elucubra

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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm genuinely curious. I've learnt to never trust Microsoft when they do something "nice". In my experience they work the long con. I have learnt to never trust them initially. Free windows licenses?, fairly decent Windows 10 initially? This is the last windows 10 version, we'll keep improving? History can be a bitch.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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