Glad you made this video, I feel exactly the same way, I was in the graphic design and photo world for 20 plus years After a long break just did some design work on a book Everything about adobe these days leaves a bad taste in my mouth for some reason I couldn't figure it out until you broke it down in this video....👏👏👏👏👏
I know friends who are still using old licenses of Adobe because the work that they do doesn't really require all the new bells and whistles with each update. I think that is especially true when you take a long break and then come back to something. You want your return to feel familiar and comforting where you know the product works with your skills, hardware, and expectations. I would find it soooo annoying if I took a break and the software felt foreign because of all the UI changes, sluggishness from new features, new hardware specs and so on...
Thank you for the recommendations. I am also irritated with adobe. I ended up purchasing an iMac and using the free iMovie because adobe became a subscription service. Thank you.
No problemo, if you end up trying Davinci Resolve for video editing then lemme know how it went. It has a free version that is IMO everything one would need as a video editor!
Congrats! Me too! And ever since I got rid of it, I realised what a heavy clunky system it was, slowing down even the best (and expensive) computers I had it installed on.
Grats to you too! Looking back, it's really that sunk cost fallacy that kept me on the hook for so long. I committed so much time to learn and get proficient with an ecosystem that I would look the other way when the system gets clunky, slow, pricy, and just overall bleeeh. However that eventually hit its critical mass of annoyances (which then led me to say bye bye!)
Wow so doing the math you're probably a couple years younger than me, but you seem so much younger! Yeah the whole SaaS situation has made a lot of software terrible. A subscription model is necessary to make it sustainable, but milking people to death is not the way. Open source is a great alternative, but it requires you to have technical skills. With Adobe, Figma, and such you are limited to what the developers implement. That is not the case with open source. Have a good idea? Do a pull request to the repo and have an active role in the software! Disadvantages: definitely do not have the great powers and resources the big companies have. I feel like Linux, to some degree, is a successful implementation of open source as you can download Ubuntu on any old device and it will probably work. Not so with Windows! Windows and Mac make their money due to planned obsolescence. Eventually your chipset will not be compatible with the new release... soon enough any Mac with Intel with be unsupported by Apple! I do a ton of things. Being an educator I see educational content following a similar pattern. Books get sorely overpriced and content, once shipped as CDs with books, are now gone and are sold as subscription services! Video games now don't sell you the entire game, but sell it piecewise as DLC. Or worse if you're an engineer... many of the tools have not changed. I downloaded a two decade old version of MultiSim and it feels like the same thing... I am sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles (probably can't design a good PCB with it), but it gets the job done when I just want to simulate things. What to do? What to do???
Totally agree with all your points! A subscription model and finding ways to create closed environments is an inevitable part of becoming a behemoth company that is beholden to shareholders. The only thing I can think of to prevent this is to stop big monopolies. If they are able to charge that exorbitant price for their product and people are willing to pay, there is an incentive for people to create similar products at the fraction of the price. Now with that said, the goal of these agile and innovative companies that try to compete are often to get bought up by the big fish soooo, we are back at monopolies lol. Also thanksss, I am 34 right now and the youthfulness is IMO a combination of the Asian genes + just being a stoic, happy and relaxed person :P
@@MasterEverydayLiving Ooo we are the same age! So you say you are a stoic? Have you read Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius? I like Epictetus' Enchiridion, though of course I do also agree somewhat with Nietzsche that stoicism is self-imposed slavery. The problem you pose regarding monopolies is a hard one. The industrial revolution stimulated creativity, but at the price of unbounded greed. Did you know that the theory of natural selection was based on economic competition? Darwin was very influenced by Malthus, and so it comes as no surprise that industry and the desire for survival are at the forefront. I am somewhat jealous of you creative types as my brain doesn't work that way. I've thought to create content for a long time, but the thought of managing the aesthetics is immensely intimidating to me lol. If you ever have videos with philosophical perspectives, I'll be sure to leave a comment!
