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thatsnothowyoudoit , 2 days ago

Pros:

• you run a home lab

Cons:

• you run a home lab

thatsnothowyoudoit , 11 days ago

I tried Affinity Publisher 2 the other day and it convinced me to pull the plug on Adobe and switch on the Affinity suite. Everything was straightforward and far more intuitive than InDesign ever was (which itself was far better than Quark Xpress before it).

I bought the Affinity Suite, exported all my Creative Cloud libraries (they’re just zip files with a different extension), copied all my Creative Cloud files to our self-hosted Nextcloud and off we went.

I promptly cancelled creative cloud. As I’ve said before, I’ll miss generative fill in photoshop - it was very good.

It’ll also take a while to figure out / learn Fusion as a replacement for AE but having spent a lot of time with Shake in the past, it’ll be fine.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 11 days ago

How so? Genuinely curious what’s missing as someone who tried it on a job, and loved it.

I just sent a job to print yesterday and the printer didn’t bat an eye.

Are we talking specific types of printing? Like booklets or runs with specific imposition needs or something else?

I think ultimately it will depend on what one needs printed. It would easily meet most common printing requirements as far as I can tell.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 8 days ago

Thanks for the reply. Makes sense. I haven’t had any jobs recently that would push us there.

CC is also priced low enough we can sign back up for a month if we need it.

One feature set of CC I’ll miss is the libraries functionality working across all the apps. Someone on the team needs a client asset in any app ? (AE/ID/PS/AI) There it is.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 19 days ago

I’ve had lots of fun with the very affordable Pi Zero 2w. Will pick up a few more before they disappear.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 19 days ago

Yes indeed.

The last project I did with one was build a moon and tide clock - all written in python with a motor controller, external display and individually addressable led lighting.

They’re also great as diy audio streaming devices for whole home audio.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 25 days ago

As someone who’s used their tooling and the generative tooling… I have to admit trying to push its limits for giggles. It is VERY conservative already so I don’t see why they’d need additional moderation privileges.

This is an awful change.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 25 days ago

The illustrator tools are terrible. But removing and replacing backgrounds in Photoshop has been spectacular with one caveat - they are less great if you give it any instruction. If you use the generative fills with prompts the results are not at all great. However, if you leave the prompt blank it does a bang-up job matching the existing background set / scene.

Equally impressive has been generating parts of photos that are missing when extending the canvas size.

It tends to work best with photos that are “inside” (interiors) with strong geometric cues - but it has expertly matched lighting, backgrounds and their level of focus (or lack thereof).

thatsnothowyoudoit , 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

As someone who’s experienced the same thing, some of the messages I received were shockingly well written.

The fake “find my” site they tried to use to convince me to log into my iCloud account was wildly convincing, if not for the index.php at the end of the URL - something Apple would never configure for service endpoints.

They continued to try - but never threatening. However I never engaged and eventually they just stopped trying.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 1 month ago

The Option 121 attack is a concern on networks where you don’t.

Exactly where you’d want a VPN. Cafes, hotels, etc.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 3 months ago

I’m on iOS and do the same thing.

The WireGuard app has a setting to “connect on demand”. It’s in the individual connections/configurations.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/314a126d-44aa-451f-9caa-22fc28347d21.jpeg

You can then set either included or excluded SSIDs. There’s also an option to always connect when you’re on mobile/cellular data.

I imagine the Android app is similar.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 5 months ago

UTM will run full fledged linux just fine on Apple Silicon.

Sharing host file systems is still tougher than Virtualbox, but time and adoption will remedy that.

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

thatsnothowyoudoit , 5 months ago

I dislike slack more than anyone I know. Awful tool that’s nearly impossible to use well at any scale.

But if you’re seeing gendered pronoun slack bot text (ex. one about avoiding using “guys”) those were added by someone at your org.

I was at such an org.

I was at another where slackbot and the ability for anyone to modify it was completely disabled.

Didn’t make slack any better though.

thatsnothowyoudoit , 5 months ago

If you’re a safari user (desktop and mobile): https://oblador.github.io/hush/