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Just off the top of my head right now on osx: can't shut down creative cloud app from the app bar, can't shut down webex, docker desktop regularly hijacks everything I'm doing (once when having a presentation in front of 100 people) to show there's an update, steam client jumping in the tray for hours unless I acknowledge there's an update, apps registering to be started on boot by themselves and having to go through a convoluted process to turn it off (if it even exists)...
If the system be designed such that the task of uninstalling lies with the program itself rather than some other program then one never really did.
I understand this design not. I would assume that uninstalling the program means deleting some set of files and perhaps registry keys on Windows, or is there more to it?
I mean in theory on Mac you can just remove the .app file.
I would like the 'profile' files for an application to be a bit more obvious though, e.g. stored in /Users/<username>/Application Data/Adobe instead of the deeply nested and hidden-by-default Library folder.
But I think even people like me with 15 years of pictures in Lightroom are seriously eyeing the door. I'd LOVE to find something I could use at trust as well, but I also have little time to search, and Adobe isn't annoying me QUITE enough yet.
But they're already on the wrong side of the "delight/annoy" barrier, if you know what I mean.
You'll probably have to spend some time playing with it to find your "look", but once you do, Lightroom can't come close.
That said, it's missing a great organization/sorting workflow and painted adjustments, so if you rely on the latter or expect the former in your RAW processor, it might not be for you. A fantastic (commercial) alternative is CaptureOne. It's the Rolls Royce far as I'm concerned. Strongly recommend you stay away from Darktable, because it's close enough to Lightroom (but not as good) that you'll get frustrated.
Hope this helps!
On Windows, binaries end up strewn all over the place, including C:\Windows, which is one reason that C:\Windows grows inexorably over time (even under 10) if you frequently install and uninstall software, and the only approved-by-MSFT approach to shrinking it is a wipe and reinstall.
Now, the Mac doesn't prevent installers from doing goofy stuff, or from dropping binaries more widely. VMWare, for example, does this, but VMWare is also doing something more elaborate than an Office app. Adobe does this, but that's Adobe being a jerk -- there's no technical reason they need to do it.
And anyway, you can easily go into the folders in /Library & etc to zap the leftover stuff if you want -- there's no Registry or anything that would cry foul. It's just that most people don't bother.
Are you sure about this? I mean I know for a fact that it happens but in my experience this is rare. I very much doubt that it's enough to make any real difference to the total size of the Windows folder.
I PowerShell'ed through all exe-files and DLLs in C:\Windows and C:\Windows\System32 on my private computer ("188 programs installed" according to Control Panel) and I couldn't find anything that didn't look like Windows defaults (i.e. Microsoft stuff basically) or drivers (found lots of Intel, Logitech, etc. Some Apple).
We make Windows software. We install and uninstall a LOT. Windows folders on our text machines balloon to alarming sizes, at which point it's time for a new VM (or, if it's your laptop, it's time to wipe and start over).
One dedicated solely for remote connection to my work. The company insists on software to scan that my PC is "secure", so I give them a finger with an almost virgin Windows install. Their crap can work only on Windows, so I don't actually have any choice.
Another is for any application that I use that I absolutely can't find replacement for on Linux.
I also have separate Linux VMs for suspect software like Zoom that I have to use but I don't trust to run on my machine or try to take over my desktop.
I also have a bunch of other VMs. For example, I keep my toolchains for embedded development in separate VMs so that I can trust they still work years later when I need to do some quick correction to some project of mine. These have auto updates turned off. I hate when I want to quickly change something and program the device but first I have to investigate why the tool chain no longer works.
Not all of these VMs are active at the same time. I usually have 2 or 3 VMs active, some paused and most turned off.
Any time I'm working on a machine that was set up non-deterministically, I feel vulnerable...
It's so seamless. I now run my Windows "VM" on that, and works fantastically. I have it installed to a separate SSD as well (I was curious if it would work) and performance is excellent.
Not to mention things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843874
I can use my t440s (7yo) for over 24 hours on three batteries, internal 3 cell, and external 3 cell and 9 cell. I use it for light development, reading PDFs, some web, etc.
There are also laptops that are more Linux friendly than others. It is best to buy laptop specifically for Linux use and do research before the purchase.
I've used it on many laptops including a fully specced Dell XPS 13 (which burned out after a small spill on the keyboard)
My tip is to always have IPA, distilled water and tools to disassemble and clean your laptop.
