thesmokingman

You haven’t linked actual jobs and programs. Your snide Google search was a GitHub repo, not school programs or job postings that show your anecdotal dream is a reality. Your foundational assumption is that everyone wants to grow exactly like you did (ie not the easy path) which is completely wrong.

You do not appear to actually understand the audience you’re holier than. This the same conversation that’s been happening in the Linux world for more than two decades. Good luck changing the world.

How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products? Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market? Where the easy path that most will take?

I’m somewhat flabbergasted. How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products? Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market? Where the easy path that most will take (do you know how many active users Facebook, Reddit, and X the Everything App still have?)?

I agree with everything you’ve said. What I think you’re missing is that some people don’t want to be the best in class. Some people don’t take their work home with them and because employers are not required to give time to grow skills some people will just work the line. If your assumption about labor requires labor to spend their whole life working to be better at getting exploited, you have a lot to learn about the majority of labor.

This doesn’t answer the question at all. Don’t get me wrong; I have zero interest in supporting Adobe and I tell anyone they’re toxic. What I’m frustrated with is blaming users of their software. To use your real world examples, that’s like blaming millennials for the myth of plastic recycling. You can attack them writ large for something they have no control over or you can go for the source.

A very similar argument can be made about cloud software. The cloud engineering pipeline is geared toward forcing you into Azure, GCP, or AWS. Attacking the DevOps engineer just trying to make a living for the AI abuse supported by Azure is the wrong idea.

Your response is a much better way to change the picture. Education and connection, not blame.

1. Why?
2. Are employers legally required to give employees time to grow their skills?
3. If there is no regulated time for employees to grow their skills, should employees spend their free time growing their work skills?

You’re using lemmy.world. How much time did you spend deciding that was the place to be? Why did you pick Lemmy over the *bins? How much time have you put into your posting and commenting workflow? How much do you actually know about how ActivityPub works? What tools have you written?

I really hate it when people blame consumers for problems instead of producers. Let’s go ahead and examine your hypothesis.

• someone wants to learn how to be a designer
• they spend time and money being taught Adobe products in a bootcamp or school
• since they aren’t defined by their job, they do literally anything else in their free time rather than bringing school home with them
• occasionally they see other stuff like Affinity or GIMP but the interface is radically different from what they’re learning or an important feature requires more time to figure out than they can budget
• they get a job that requires Adobe
• years later, when they have purchasing authority, they’re told they need to cut costs and decide maybe researching is a good idea
• the first results for Adobe alternatives are just a bunch of Lemmy threads calling them lazy

Can you point out where in this process our hypothetical user should have done something different? And more importantly why it’s this person’s fault they’ve been vendor-locked their whole career? Note that a critical assumption I’m making here is that not everyone is a power user because, unsurprisingly, not everyone is a power user.

AFAIK you are correct, which is why I called out wonky timestamps. This blogpost goes into some interesting ways to mess with timestamps. I think it’s probably more effort than it’s worth unless we get more context on why timestamps are important.

Fair point.

I think everyone focused on birth tourism is missing the fucking point. If being born in the US is no longer a necessary and sufficient qualification for citizenship, how does the child of two lawful citizens born on US soil become a citizen? Before you come at me with “it’s obvious” ask yourself which children the Trump admin or future GOP leaders would come after next and ask yourself, really fucking ask yourself, if it’s still obvious.

Strange; the page is shilling for a product that doesn’t use raw HTML for its site.

You most likely aren’t going to be able to retain timestamps unless you permanently keep a Windows partition. Linux uses a different drive format and permission scheme. Structure, absolutely; timestamp and owners and other little Windows things, not realistic.

Also unless you back stuff up you run a risk of losing it. No way around that period.

The gist of what you’ll do is resize your Windows partition, create a new partition for a Linux install, and mount your Windows partition in Linux until you’re able to move data over. You probably want to dual boot at least until you’re sure Linux can properly access the data you need.

Useful links

• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/312424/how-to-install-without-loosing-any-data-in-my-hdd
• https://superuser.com/questions/821131/is-it-safe-to-resize-windows-partition-with-gparted
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_boot_with_Windows