@@ladyoftheflowers9781 I haven't read the texts but whenever something summarizes it or is a summary of their values, I always nod and think "yup, that's me and how I approach life". Might have to do a deep dive on that to really iron out my values down the road :P I didn't know that but I think that just reading what you wrote, survival is one thing but gluttony and the iron grip of crushing anything that might pose a threat is where I see it currently at. If only there could be a point where a company thinks to themselves "yea, that's enough. If I just maintain this then I am happy". You should totally take a dive into creating content, just talking to ya gives the impression that you have something positive to share with the world. I think that "creativity" is overrated. If you have something that you found valuable and want to share, then there are other people out there that might be looking for the same answers too. I wouldn't call my videos creative, instead it's more a form of expression, trying to explain what I am thinking about or doing and why I think it is important. As for aesthetics and other hurdles like that, just plop yourself infront of the camera and talk. Aesthetics is imo a hurdle that you need to ignore. The more you try to reign it in and control every aspect of how the viewer perceives you, the less you will enjoy the journey of creating. I will be creating more videos similar to this one where I just talk about things that are on my mind that I think people will enjoy. Some of those will ofcourse be philosophical so I'll see ya there :P
@@MasterEverydayLivingShould definitely give it a try! You seem like someone who would enjoy reading those philosophical texts! Darwin once described a species of slave-making ants, Formica Sanguinea, which would kill their adversaries and claim their pupae. They would then raise the pupae to become slaves, which created a new instinct for the unfortunate victims. So, it seems that survival must imply optimality. This is a theme of an old book on the history of biology called the Dialectical Biologist. What is most fascinating is that the wealthy assume that people adopt a stoic mentality so that they can squeeze them for more. It's absurd, really. I'm the kind of guy who values Plato's "let me only possess as much gold as I can carry". I pursue knowledge and helping people rather than wealth. But I suppose I am also a bit like Dionysus when people mess with me too :p You are clearly a sensitive. There is a poem I use as a litmus test. That sensitivity probably makes it tough to connect with most people. When your feelings are so much more profound, it is hard to appreciate the worldly perspectives of the modern world.
@@ladyoftheflowers9781 Appreciate the words of wisdom that make me think a bit deeper about the path that I am on. I often times try to carve my own path and this conversation has made me think that I might want to add some side-quests and learn from the people of the past and really solidify my own values. Connecting with people is pretty tough for me but the people I do engage and vibe with often lead to conversations that can go on for hours in any directions.
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Glad you made this video, I feel exactly the same way, I was in the graphic design and photo world for 20 plus years After a long break just did some design work on a book Everything about adobe these days leaves a bad taste in my mouth for some reason I couldn't figure it out until you broke it down in this video....👏👏👏👏👏
I know friends who are still using old licenses of Adobe because the work that they do doesn't really require all the new bells and whistles with each update. I think that is especially true when you take a long break and then come back to something. You want your return to feel familiar and comforting where you know the product works with your skills, hardware, and expectations. I would find it soooo annoying if I took a break and the software felt foreign because of all the UI changes, sluggishness from new features, new hardware specs and so on...
Thank you for your Da Vinci recommendation!! ❤
No problemoo, hopefully it is treating you properly!
Thank you for the recommendations. I am also irritated with adobe. I ended up purchasing an iMac and using the free iMovie because adobe became a subscription service. Thank you.
No problemo, if you end up trying Davinci Resolve for video editing then lemme know how it went. It has a free version that is IMO everything one would need as a video editor!
Congrats! Me too! And ever since I got rid of it, I realised what a heavy clunky system it was, slowing down even the best (and expensive) computers I had it installed on.
Grats to you too! Looking back, it's really that sunk cost fallacy that kept me on the hook for so long. I committed so much time to learn and get proficient with an ecosystem that I would look the other way when the system gets clunky, slow, pricy, and just overall bleeeh. However that eventually hit its critical mass of annoyances (which then led me to say bye bye!)
Wow so doing the math you're probably a couple years younger than me, but you seem so much younger!
Yeah the whole SaaS situation has made a lot of software terrible. A subscription model is necessary to make it sustainable, but milking people to death is not the way.
Open source is a great alternative, but it requires you to have technical skills. With Adobe, Figma, and such you are limited to what the developers implement. That is not the case with open source. Have a good idea? Do a pull request to the repo and have an active role in the software! Disadvantages: definitely do not have the great powers and resources the big companies have.
I feel like Linux, to some degree, is a successful implementation of open source as you can download Ubuntu on any old device and it will probably work. Not so with Windows! Windows and Mac make their money due to planned obsolescence. Eventually your chipset will not be compatible with the new release... soon enough any Mac with Intel with be unsupported by Apple!