Safest method is to use distilled, deoxygenated water (aka electronic water) to remove most contaminants, followed by 99% isopropyl alcohol or 96% ethyl alcohol to remove the rest and also water.
Don't skimp on water and alcohol, submerge the board and use brush while submerged, to pull and dilute contaminants.
Just never use tap or mineral water. You can use regular distilled water as long as you do it quickly, but unless it is deoxygenated it will be corroding so don't leave it in water for long.
Alcohol is there mostly to dilute water so that it dries out very quickly. Without alcohol water could stay under components for a long time and kill or damage your board.
Alcohols can damage some plastic components, so don't keep it in alcohol fo too long, either.
It is also normal to wash a board in ultrasonic cleaner after any rework or at the end of production process (especially in small scale production).
On the other hand if you own an expensive machine that can be reasonably disassembled (ie. almost anything else than a Mac) and you plan to use it for a long time and you don't have any other insurance against spill, then you might be able to save a lot of money with a very small amount of effort.
My laptop was fully beefed up Lenovo T440s and I live in Poland. In Poland, this laptop represented about 3-4 average monthly salaries. Not much compared to half a day of effort to disassemble, clean and reassemble again.
Half a day assumes you have no idea what you are doing and you are need extra time to figure out what to do, find videos on Internet, figure out why you can't pull a part and what still keeps it in place, etc.
For a person that knows what they are doing this is half an hour of effort.
It's indeed annoying. More so that it generally is solved but is to be found somewhere in the fragmented linux ecosystem.
I had no issues with my laptop and it worked better than windows which turns it into a jetengine for some reason except for bluetooth earbuds for which i needed a fork of pulseaudio or so....
It's more than doubled battery "life" (== time to discharge) for me.
For example, GNOME Files (formerly Nautilus) and the GTK file chooser are not even as good as competitors from the 1990s (like the Mac or Windows equivalents). GIMP and Inkscape are also noticeable steps down from the equivalent software we used in the 1990s (not just the well-known Adobe products, but also products from Corel, Macromedia, etc.)
My impression is that the Linux desktop is playing catch-up with the Windows and Mac desktops, but since Microsoft and Apple have better funding it’s an impossible job—the target is moving too fast. In an effort to catch up with modern UIs, features that used to work are getting broken or the UX is degrading. The GNOME 2 -> GNOME 3 switch is just one example. I’m not saying GNOME 2 is better than GNOME 3 overall, just that large-scale changes are moving too fast and the polish and long-term fixes are coming too slowly by comparison.
Linux is usually my primary desktop and when I switch to my Mac it feels like a breath of fresh air.
There are, of course, rough spots. But overall Thinkpads are just so much better machines.
Maybe this software actually is crap and you know this for a fact. Maybe whoever is in charge doesn't know what they're doing. If so maybe ignore this comment.
With that said though, the principle to only allow "secure" systems for remote access sounds absolutely reasonable.
Having been on the other side of this situation, I have to say users like you are a real pain to deal with sometimes. There are always a few who "know their stuff thank-you-very-much", and feel that they need to "give the finger" to whatever measures are taken to secure things.
Try to see it from the IT-sec guy's perspective. Maybe some "crap" endpoint security software on the PCs isn't the end of the world if it helps keep things secure?
My personal laptop stays personal. It's mine and doesn't belong to anyone else. I never use it for work, even if alongside me during working hours. Zero crapware, minimal AV.
I have the same approach to phones. There's my phone, and my work phone. I was pressured to put Outlook, Teams on my personal phone since my work phone is switched off out of hours - I nearly succumbed, until that Office Portal app wanted to 'manage my device'. Nope. Our primary on-call comms mechanism remains SMS/direct call.
If employer is really interested in achieving some measure of security, there would have to be separate computer configured and locked to only allow it to be used for work.
That would, I think be "reasonable".
What I think is not reasonable is meddling in my own machine which I treated as my own until one day my employer said "Sorry, from now your private PC is ours to audit because we are not willing to spend equivalent of two days of your income to provide a machine for you to securely, conveniently and reasonably access our system".
Nobody really cared for the fact that my all machines are running Linux, they just have assumed that I must have some kind of PC and that that PC is running either Windows or Linux. And so they configured their system so that before I can use Citrix (which works perfectly fine on Linux) their piece of crap written for Windows or Macos (no Linux version) must run and report what is installed and running on my machine for their own silly needs.
