I believe hbomberguy’s next video is all about Adobe.
What alternative do we have ? Affinity was bought by canva years ago.
Affinity is now offered for free by Canva
As a someone who been using either GIMP or pirated CS6 since 2012, havent been keeping hand on an Adobe pulse. What did they do this time? I know about subscription over the one time purchase thing. But what happened recently?
They’re calling it quits on their animation software, and a lot of people who used it in their workflow are very upset.
I see. Just checked a vid of some YouTube animation artist. They just gave Adobe animate 1 month before removing it from suite. Woah… Even Flash had few years to live after a discontinuation announcement.
OOTL - what did they do this time?
Apparently, they gave amateur cartoon animators 1 month to save their works before they will remove Adobe Animate off Adobe Suite. Adobe Flash would give them 3 years, and software would just change slightly. But this time it is not the same.
Is there an alternative to Adobe for PDFs? I know Microsoft prints to PDF, but I need to be able to combine pdfs or rotate documents when I’ve scanned them upside down.
I’ve started using https://bentopdf.com/ seems to have all of those features
If you are a LaTeX user, you can actually do this with LaTeX pdfpackages.
Been using Sterling PDF for times when I need to edit a PDF https://docs.stirlingpdf.com/Installation/Windows Installation
For just viewing or similar edits like rotating I use Okular, it works fine https://okular.kde.org/download/
You could use ilovepdf ? It’s available as a web app for free without an account
Need something more local. Don’t want to accidentally waive attorney-client privilege by using an online utility.
Might be worth giving https://bentopdf.com/ a try. I’ve just started using it . Seems ok. You can spin up your own locally (I haven’t done this yet) or I believe you can also edit PDFs locally in a browser.
You could try PDFsam Basic. As the name suggests it provides some basic functions, especially the ones you described. Sam stands for split and merge.
I’ll check it out.
Adobe is utter garbage. I hate that they have the market cornered. Their monthly subscription model is infuriating.
Sometimes I look at the Unity Game Engine’s stock history after that one “destroy all indie gaming” plan, and I remember companies are volatile organizations at the consumers’ mercy.
Did they fully backtrack out of that one?
Early 2010s I asked the company I worked for to approve some free game engines to be installed. The legal department returned a big no with pages of why Unity should not be allowed in the premises. We proceeded with Unreal, Blender and eventually Godot as tools any employee could install.
Unity was bad back them, it is just that people did not read the agreements and tech sheet. Their new leadership just made that more apparent.
Proton and Pirate Software gloating over the “downfall” of another…misery loves company I guess.
Adobe, Proton and Pirate Software - could we have one account that’s not completely terrible?
Why is Proton terrible?
CEO is maga who made statements on protons official accounts lobbying against Democrats because their corporate interests are bad for big tech and they (corporate Democrats ) all need to be thrown out, so MAGA is their stance.
They backpedaled hard and pretended it was a mistake. Their reasoning that Democrats are bad for big tech is because none of them showed up to their lobbying event for “anti-trust” laws, but JD Vance did.
CEO is maga
Oh, JFC, can we stop with this bullshit already?
“CEO is maga” is the equivalent of going: “Lulzagna wants to force everybody on the planet to only eat lasagna and nothing else, because he tweeted ‘I like lasagna’ once”.
Context:
Trump was still in his “I hate social media because social media won’t force users to praise me” phase. He appointed a person known to be very pro-consumer and very anti big-tech to an important job at the DOJ. Democrat accounts defaulted to “whatever Trump does is bad” and started shitting on the pick. Proton CEO wrote:
Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.
Which is all literally just stating facts. The only opinion here is that the pick is good - which, from the standpoint of a company that supports privacy and consumers - makes sense.
He made a statement praising trump for his security pick. To me he was just pandering to trump so they aren’t on trumps radar about encrypted software.
They couldn’t give less of a shit about Trump or his radar - they’re based in Switzerland.
He literally only said that someone who is famous for being anti big-tech, and pro consumer is a good pick, because Proton are anti big-tech, and pro consumer.
How this grew to all this nonsense people write these days is a fucking mystery to me…
If they want to business in the USA hey have to pander to the panzshitter
The CEO made “questionable” comments regarding the Trump administration. IMHO, the comments on it are way overblown, and are half way reasonable considering he’s a CEO whose only job is to make the company money.
it’s a honeypot that is just going to hand your emails over to whoever asks, there is no secure 3rd party email service. you want secure emails you have to self-host and encrypt
Supposedly they don’t have the keys though. They could start logging on behalf of a government warrant, but I’m not sure past email would be accessible. Its not even accessible to me if I reset my password
For what i know only the subject is not protected.
Wow. Thor really is an asshole.
This message brought to you by an open-source animator. Krita, Blender, and OpenToonz for all.
B-b-b-but he used to work for Blizzard dontcha know!
He was the first second-generation Blizzard employee, get it right smh
OpenToonz is nothing in comparensing to adobe animate
If it’s good enough for Studio Ghibli and Futurama, it’s good enough for me.
What is the context? (Im out of the loop)
PirateSoftware is an extreme narcissist who was previously cancelled for having too huge an ego. He’s a real asshole.
Phew, okay, I’ll watch that a bit later.
And what does he have to do with Adobe stock falling?
