I've been using a 49" monitor for almost four years. I have the center window taking half of the screen, and on the sides I have my email, messaging clients and other things I like to monitor from time to time.

Kinda like this: [ | | ]

I am on mac and I use an app called Magnet to manage the windows. I will only change this setup for a larger monitor.

Most of the real life friends that I still have today I met on IRC.

I agree. Musk calls for "free speech" while censoring his own AI and manipulating elections. There goes my respect for this CEO.

Maybe the free speech he was thinking of was Grok dressing people in microbikinis. I think that's Elon's favourite free speech too.

Are the annoying little white circles falling part of the critique?

I was in Marseille last week and saw a pixel art of a seagull carrying an invader and was wondering about the story behind it. I love it, thanks for sharing.

> and Adobe

Have you seen their announcements during Adobe Max? The AI features are mind blowing. Adobe is alive and well.

> Adobe is alive and well.

I wonder.

They're doing well with their existing customer base of digital creatives and related industries/professions.

Who may all be the buggy whip makers of the late 2020's.

Way too many of the people/companies who traditionally paid highly skilled and creative Photoshop users are rapidly moving away from doing that in favour of cheap GenAI slop.

I'm sure there are people in graphic design, illustration, videography, photography, UI/UX, 3D art, augmented reality, social media, creativity and design, collaboration and productivity, and education who are super excited about what Adobe is doing. I'm also sure almost all of those people are very concerned about their career choice and future (or are ignoring the reality of what's going on around them).

Sure, the top graphic designers in the world will still earn great money being highly creative for key clients. But the vast majority of people in those fields are not the top in their field, and the vast majority of clients those people invoice are going to consider cheap AI slop "good enough" for their businesses and use cases.

I have a 30+ year career in web related roles, working more or less closely with graphic designers, artists, illustrators, photographers, and other website development related professions. All of the ones I've remained friends with over that time are either deeply concerned about their career future, or have already jumped ship and become nurses, carpenters, teachers, caregivers, and even priests and drug dealers...

> All of the ones I've remained friends with over that time are either deeply concerned about their career future, or have already jumped ship and become nurses, carpenters, teachers, caregivers, and even priests and drug dealers...

Aside from the last one, that kinda sounds like a win for society.

> The AI features are mind blowing.

It doesn't look like they developed any models. The 3d relighting and 3d manipulation are all 3rd party models given a UI.

Perhaps this was the reason behind the move.

One thing you will learn as you grow older is to recognize how ignorant and confident in our ignorance we were when we were younger.

Thanks for sharing this.