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  • “This is not just a fictional fear. Donald Trump did this to Ukraine. He threatened to withhold, and did withhold, parts to the F-16 fighter jet radar and left the Ukrainian Air Force in a lurch,” he said.

    Yup.

    Trump is loosely adopting the subscription model. Agree to the new TOS or have services withheld. On top of F-35s being far too costly than the USAF had ever wanted, as a JSF it’s a confusing jack-of-all trades; master of none, and so there’s obviously much more sensible options elsewhere.

    When the end goal here is national defence, one needs to consider how it will be ultimately impacted by entering into a “deal” with the current USA. It’s entirely expected nations will browse on by and shop elsewhere








  • I know where you’re coming from. I started in Corel, then into Macromedia which would later be absorbed into Adobe.

    Modern day Illustrator still doesn’t follow the same governance of usability the rest did. Vectoring is just a standard tool in the belt. But the program it’s done in should expectedly have the same behaviours as the companioninh programs.

    For example, vectoring in all other modern Adobe software has different keybinds, methods and behaviours to Illustrator. Things as simple as pathing in PS, AE, and ID is fine differently to Illustrator. Same shit, but different menus, windows, even cursor behaviours.

    It’s like all the software that supports driving is left-hand drive. But the one that does it best is inexplicably left-hand drive and designed by a different manufacturer entirely.

    I’ve always understood it as changing its legacy would disrupt the Illustrator base so hard that they just keep it MS Wordy. An application that functions as a rogue. But also why Illustrator is slowly falling out as vector artistry continues to be more irrelevant. Kind of like Dreamweaver’s early end days, but it’s still got plenty of legs left for a while.


  • I’ve recently had to use Word heavily. After all these years, I still don’t understand it.

    It’s like Adobe Illustrator to the rest of the Adobe suite. It just does everything it’s own way with zero familiarity to Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere, AfterEffects, Lightroom, etc. All the way down to the interface and menus being it’s own thing.

    But say that to someone that knows Word (or Illustrator) well and they look at you like you’re an idiot.

    “Yeah, you have to sacrifice a goat and hit this exclusive key combo, obviously.”

    I swear I’m not an idiot. I just haven’t been in the abusive relationship long enough to try make it work.