No, that is not "reasonable" and for that my honest middle finger.
It's obviously not really reasonable to expect you to install such things on your private computer. Sounds like there could actually be some legal issues with such practice?
If it was your own choice to use your private computer then that's a different story. But it sounds like it is definitely not by choice.
> Nobody really cared for the fact that my all machines are running Linux
2021 is the year Linux becomes a mainstream desktop OS right? ;-)
Except I have been running Linux on desktops since 1999. I have Debian server that has been regularly updated since 2000 (that includes hardware changes and moving OS image from HDD to HDD and finally to SSD).
There is also the matter of endpoint protection to consider. If I am allowing a personal device to connect to my environment, how do I know that device is secure? The only way to have any level of assurance to that fact is to install remote monitoring agents, inspect the configuration of the system, and restrict administrative permissions so the end-user (or an attacker who hijacks the end user's access) cannot mess with things in such a way as to compromise the already shaky ground the integrity of that system stands upon.
If I worked at your company, I would give two options: either use a corporate machine for work activities, or if using a personal machine for whatever reason then IT gets administrative control of the device. There is no third option. And before IT assumes administrative rights to manage the device, the end user is signing an acceptable use policy that they agree to any and all IT security controls placed upon the device. If that is unacceptable then the alternative is always to use the corporate device.
I am not sure if you're an FTE or a contractor or what your locale is, but IMO imposing that kind of control over a privately owned device without an agreement would be at best inappropriate, and potentially illegal. My response would have been "No, thank you." I do however sympathize that it is not always possible to take that stance.
Imagine a world where users only ran the bare minimum software necessary for an atomically specific work task. It sounds like pure joy from my perspective.
Isn't that being professional?
That's a lot of assumptions you're making there bud.
>Windows gives you much more control and freedom than your Apple or G$$gle operating system.
But I run Linux and Windows.
Apple are one of the biggest offenders of "Don't you dare do what you want with your device. We'll tell you what you want to do"
Unfortunately now OSX is going in the same direction of the users not owning their hardware/software as with iOS. And many users get sucked into it because it looks pretty
It's because they use a custom installer that dumps code all over the filesystem that makes Adobe apps are difficult to uninstall.
FUD.
The only restrictions on MacOS are reasonable defaults to prevent unsigned, non-app-store programs from running. Given that there are many more users like my 80 year old mother than there HN-types, this is FINE, since those settings are easy to turn off.
Windows, btw, does the same thing on home versions -- except its "S Mode" is WAY more fiddly to get rid of, and once turned off cannot be turned back on.
macOS is nothing like iOS WRT apps you can install and run.
Turning off Gatekeeper is literally a single terminal command. (sudo spctl --master-disable)
Again, just my personal opinion.
The process to eliminate items from startup is quite straightforward. You can do it in system preferences under your user startup items area - or wipe them from the CLI.
Maybe I'm just getting burned out on computers, but I'm really considering going rms-style with a desktop computer, an e-ink display with i3wm and sticking to text-only. I really think we're regressing in terms of tech and ux and am finding it less and less tolerable. In my day to day I'm dealing with go, k8s, elixir, js, vue, various deployment and monitoring solutions, etc, I don't want to fight just to keep a baseline OS functionality uncluttered.
You only have all this software bothering you because you chose it over alternatives. (OK there are some cases where choices are forced upon us but I don’t see those in your examples)
I don't use WebEx much, but its "Hey, I know you just tried to quit but don't you want me to hang out just in case" attitude makes me CRAZY.
I'm a little confused by your reference to the "tray" on OSX tho. Where's the tray? We have a dock, and we have a menu bar where some things go, but no tray that I'm aware of.
What drives me crazy the most is I can see the context menu, for example for Webex, is disabled intentionally so we can't have the quit option there
People think I'm weird or must struggle with bad UIs for being picky and only using older FOSS apps but IME your life/UX is actually a lot better for it.
By now I do almost everything in the terminal except for web browsing. And what can I say, I do not miss the popups, confusing menus, dark UI patterns, and all the other bad ideas.
This didn't used to be possible in MacOS X. When I switched from Windows, it was such a lovely surprise I considered it one of the best reasons to make the change.
That didn't last. Maybe five years ago, something changed and MacOS allowed programs to hijack focus. I was so disappointed.
Apple seems to be (very slowly) getting back to fundamentals. I wish reverting this change was part of that program.
