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mediaphage posted:yeah but let’s be honest that’s a different situation to what your earlier statement intimates well i used to use after effects and premiere too but that ended about a year ago and i haven't felt the need to play around with either one since then lol
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Achmed Jones posted:go on.... Switch the website country to Turkey and create a new account (it won't work on existing Adobe accounts because the billing country is fixed at registration time). Go through checkout as usual with the aid of Google translate My usual credit cards were declined (presumably due to country mismatch) but my multi currency debit card from Wise worked fine
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I got 3 years of Xbox game pass for $90 by changing the country to Pakistan, it’s a pretty sweet deal
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I know a bunch of people who have never paid for game pass either because they go nuts on the microsoft rewards poo poo or because they stacked up shitloads of xbox live gold time buying cards whenever they were on sale and converted it all to game pass time when that was a thing you could do
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May 13, 2023 00:20
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Adobe retention gave me a 1.30 dollar month for the 1 TB photography plan I think the person that did that was on their last day ok the job
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njsykora posted:I know a bunch of people who have never paid for game pass either because they go nuts on the microsoft rewards poo poo or because they stacked up shitloads of xbox live gold time buying cards whenever they were on sale and converted it all to game pass time when that was a thing you could do I do it with Bing points since google is equally at useless now so I may as well get rewarded for seeing paid ad and horrible SEO results
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Beeftweeter posted:$240/year still feels like too much for adobe stuff and i also use it professionally i remember when that was (roughly) the student pricing for the annual premium release, but those copies also worked after a year since i don't do freelance design work anymore, i've switched over to affinity and gladly upgraded to their 2 release because the license is for all devices, so no bargain hunting sales to get it on ios and windows
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Achmed Jones posted:i thought you canceled your sub when they rolled out that "we auto-opted-in everyone to have their stuff be in our ml training set"; am i misremembering? naw i cancelled, tried to use free copies, that failed, tried to use alternatives, that failed, they kicked me a discount rate to start it up again. There's no fighting the AI/ML stuff. i'm not going to spend my time and energy pretending that there is
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Apple’s soon-to-be-revealed mixed-reality device will likely cost $3,000, requires a separate battery pack and is still experimentalquote:Apple in the coming weeks is expected to unveil what is perhaps the most experimental, unconventional product in its history: a so-called mixed-reality headset that resembles a pair of ski goggles and comes with a battery pack, people familiar with the matter say. There's so much good stuff in here quote:The device is expected to come with a high price tag of around $3,000—triple Meta’s most expensive Quest Pro headset. Even at that level, it will mean slim hardware margins for Apple as the company builds up production, people familiar with the issue said.
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May 15, 2023 17:03
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if steve jobs weren't already dead that thing would kill him
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May 15, 2023 17:15
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at the same time i absolutely appreciate apple doing something a bit bonkers. my life drains away whenever this thread (basically) goes "market forces have dictated that this size undifferentiated black rectangle is correct" bring on the weird vanity projects
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can't wait for the demo where some trustfund baby uses ar to see the studs in wall to hang a picture and calling it a game changer for taskrabbits
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i think they should try weirder things too, but this ain't that. i really can't think of a reason for most people to buy this thing and it sounds like they can't either
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the only real use case is to replace my monitors and laptop but I don't think the display tech is there yet
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there is no really compelling use case for "general purpose face computer" unless optics and batteries both have massive, revolutionary changes in the next couple years
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on top of that there is no general use case for "general purpose vision and hearing replacement face computer", period, besides entertainment there may be a use case for "general purpose vision and hearing augmentation computer" if we do get the tech revolution then we also have to confront the social issues
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there's a lot of cool poo poo that augmented vision could provide but idk if/when we'll get there. i sure as gently caress am not strapping ski googles to my face to get it, even google glass had more sense than that
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its also $3,000 lmao
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May 15, 2023 18:07
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"hey, Siri. show me the good poo poo. "
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ultra trip report: i can leave bike workout on for 12 hours on regular low power mode and still have 60% after a shift instead of 18 with the s5. that alone is worth price of admission. it lasts two shifts if i top it off to 100 before shift 1 but generally it has made charging my watch not something i have to be on top of and its nice to have one less thing to baby when i turn into a bike hobo
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May 15, 2023 18:41
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preemptively lmao at all the nerds with Fanny-pack lookin batteries on their waists
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:preemptively lmao at all the nerds with Fanny-pack lookin batteries on their waists you'd have to be pretty pro tier at not making eye contact to notice the battery pack before the helmet covering half their face
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May 15, 2023 19:39
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but, hell , I’d drop a cool three grand if someone made a vr app where I could punch elon musk on the nose
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:you'd have to be pretty pro tier at not making eye contact to notice the battery pack before the helmet covering half their face my social anxiety is extremely powerful
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i’m obviously not going to buy it but i’m glad they’re doing something interesting. the iphone has been boring for a while plus this will get software developed for what might actually be a baller product in five or ten years or something: the ar glasses
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mediaphage posted:i’m obviously not going to buy it but i’m glad they’re doing something interesting. the iphone has been boring for a while
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i don't want anything 'exciting' that is technological and carried on my body. Maybe i'm just old. idk.
