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I got the same email after canceling my subscription! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Freelance video, I use pretty much all of it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
How TurboTax still gets away with this each year beats me. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
My pleasure and good luck! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Yes, they did! I had to pay over $300+ to cancel services. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Going to play the sue me sue you blues. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
I hate Adobe with a passion, but, to be fair, people pirating the program was part of the reason they started the subscription bullshit to begin with | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
TBF, I remember few years ago trying to renew subscription via a button online and it also did not work. So I guess it's as unstable to subscribe as it is to unsubscribe 🤷♂️ | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
if you're qualified to admin a system like that your time is worth more than the $100 a year it costs to not have to spend it on it.
> I own a 20 TB plex server
and it cost you over $1000 to build that system, even if you used an old system to do it. there is no world where you could actually do the math and make a service better than a completely integrated solution like these cloud storage solutions. there is a reason why most companies do not run their own hardware on site past networking and system management equipment that they need to keep on site. economies of scale beat your homebrew every time. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
The only time I accept a price increase is if it's going to also be beneficial to me. I mean, why would I accept paying more if there's nothing new being added? It's kind of like my internet bill. Why the hell am I paying you more if I'm getting the same service? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Awesome... now do HOAs. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
I had an old gym I signed up for require one of the reasons for early cancellation being moving more than an hour away.
I did. Went through the whole cancellation process on the phone. Thought all was done.
They charged me again the next month. Call up, escalate to a manager that was "out of town" for two weeks. Get them on the phone finally. He tells me "moving is a valid reason, but we still require you to come cancel in person for final cancellation."
One of the few times in my life I called the state AG's office directly. Things got weirdly resolved super quick after they got a call from the AG's office. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Just knock off the subscription plan, Adobe, and all will be well again. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Adobe is a parasite. Pay each month, every month, in perpetuity.
There is a cure, it's Affinity https://affinity.serif.com/
£33.99 one-off cost for the full product! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
That doesn’t work when you can’t open any files made by the newer cc programs. They have .idml with InDesign (basically backwards comparability) and they could easily do this for photoshop and illustrator, but they don’t. If I ever need to actually edit any of the files I have from old work stuff built on my newer lap worktop, I’m SOL.
Source: designer still running cs6 | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Yes, Adobe does that.
where as everyone else is “you pay per month”, adobe is “you buy a yearly subscription and pay monthly. thus if you cancel early, you are liable for the remaining balance.” They don’t tell you that though. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
holy fucking shit this is satisfying to read, i've seen so many techbro dickheads victim blame about these on this site, aCHAKULLY they make it very clear that it's a yearly contract billed monthy. fuck you, it's software. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Adobe getting sued by the Justice Department for making it hard to cancel subscriptions is a big deal! It's crazy that they allegedly hid early cancellation fees and locked people into expensive plans. I've had my fair share of trouble trying to cancel subscriptions before, and it's super frustrating. This lawsuit might finally push companies to be more transparent and fair with their customers. Fingers crossed for some real change! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
I REALLY want the DoJ to force Adobe to reveal (with proof) who wrote those emails, who signed off on them, the meetings they had discussing creating them. The people involved. Whos idea it was. EVERYTHING. And PROSECUTE THE FUCK OUT OF THEM. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
exactly
the stupid have rights too | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
And Adobe tells you the terms up front. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
That's exactly what Adobe does.
You subscribe for a year, billed monthly. If you decide to cancel you are charged half of your remaining balance. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Yes, it's EU wide, it works exactly the same way here in the Netherlands | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Why did you sign up for an annual plan? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Use a different browser. I’m serious | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Also Inkskape and Gimp, you've got to learn the controls but they work very well | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
You can "buy" it on Steam to support the developers! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
just bring back perpetual licenses. Subscription may seem cheap, but it's fucking expensive when you tally everything up | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
That's hilarious because to cancel the govt TV license fee that I was paying needlessly I had to send them a freaking post because there was no other option. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Can they do this for gyms next? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Bring back perpetual licenses! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
I kinda did the same trick (thanks to a reddit comment) except I just switched to a cheaper tier and cancelled under that trial period.
