I don’t have a keychain. I try to avoid keys, and most things I need a key for any more have electronic keys. The few things I need physical keys for any more just have that single key on a lanyard, and I’ll just grab that specific key when I need it.

I’d say around 80% of then time, I don’t have any keys with me at all.

Would be a useful tip in a world where ICE follows the law.

Ah, I didn’t initially catch that it applies to tax year 2026.

I did a little reading this morning on case law of retroactive taxes, and while I’m certain this would be litigated, not really sure where it would land. It might depend on the jurisdictions that hear the case. I’m not at all optimistic that they’ll collect what they think they will, but they have sure attempted to craft it to tax people before they can exit.

Yeah, I only used Lightroom Classic. I tried regular Lightroom once, did not like.

And I agree, I liked aperture better than Lightroom at the time too, but Lightroom progressed while Aperture started pushin daisies.

I’ve recently given Darktable a try. It seems promising, but it’s different enough to be a frustrating transition.

I’m well aware. California loves to tax people as residents and not give them the benefits of residency. I’ve lived here my whole life. It’s mostly the plebs they get with that, like you don’t get in state tuition, but you get to pay state income tax. But if I were a billionaire, the 50 million I’m not paying the state could fund a lot of careful legal and tax planning.

Yeah, pretty much. Any decent display on a TV is gonna have all the shit you don’t want, but you can (at least for now) just not connect your smart TV to the internet. You;'d have a good TV with the “smarts” neutered. But you’re still paying for it.

It’s a bit like the ATSC broadcast stack. You likely aren’t using it, but the industry still makes you pay for it (and it’s not cheap).

Yeah, I liked aperture too. I do think Lightroom got a ton better in the ensuing years than aperture ever was, but it’s like $15 a month now iirc.

It was cheaper, but mostly they refocused the product from filmmakers to youtubers. The latter is a 10x (or maybe 100x) bigger customer base, so it sorta makes sense, but unfortunately for Apple they threw away the filmmaker customer base and failed to acquire the youtuber customer base. And the filmmakers didn’t forget being cast aside. FCP usage in the industry fall off a cliff and never recovered.

Premiere has a lot of the market share Apple wanted, but even they are losing ground to Resolve; a highly capable product that’s inexpensive, and made by a company that doesn’t have the baggage of fucking over its customers. Resolve right now is free if you don’t need the studio features, and $300 for life if you do.

Why would a single resident billionaire continue to remain a resident if this passes? It’s not like they can’t come here and spend time here while being a resident of another state. Hard to see how this would make a meaningful bump to state revenue.

Yeah, competition is good, but I’m not sure this is competition. These products were mostly free already, and the paid stuff in the bundle is, I guess… Pixelmator and FCPX, and at what appear to be much higher prices.

Then of course Apple is pretty famous for fucking over creatives by just dropping products. Film professionals still haven’t forgiven Apple over FCPX, and then Aperture… they just dropped it one day and kinda forced people over to Lightroom. It’s gonna be hard to earn back trust of people who’ve been burned by Apple in the past.

Gimp, and millions of dollars are entirely immaterial to Adobe.

It’s not like it’s his money though. He’s insanely rich regardless of how the “bet” plays out.

yep. Makes sense.

The ideal thing is to actually move to Darktable. https://mathiashueber.com/migrate-from-lightroom-to-open-source-alternative/

Be prepared to commit some time to the transition though. I installed darktable and gave it a try a couple days ago. There’s enough similarity to make you think it’ll be an easy transition, but it sure wasn’t for me. It took me an hour to do something that would have taken 5 mins in Lightroom. I’m glad to have it, and it seems like a powerful tool, so I’m not complaining, just sayin… be prepared to commit some time to learning where everything is.

What was it like working for Kia back in the day?

Calling dibs on someone else’s land is probably a much older idea than any country on the map today.

Its true they force you to use a ms account to complete install

They do, but at least for now, the workaround isn’t hard (passing the localonly param). I just bought a laptop this week and did it.

You should join a mma/fight gym. It’s fun, will keep you in shape, and will probably be an enlightening and humbling experience. Skill, technique, and experience go a long way, but weight classes exist for good reason.

it’s not even obscurity; it’s logged publicly.

The kicker kinda let em down too. Chambliss did his part.