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Jonny 290 posted:i don't want anything 'exciting' that is technological and carried on my body. Maybe i'm just old. idk. You could be like that "sexy android" woman who wears led lights and poo poo.
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I support Naomi's efforts, but i am not the target market
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Beeftweeter posted:if steve jobs weren't already dead that thing would kill him but his yacht he was past caring
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May 15, 2023 20:22
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I think the funniest thing about late steve apple is the giant glass walls in the hq with strict warnings that nobody try to increase their visibility with frosted applique designs or anything so you have people constantly running full speed into them holding a laptop and a full coffee
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Jonny 290 posted:i don't want anything 'exciting' that is technological and carried on my body. Maybe i'm just old. idk. the apple watch is kind of exciting in the same way imo in terms of being a mildly future seeming device that wasn’t a new market but sort of perfected a pre-existing one, which is what apple does best, and you’re a fan of that as i recall it’s fine to want or not to want future tech nerd glasses
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qirex posted:I think the funniest thing about late steve apple is the giant glass walls in the hq with strict warnings that nobody try to increase their visibility with frosted applique designs or anything so you have people constantly running full speed into them holding a laptop and a full coffee I thought that was ive's fault
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Yeah, that's a fair cop. Here's my deal. I will pay $1,999 for a pair of transparent glasses (maybe more if i can get prescription lenses!) that allow me to overlay grayscale or even 1 bit schematics and PDFs and service manuals in my field of vision, in focus, with some sort of rudimentary voice controls to pan and zoom around in it. That's it. i don't want any half measures, i don't want to be a test mule for something i don't want on the promise that it will make the thing i do want available, and i don't need any wii online tier 3d world stapled/pushed to it.
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Jonny 290 posted:Here's my deal. I will pay $1,999 for a pair of transparent glasses (maybe more if i can get prescription lenses!) that allow me to overlay grayscale or even 1 bit schematics and PDFs and service manuals in my field of vision, in focus, with some sort of rudimentary voice controls to pan and zoom around in it. That's it. i don't want any half measures, i don't want to be a test mule for something i don't want on the promise that it will make the thing i do want available, and i don't need any wii online tier 3d world stapled/pushed to it. i dont think id pay that much, but in general, yeah that's what i want too. if im dreaming i also want something that'll keep track of what and how much i'm eating/exercising but that seems pretty impossible to improve with non-magic technology beyond what we already basically have on our phones (though voice interface instead of having to pull out my phone would be great. sometimes.)
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yeah i mean that’s what i want too and from the rumour mills (lol) it really seems like that’s their eventual goal will they get there? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but i think they want to have something that will be a known quantity in terms of experience and software and i assume that’s why they’re doing this thing first since the tech to do what we all actually want just doesn’t exist yet
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I don't see the point of investing in making software for an interface that has multiple existing physics problems [battery life, image area super restricted, almost impossible to both darken and lighten the scene] around working in a useful way
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its also three thousand american dollars, will be obsolete pretty quickly, has no compelling use case and no backwards compatibility with ios apps it's gonna be a huge uphill climb if it's not DOA (and i think it will be)
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also i have no idea what the final thing looks like but from the description it sounds like people are gonna look like dorks wearing it, which is decidedly not apple-like for most
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