Every time I get asked to help someone “fix their slow computer” I’m amazed at the variety of shit people install and forget about. But there’s one constant: f*cking #adobe#CreativeCloud sitting there chewing up RAM and disk. Typically installed (and still being paid for!) because the needed to fill out one PDF form once.
@EverydayMoggie I suspect it’s what a non-technical person is capable of in terms of computer “hygiene”. The last two cases happen to be 2017 iMacs with 8GB of RAM. The “slowness” was due to memory pressure from so many extra, generally unused or unknown (to the user) things needless running.
The good news is that some cleanup and less than $50 of more RAM can keeps these machines useful for another couple of years.
UBS analysts say Adobe's Firefly family of generative AI tools, paid for with a November Creative Cloud subscription price hike, will increase Adobe's revenue by $400M–$500M next fiscal year.
"While Adobe’s pricing leverage is impressive, the pace of such moves has clearly picked up and some may fairly question whether this is in response to moderating user/seat (non-price) growth."
Anyone else get an email from #Adobe about changes to how they sync files in #CreativeCloud?
It's written in corporate-speak ("We're improving things!"/We're actually making things worse) so I'm not 100% clear what is happening. It seems to be saying syncing will stop, but in the same email also says some files will remain in sync.
@yuliyan I use Affinity sometimes. It competes on most levels, but infuriatingly there's always something that Adobe has and others can't beat. For me it's illustrator's pathfinder, after effects and InDesign's multi page spreads