This popped up on my work laptop yesterday. Very annoying.
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Adobe is a cancer the second it is installed. Avoid this shitty company if possible, there’s loads of fantastic and better alternatives to their products these days.
It’s a work laptop. My personal stuff is running FOSS.
Is there an actual decent alternative that does digital signatures with CACs that doesn’t also require a costly subscription?
https://kbpdfstudio.qoppa.com/signing-pdfs-with-cac-under-linux/
Does any of that work?
Have a recommendation for replacing Lightroom? Having a hard time finding an good alternative photo catalog mgmt solution.
Replying in the hope you get a solid answer to this. I need a good photo workflow tool and would like it to be FOSS.
Darktable!
Thank you! I’ll check it out.
Not really my kind of thing, so I don’t. While adobe is a pile of shit, they do admittedly have some good software under all the extra shit piled on top and their suite is a lot larger than I remember these days!
Darktable (or the fork Ansel) or Rawtherapee and Digikam should get you where you need to be.
But also, we need an illegalist project to steal adobe’ssource code and release it to the world for free.
Fuck remote hackers, we need infiltrators.
I want someone to release the source code to ChatGPT, Sora, and everything else.
Know anybody with a good tech résumé and better politics?
Don’t, um, tell me. But that’s the starting point. I’d say that or forgery, but those are most of the same skills you’d use to actually get the thing, so…
Thing is with those models, it’s not just the source code you’d need to do what they do. You’d also either need the model weights or to train them on a massive amount of data.
Oh, I forgot! RELEASE THE DATASETS!!!
I have to have adobe installed on my work computer and fuck it’s intrusive everythingness. Fuck em.
Nobody needs Adobe’s PDF Reader or Creative Tools anymore.
There are alternatives all over the web.
Update: I meant for personal use. I know that workplaces force us to use the same tools (and same versions of said tools) that they use.
… Unless mandated by IT.
Right, or unless you work in an industry where photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premiere, or after effects are the standard. There’s plenty of great software out there, but good luck opening a complex photoshop document in anything but photoshop, or a complex premiere pro project in anything but premiere. It sucks to be chained to their products, but it’s naive to say “nobody needs them, just switch”
There’s also a compatibility issue between different people. If you don’t use Premiere, but everyone else does, sharing work is going to be a problem.
Sure, I don’t use it on my personal devices but I can’t install the better tools on my work computer.
PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can
eatread a dick.Firefox can open/edit PDFs too.
Damn, didin’t know about that! 😁👍
How do you edit a locked PDF? What is the alternative?
Time to take away the notification permission of reader.
Or take away Adobe and use an alternative.
Or put away Windows use an alternative.
Not everyone has that option. I can only used approved software. Took 3 months to get WSL and Hyper-V approved for my desktop
You got Hyper-V approved on a work desktop? Man I wish I had that much luck.
Not an issue when you don’t use Adobe.
Also not an issue when you disable this in windows.
Also not an issue when you disable this in windows.
How do you like having to opt out of everything, repeatedly?
I wouldn’t know how that feels. Did it once and haven’t had an issue since.
I think some people here like to shit on windows just to shit on windows and haven’t actually used win11
I fucking love windows 11. Especially compared to 10
I fucking do not love windows 10.
Maybe I’ll get a better response to my question here, since you seem to view windows 11 positively and have a positive vote score, so others who are seeing these comments might feel the same.
Are there any reasons other than the sunsetting of win 10 or the relative newness of 11 to want to use Windows 11?
The only thing that stood out in the other thread where I asked this was support for multiple virtual desktops.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a good answer for you.
I built a new Pc last year and decided to put win11 on it to judge the OS for myself. In all reality, it doesn’t feel much different than win10. Boot up is fast, startup is fast, everything just works.
Sorry I can’t provide more info.
I mean might as well use the latest version. HDR improvements and the nicer UI are things I like about 11 over 10.
I’ve used Windows 11 a lot
I’ve made all the changes
Ultimately, switching to Linux is what it took to get rid of the garbage, and didn’t have to disable anything on the new system.
Can we not defend this bullshit, please? Or dismiss it as not that bad? It’s bad. Really bad. Stop pretending it’s okay because you can go through a dozen settings, half a dozen registry hacks, and a handful of third party programs to make the system work almost as well as it did a decade ago.
I wouldn’t know how that feels. Did it once and haven’t had an issue since.
I’m curious about what you think about what @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world has said about that.
PEBKAC
PEBKAC
Sticking your head in that sand, I’m sure it’ll work out for you, eventually.
Not sure what point you are trying to make here.
I’m not having any computer problems.
If there is an option to turn it off, I haven’t found it. It certainly isn’t obvious.
Apparently that makes me a complete idiot according to the person you’re talking to.
I apologize for being too stupid to know every way to configure Windows 10, an OS I rarely use.
As far as I know, it doesn’t exist. But I’m more than willing to be proven wrong and have someone tell us exactly how it’s done.
Took 2 seconds to Google this. Don’t quite remember if this is the setting I flipped ages ago to disable it on both my home and work PCs but I don’t get this spam and did something that was essentially this simple to do to get it that way.
Not an issue if you use an OS that values your freedom of choice
edit: typo
Not an issue if you use IS that values your freedom of choice
Did you mean “use an OS”?
If not, what does IS stand for?
yeah, typo ):
Happens to us all.
There’s a reason I have my windows configured for do not disturb/focus mode, I can’t say I’ve seen a notification come through that was actually relevant for me. The vast majority of what I’ve seen come through notifications are app spam, and I ain’t got time for that
Agreed. Seems the notification tray in Windows is just a catch-all for spam (mostly from MS themselves)
Nah, browsers are so much worse, but that’s because most users blindly accept notifications from any sketch website then call and cry to IT because they “got a virus”.
I don’t miss my days supporting end users…
We configured an allowlist of domains allowed to send notifications through our GPOs, everything else is blocked to the end-users. It reduced the amount of calls related to “virus alert” for sure.
First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions
I absolutely hate when Windows will give you a different notification for each email that comes in, then an additional one to tell you “mail has new messages.” Get out of my fucking way!
As far as I can tell outlook will call out the title of the first 3 emails in a minute, then if further emails arrive you get the general message.
Its really just a ‘we are rate limiting our notifications, check your inbox’ message.
The pop-ups on my desktop are the driving force behind me finally looking into Linux.
Between that, the installation of programs like HP smart, copilot, and Dev Home without my consent. OneDrive being trash. Start menu being slow ever since they deployed copilot even with it shut off. All the tricks to get you to run Edge. The list just keeps growing.
The notifications to get you to change notification settings on a program like Microsoft to-do not being run in a while just take the cake. I’ll run my apps if and when I want to. STFU M$. I pay you for an operating system to run my computer. Not to fight with it constantly.