Agreed. There's few seemingly "minor" things that can make me see bright red quite like this. It's such an actively hostile dark UX pattern. It should simply be made impossible.
As nobody has mentioned them yet, I would highly recommend Affinity products as alternatives to Adobe software. Coupled with Sketch, I've been able to avoid Adobe products for 2+ years now.
Affinity have replacements for Photoshop (Photo), InDesign (Publisher) and Illustrator (Designer), currently on sale for not too far off the cost of a single month of Adobe CC. They might not have 100% feature parity, but they're really very good.
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
It also comes with Fusion built in which is a great effects app. Using nodes has been a fun new approach to effects that I’ve really enjoyed.
And the paid Studio version is a once-off purchase. No subscriptions and free updates. A breath of fresh air.
You had much experience with those parts of Resolve? How does it stack up? Thanks!
When using Adobe software, there were so many moment such as "Why doesn't this work?", "How do I use this tool?", "How do I do x?", "Where is x?" and I had to search for solution. With Affinity however, everything works just as I expect them to and it is very rare for me to actively search for solutions.
Honestly they're all so outdated and haven't followed technology, I have an extremely powerful workstation for 3D software and watching Photoshop show an hourglass cursor as I drag a brush stroke is absurd and sloppy.
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-in...
Whilst you are there, you might want to look at Process Explorer and never look back at Task manager.
[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/auto...
Use of a persistent background tasks/helpers instead of Task Scheduler (or cron, on Unix-like world) for background updates is a pattern that is unfortunately accepted by now thanks to OS vendors doing exactly the same. "edgeupdate" et co are a great example if we are staying in the Windows world.
I don't like how many services/tasks/applications Adobe registers and starts for their CC and DC products, but it should not be a surprise that some are getting registered in other places than HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wndows\CurrentVersion\Run or the Wow6432Node version - it should be considered basic admin knowledge that there are other locations where the process may get started on log in, so it is not reliable to just look in Task Manager or Control Panel "start-up" items.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/adobe-gc-invoker-ut...
in your launch agents...
Presumably it's taking up CPU checking every single application I run so in opening Activity Viewer it's visible at the top checking it?
I spent a good deal of time and money in 2020 getting myself untangled from Adobe. The only thing of theirs allowed on my system now is a pdf reader and left such a bitter taste in my mouth I will actively never purchase another one of their professional products again. $300 for Black Magic's Resolve Studio is wayyyy worth it, and a better product now that I'm more proficient at it. I know many professionals in the film/video industry who have left them and won't look back. I was a hold out for too long.
The only thing that makes me particularly sad about it now is that I have no way to open my old projects, because you rent adobe - you don't own it. Well I can open things that were created prior to version 6 as I do still own 5.5 Creative Suite and can use it... If I can find a damn dvd reader.
The Omni Group.
They are pretty much the epitome of "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar".
They even offer their products with a subscription - and I would consider it! They let you purchase your apps for real, they're not forcing anything, and then I think I should support their efforts.
Additionally their licensing is: buy a license, type in your code, your program works. You can use your personal license on all your machines and they trust you.
Last they allow you to save your data to "the cloud", but don't force it. And "the cloud" means you can conveniently store it on their server, or on your own or someone else's webdav server.
More people should follow their good example.
(and remember, with trust, commerce is unlimited)
It's $99 for Omnifocus Pro on Mac. If you want to see your tasks on your iPhone you have to buy the iPhone version separately at $75 (they have blocked users from running Omnifocus iOS on M1 macbooks).
And even after spending over $170 (for what is effectively a gtd task manager), they still ask you to pay $5 a month to access it on the web.
And you might expect it then, to sync with the $199 you spent on their project management software (Omniplan) - but nope!
Then after you have bought the project management software, you might expect that it can export to a common format so you can share it with users that don't use OmniPlan (i.e. Microsoft Project) - but nope! That's a $199 IAP to upgrade to pro (or buy pro upfront).
And after you have bought that $400 project management suite for your Mac do you think you can view THOSE files on your iPhone without buying something extra? Think again! That will be another $99 for the standard version on iOS or $199 please if you want pro.
These are specialized tools, and the cost of organizing the engineering of these tools is easily running into the millions.
These costs need to be recouped.
Buying Things 3 for iPad ($9.99), iPhone ($19.99) and Mac ($49.99) is half the price of OmniFocus. I actually migrated from Omnifocus 2 to Things 3 and personally think its the better app, but I get that some people might like the bells and whistles.
