Free enterprise at it's best - maximize $s once you have a virtual monopoly on the market. I also will not buy subscription software from Adobe.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:48 PM Jim Cathey via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > The point of virtualization is to fully utilize hardware. > > ONE point of virtualization is to fully utilize hardware. That's not what > I'm using it for, though. > I'm _simulating_ what would be independent boxes in production within my > development environment. > I don't care much about the performance, just the functionality. > > The trash (Parmesan?) cans have not (yet) been abandoned by any software, > and all of them are fully > capable of running any (new-end) software on the market. This includes > VMware. The cheese > graters have all been abandoned by Catalina (except for the brand-new > reissue, of course.) > Most are also abandoned by Mojave, and the ones that aren't need a video > card upgrade. > > High Sierra runs everything I need, and probably will for years. I am not > too interested in Metal/Mojave, > and I particularly don't like 'dark mode', which to me is a throwback to > the wretched video of the 70's. > With High Sierra and 5,1 CPU's I can still run DxO and VMware 10/11, and > everything else I need, > and continue to run older purchased 32-bit apps (like CS3 and Photoshop). > > At such time as it might become necessary I'd similarly upgrade my wife's > 2,1 (El Capitan); her main tool is > Adobe InDesign CS3, which will NOT run on Catalina (for example). If you > want to do high-end graphics > on a new-ish Mac, you MUST use their foul subscription ransomware, and pay > each and every year > whether you are doing much work or not. Profitable work or not. (Hers is > non-profit.) You MUST buy > new computers on THEIR schedule, and pay any and all necessary costs just > to continue to use the > product. You working on a deadline and they announce a new version, > abandoning the one you are > using? Fuck you customer, buy new software, and if necessary also a new > machine, before you can > continue working. You were hoping to be finished by Friday, maybe making > a few hundred dollars > on the job? Bwa-ha-ha-ha! This makes me livid. > > My wife was doing volunteer graphics work for her local symphony, on her > now-dated high-end Mac > hardware. The symphony management decided to 'standardize' on new Adobe, > and offered to let > her use their license. Well, that software simply refuses to run on her > hardware, not for any functional > reason but just because it's unsupported due to its age, and I'm not > dropping thousands of dollars so > she can VOLUNTEER her time. They didn't even consult us on this change, > and now they don't have > her contribution any more. Too bad, because she was a professional and > has a good eye, and made > by far the best-looking material they've ever had. > > One of the tenets of personal computing was that they'd ALWAYS do whatever > you bought them to > do, for so long as that task was what you wanted done. With the > subscription model this is no longer > true. An older computer is not just a bit dated and/or slow, and maybe > missing some NEW features > you'd like, it instead is truly useless. Retrocomputing in a subscription > world? Not even possible. > > I intend to avoid ALL subscription software like the plague that it is. > Just as I avoid the cloud. > > -- Jim > -- OK Don "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
