Teach them to use Linux like Ubuntu occasionally, programs like adobe can’t run or aren’t even really used on them. With adobe it became where it was like game and movie development software. If you make good money then it’d cost more than a monthly subscription. They were lucky there was any free games or any games at all for smartphones or anything, we had to take oxycodone to even create anything even on unlocked computers that get stolen and used as mediocre banking system computers.

Linux had to exist even for hardware like computers or parts to be on the market, these computers were locked. Most programs anyone makes aren’t for pirating or bootlegging videos or video games. All this was, was to brainwash us into playing games and watching movies we made. There’s still an adult world of in person shows, drug and alcohol use, hotels, automobiles, prostitution, and that capitalism lifestyle where you stay independent or in small groups of unrelated people. It was almost like political parties in size. It was like off line off tv celebrities and certain fans. Fans couldn’t really leave their houses or go any where or celebrities didn’t really want to. These aren’t the people you see on tv or in social media news. With those groups everything was passports and no one really used computers unless they bought them on the Silk Road in person. Capitalism wouldn’t go on with locked computers and windows. This is why we use to dull down windows and big companies. People already know and don’t get much out of it all existing or going on. They keep you sitting or laying somewhere and off drugs so they can use it all and eat all the food, because they see it as free.

Or we really don’t get what is going on with an easternized population living like this, automobiles almost cut it all out of the equation, people have to lure you to their locations or go to yours, because everything is through automobiles. But music and dancing couldn’t be, even though it comes out the speakers. With drugs being illegal someone was always trespassing, loitering, or having or attending parties/get togethers for anything to go on with music production, actual record labels don’t exist, advertisers committing fraud use all the original music equipment. With how they made money and economics and lowered incomes down it was just like high school after parties or extra curriculum with drug usage.

They pretty much make everyone drug dealer as in income level. Drug dealers weren’t rich but brought in a thousand or more a month if they actually deal, they just may spend it immediately. It’s just this one guy that was still at Apple doing this adobe and subscription thing (with stolen software from big time movie/game producers and them all kidnapped), and it looks like professional advertising but the economics of it was probably fake. Not much goes on with streaming and television watching. Plus no one walks anywhere or that much, it was physically dangerous too.

Anyone with more had some involvement with local or state government and possibly embezzlement. Based on how capitalist everything was or seemed employment was impossible or completely arranged in an almost communist way or putting everyone at different levels of wealth or life (as in being a parent or kids etc. athlete, or whatever).

But then some people start applying for social security which wasn’t a corrupt system or the same thing as state disability.

Just so you know the group that uses Microsoft or operates it, commits fraud every time software is released, because no one seeks their old operating systems or has it saved on discs or drives and the computers become unusable unless they were pre 2007, the gpu gets burned out. Nvidia depended on Linux but not really because Linux was kind of crappy in development software unless at a location but it’s not like being at a Japanese corporation. It’s not like being at Nintendo or PlayStation. Xbox and Microsoft made us nervous because it wasn’t the xp version of Microsoft it got taken over during windows 7 or they jumped to any computer software company, if it’s not windows then they do it with Linux or Apple.

In windows 7 ultimate I think you can develop programs directly through just the gpu. With actual gpu’s and just memory storage like hdd or silicon, the gpu just records anything you show it and does what you teach it to do the gpu and screen are the same thing.

The actual coding is something different. Coding software is much different and harder or impossible to do certain things with just letters or letters just shape icons or create a code for what color or what graphic to use at that segment. Code may just keep certain stuff secret. When you zoom way out you don’t see the letters making up icons.

People started stealing ncbi stuff and editing pdfs. PDFs aren’t really supposed to be edited besides by the person who made it but computers aren’t stable like that unless you made it yourself to be durable, that’s what company computers were like and why you maybe couldn’t even install windows 11 or its a different version of the same thing. Different areas or the internet had different things sold before 2012.

So you have to log in to some program and then you have files backed up or it’s on some cloud. But the cloud equipment and locations are mediocre because of the people that got into the stuff, we don’t to blame it on walking but it sort of was, before 2006 only people that made automobiles really had them.

As new as subscriptions seem they’re entirely connected to streaming services that came to exist because of cable television. All because of professional sports/ESPN. Most hockey and baseball games aren’t broadcasted over the air. Back in 2006 to 2010 the channels for shows were desired. If you stop watching tv for one to two weeks then you may fall out of it and not know what’s going on and notice shows you watched aren’t there or they are. You subconsciously memorize how to watch tv and what shows. Even if they aren’t the same they’re similar on the same channel or seemed like it.

How did it get her credit card info if she only clicked "yes" boxes? Or was it linked to some other payment system that was set up on her system somehow (MS or Apple App Store or something)?

That is peak shittiness. Thank goodness your Mum has you to advocate, and I shudder to think of how many others don't and were shafted or continue to be shafted.

Their competition for PDF Reader; Foxit, jacked their prices up considerably this last year too. It used to be an affordable alternative. They too got greedy (I assume since Adobe was getting away with it!) and have lost a considerable amount of customers in both the consumer end-users and the business side.

PDF becomes increasingly more used and 'standard' with the fracturing of ability to edit them or do 'advanced' tasks like merging multiple PDFs.

There are some alternatives which are free but also either Freemium or just plain questionable in their usage. I don't want to trust some random company and I don't want to be nickel and dimed for basic features like merge.

I spent a long time testing and trying tools. Sadly nothing as comprehensive as what Acrobat offers, but not an option at their pricing. Same with Foxit. I use PDFsam for some basic merge stuff. An interesting project is also Stirling PDF. but pdfsam is like Freemium and Stirling I'm pretty requires docker and it's also not in all languages.

I assumed their HQ was moved there long ago.

It’s probably just your tax pennies unfortunately, your tax dollars are still going to the army and such.

Feeling daring? If you have to buy the software anyway, invoice the government department the price of the software.

You can't fill it out with Firefox? I think pdf.js (which Firefox uses) supports PDF forms.

There used to be a "loophole", where if you changed to a different plan, it restarted the 7 day period during which you could cancel with no fee. Not sure if they ever changed that though.

That’s the trick, it’s always early cancellation, there is no allowed time to stop sending them money.

I’m a big fan of Affinity Photo and Illustrator. I switched when Adobe went to the subscription model. It’s very similar, and they have full tutorials on Vimeo for anything that works differently. It’s definitely worth the $20.

It doesn't help Adobe has software patents for their products, so anyone who makes a similar program has to either live in a country that doesn't recognize the "right" to claim you invented math, or be risk being sued.

That's why I'm a pirate matey

Depending on what you're doing, Krita is worth a look. I gave it a go for cropping and lightly editing some photos recently, and then tried their version of the clone stamp tool. It's hidden under the brushes presets, but worked better than the Photoshop tool 👍

HP

Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance... Is there anything they've ever bought they haven't slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?