Before monthly subscriptions there were yearly ones of several thousands of dollars, and before that it was a huge lump sum in the tens of thousands for most software with one off costs which in some cases included purchasing proprietary hardware to actually use the software. Subscriptions and start up entry costs have always been bad.

The legal way is to be affiliated with an educational institution as they take on those costs and you can use the software they purchase. Or in some cases you get access to educational licenses to learn a software that you can then credit to your portfolio and CV so you can be employable.

Though these days free open source and piracy are easier than ever, so it’s more about finding a workflow with a set of tools that you can do what you need to do, to create what only you can create which in the end is what will set you out from the rest.

It’s rare these days that someone is going to ask for files in a proprietary format, so it’s actually easier to produce a result that someone is able to consume, technically speaking.

• For print and digital images both bitmap and vector, https://www.photopea.com/
• For 3d/2d rendering, animation, compositing and video editing https://www.blender.org/
• For motion graphics, editing and compositing https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
• For audio https://www.audacityteam.org/
• For programmatic image editing and conversions https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO
• For programmatic video editing and conversions https://www.ffmpeg.org/

Mlem is awesome except I can’t make new posts as it freezes on me and can only comment… I think it’s the version of iOS I’m on.

Let’s be honest, this is only going to be used to search for one name is a bunch of recently released documents.

Food. At lunch having “exotic” food was weird and you got teased for not having a bland sandwich.

The AI snake is finally eating its tail.

Liking toys and buying them is fine. Obsessively collecting them and making them your identity or buying 300k worth of some dead guys lego is fucked.

Is there a better alternative app search platform that has curated reviews and is community driven, or have bots destroyed everything nice on the internet?

I wish I could packet sniff or monitor what apps are doing what on my phone. If I install a calculator, I only want it to math some numbers, not harvest data from me.

Apple is supposed to mention this in the App Store but even then it’s just a tag on an app and there’s no more details.

Holiday Mismatch came out on Hallmark last year and was pretty good for a Hallmark movie. Reuniting the actresses from Sabrina the Teenage witch was the main draw for me.

Not sure on everyone’s definition of big, but lesser known and not obviously Christmas themed would include:

• Mean Girls (the original obviously)
• Grumpy Old Men
• Trading Places

Financial milestones or conferences or industry markets are always putting deadlines on things. This just screams bad scheduling and punishing the workforce to make good on an impossible timeline.

So the steam machine won’t be launching then, got it.

You used to be able to tell an image was photoshopped because of the pixels. Now with code you can tell it was written with AI because of the comments.

Red Letter Media

Double waved rainbows is pretty cut and dry, you have been investigated by the stewards and found to be fabulous.

In the United States only.

Netflix is fine. So is Stranger Things. The article fails to mention the animated series that will be milked well beyond its welcome.

Hits the spot especially with fatty foods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayran

Make sense… first comes sports washing, then comes sports game washing to support it

Ooo this hurts deep. I was paying hosting and domain, but now just domain since the site needed a refresh and one day I will get around to it…

Stop paying for stupid shit in games or just stop playing these games. Donate to charity instead.