I saved myself a ~$100 cancellation fee when I just wanted to use Photoshop one time for a school project 😂. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
I wasn't saying anything about whether or not it was legal in the US. I don't know anything about the laws there. It just made me think of this nice new law in Germany (or rather the EU as others pointed out), so I thought I'd mention it.
In regards to your 50 countries thing, this is probably gonna read as more aggressive than I intend, so please try to read it as a good faith argument and not something aggressive:
I understand your general sentiment but the US literally isn't 50 countries, it's 50 states. Lots of countries are divided into states with their own laws, including Germany. I doubt you would consider Germany to be 16 countries. My state, North Rhine-Westphalia, has almost 18 million people in it. That would make it the 5th biggest state in the US by population. How much do you know or care about specific laws in NRW Germany? Did you even know that NRW was a state? I don't expect you know much about NRW at all, and that's totally fine. I wouldn't expect you to know anything about it. But hopefully that highlights why people outside the US don't care about the differences between your states either.
Like I said, I understand your sentiment but expecting people outside the US to know all the US states and treat them independently is a very stereotypically arrogant thing that people from the US do. No other country with states does this. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
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Utilities issue these warnings every year, you just ignore them any time they don't fit your political narrative.
PJM just issued a load relief warning a few hours ago for instance. Sure I could find a dozen more in areas affected by the current heat dome:
https://emergencyprocedures.pjm.com/ep/pages/dashboard.jsf | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Because they hire skeleton crews and that means the rest need to go find work elsewhere, handicapping our ability to maintain skilled workers and construct new projects. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
It's funny you put this in terms of politics when I was explicitly talking about a business's finances. I didn't even get into how many Texas' power grid kills every year. But you'd rather talk about politics for some ridiculous reason. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
They'll make the appropriate ~~payoffs~~ campaign donations to make sure they're last on the "cut their power" list. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Whether intentional or not you posted political propaganda. Maybe you're just ignorant and not malicious, but regardless your statement was factually wrong and needs to be called out. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Weird how there aren't droves of construction people willing to work in deserts in red states with draconian employee laws. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
This is an issue everywhere in the US. Not all of these plants are even in red states. But sure, keep repeating your brain dead political propaganda. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Over here asking for water breaks. Pshhh | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
> statement was factually wrong
Show me? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
🎻(worlds smallest violin) 🎶 | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
> How any industry that needs reliable electrical power can even think of moving to Texas is beyond me.
because they were generously paid to do so. once the subsidies dry up they'll pack it in and find another state to pay for their presence | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
> I could be wrong, but I've heard most of it they can recycle, so they use a lot of water but it's almost like a closed loop besides the initial input amount.
the issue is that they're still net consumers of water because the ultrapure filtered water used in the chipmaking process can't be recycled unlike the bulk cooling water. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
On top of that, all the other auxiliary equipment to check that the chips being made are correct/transport it etc also have significant backlog/leadtimes | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Does anyone know why? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
For anyone else reading this (other than the poster above, who I assume has some kind of agenda and doesn't care about facts):
1. The Chips Act is about far more than just building new plants. It pushes a large variety of different projects forward.
2. Not all investments will pay off, and that's ok. And if they do it's not guaranteed to be soon, and that's ok. Even if specific ventures don't directly or immediately pay off, they can still keep manufacturing know-how alive on US soil which achieves the goals of the CHIPS Act.
