I sell photos on Adobe Stock. They never properly asked me permission to train on my photos. The whole thing was opt-out not opt-in. Leaving Adobe Stock is not an option either as Adobe, like most stock services, continues to sell your images even if you purge and delete your account. Getting them properly removed is a agonizing, teeth-pulling experience with customer support and not even guaranteed to work.
So Adobe can take their "ethical, non-exploitative" AI and shove it up their ass. As always, artists continue to be exploited and abused for profit.
I switched to an iPhone after having many similar hangups with Android devices over the years. Biggest for me was how little update/software support Android phones got. I think they're better these days (or so I hope) but they had awful support for years. Buying a brand new Android phone and only getting 1 OS update and 2 years of security updates was not uncommon and I have several old Android phones in a drawer that succumbed to that fate.
My experiences with iOS have largely been positive but I do have some issues which annoy me constantly:
Apple's ecosystem is great and is so polished and tightly integrated, but trying to do anything outside of that ecosystem is incredibly painful. You are actively punished when trying to do anything outside Apple's box. Even something as simple as transferring music files from your PC to your phone is frustrating at best and impossible at worst.
Every. Goddamn. App. is a subscription. The app store is almost completely useless and I practically never use it. I'm not joking when I say that the vast majority of downloadable apps are subscription-based, and usually a WEEKLY subscription instead of monthly. Sorry, but I'm not paying $5/week for a goddamn calculator or weather app. This means that using an iPhone can be very frustrating if the stock apps don't suit your needs. This reason alone is enough to make me want to jump ship again sometimes.
iCloud sucks. No other way to word this, really. It's a relic of bygone times and Apple really needs to overhaul it and make it more useful in the modern day. Everything from the clunky, Fisherprice UI to the base storage which barely has enough gigabytes to hold a single fart. On one hand upgraded storage is only a few bucks a month. On the other hand I'm goddamn tired of subscriptions.
The new software is able to detect if the hood is open and, if so, will display a warning to the driver to alert them to stop their vehicle and secure the hood
This should not be legal. They should be forced to recall vehicles and replace the faulty part instead of kindly asking drivers to pull over when the part fails.
The shit this company gets away with is astounding.
The NBHPA called the incident “unacceptable behaviour”
The poor guy was nearly murdered. The ref is lucky to be alive and, from the sounds of the injuries, may never be the same again. Repeated blows to the face with a blunt object are no joke.
Not that I am aware of. Though one time someone made a Facebook account using my email. I was able to log in by requesting a password reset, then I posted a status message (or whatever) that said "Get your own goddamn email" and then changed to the password to gibberish and filed a account deletion request.
Capitalism is all about short-term profit. These sorts of long-term questions and concerns are not things shareholders and investors think or care about.
This is true but only to a point. I have 64GB of RAM and I have seen Photoshop overshoot that and start eating up 20gb of page file. Working with the exact same files in Affinity Photo - it uses a quarter of that.
There is a difference between "Efficiently use available memory for program functions" and "Fill all available memory with bloat and poorly coded rubbish"
If your software's function can be replicated using only 1/4 of system memory then your software is poorly written. Which Photoshop is.
I dumped my Adobe sub and grabbed Affinity Photo a while ago. It does 95% of the things Photoshop does (and 100% of what I need) for a one-time payment that is a fraction of the cost of an Adobe payment. It's runs so so SO much better than PS. I very often saw Photoshop using up to 40gb of RAM and Affinity Photo uses 9gb doing the exact same work with the same files.
Removing Creative Cloud and it's 838 different processes was amazing. Like finally watching your toilet flush after it's been clogged.
Microsoft is constantly experimenting with how far they can push users into a corner and get away with it. There might be a day when Microsoft caves and releases a Windows that is more like what we wanted, but I imagine it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. We have not yet seen the worst MS has to offer force upon us.
It also has rapidly-ballooning expenses with basically no income model other than a donation link.
I want a decent new art platform as much as everyone else but I'm not moving my entire portfolio over to a new service that, honestly, looks like it'll be dead in 6-12 months.
I sell photos on Adobe Stock. They never properly asked me permission to train on my photos. The whole thing was opt-out not opt-in. Leaving Adobe Stock is not an option either as Adobe, like most stock services, continues to sell your images even if you purge and delete your account. Getting them properly removed is a agonizing, teeth-pulling experience with customer support and not even guaranteed to work.
So Adobe can take their "ethical, non-exploitative" AI and shove it up their ass. As always, artists continue to be exploited and abused for profit.