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TrickDacy ,

Can't tell if this is a joke of some kind

TrickDacy ,

Ah yes, nyehh

A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....

TrickDacy ,

Fuck a buncha Google SSO though. Hopefully that's not the only option

TrickDacy ,

The UI and shortcut keys are unintuitive. Simple tasks that would take me seconds in Photoshop take me 5 minutes in gimp. I'll never understand that there is always one person replying like you are here.

TrickDacy ,

Dualism everywhere. Jfc

I hate adobe and it's precisely because they fucked me. I'll never give them another penny. I want gimp to be good but it absolutely isn't. I would be quite happy if it were

TrickDacy ,

So here's the thing. Just about anyone in a creative field learned Photoshop inside and out. We learned the shortcut keys and relied on them to be much much faster at our jobs. So not using them feels like a huge handicap and having to relearn them would be bad enough, but there are common things in gimp that I found have no shortcut keys at all. And the ones that do exist largely don't make sense, even when ignoring the Photoshop conventions. When I'm struggling to zoom without clicking several times, the app is the issue, not me.

TrickDacy ,

Sounds like a bit of an overreaction

TrickDacy ,

I really wish I didn't hate gimp but I very much do.

TrickDacy ,

Yeah it's truly painful

TrickDacy , (edited )

As everyone is pointing out you're just wrong about this.

Also apple is overbearing AF. I recently had several back and forths with my IT department about an old company mac laptop I used to have. Since I had signed into my apple account once, Apple permanently tied that laptop to my account and wouldn't allow the fucking IT department to fully wipe it.

Keep in mind also that I would have preferred to not have or use an apple account (they kind of force it on you, even asking you to login to iCloud constantly even if you've literally never used it once), and even though I could login to the apple account in my browser and see that the laptop wasn't listed under my devices, IT was still locked out.

Literally the only way to fix this was giving the IT dept my apple password so they could authenticate then sign out of it. There was nothing I could do remotely about it. This is a security issue in itself. Zero reason I shouldn't be able to use my account remotely to remove or sign that device out. Zero reason I should have to give my password to another human. Except for apple being shit.

The apple security theater is widely believed but it's still largely theater.

Edit: before you tell me I didn't have to give up my password, understand that I fucking know that. I could've driven to the office, told my employer to fuck off, had them ship the laptop, etc... all of which are things that shouldn't be necessary. I took the least shitty option at the time. Kindly fuck off if you are so dicksloppery on apple that you can't understand the obvious point: pretending every shit decision is about security doesn't shield you from all criticism.

TrickDacy , (edited )

You missed the part where I had to give my password to another human.

Also, I wasn't the owner, they are. Also, again, it makes zero sense to not allow me to sign it out remotely.

Nothing is secure about a system designed so poorly you have to give out your password. That should never be needed.

Not to mention, I never wanted or needed to sign in. I was just nagged to do so 100 times so I relented. Nothing about that means I own the device.

TrickDacy ,

You are absolutely incorrect. They had remote access and I watched them use it in various ways. When troubleshooting issues they would login and move my mouse and use a virtual keyboard. They could install software remotely on a schedule.

Not sure why you're under the impression that an apple account is required for remote management. There's probably >5 different popular third party software solutions for that

The apple sign in is an extraneous unneeded piece that once they annoy you into it, it then becomes considered a sign of ownership, which I never considered, because why would I?

You are right that IT should've had a way of dealing with it better, but in their defense this may have been an anti-feature (asking a user to login to iCloud, a service they've never used once, is not a feature) added in an update, after they issued the laptop. It's a small company, so I don't fault them on it as much as the trillion dollar company with the goal of inflating their iCloud metrics by forcing users to login to it.

TrickDacy ,

I eventually did do that, but apparently at the time that I was nagged into iCloud for the 1000th time I was quite annoyed and just used my personal account like an idiot.

TrickDacy ,

Nah the iCloud crap is literally just another account. Up until the moment you login to it, then it silently ties the device to that account for "security" purposes. I kept emailing the IT guy back saying I don't know what I can do, I can see a list of devices here and that laptop has been removed from it.

After him asking me for help repeatedly I felt I had to just give up, give him the password on a slack call, then immediately reset it once he'd done what he needed.

TrickDacy ,

The thing is, I never expect logging into a service to immediately lock my device to that account. But I've since learned not to trust Apple's login systems for this reason. So yeah, I won't buy any other apple devices and any work machines will use a work account for everything like that

TrickDacy ,

I don't have the type of position where that would be needed or considered appropriate. Why should I need to anyhow? A lot of people are missing the point here. Logging into a service (especially one I didn't want or need but was harassed into doing it) should not unexpectedly be considered proof of ownership.

The scenario wasn't that during os setup I was asked to login. And I wasn't prompted with a warning that this could happen. What happened was every time I opened system settings for months it wanted me to login to iCloud and no matter how many times I refused it just kept asking.

TrickDacy ,

You are bending over backwards to justify absolute garbage practices. I am aware there were literally other ways around this. I was more referring to being forced into a situation where I'd even need to consider this.

Yes, I shouldn't have used my personal account... however I also should have never expected doing so to tell apple "I own this shit please make sure no one else can use it ever without my permission". Logging into iCloud should mean "I want to use iCloud", which btw I NEVER wanted to do. Every time I opened system settings the piece of shit insisted I login to it. That alone is a problem. But I'm sure you'll justify that one too.