OmniGraffle is $249.99 USD compared to Sketch at $99. The subscription model cost is roughly the same as Figma (although figma also has a free-forever tier).
Omni Outliner is probably closest compared to OneNote which comes included with any Office 365 plan above $4.00 per month.
OmniPlan is cheaper than Microsoft Project to be fair, although Project for Web is catching up at $10 per month and there are alternatives like QuickPlan at $50.
Full disclosure: Of all these apps, I do REALLY would want to use OmniPlan. It's definitely the best Gantt chart software for Mac but it's useless for me without MSP support, my work aren't going to pay $400, and QuickPlan is $50 and supports Microsoft Project, so I'm not forking out an extra $350 from my own pocket to use it.
Ín the USA, 100k already puts you in the top third of household incomes.
https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i?income=...
And the top 20% for just the USA:
So it's all relative really. Tho yes, it's a fun thought experiment to earn 100k USD while living somewhere in rural Asia where 10$ a day lets you live super well.
It can get you a pretty mediocre apartment in Central London but who lives there? You'll easily get a comfortable place in Zone 5 or outside for cheaper too, with a better QoL. Parking costs might have to be factored in though.
Singapore, you can literally get an apartment next to MBS in 100k USD - if you like living in a weekend ghost town. If you like to live in a more lively place, I think apart from Sentosa (which is filled with tourists anyways), places like Bukit Timah and Tanjong Pagar are comfortably within your reach. Or you can stay in Jurong where all the expats are, for much cheaper.
The only exception here is San Francisco, where 3k USD pm will get you a cardboard box inside someone else's bedroom, or possibly even bathroom. That's the Bay Area's fault for really shit planning (which, I was surprised, managed to beat London's planning by a mile - in shittiness).
Also if I wanted to walk to and from work, now I'd rather get a hotel or ABNB and commute like that for a while. It seriously gets old.
Sure it's not unliveable but the original parent was making out like 100k would let you be rich - my point was in the megacities you're not even close.
Also fwiw I've lived 4 years of my life inside zone 1. I think the main downside is air pollution and outdoor space, although you can find garden flats dotted around
But that's irrelevant to the issue at hand. Even if it were free, Omnifocus has zero value to 99%+ of the global population.
Why are we pretending like there's a need for hyper specialized Macbook Pro productivity software in rural Mongolia?
I'm an ex-omnifocus user. Omnifocus has lots of bells that make you feel productive, but ultimately I now use Things 3 as it is better designed and also gives me more confidence that things don't get missed (i.e. things can get hidden in a perspective in omnifocus if you aren't careful).
I suspect this is why Omnifocus's latest apps are actually reviewed quite poorly on iOS - 3.8/5 compared to Things 3 at 4.8/5
I've tried many other GTD apps, and I keep going back to OmniFocus. It works well and has been supported for years. In the meantime, many $5 apps I've tried have been abandoned or did the "our incredible journey" flip.
The one issue I used to have with OF2 was that sometimes I could miss something because of the context filter, which liked to hide to-do's with dependencies or that were set for the future. After moving to Things 3 on reflection I think OF tried to be a little too clever and because of that I didn't have as much confidence in the system as I now have in Things 3.
I did like that it was heavily opinionated though, including things like enforcing weekly reviews for projects.
The amount of people that would buy a 40-50$ app is about the same the buys the 100$ apps now. And turning their apps into 5$-a-piece software is an incredible risk, as it alienates part of their current customer, and the increase in sales might not be enough to offset the lowered per-sale profit. Their position as luxury software is a safe bet.
I won't touch Omni for anything now.
It's topic drift, but MS Project has done to the critical-path scheduling world what IE did to the browser world. It's worse than the incumbents in lots of material ways, but it's a LOT cheaper and much easier to learn, and so it's sucked up all the oxygen.
I work in enterprise project management / earned value. It USED to be that there were lots of contenders for critical path project management software. Now the last non-MSP product standing is Primavera, and it's somewhat neglected by its new corporate master -- the original owner sold his company to Oracle years ago and Oracle hasn't really done much with it.
So the world at large is, increasingly, stuck with MSP if they want this sort of creature. And MSP, instead of using their position to encourage good practices, or adopt widely-supported features still unaccountably lacking from the product, has instead introduced "features" like Manual Tasks.
