cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057
I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.
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Trying to be relatable while they force you to use their browser or choice.
How do you do, fellow users?
Yeah, that’s been driving me crazy for years. Corpo snakes sticking their venomous tongues down your throat while their hands—I realize the snake metaphor has now fallen apart—are deep in your pockets.
I realize the snake metaphor has now fallen apart
Nah, they’re just snakes with hands, nothing weird about that.
So skinks?
TIL about a new animal.
“Whoa there!”
Go fuck yourself with that fellow kids corporate speak. That pisses me off so much, way more than it probably should.
OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!
Fuck Adobe, not supporting Linux, and now not even supporting Firefox, the once most used browser? Whoever pirates their crappy software deserves a statue.
Use pirated adobe #noshame
Normalize using pirated proprietary software for professional work😉
since flash died I’m happy that I don’t even know what adobe does anymore.
Something with trying to claim they own PDFs and Photoshop I guess
The pdf standard is open, though criminally bloated. Their pdf software (‘pro’ as well as the freemium ‘reader’ which looks like adware nowadays) is used only because it’s the most lenient with respect to files barely complying with the ‘standard’ – which includes things like application forms from government agencies.
… that is, if they can be said to ‘own’ the pdf format, it’s only because they smeared it all over with their shit. A bit like how hippos mark their territory, I guess.
Is there a FOSS/free PDF program that will let me fill in and digitally sign/encrypt a pdf?
Yup, I know Okular (KDE’s PDF tool) at least works. I don’t know if it works on Windows or macOS, but I’m sure there are other tools that do.
Thanks! I’ll look it up and try it out. Getting real tired of having to use shady web apps to get around something I have to do regularly as part of my job but for some unfathomable reason isn’t a default app on every computer where I work.
I have been removing Adobe from my life starting way back with Flash, long before it was discontinued. Then Acrobat and the final thing to go was when I switched to Affinity Photo and Designer and ditched Photoshop. It works every bit as well for me but I never was a Photoshop power user. For a long time the only company that showed up when I searched online to see if my email had been pwned was of course Adobe and that was over a decade ago.
Adobe needs to fuck off and die already. Lots of bad business practices like the subscription model were popularized by them.
Unfortunately they’re still a default app in the business world. Basically everyone at least uses Reader if only because it’s what people expect when they open a PDF.
SO glad Firefox has a built-in pdf reader now.
Thankfully, there’s a huge variety of pdf readers (not so much for editors, unfortunately)
My favorite for Windows is Sumatra
Sumatra is really cool. That was my only PDF reader for a long time when I was using Windows.
Any software company that uses monthly subscriptions as their business model can fuck right off. Let us own what we buy.
I just immediately pirate any company who does that
Are we surprised that Adobe is doing this? Adobe is exactly who I would’ve suspected adapting this bullshit immediately.
Are you kidding - they basically invented the problem. They were one of the first to move to the “rent your software” model way back when
This is the main issue with that web DRM “security” shit that Google is trying to push. They have such a great market share now that big websites can now afford to put a check “only for Chrome” losing a very small percentage of users
Fuck Adobe. As an industry professional I have to use multiple offerings from them, and they have ALL gotten worse, rather than better. It all started going downhill when they started their bullshit subscription-only model.
Adobe, a company which developed nothing but just bought off 3rd party software by acquiring the actual developing company, and stitched everything together somehow, like a Frankenstein’s Creature, and finally sold it as a service.
Thank you, but no thank you.
Same applies for Autodesk.
Wow. Before, I could use it with no issues, but then recently, it would just randomly log me out (even on Chrome), so I had to use the app on the Microsoft Store. (Which I’m pretty sure is just a web browser)
I hijack this to inform that LR for Android can be revanced.
as in something similar to YouTube revanced? Do you know if there a community or discord? That would be neat
Yes, it’s on the revanced GitHub..
I only have a telegram channel with apks (without guarantee on them).
could you invite me to the telegram? trying to wrap my head around compiling code from github scares me lol
Hear hear. If you make the mistake of subscribing to Adobe canceling is like pulling teeth. Can’t stand them as a company.