I just love this guy when he’s riled up. Makes me feel all warm and cozy 🤣

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    Just cancelled my Adobe sub. Even if I was comfortable with how they use my data (and I am most assuredly fucking not) I’m also uncomfortable with them helping themselves to the NDA’d projects I do for clients. I trialed Affinity Photo and it meets 98% of my needs and is on sale 50% off right now. Bite my ass, Adobe.

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      And your clients are ok getting these files? Speaking for the studios I’ve worked out, our clients wouldn’t stick around if we didn’t give them industry standard files (psds, etc.).

      What upsets me the most is everyone let me build a monopoly that has been strangleholding the design industry for like 2 decades.

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        For the kind of work I have been doing I have not needed to hand over any psd files. Photoshop is(was) only a small step in my workflow and the main thing I get hired for is 3D modelling services. Regardless, I still work with NDA’d content and Adobe’s terms are invasive as hell.

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          Ya no argument there. Adobe is way out of bounds. We have largely moved to Figma but that was like pulling teeth as every was using Ps and Ai when I joined. Ai for wireframes had me tossing at night not gonna lie!

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            I remember when figma was about to be bought out by adobe, thankfully the deal got terminated for anti monopology reasons

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          The PSDs it spits out lose a lot of editing capabilities and have limited functionality. TIFF is destructive our clients would shit if we gave them tiffs.

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    This guy is a fucking hero for calling out these companies’ bullshit practices like that. I don’t really care if there’s some misstep about the open source thing. The content that I’ve seen from him is still good in my opinion.

    Fuck Adobe.

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    Started watching him repair boards back in the day, enjoyed him going after companies to start with, and it’s just become exhausting now

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      I get where you’re coming from, however I reckon he’s doing a huge public service in this regard, imagine someone just happens to click on one of his vids and learns how scummy corpos are. That’s why I believe he should continue with these callouts, but yeah I’d like to see more actual repair stuff in future.

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    Adobe responds

    Louis reacts

    I ignore his video and make a shitty joke about wishing he would use his right to repair to fix his channel.

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      He’s doing gods work. I love his wit and I can’t believe he’s single handedly fighting for right to repair.

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      No. They check validation constantly with their daemon and while you can technically loop it back using hacks, no studio is doing that.

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          They are considered malware at this point. The telemetry they collect the fact that your machine has to run a slew of daemons and that they are binding it all behind your mandatory Adobe account that has all your financial details, kinda shows how users rights are in the dark ages digitally speaking.

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      You don’t have to save your files to Adobe cloud, if that’s what you mean. It does check for a valid license occasionally, but I’ve used Photoshop when my internet was out without any problems in the past.

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    I fucking love Louis, knows his shit, isn’t afraid to call shitfuckery out for what it is.

    I genuinely can’t recall a video of his I’ve watched that hasn’t been informative, entertaining or both.

    My opinion if him continues to climb, however, as instructed, if he ever uses adobe premiere for a video and I find out about it, it’s an unsub from me.

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    He looks like a raccoon and should get some sleep :p

    Makes me feel all warm and cozy

    It makes me think why haven’t these companies got suied out of existence 😮‍💨🙄

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      I don’t say I trust him, don’t even know him. Having said that, his videos are mostly well evidenced, and it is still super fun to see him blasting these companies.

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        He also repeats himself a lot. A lot. Keeps repeating himself which is why his videos are 2h. Because he just keeps repeating himself. A lot.

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      Can you elaborate on that? I don’t really follow him that closely. I thought he was the guy that fights for right to repair.

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      Yeah he got so much publicity with his little NY shop hating on Apple. Which is amusing because those people Apple turned away were what made him. Not citing with Apple but I’ve never trusted this dude. Most of his “pioneering” in freedoms and rights all serve his own interests and he’s always grandstanding to bolster his popularity.