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rgio

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Posted: Nov 30, 2022 - 6:33pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
GIMP sucks balls.

I added GIMP, tried it, and deleted it.   Then I needed SVGs for a site.  After adding it back and using it a bit more...it's OK.  It could definitely be easier to use...but once I figured a few things out I've changed my mind.

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Posted: Nov 30, 2022 - 3:44pm

 thisbody wrote:

So you're ok with businesses patenting the air that I breathe? You go right ahead. Mind, Nestlé the world biggest food industry hulk already went to patent water in the Sahara region.
Ok  for you? Must be, so go right ahead...

As far as dickin 'round with Walmart knockoffs.. you don't seem to know free and open-source software now, do you? Let me tell you about GIMP (GNU Linux Image Manipulation Program). It can do anything Photoshop can do, and it is completely free, as it is developed by a world community of voluntary Linux coders, again, for free.

I doubt Walmart would ever sell something like that, not even on knockoff, as you name it, as that would get them into legal trouble, because Open Source is an official license.   




GIMP sucks balls. Interface is as inelegant as possible, probably as a middle finger to people who want things to be nice. Cheap bastards are better off buying Affinity Photo. It's less capable but less user-hostile than GIMP.

Pantone has had a proprietary system for communicating colors for 60 years, it's not a new thing. I don't know what the beef is between Adobe and Pantone but your take on the situation is just weird.
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Posted: Nov 29, 2022 - 10:42am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Professionals use professional tools. You want to dick around with walmart knockoffs you go right ahead.

You're blaming Adobe for Pantone's licensing system? Why?

So you're ok with businesses patenting the air that I breathe? You go right ahead. Mind, Nestlé the world biggest food industry hulk already went to patent water in the Sahara region.
Ok  for you? Must be, so go right ahead...

As far as dickin 'round with Walmart knockoffs.. you don't seem to know free and open-source software now, do you? Let me tell you about GIMP (GNU Linux Image Manipulation Program). It can do anything Photoshop can do, and it is completely free, as it is developed by a world community of voluntary Linux coders, again, for free.

I doubt Walmart would ever sell something like that, not even on knockoff, as you name it, as that would get them into legal trouble, because Open Source is an official license.   


ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Nov 28, 2022 - 3:47pm

 thisbody wrote:

While y'all may be wealthy enough to pay all these ransom software fees for industrial standard (i.e. proprietary) software, how about some free and open source software (FOSS)?

Only some "little" background in this case:
Adobe has been looking for a legal system where someone can claim royalties by naming colors!



Professionals use professional tools. You want to dick around with walmart knockoffs you go right ahead.

You're blaming Adobe for Pantone's licensing system? Why?
GeneP59

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Posted: Nov 28, 2022 - 2:57pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


I was CS6 until January; it finally got to be too much of a headache. Made the jump and love it, but I'm hoboing off of my daughter's college account 


The latest stuff is really cool though. And they're finally mostly done making the switch to M1 ... I couldn't get Bridge to work until just recently.

Yup still using CS6.5 because I refuse to pay to rent software. Spent thousands of dollars since Illustrator 88 and still have a beef with them not offering a perpetual license. Screwed over all of us who supported them from the beginning.
Adobe doesn’t play well with others since they wiped out Macromedia back then. Got all those boxes of software versions on a shelf in my basement office.  
I use the free CC stuff just to keep me up to date just in case I get a job some day.   

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Posted: Nov 28, 2022 - 1:16pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


I was CS6 until January; it finally got to be too much of a headache. Made the jump and love it, but I'm hoboing off of my daughter's college account 

The latest stuff is really cool though. And they're finally mostly done making the switch to M1 ... I couldn't get Bridge to work until just recently.

While y'all may be wealthy enough to pay all these ransom software fees for industrial standard (i.e. proprietary) software, how about some free and open source software (FOSS)?

Only some "little" background in this case:
Adobe has been looking for a legal system where someone can claim royalties by naming colors!
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Nov 27, 2022 - 8:40pm

 GeneP59 wrote:

Adobe has a problem with backward and forward compatibility software.
My older MP will no longer work with Adobe XD. And now they’ve bought rival Figma. Just like they killed Macromedia.  




I was CS6 until January; it finally got to be too much of a headache. Made the jump and love it, but I'm hoboing off of my daughter's college account 

The latest stuff is really cool though. And they're finally mostly done making the switch to M1 ... I couldn't get Bridge to work until just recently.
GeneP59

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Posted: Nov 27, 2022 - 7:41pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Yep. I have 16 in my MBP and have trouble running a full complement of Adobe stuff.

Adobe has a problem with backward and forward compatibility software.
My older MP will no longer work with Adobe XD. And now they’ve bought rival Figma. Just like they killed Macromedia.  

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Posted: Nov 27, 2022 - 6:17pm

 rgio wrote:

The only problem with the Costco mini's are that they only carry 8GB of RAM.  


Yep. I have 16 in my MBP and have trouble running a full complement of Adobe stuff.
rgio

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Posted: Nov 27, 2022 - 5:10pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


My employer is supposed to be looking at a maxxed out mini for me; I'll tell him Costco's got the price.

The only problem with the Costco mini's are that they only carry 8GB of RAM.  An extra 8GB of ram is $200...which is a worthwhile upgrade (IMO) that you can't make after the fact.

