Bugs bunny in suit I wish adobe a very pleasant downfall. The stock drops.

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[–] 40 points 9 months ago (16 children)

A few years ago, I subscribed to Adobe for about 2 weeks. But my conscience wouldn't let me, I had to cancel the sub and get a refund.

Deep down, it's like I knew something was wrong. And that was before I got introduced to Adobe memes.

Turns out Inkscape/GIMP/Shotcut are good enough for my needs. The Affinity suite is pretty good too though. I hope it gets supported on Linux eventually.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago* (15 children)
    • Krita for painting
    • Davinci Resolve for editing. You can also buy the suite for a one time payment.
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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    Yeah, I know. I've never used Krita, but I do have the paid version of Davinci Resolve. But it can be tricky to make it work on Linux, I only use it when I need complex editing. Shotcut is simpler to use and more straight forward.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    I use Krita!

    I'm an open-source artist. All the tools and software I have ever used to make my art are FLOSS. It's my deeply held personal belief that the ability to create art should be as free as pencil and paper, and I want my work to be living proof of that ideal.

    I've used Krita, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, and other tools exclusively for over a decade. I never could afford Adobe's shit, and I realized pretty quickly that nearly anything Photoshop can do, a bit of savvy and some extra time in Gimp and Krita can do equally well. My only complaint is that they can't support Photoshop's brush file formats. Which is absolutely a dealbreaker for most committed artists I know, because your brushes make or break your workflow and even your entire art style. So switching isn't for everyone, and that's fine.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    I've never heard of shotcut, that looks interesting.

    https://www.shotcut.org/

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Huh, a couple of days ago I was googling all over the place for something like this and it didn't come up. I didn't think my google-fu was that weak. Definitely going to try this out now.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Same, I looked high and low for an alternative. The blender editing program is still a bit clunky.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I just gave it a spin and it was everything I was looking for, this is fantastic. Funny how these things can slip through searches and then just pop out of nowhere from an unexpected discussion thread like this.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Shotcut

    Huh... I recently needed to do a super short edit of a clip and people were recommending Kdenlive. Have you used it? To me it felt super complicated (I literally needed something like ClipChamp from Windows), but now I'm wondering if Shortcut might be the better choice.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I tried Kdenlive, but was overwhelmed the moment I opened it. So I went back to Shotcut. Here's what I do:

    • Simple basic editing = Shotcut
    • More complex editing = Davinci Resolve
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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Look into davincibox! It’s a script (?) that uses distrobox to install davinci seamlessly. It’s great and worked perfectly for me even with an amd gpu

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'd need to try it. I recently tried the "Universal Davinci Resolve Installer" script and it didn't work. I'm currently using Maple Linux which is debian based.

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  • [+] 36 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 101 points 9 months ago (16 children)

    Wow. Thor really is an asshole.

    This message brought to you by an open-source animator. Krita, Blender, and OpenToonz for all.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    What is the context? (Im out of the loop)

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    PirateSoftware is an extreme narcissist who was previously cancelled for having too huge an ego. He's a real asshole.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Phew, okay, I'll watch that a bit later.

    And what does he have to do with Adobe stock falling?

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  • [+] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Is he not implying that Adobe are shooting themselves in the foot (dropping their share price) by stopping development of an animation tool that lots of people use?

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/adobe-reverses-decision-to-discontinue-animate-after-a-lot-of-confusion-and-angst/

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    As a someone who been using either GIMP or pirated CS6 since 2012, havent been keeping hand on an Adobe pulse. What did they do this time? I know about subscription over the one time purchase thing. But what happened recently?

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    They're calling it quits on their animation software, and a lot of people who used it in their workflow are very upset.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I see. Just checked a vid of some YouTube animation artist. They just gave Adobe animate 1 month before removing it from suite. Woah... Even Flash had few years to live after a discontinuation announcement.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Sometimes I look at the Unity Game Engine's stock history after that one "destroy all indie gaming" plan, and I remember companies are volatile organizations at the consumers' mercy.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Early 2010s I asked the company I worked for to approve some free game engines to be installed. The legal department returned a big no with pages of why Unity should not be allowed in the premises. We proceeded with Unreal, Blender and eventually Godot as tools any employee could install.

