Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite piracy claims and safety warnings

Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had a CS6 license. Then suddenly it stopped working. And I can't reactivate it because they shut down the fucking activation servers.

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If on Windows, add these two lines to the hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc):

    127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com

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    • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah, thanks, I'll try this later

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• MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Everybody likes what they know, have you given learning GIMP a chance, or does CS6 do things for you that GIMP can’t?

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I do so little image manipulation these days that it’s sort of a nonissue. I tried the GIMP years ago, and the interface was too much to bother trying to learn. PS works fine for my extant files.

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There was a time GIMP’s interface was “too much” for me and I continued to use my old Photoshop CD-ROM, but about 20-23 years ago I got over that. I don’t do any real heavy image manipulation but I still need to do the occational screen capture, crop, resize, rotate, overlay kind of stuff - I’ve had 23 years to get used to it, so GIMP is pretty intuitive for all that, to me (and it had already become so 22 years ago…)

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• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can you actually still open files with old versions?

  I thought Adobe was breaking backwards compatibility of files saved with new versions on purpose

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    All the files I deal with are CS6 files. Can’t speak to CC compatibility, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they made intentional breaking changes to file formats. This is Adobe we’re talking about, after all. Any inconvenience they can profit from will be seized.

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