities. There are scripts that will update a lemmy community when its reddit counterpart gets a new post. This is great because it encourages conversation here even if a post started on reddit.