What's a Manual Task? It's a task in a schedule that has its dates hardcoded and thus will not move, which is really insanely wrongheaded. A scheduling tool like this is, at a basic level, all about assembling a list of tasks with durations (and, ideally, assigned resources and work and costs) that are connected by a chain of logic. If an early task is delayed 3 weeks, you'll see that in later tasks that depend on the first task.
A "Manual Task" just ignores all that. If this doesn't make immediate sense to you as a horrible idea, let me explain it by way of example. Imagine Excel introduces a feature called Manual Math that allows you to override the rules of arithmetic. If you want the total to say 10,000 but the column has entries that sum to 12,234, just turn on Manual Math!
It sounds like a Manual Task is simply a way to acknowledge that your project has a dependency on something in the outside world that is beyond your control, and that seems like a useful feature. Why are you so vehemently opposed to having that capability?
There are other constructs that exist in the project management world to model what you refer to. A "manual task" that appears to be part of the critical path, but is in fact NOT, is a time bomb waiting to go off, because its failure to show real forecast information will absolutely lead the schedulers to think all is well when it's not.
IOW, trust me when I tell you this is a bad idea not grounded in anything like project management best practices.
Manual tasks in MSP are a very bad idea. There is no valid use case for them in critical path scheduling. They exist because some muzzy-headed marketer at Microsoft decided to insert them into the backlog, near as I can tell, despite the cries of actual professionals who use the tool.
There are ample ways to model constrained tasks in a critical path that do not involve a feature that is, as I said, tantamount to turning off "math" because you don't like what it shows you.
> There are ample ways to model constrained tasks in a critical path that do not involve a feature that is, [...]
Can you finish that paragraph in an informative manner?
This is Microsoft that we're talking about, so I don't doubt that they could put in a feature that is as horribly misguided as you claim; I've encountered a few myself. But you've really just been repeating your original assertion without justifying it, and that's unhelpful. Getting haughty about it is even less helpful.
It’s not really my job to teach you how to use constraints and deadlines.
That's assuming that all your tasks are movable. If there is a task that can only be completed in a certain time period (and there are some activities that you cannot or will not move in any organisation), you plan around it. It will not move just based on your whims or your schedule.
And yes, it can mean that your auto-schedule makes no sense if something gets delayed and the task causes your critical path scheduling not to make sense any more, but that is the price you pay in the real world.
It's a weird hill to die on.
> Imagine Excel introduces a feature called Manual Math that allows you to override the rules of arithmetic. If you want the total to say 10,000 but the column has entries that sum to 12,234, just turn on Manual Math!
Imagine if someone was able to type in a flat, straight up not calculated number in a calculation spreadsheet, overriding any formula that you have put in. The world would end.
A critical path project has a chain of tasks. Task A must complete before B which must complete before C, and so forth.
If A is delayed, but you've turned off the critical path engine by making C a "manual task", then C's forecast dates *WILL NOT REFLECT* the anticipated move to the right as a result of A's delay. This is a HUGE problem.
You rely on forecast dates being live, and showing true projections of reality (or as true as possible). You can even seat deadlines, and generate alerts if a task isn't going to meet one. But if you nail something down because it quote-unquote can't slip, you're preventing the software from telling you when a slip is coming.
That is very, very, very dumb.
It's also entirely predictable that someone on HN would try to tell me it isn't.
And yes, you can put literal numbers in spreadsheets. But bad things DO happen when people represent values as sums (or as otherwise calculated based on other values) when they are in fact not. That's what "manual tasks" are.
Although finance types would be interested. (and OO programmers)
It certainly can be abused, but at the level you have described it, it seems a straightforward way of modeling things outside of the scheduling control of the project.
(Now, if it's allowed to have other tasks as dependencies, and doesn't basically raise a giant red flag if the calculated time of those dependencies pushes past the begin or end of the Manual Task, depending on the kind of dependency, that's a problem with the implementation, but at the level you have described it the concept isn't misplaced.)
On one level, needing to use it is a management smell that control may not have been assigned over all things it should be to effectively manage a project, but that's very much a reality.
> Imagine Excel introduces a feature called Manual Math that allows you to override the rules of arithmetic.
You mean, if excel let you directly enter a value in a cell, even if headings suggest it's a calculation? I'm pretty sure it's has that feature from say one.
I literally run my life on omnifocus. I have done so since it came out around 2007. My data is private and on my webdav server.
The software has been: useful and pleasant to use.