I was shocked yesterday in Costco to see the old 27" iMac on sale for $1150.  It was $750 off.  It's an older format, but that seemed like a crazy price to me for a really nice desktop with a huge, really nice 5K retina display.  I'd go for that over the mini just for the screen.  I also think you get the keyboard and mouse with the iMac that doesn't come with the mini.



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Posted: Nov 27, 2022 - 4:53pm

 miamizsun wrote:


few days ago i ended up with an hp work box (got a black friday deal i couldn't refuse)

and yesterday i was in costco for food and spotted a new mac mini m1, 8gb ram and 256 ssd for $569
helper guy told me they were flying out of there and i had 90 days to return if i so desired
i thought what would sfw do...
so i snapped


So how many food sample women did you take out? 

That is a really great price! So I went on line to see and they’re sold out.
GeneP59

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Posted: Nov 27, 2022 - 4:53pm

 miamizsun wrote:


few days ago i ended up with an hp work box (got a black friday deal i couldn't refuse)

and yesterday i was in costco for food and spotted a new mac mini m1, 8gb ram and 256 ssd for $569
helper guy told me they were flying out of there and i had 90 days to return if i so desired
i thought what would sfw do...
so i snapped


So how many food sample women did you take out? 

That is a really great price! So I went on line to see and they’re sold out.
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Posted: Nov 27, 2022 - 3:29pm

 Bill_J wrote:
I'm looking for reasons to upgrade/not upgrade to Windows11. My normal default is to

not upgrade anything that is working fine for me,

but then I may eventually be forced to. Thoughts?
 
That is generally how I roll.  By my experience, upgrading an existing Windows OS doesn't always go smoothly.  If by upgrading it means getting a whole new PC, that is a different story.

I recently had to get a new PC cause my Win 7 rig got the blue screen of death and died.  Pretty sure the HDD failed.  Haven't got around to trying to bring it back to life yet.

Win 11, to my surprise is ok.  Was not a fan of Win 10 that I have to use on the PC's at work.  Win 7 was working just fine as far as I was concerned.  I still use XP with an offline music puter.

Again, I have gotten used to 11.  I can live with it.  Pretty intuitive once you get familiar with the new names for old things.  Do know that if getting a new PC, the way the hard drives are installed, there are no more bays or easy way to add more inside a desktop box.  The SSD's are mounted directly to the motherboard as I recently discovered when I got my Mom a new one.  The Win 11 Dell I bought for myself evidently was one of the last ones made with SATA hard drives and bays for more.
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Posted: Nov 27, 2022 - 11:43am

I'm looking for reasons to upgrade/not upgrade to Windows11. My normal default is to not upgrade anything that is working fine for me, but then I may eventually be forced to. Thoughts?
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Nov 26, 2022 - 12:22pm

 miamizsun wrote:


few days ago i ended up with an hp work box (got a black friday deal i couldn't refuse)

and yesterday i was in costco for food and spotted a new mac mini m1, 8gb ram and 256 ssd for $569
helper guy told me they were flying out of there and i had 90 days to return if i so desired
i thought what would sfw do...
so i snapped






My employer is supposed to be looking at a maxxed out mini for me; I'll tell him Costco's got the price.
miamizsun

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Posted: Nov 26, 2022 - 11:16am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Oh, don't look, just get out your wallet. 



few days ago i ended up with an hp work box (got a black friday deal i couldn't refuse)

and yesterday i was in costco for food and spotted a new mac mini m1, 8gb ram and 256 ssd for $569
helper guy told me they were flying out of there and i had 90 days to return if i so desired
i thought what would sfw do...
so i snapped




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Posted: Nov 16, 2022 - 12:38pm

I’ve used Parallels for many years so I could use it for testing with Web Dev. on one computer with Mac OS, Windows and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the only one I had trouble getting to work right, but that was probably my fault in downloading the OS.

In fact I was looking to update Parallels last month to a more current version to run on my older desktop and OS X.


thisbody

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Posted: Nov 15, 2022 - 9:32am

 miamizsun wrote:
the whole virtual machine proposition looks interesting
isn;t that where you log on to a provider and set up how much compute that you need for a monthly charge?
of course i could have that confused with something else
i watched a few videos some time back and it looked a bit costly
probably great for those who travel or access from multiple locations tho

edit: got an older video on virtual box playing now

edit edit: so it's a partition program?

Nope. It takes some space on your local harddrive in the form of files. VMs are running in a sandbox, isolated from your local operating system, so they can't do any harm to it. VMs share computing power (CPU, graphics, RAM, storage) with the host operating system and hardware they run on.
Most all resources used in a VM are tunable to the degree one prefers.


Explainer.
westslope

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Posted: Nov 15, 2022 - 9:12am

 miamizsun wrote:

for practicality, windows and mac, hands down
i'm tech curious but this isn't my area of expertise
.....



Thanks!  

miamizsun

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Posted: Nov 15, 2022 - 5:12am

 rgio wrote:

or for the more adventurous VirtualBox?







the whole virtual machine proposition looks interesting
isn;t that where you log on to a provider and set up how much compute that you need for a monthly charge?
of course i could have that confused with something else
i watched a few videos some time back and it looked a bit costly
probably great for those who travel or access from multiple locations tho

edit: got an older video on virtual box playing now

edit edit: so it's a partition program?
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