TrickDacy ,

Pretty sure that's what they were trying to do. I know for sure that on iPhones, if you ever sign in (which I think is required), wiping the phone doesn't matter, it's still locked to that account somehow -- a ROM chip on the board stores the account info somehow I think? I think their computers work the same way now.

On other systems, logging in means that: you've logged in. And you should be right: wiping the OS should always remove any login/account status. If Apple wants to provide some system like this for people worried about theft, cool, let them opt into it. But don't force every user to.

TrickDacy ,

You missed the point entirely. Harassing me into signing into iCloud shouldn't mean I ever have to do anything inconvenient at all, regardless.

I wasn't presented with a dialogue that said "login to establish device ownership". Instead it was "login to iCloud now" dozens and dozens of times. I have never once used iCloud nor will I ever. That part alone was indefensible. But then locking the device to that account is plain stupid and reckless. There are plenty of scenarios where this fucks people worse than having to choose from a few shitty options

TrickDacy ,

You really earn your "apple simp" tag. You know apple doesn't give a fuck about you, actually.

And I really don't care about your invalidations of what happened to me. If by some chance I did make some other mistake besides using my personal apple account, it's irrelevant. I do not think it should be possible to accidentally opt in to this bullshit. It is a shitty feature to force on every user. And it shouldn't be possible for an employee to render thousands of dollars worth of company hardware useless trash ready for the landfill. It shouldn't be possible intentionally, let alone by accident. If you removed the apple schlong from you mouth for a second you might see my point but you won't.

TrickDacy ,

Ok so if I owned this machine legally but didn't have such proof, I'm sure you'd find a way to call me a fucking idiot for that too right? It would serve me right and apple would be blameless

TrickDacy ,

Surprise! Apple simp strikes again!

Buying something legally isn't enough. Apple owns the fucking thing because: security and simps say so

Nevermind that there are plenty of ways you could get into this scenario and even if it only happened once ever, Apple's practice is bullshit, because: security and simps

I truly hope all this gargling some day leads you to accepting something even worse from these pieces of shit and and then it fucks you

TrickDacy ,

What the fuck?

TrickDacy ,

Lol

TrickDacy ,

I was laughing at the idea that this is cutting edge and their intentions are to break new ground. Vs what it is: a brazen attempt to invade the fuck out of privacy for monetary gain

TrickDacy ,

There is no privacy invasion, not sure what your are taking about as nothing would be shared with anyone.

This is based on the claim that MS has made that they won't access the data (hilarious) and the assumption that no one is getting hacked.

You sound like a fanboy.

TrickDacy ,

Great argument... if that's what you call that.

A lot of people are leaving windows, and each new feature seems to add to that. I've been avoiding windows every chance I've had for about 25 years myself.

Stay mad.

TrickDacy ,

The last thing I ever wanted from Spotify was audiobooks or podcasts. We've had excellent apps available for several years already, we don't need half assed bloat added to (very poorly) replicate the same features

TrickDacy , (edited )

Why not use a free/cheap pocketing app designed for it specifically? All the podcast apps I've tried are far better than spotify. UI-wise at least.

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I would have expected them to ask me to message them, in order to resolve the issue of not having access to my old email. Instead, they assume that I still have access to it, by simply contacting my email provider!...

TrickDacy ,

Do you really expect them to allow you to circumvent the only easy way we have to verify ownership of an account?

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year's $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...

TrickDacy ,

Did you use a time machine to get here from 2002?

TrickDacy ,

Interesting. Do you ever run into music not available on it?

Also the price is currently cheaper than $14. Do you have the family plan?

TrickDacy ,

Thanks for this! I will consider my options. I remember when Spotify was $7 a month. it was easy to justify then, less so each time they hike the price.

How long have you been a Napster subscriber?

TrickDacy ,

Thanks for all the info!

TrickDacy ,

Samsung is a very problematic company for several reasons but chiefly for me, I don't want to place electronics inside my ears made by a company who has at several points made devices known for catching fire.

TrickDacy ,

Recommendations*

TrickDacy ,

How else do you do it?

TrickDacy ,

Don't agree, nothing noticeable for me anyhow. Chrome has the ultimate drawback: being under the control of a monopolistic evil corporation

TrickDacy ,

People who are mad at the "Linux community" amuse me. It just makes you sound like a baby.

TrickDacy ,

Your problem is that people want to help you "wrong". That's my point exactly.

TrickDacy ,

You sounded angry and childish to me. /Shrug

You could've just said "I'm knowledgeable and have tried those things" but instead you wrote a tirade against the whole community

TrickDacy ,

It was also easy to just not respond.

TrickDacy ,

Exactly like Theranos

Is it though? This one is an idea that can literally destroy the economic system. Seems different to ignore that detail.

TrickDacy ,

You're missing the point. They aim to replace most/all jobs. For that to be possible, it will need investment, and to get a lot better. If that happens, a worldwide inability to make a living will happen. It likely will have negative impact even on the rich bastards.

TrickDacy ,

Yeah, I never said this is going to happen. All I was commenting on is how it's ironic that the people investing in destroying jobs are too myopic to realize that would be bad for them too.

TrickDacy ,

Pretty much the sanest take I've read in a while. Thank you for getting it, fellow Lemming.

TrickDacy ,

You can and should criticize Democrats. A lot. But if you do it in a way to equates them to Republicans, that makes you a lying asshole. Don't be one.

TrickDacy ,

Ah yes if they don't specify that they understand that the Internet exists they need to be told it does

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