I’ll gladly pay a premium for something that will be “buy it for life” or at least last decades. Phones and computers have inherent obsolescence, but most tools don’t. I don’t buy chinesium tools, I buy reputed European, American, or Japanese tools, the lifetime stuff.

Don’t get me started on OneDrive

It’s no just Wuropeans, but the majority of the world

Me neither. I have the combination of Firefox+uBlock origin+privacy Badger and I’m a pretty happy camper.

When I query an AI I always end with “provide sources and bibliography for your reply”. That seems to get better replies.

Also, I seem to remeber that the Affinity CEO made those statements, but Canva are calling the shots now, so…

I don’t think so. Unless I’m mistaken, your lifetime license is for major versions, so when 3.0 comes around, you will still be able to use 2.x.x, but not upgrade for free. They have been offering pretty good upgrade prices, though. We’ll see what happens.

Yes. They’ve made positivw noises about pricing, etc, but pretty much everybody in the community fears changes for the worse

Yes, This. An unmarked huge truck with a massive ladder a big control panel full of dials and stuff, and big-ass hoses everywhere, driven or surrounded by big dudes in red or yellow fireproof jackets, with those cool helmets with the visor backwards, could be confused with a UPS van.

I’m fine with (reasonably priced) paid software, that’s why I use Affinity; it pretty much hits the sweet spot between affordability and capability. If there is a free software program that does what I need, I’ll gladly use it, but I don’t demand it, plus you really can’t make FOSS developers develop what you need or want, while with paid software you have some leverage.

I believe at some point they said the may explore additional models, like offering both pay once and subscription at the same time. We can hope

Not was. Is.

What scares me shitless is that this could happen to the Affinity suite, which they bought recently. Affinity is the main pro level alternative to some Adobe products, and is very affordable in a pay once model instead of subscription.

If this is OK, downloading a movie to watch it, not to make any profit, is OK, right? If it isn’t, will they get fined proportionally to the people who get fined for downloading a movie?

I was a redditor pre Eternal September. That was the beginning of the end for old reddit.

Birds are dinosaurs. Humans are not mammoths

If I remember correctly, Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one, if not the main cause of their extintion.

Also constructions like Gobekli tepe, with it’s carvings and decorations, predate the extintion of Mammoths by something like 6000 years.

Thats the sad part. The guy essentially kickstarted the mass adoption of EVs, and the affordable space launch market, both of which I’m totally on board with.

If he was 40% less psychotic, megalomaniac, and Nazi, things would be OK.

In my country any modification of any importance is required to be signed off by a mechanical engineer. If I were that engineer, I would never sign any of these conversions. Too much liability, especially with old cars of unknown integrity.

I don’t give a mousefuck about the rendering engine. I want extensions