It's never okay to burn a book. "Here's an enhanced version of your passage, making Elena more relatable..." ...It's never okay to burn a book written by a human.

How, in a world full of tiny (by comparison) underdog devs, defending me against massive ai theft and predatory pricing, fighting for my rights on a budget harshly limited by the fact that they refuse to fuck all their users in the ass, could I ever go back to the demon king they're fighting against? An adobe employee said in court that hidden cancellation fees were "like heroin to us". That they could not do business on this scale without users being surprised by cancellation fees. That is Adobe's character. That is who you are doing a deal with if you install fresco. It will cost you eventually. Surely most adobe customers want adobe to be dethroned. That is not enough for me, I want adobe to be destroyed. Adobe has pursued expertise at making as much money as possible while providing as little value as possible, like any good monopolist. They are experts at collecting and destroying the money of artists and professionals. Think of what other products for all of this money could be funding the development of. The world will be so much better, and the software offerings so much richer, when adobe is gone. Help a professional logo designer out - do what you can to hasten adobe's death. It's easy. Just look everywhere else first for software, and don't talk about adobe.

They "compromise on battery life" every time they choose not to improve battery life. thinness is not a usable feature. nobody has ever needed to slide an ipad under a closed door to complete their work. But many people have needed to work a long day. Apple is sacrificing a feature that appeals to basically everyone, longer battery life, to a feature that only appeals to those who care about appearances above all else. No wonder apple elitism is so common.

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Congress accidentally passed a placeholder law that forbids startups from claiming development costs on their taxes, so they must pay taxes on all their revenue even while they are operating at a loss. This makes the U.S. one of the worst places in the world to start a company. U.S. companies are letting their Canadian subsidiaries buy them just to get out of the U.S. as fast as possible. Canada is no tax haven. We just fucked up badly enough that it looks like one in comparison. If 174 is not repealed this year, spectacularly dark times are ahead.

If you don't need more than 2 seats, you might look at an Aptera. It will hopefully begin production in 2024. it's very efficient, enough to add 130 miles of range overnight on a regular 110v wall outlet, i.e. an extension cable running out of a kitchen window? Plus another 40 miles of charge added per day just by solar panels on the roof, although that depends a lot on the climate. It's lighter than most cars, but still closer to a car than to a bike. It has the cargo space and crash safety of a car.

"leading several video-game makers to say they would boycott Unity until the policy is changed" - if anyone built an implied conditional return to Unity into the language of their letters of condemnation and goodbyes, I think those people were a minority. It seems like I heard almost everyone say that Unity can't and shouldn't ever be trusted again. I thought that that sentiment, the thought that Unity will stab you in the back at any time, was part of the reason most people were making the extremely difficult switch to another platform. If the most important thing to them was escaping the installation fee by any means necessary, they would have led with demands. Because they knew Unity suddenly meeting those demands would mean that they could cancel the expensive engine switch. Everyone who offered Unity an ultimatum did so because they needed to, everyone who didn't offer an ultimatum was able to switch platforms, and still is, and still has so much reason to, I think expecting them to take the short-term cost savings of not switching is unreasonable. Unity is a sinking ship but most game studios are not. They can think about the future, about trust, and switch away from Unity now. I expect Unity to continue to lose users, just a little slower than yesterday.