    Unity was bad back them, it is just that people did not read the agreements and tech sheet. Their new leadership just made that more apparent.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    This is so nice. What happened that made it fall?

    Edit: looked for the stock prices, and the chart at a monthly scale and up doesn't look exciting at all

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe because they announced they were killing the Adobe Animate? That's the only thing ive heard but I'm not in-the-know.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Looks like they tried to sunset "Animate"

    Animate debuted in 1996 as FutureWave Software’s FutureSplash Animator. After a 1997 acquisition by Macromedia, FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and renamed Macromedia Flash to Adobe Flash Professional. In 2015, the software became Adobe Animate CC. In its nearly 30 years of use, Animate has been used in numerous popular animated films and shows, including Star Trek: Lower Decks. Still, Adobe said on Monday that “new platforms and paradigms have emerged that better serve the needs of the user.”

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Abode: "We should charge money to rotate a PDF. No not the image itself, just rotate view. Gotta make that a paid feature."

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago

    Proton and Pirate Software gloating over the "downfall" of another...misery loves company I guess.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    One of the perks I had when I worked at a print shop was that they gave you a CS6 license, if you asked for it.

    I don’t even mess with Adobe anymore. PhotoPea covers my needs almost completely. But then again, I don’t really do much in PhotoPea but mess around, making silly things.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I believe hbomberguy's next video is all about Adobe.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Stallman was right.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Please and thank you!

    I have to use Adobe Cloud at my current job and I hate it with a passion beyond words. It hangs constantly for a minute or more, Adobe have "lost" my credentials a few times making a majority of my job impossible to do for days while they fix it, it constantly nags me to use its AI, Adobe Links thinks it is the mid 90's since uploading anything takes forever, and the web interface makes me contemplate murder.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (25 children)

    Adobe, Proton and Pirate Software - could we have one account that's not completely terrible?

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    The CEO made “questionable” comments regarding the Trump administration. IMHO, the comments on it are way overblown, and are half way reasonable considering he’s a CEO whose only job is to make the company money.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (19 children)

    CEO is maga who made statements on protons official accounts lobbying against Democrats because their corporate interests are bad for big tech and they (corporate Democrats ) all need to be thrown out, so MAGA is their stance.

    They backpedaled hard and pretended it was a mistake. Their reasoning that Democrats are bad for big tech is because none of them showed up to their lobbying event for "anti-trust" laws, but JD Vance did.

    Edit: to all the maga bots: Google is free. Fuck off with your "gotcha" bullshit. https://archive.ph/2025.01.15-162500/https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7a91fs/

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    He made a statement praising trump for his security pick. To me he was just pandering to trump so they aren't on trumps radar about encrypted software.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    They couldn't give less of a shit about Trump or his radar - they're based in Switzerland.

    He literally only said that someone who is famous for being anti big-tech, and pro consumer is a good pick, because Proton are anti big-tech, and pro consumer.

    How this grew to all this nonsense people write these days is a fucking mystery to me...

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Even if his cabinet pick is anti big-tech and pro consumer, the administration couldn't be further from that (super buds with Palantir and their fix for health care is... A trump website)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    The comment was made in a year before Trump 2.0, at which point they weren't best buds with big tech, quite the opposite, because Trump was at the tail end of throwing a hissy fit against big tech.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh I do recall him mucking about with Google and Apple and Meta, but with how fickle that man is, that's hardly a point for anti big-tech

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    How do you mean? How is starting a bunch of anti-trust and pro-consumer "hardly a point for anti big-tech"?

    The facts are these: Republicans, under Trump, started these processes. Democrats mostly opposed them, because they were defaulting to "Trump = bad".

    The apolitical stance of Proton means that they don't do that defaulting. If Republicans do something good for privacy, anonymity (lol), or consumers, Proton will approve. If Dems do the same - proton will approve. If Greens (or whatever the pseudo "third party" calls itself) does it - Proton will approve.

    That's all there is to it.

    But we now live in times where people assume approving of "something XYZ did", automatically means "approving of XYZ", which is stupid, reductive, and destructive.

    For example, it leads otherwise sensible people to boycott an excellent product, just because its CEO said "the appointment of someone famously anti big-tech to a high anti-trust position in the DOJ is a good thing".

