James Dalby

#samsung Samsung get your shit together and rollback your Android Keyboard software back to before you started infecting it with AI slop code. Tried writing the word "die" with swipe and it kept correcting to "soe" 3 times in a row. "soe"?? That isn't even a word!! You know my spoken language. Why in the HELL is it auto correcting to unintelligible garbage?? This happens at least a dozen times a day with other easy 3-5 letter words!!

This Lindsay Clancy ordeal isn't new. Not by a long shot. This behavior has been celebrated for decades. Remember in the 1993 movie The Joy Luck Club? We got to watch a woman drown her infant child out of spite for the father and as a means of escaping a marriage. The idea of a man murdering his children to spite the mother is completely repugnant to those with a Y chromosome. youtube.com/watch?v=tN3opHHL…

Today's the day. It's been a long run. 30 years ago, I first started using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator when I worked on our High School Newspaper and Yearbook. Then in college, I discovered Flash and started a very rewarding career in animation, advertising and game development. Adobe acquiring Macromedia seemed great at the time. - The switch to a subscription model was the first strike. Being forced to pay for software and features we never wanted or used was exceptionally frustrating. Constant enshitification ensued with each new version. With no viable alternatives, forced participation in bad business ideas is anti-trust behavior. - The pivot to AI bullshit that no one asked for (or were vehemently against) was strike two. AI art is a scourge. Later, finding out the EULA changes introduced a backdoor to allow Adobe to train its AI on our private files in the cloud was a blatant violation of trust in the sovereignty of our intellectual property. - The recent shenanigans with dropping Animate was strike three. At the very least, they could have decoupled it from the Creative Cloud, applied an Apache license to it and thrown it to the open source community, but of course, they didn't. I have replaced my entire pipeline with open source solutions and other paid alternatives. So long, and thanks for the memories, #adobe. #adobeanimate

The Oscars have lost all credibility. I rarely beg for movies to end. This was one of them. Without a doubt, one of the worst movies ever made. Had a strong start that took a hard turn onto the offramp to what-the-fuck-ville and wrapped a bow on it with a ridiculously stupid ending. "Bro... let's remake From Dusk Till Dawn... but in Jim Crow Mississippi."

The HP Thunderbolt Dock I have just stopped working today. Blinking white light. No power to the laptop. Power cycles and holding the power button down doesn't factory reset it. Literally 24 hours out of warranty. I bought this in March, @HP. This is absolute horse shit.

#DOGE For context, if the $370B EPA slush fund that is managed by John Podesta were a country's GDP, it would rank 41st in the world, almost equivalent to the GDP of Nigeria, and higher than 140 other countries worldwide. worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by…

Oh god, another FUCKING GAG moment!! In an effort to appeal to 2% of society, they go out of their way to alienate 50% of it. This does not make me want to watch the WNBA.

Fucking GAG!! 🤢