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auxio said:

inkling said:

If what you need is an equivalent of Adobe's Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, check out what Affinity offers. One option is apps for all platforms—Mac, Windows and iPad—for a one-time payment of $164.99. No subscription cost. That's about what Adobe charges for a couple of months rent.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

Does it work well with print houses which only use Adobe?

I had the problem recently where I couldn't get Pixelmator to export to .ai format (guessing this disappeared when Apple bought them). So I tried exporting to PDF, but it wouldn't preserve the layers when the print house opened the file in Illustrator. Even though reopening the PDF in Pixelmator showed the layers just fine. Smells like there's Adobe lock-in, and so I'm wondering if Affinity figured out a way around it.

Affinity has an indesign equivalent. Publisher. I switched out from adobe. Never looking back...

Publisher spits out a good press ready PDF print file, with all the options, for a publisher, went well even with the ipad version. 

Recently did a poster and a folder. Surprisingly it worked really well on my Ipad pro m2. Much faster than a imac pro 2017 w 32gb ram.

Affinity has the illustrator equivalent, PS and indesign. They work well together, and you can buy it for all platforms. There is a period to getting used to their UI, but they work very well. They also have a generative Ai fill to patch up and get rid of unwanted stuff. Works ok!



OBS!!! I managed to leave the creative subscription plan wout paying their stupid fee. By upgrading to a different tier and taking advantage of the 14day trial cancellation option... The whole ordeal is the worst consumer experience I have ever seen. It cemented my decision to never look back, they are absolute grifters...

There is an odd discrepancy here, why isn’t Microsoft expected to make their own chatgpt? They use openai, apple uses openai. If anything, apple has a better implementation. Why these double standards?


While impressive, its crap. 40% wrong answers is too much for it to be relied on, I do not understand how people act like it is so great?

The image/video generation stuff is not ready for primetime, even though it shows promise for something down the line, its just not the hyped up thing everyone thinks and says it is. Everyone is pretending like you will be able to just hit a button and get an oscar level film out of it. No, it can’t do hands, it can’t do backgrounds without doing obvious mistakes. Even if they fix those issues, it does not know how to act out a performance you would want to watch.

That said, I am not saying it isn’t capable of transforming alot of how the current tech landscape and even how some industries work. But you must understand the limitations and abilities.


Nvidia using it as a denoiser and eventually a replacement for pushing 3d graphics at all, shows what the promise is down the line.


LLM’s and image generation is not AGI. A fantastic parrot yes, but still a parrot. Would you trust a parrot to answer the phone for you? That seems to be the expectation currently, that you can take this amazing parrot and fire people and let it do their job. Wow… 

Most libraries have a 3d printer you can rent for the cost of the filament. He also made a version for smaller printers.

The original Mac Mini portable he did, was made with the admission that this is just a design experiment, and so is this. But alot of people are interested in this and similar solutions. And I believe Apple will need to go down this route eventually as-well. The maker space is the future.  

Nano-lenses are still a few years out, 2026 it is SUPPOSED to be.. Or has there been a significant hurdle in manufacturing or some sort of obstacle? I assume the tech will shatter all these kinds of restrictions in cameras.




I suspect the tech will shatter CPU technology and rid us of the messy and chaotic electrons for processing aswell... Which does leave the opportunity for a great shift in processing speeds in the coming decade. (Also it will up-end the silicon industry)


Any thoughts @MacPro ?

IF metal is 110000, I am getting a M4 Pro 14/20-48gb... 110000 metal is quite decent. Max is 190000, Ultra will be in the 380 000range but you pay 10x more.

I think it likely is in the goldilocks zone for me. Not too shabby. Extremely awesome single core performance, very decent multicore, medium high gpu...