I do a ton of things. Being an educator I see educational content following a similar pattern. Books get sorely overpriced and content, once shipped as CDs with books, are now gone and are sold as subscription services! Video games now don't sell you the entire game, but sell it piecewise as DLC.
Or worse if you're an engineer... many of the tools have not changed. I downloaded a two decade old version of MultiSim and it feels like the same thing... I am sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles (probably can't design a good PCB with it), but it gets the job done when I just want to simulate things.
What to do? What to do???
Totally agree with all your points! A subscription model and finding ways to create closed environments is an inevitable part of becoming a behemoth company that is beholden to shareholders.
The only thing I can think of to prevent this is to stop big monopolies. If they are able to charge that exorbitant price for their product and people are willing to pay, there is an incentive for people to create similar products at the fraction of the price. Now with that said, the goal of these agile and innovative companies that try to compete are often to get bought up by the big fish soooo, we are back at monopolies lol.
Also thanksss, I am 34 right now and the youthfulness is IMO a combination of the Asian genes + just being a stoic, happy and relaxed person :P
@@MasterEverydayLiving Ooo we are the same age! So you say you are a stoic? Have you read Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius? I like Epictetus' Enchiridion, though of course I do also agree somewhat with Nietzsche that stoicism is self-imposed slavery.
The problem you pose regarding monopolies is a hard one. The industrial revolution stimulated creativity, but at the price of unbounded greed. Did you know that the theory of natural selection was based on economic competition? Darwin was very influenced by Malthus, and so it comes as no surprise that industry and the desire for survival are at the forefront.
I am somewhat jealous of you creative types as my brain doesn't work that way. I've thought to create content for a long time, but the thought of managing the aesthetics is immensely intimidating to me lol.
If you ever have videos with philosophical perspectives, I'll be sure to leave a comment!
@@ladyoftheflowers9781 I haven't read the texts but whenever something summarizes it or is a summary of their values, I always nod and think "yup, that's me and how I approach life". Might have to do a deep dive on that to really iron out my values down the road :P
I didn't know that but I think that just reading what you wrote, survival is one thing but gluttony and the iron grip of crushing anything that might pose a threat is where I see it currently at. If only there could be a point where a company thinks to themselves "yea, that's enough. If I just maintain this then I am happy".
You should totally take a dive into creating content, just talking to ya gives the impression that you have something positive to share with the world. I think that "creativity" is overrated. If you have something that you found valuable and want to share, then there are other people out there that might be looking for the same answers too. I wouldn't call my videos creative, instead it's more a form of expression, trying to explain what I am thinking about or doing and why I think it is important.
As for aesthetics and other hurdles like that, just plop yourself infront of the camera and talk. Aesthetics is imo a hurdle that you need to ignore. The more you try to reign it in and control every aspect of how the viewer perceives you, the less you will enjoy the journey of creating.
I will be creating more videos similar to this one where I just talk about things that are on my mind that I think people will enjoy. Some of those will ofcourse be philosophical so I'll see ya there :P
@@MasterEverydayLivingShould definitely give it a try! You seem like someone who would enjoy reading those philosophical texts!
Darwin once described a species of slave-making ants, Formica Sanguinea, which would kill their adversaries and claim their pupae. They would then raise the pupae to become slaves, which created a new instinct for the unfortunate victims. So, it seems that survival must imply optimality. This is a theme of an old book on the history of biology called the Dialectical Biologist. What is most fascinating is that the wealthy assume that people adopt a stoic mentality so that they can squeeze them for more. It's absurd, really.
I'm the kind of guy who values Plato's "let me only possess as much gold as I can carry". I pursue knowledge and helping people rather than wealth. But I suppose I am also a bit like Dionysus when people mess with me too :p
You are clearly a sensitive. There is a poem I use as a litmus test. That sensitivity probably makes it tough to connect with most people. When your feelings are so much more profound, it is hard to appreciate the worldly perspectives of the modern world.
@@ladyoftheflowers9781 Appreciate the words of wisdom that make me think a bit deeper about the path that I am on. I often times try to carve my own path and this conversation has made me think that I might want to add some side-quests and learn from the people of the past and really solidify my own values.
Connecting with people is pretty tough for me but the people I do engage and vibe with often lead to conversations that can go on for hours in any directions.