He’s a professional “”“influencer”“”. He just needs to stay relevant, at any cost (except if the topic is about suspicious sticky substances on the room, video fit more details)
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Is he not implying that Adobe are shooting themselves in the foot (dropping their share price) by stopping development of an animation tool that lots of people use?
oh lmao, I’m an idiot. I forgot how to read twitter threads lol
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Jesus is sad when you use slurs. They affect everyone in the group, not just the one person you’re insulting.
PS is still a thing?
Did you just wake up from a coma?
A few years ago, I subscribed to Adobe for about 2 weeks. But my conscience wouldn’t let me, I had to cancel the sub and get a refund.
Deep down, it’s like I knew something was wrong. And that was before I got introduced to Adobe memes.
Turns out Inkscape/GIMP/Shotcut are good enough for my needs. The Affinity suite is pretty good too though. I hope it gets supported on Linux eventually.
- Krita for painting
- Davinci Resolve for editing. You can also buy the suite for a one time payment.
Yeah, I know. I’ve never used Krita, but I do have the paid version of Davinci Resolve. But it can be tricky to make it work on Linux, I only use it when I need complex editing. Shotcut is simpler to use and more straight forward.
Shotcut
Huh… I recently needed to do a super short edit of a clip and people were recommending Kdenlive. Have you used it? To me it felt super complicated (I literally needed something like ClipChamp from Windows), but now I’m wondering if Shortcut might be the better choice.
Honestly I use Krita for photo work now, too. Especially with the AI plugins for retouching.
Look into davincibox! It’s a script (?) that uses distrobox to install davinci seamlessly. It’s great and worked perfectly for me even with an amd gpu
I’d need to try it. I recently tried the “Universal Davinci Resolve Installer” script and it didn’t work. I’m currently using Maple Linux which is debian based.
Distrobox basically just runs a vm to mess around with, so the script just sets up the vm for you. Fmu, as long as distrobox works for your distro, it should just work
I use Krita!
I’m an open-source artist. All the tools and software I have ever used to make my art are FLOSS. It’s my deeply held personal belief that the ability to create art should be as free as pencil and paper, and I want my work to be living proof of that ideal.
I’ve used Krita, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, and other tools exclusively for over a decade. I never could afford Adobe’s shit, and I realized pretty quickly that nearly anything Photoshop can do, a bit of savvy and some extra time in Gimp and Krita can do equally well. My only complaint is that they can’t support Photoshop’s brush file formats. Which is absolutely a dealbreaker for most committed artists I know, because your brushes make or break your workflow and even your entire art style. So switching isn’t for everyone, and that’s fine.
I’ve never heard of shotcut, that looks interesting.
Huh, a couple of days ago I was googling all over the place for something like this and it didn’t come up. I didn’t think my google-fu was that weak. Definitely going to try this out now.
It’s not your fault. Search engines results have objectively gotten worse compared to years ago. Shotcut was the probably the first thing I found when I searched for something like it in like 2016.
Same, I looked high and low for an alternative. The blender editing program is still a bit clunky.
I just gave it a spin and it was everything I was looking for, this is fantastic. Funny how these things can slip through searches and then just pop out of nowhere from an unexpected discussion thread like this.
NobaraOS has a preconfigured Davinci Resolve installer in their welcome app fwiw
That’s good to know! I used POP_OS for many years that seems quite similar. I don’t think they has a Davinci installer, but you can have nvidia and GPU drivers preconfigured.
The official proton vpn account posts memes?
Probably trying to steal back Karma from years of bad press.
The bad press being: “dude stated a fact, people didn’t read properly and started shitting on Proton”.
ing: “dude stated a fact, people didn’t read properly and s
oh hell no. get that opinion piece out of here.
He licked Trumps balls on x, got completely ignored then their PR service went into damage control and got a bunch of crap written like you just posted that ‘journalist’ has 12 followers.
Then the doubled down on it here with more outright bullshit.
There’s no misunderstood fact here, we’re shitting on Yen for being a shitty person. The bad press is he has markedly awful decision making capabilities and the inability to keep his mouth shut to save the reputation of his company, followed up by the audacity to double down on his rhetoric.
Then they deleted their comments so people like you can say it never happened. But there are always archives.
Archive.ph doesn’t load for me. Got any alternative links?
EDIT - actually, neither does archive.is… :o
This is so nice. What happened that made it fall?
Edit: looked for the stock prices, and the chart at a monthly scale and up doesn’t look exciting at all
Looks like they tried to sunset “Animate”
Animate debuted in 1996 as FutureWave Software’s FutureSplash Animator. After a 1997 acquisition by Macromedia, FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and renamed Macromedia Flash to Adobe Flash Professional. In 2015, the software became Adobe Animate CC. In its nearly 30 years of use, Animate has been used in numerous popular animated films and shows, including Star Trek: Lower Decks. Still, Adobe said on Monday that “new platforms and paradigms have emerged that better serve the needs of the user.”
Pirate Software talking at all kills me inside, maybe Adobe too.
Maybe because they announced they were killing the Adobe Animate? That’s the only thing ive heard but I’m not in-the-know.
That’s definitely what the image is referring to. They’ve already walked it back from “completely removing the ability to use or access the software with basically no notice” to “maintenance mode, no updates”
Yeah, i saw that as well. “Community backlash”. No shit? hahahahaha
One of the perks I had when I worked at a print shop was that they gave you a CS6 license, if you asked for it.
I don’t even mess with Adobe anymore. PhotoPea covers my needs almost completely. But then again, I don’t really do much in PhotoPea but mess around, making silly things.
