As I job-hunt, every job listed over the past year has been “AI-drive [something]” and I’m really hoping that trend subsides.
A loom that learned to weave itself.
As I job-hunt, every job listed over the past year has been “AI-drive [something]” and I’m really hoping that trend subsides.
I should research what would be required for that.
I’ll give them credit for sticking with it so far. I even keep getting updates. But I assume they’re brainstorming ways to end the one-time payment installations.
Yeah I’m not going to pay their subscription. The whole point was to avoid Adobe.
Pay three times as much for a “feature” nobody asked for.
I like this (and largely follow it), except that I occasionally need CMYK color space for printing, and GIMP makes that extreeeeeeeeemely difficult and annoying. That’s why I use Affinity. I got the software for the single lifetime price and I’m hoping they let me keep it…
That’s too bad since they recently purchased the excellent Affinity suite… which I originally bought for a single lifetime price, but they’re switching to a subscription model. So my favorite editing suite might get ruined two ways.
This is cool, but are they really the beast we need to bring back? Where will they stay?
$44 is more than my gym membership, and they have dozens of bikes and other equipment. These Peloton people are diseased.
Something so simple shouldn’t require maintenance.
This will inevitably translate into “Cute and toothless fuzzy animal avatars psychotically manipulating users with fun child-like language and something about diversity.”
AI will obviously be used primarily to manipulate people and sell stuff. Corporations own it, they want to control us and get our money and data, the “vision” stapled on top of that is meaningless except as propaganda.
I’d much rather pay with money than data.
I’m willing to pay for an ad-free version. Google maps are very useful. I don’t need it to be free. But ads are poison.
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Saving the environment by killing trees. Good lord!
That sounds right. But it makes no practical sense. Everybody relies on Google search. That’s a huge part of what makes them powerful. They shouldn’t screw with it, and that’s not a moral statement about what they owe to users, it’s just about self-interest. Ruining your own base product is idiotic.
Why would anyone think it would work? It’s a stupid idea.
Good for them.
Also I’m jealous.
Now everybody will learn that I’m ugly.