Has anyone been keeping a list of tech that has milkshake ducked this calendar year?

[futzle@old.mermaid.town]

Has anyone been keeping a list of tech that has milkshake ducked this calendar year? If not, let’s build one together.

• Framework: welcomed racists into its “big tent”
• calibre: added LLMs to software that doesn’t need it

Just to be clear: we're listing the projects and corporations who were our darlings earlier this year, until they lurched dramatically into unacceptability. The ones who've been on a downward spiral for years, they're for a different list.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@futzle Affinity: Explicitly made as an alternative to Adobe's rent-seeking middleman subscription grift & refusing to jump on the AI bandwaggon - and then bought this year by Canva, who immediately made it "free" ( = precursor to subscription) & added AI...

[jwcph@helvede.net]

Dette indlæg er slettet!

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@jwcph @futzle affinity was always awful, they left the Apple AppStore and told people who bought it that they would need to pay a second time to keep it

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@webhat @futzle well, on the flip side they sold the whole package at half price for a lifetime license like four times per year... But yeah, bit of a dick move still

[dwenius@toot.cat]

@jwcph @futzle Oof. Glad I bought permanent licenses for my laptop and tablets when they had that big “fuck Adobe” sale a few years ago. Sucks that I will now never be able to upgrade

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@dwenius @futzle My thoughts exactly.

[dwenius@toot.cat]

@jwcph @futzle Aaaaaaand iOS helpfully updated my versions of the Affinity apps when I had to do an iPad factory reset recently, now it has the Canva versions and wants a login. Nope, deleting. The free versions on my laptop are fine, the iPad was a novelty and I am fine with abandoning the apps there.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@dwenius @futzle Ugh, sorry to hear that - yeah, I'd be deleting too; that subscription bullshit can just eff all the way off.

For me this harkens back to years of using an outdated version of Freehand MX after it was bought by Adobe, which also ended when I finally had to do a clean reinstall of my main laptop & couldn't bring it over anymore...

I also still have a 120-updates-behind-but-working version of Sketch, which was my main tool before Affinity