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If they want to business in the USA hey have to pander to the panzshitter

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    First of all, that doesn't matter to us, from the EU.

    Secondly, read this.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Read it before, seem normal. It mentions info about who contacts the user, and elsewhere something about IP and logs. But if there business operating model is true they have no keys they can decrypt with. If they do them proton is no different tjam google

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    CEO is maga

    Oh, JFC, can we stop with this bullshit already?

    "CEO is maga" is the equivalent of going: "Lulzagna wants to force everybody on the planet to only eat lasagna and nothing else, because he tweeted 'I like lasagna' once".

    Context:

    Trump was still in his "I hate social media because social media won't force users to praise me" phase. He appointed a person known to be very pro-consumer and very anti big-tech to an important job at the DOJ. Democrat accounts defaulted to "whatever Trump does is bad" and started shitting on the pick. Proton CEO wrote:

    Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

    Which is all literally just stating facts. The only opinion here is that the pick is good - which, from the standpoint of a company that supports privacy and consumers - makes sense.

    Here's a deeper analysis, including a dive into those antitrust actions started by Trump 1.0, and projects that Proton helps financially.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    That's not what I'm referring to. You seen ignorant to their other comments.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, please, don't let me stop you from elaborating!

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Then please provide details or links or something, because as someone who's trying to figure out what's going on here, you're doing more arguing than explaining.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    It's a bit shit of you to call me a maga bot just because I didn't know something.
    I don't go on reddit any more anyway.
    Thanks for the link, though, I'll have a look now.

    Edit: Wow, that's a bunch of crap from proton. I was thinking of switching to them. Crap.
    I agree that corporate capture of dems is real, but to paint the magats as being for the little guy is insane!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I agree that corporate capture of dems is real, but to paint the magats as being for the little guy is insane!

    You have to take the timeline into consideration.

    It was all written before Trump 2.0. At that time, and specifically regarding tech, Republicans had much more to offer the "little guy" than Democrats.

    Was it completely accidental, just because Trump was throwing a hissy fit? Yes. Did it end as soon as the big tech people started throwing money and praise at him? Also yes. But both of those things happened after the tweets and the comments were posted.

    Just read this. It's a full analysis of not only the CEO's comments, but also of what Proton does in general. They do not support Republicans.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    it's a honeypot that is just going to hand your emails over to whoever asks, there is no secure 3rd party email service. you want secure emails you have to self-host and encrypt

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    The official proton vpn account posts memes?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (8 children)

    Probably trying to steal back Karma from years of bad press.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)

    The bad press being: "dude stated a fact, people didn't read properly and started shitting on Proton".

    Source

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    ing: “dude stated a fact, people didn’t read properly and s

    oh hell no. get that opinion piece out of here.

    He licked Trumps balls on x, got completely ignored then their PR service went into damage control and got a bunch of crap written like you just posted that 'journalist' has 12 followers.

    https://archive.ph/tr5Lj

    Then the doubled down on it here with more outright bullshit.

    https://archive.is/iKaz3

    There's no misunderstood fact here, we're shitting on Yen for being a shitty person. The bad press is he has markedly awful decision making capabilities and the inability to keep his mouth shut to save the reputation of his company, followed up by the audacity to double down on his rhetoric.

    Then they deleted their comments so people like you can say it never happened. But there are always archives.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Archive.ph doesn't load for me. Got any alternative links?

    EDIT - actually, neither does archive.is... :o

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I find that VERY interesting.

    you having a little trouble with the captcha there or is your government blocking archive sites?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    you having a little trouble with the captcha there or is your government blocking archive sites?

    No captcha, just getting a "this website cannot be reached". Might be because I'm on a VPN, maybe?

    As to the contents - I don't get what's controversial about any of this.

    Other than the obvious tribalism of "he said a good thing about X therefore he is against Y"? He literally stated why he considered Democrats to be anti-consumer (and... well, he's right, the corporate takeover is a fact), and why he considers Republicans (at the time) to be more pro-consumer (which, again, was a statement of fact, Trump 1.0, due to his hissy fit against social media and big tech started quite a lot of anti-trust cases against them. The entire "block TikTok in the US" thing came from him).

    So... Where's the controversy? What in these posts suggests that he's MAGA?

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