(well, except that OF1 was better than OF2 and compounded with ios 7 the transition sucked)
(also, this is in a thread regarding Adobe!)
EDIT: actually, thinking back I did get a discount on their product, LOL. I got onto omnifocus beta free before it came out. When OF 1 came out I got a discount on it. After that I paid for it myself.
But APART from the free 1/2 product I received I have no affiliation with omnigroup. :)
FYI, WinAmp v2.8 is not #1 but high on the same list for being a butt kicker for its package size!
I was shocked, it left a very bitter taste of bad practice on their part in my opinion. I have since switched to only work with Affinity products, and I cannot be more happy with the quality of the Affinity suite of products.
As a developer who has to deal with odd here and there graphic problems, Affinity products with a great once-off price model makes so much more sense.
They advertise it as a monthly subscription, but it's actually a monthly payment plan for a yearly subscription.
When I told them this was unacceptable, not what was advertised, and demanded a refund, they tried to bribe me by saying if I stopped pursuing a refund for the company they would give me a free year on my personal Adobe account. Explaining to them that I have no need for Adobe products myself, and that this bribery was really dodgy and making me think even less of of Adobe, was a tough process. They couldn't understand.
Clicking "Buy now" takes you to the product selection page. On this page each plan has the exact price. It's the same as the price on the previous page. No footnotes, asterisks, or anything else. There is an asterisk next to the free month of stock photo access, which implies that they do use footnotes where necessary. Again the price is not "from $X", it's just $X.
Click "Buy Now" and you're in the checkout flow. The call-to-action is entering your email address. The summary shows the total as being the exact price. No footnotes, no asterisks, no fine print. However, the price is only now listed as not a per-month price (as it has been on the previous 2 pages), but as an annual price paid monthly. You can change this to monthly price, but it's 50% more expensive, proving that the "$X per month" advertisement is incorrect.
In the UK I think this would probably be classed as false advertising, and I think any refund complaint would be upheld in court or by the trading standards authority, which is probably why they gave me a refund when I pushed them.
The only other company I’ve had such an experience with has been Stamps.com.
But, why would you give a new employee a computer without imaging it first? I'd much rather spend the time imaging a new computer then try and clean off all the junk the old employee left.
1 - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/supporting-the-creative-com...
I emotionally recoil from businesses whose only remaining competition moat is "we make it hard to get rid of our stuff"
The software can be downloaded here:
https://www.chip.de/downloads/Adobe-Illustrator-CS2-Vollversion_59763474.html
https://archive.fo/255q5
Lots of good old software available in the Internet Archive these days. In general, I would search Internet Archive first if I need any old software instead of downloading from random sketchy sources like random torrent trackers.
It should be made a legal requirement for software vendors to hand over the source code and build environment for both the software and the licensing servers in virtual machines to be held in trust at the national libraries / archives, and I can imagine a similar thing also for chip designs.
We have this requirement for books already for ages (in Germany since 1663 / 1871, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pflichtexemplar - in the US I didn't find out when it was introduced, see https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/mandatory_deposit.html).
Release to the public domain should be mandatory after 30 years.
Obviously there's preferences and caches and stuff, but generally even if there are background processes etc those are still in that app package and reclaiming most resources is still this simple.
The Windows uninstall process seems archaic whenever I go back to it.
But it is not only CC. I am asked once per some weeks if I want to remove Flash. I didn't ask about showing these spammy popups. But Adobe knows better. The pop-up has two options: uninstall or remind later...
And if I don't want to uninstall Flash? It seems it is not my decision what software is installed on my computer according to Adobe.
Oh this is actually just because they know full well their software can't be trusted to be backwards compatible with plugins and ecosystem of older versions. Even though they switched to subscription payment their feature releases are still basically the same as yearly boxed releases with the same lack of considerations for backwards compatibility that entails.
I have been using Affinity Photo for a few years, and I have to say it is a very solid alternative to Photoshop. It only costs 50$ (pay once, no subscription, free updates ; also there is a promotion of 25$ currently). You get all the advanced features that photoshop can offer, like non destructive layers, smart inpainting, RAW development, smart brushes, export layers, and so on.
Affinity photo is compatible with their other softwares like Affinity Designer (alternative to Illustrator) and Affinity Publisher (alternative to InDesign).
In reality though, the GDPR is not being enforced seriously and the same organization linked above who is writing those guidelines is completely incompetent at actually enforcing them.
Don't know what the updated CCPA will change in 2 years.