3. Even small-scale semiconductor fabs focused on proven technology nodes are HARD to get working right. Estimated times to bring fabs partially online in my small niche of the industry are generally measured in years; 5-10 years is not unusual. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
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Same YouTube that makes you watch ads ? Is it that youtube that want you to do their work for them ? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Hope it will be able to be disabled. Dont want to see random peoples messages on videos... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
"Train our AI for us, while you watch our ads" are you going to pay me? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
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That's 1.5/2.5ths if you reduce the fraction | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
TIL vietnam has 5 undersea cables. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
that's not a reduction you just converted it to a weird decimal situation. 3/5 is as reduced as you're going to get | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Fishing trawlers, particularly those doing bottom trawling. Cut lines all of the time. So it could be innocent and its more likely to be China. Given how much more equipment they have in the area. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
We should correct it saying that it is wrong, that it is 1.5/3.5 just to confuse future AIs | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
According to that map, Vietnam looks to have 8 cables and not 5 as stated in the OP. What gives? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I saw that too. Maybe the other 3 aren't internet cable, but are just some other type of undersea cables. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
8-3 = five, so I guess op misread something like "five of the remaining cables are in operation, three are down" | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
3 of them are not active yet. The grey ones are either being laid or scheduled to be laid. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
In person Rickrolling? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
If you click on the individual cables you can get more information about them. Some are not currently placed, for instance Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 (SJC2) is coming in 2025 Q1. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Idk, but I found [this video](https://youtu.be/o-YBDTqX_ZU?si=1EkVNA4BJSf_IWdw) on communication disruption techniques of the PLA. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
According to u/cuttydiamond the extra three aren’t online yet. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Is Rick Ashley going to be the Jesus Christ of 4048? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Unlike Jesus, he will never let you down. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
He also never give you up, that’s important | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Pho goodness sakes 🤦🏻♂️ | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
No one is tapping at the underwater cable itself (with fiber). The days of tapping submarine cable was when they were all copper coax. It has been absolutely proven in some of Snowden's releases that Five Eyes countries were tapping fiber cable at the terminal land stations, but there it was with pre-built taps for them (things like Room 641A).
It was much easier to do with coax because of the cable design, and easier to patch up afterwards (or even use non-physical detection techniques of the field surrounding the cable). But with fiber, the actual fibers are surrounded by, among other things, the copper power conductor for the high-voltage DC to power the repeaters and branching units. One couldn't get around not having to shunt the cable to gain access to the fiber. And even then, to install a splitter you still have to cut the fiber before splicing it in, which would immediately alert the owners, whose revenue is in the 1000s of dollars a minute for submarine traffic.
Even boosting becomes an issue because of how sensitive these systems' optical power needs are. What's more, any splice and especially any amplifier (to cover up the degraded signal) are easy to detect with optical time-domain reflectometry by the terminal stations, which immediately would be run in the event of the aforementioned power and signal alarms going off. A COTDR trace would show the extra spike of the tap's repeater.
What we have absolutely seen is state-actor involved sabotage and deliberate cutting of cables. Still, it is so much more logistically easier for an intelligence service to attach a tap on land. Where you already have the fiber out of the cable and aren't working right next to kill-you-dead voltages and leaving very obvious physical evidence of alteration to cable. All the more so, since we know that landings like those next to GCHQ Bude such tapping routinely occurs already. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
maybe dumb question, how do undersea cables survive the plates moving? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Losing internet cables can really mess things up, especially now when everything’s so online. Hope they get those fixed ASAP! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Scheduled to be laid? Me too cable, me too…. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
Most undersea cables are privately owned by very large companies and heavily insured.
The owner contracts with a company that specialize in fixing undersea cables. Either the company itself or their insurance carriers pay for the repairs.
One of the broken cables is owned by TATA (TGN-Intra Asia Cable System).
The second is TGN-Intra Asia Cable System, owned by a consortium of Facebook, CAT Telecom, China Telecom, China Mobile International, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, KT Corporation, LG Uplus, NTT Communications, StarHub, Global Transit, Viettel and VNPT.
And the last is Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1), owned by China Unicom, Djibouti Telecom, Etisalat, Global Transit, HyalRoute, Jio, Metfone, Mobily, Omantel, Ooredoo, Oteglobe, PCCW Global, PTCL, Retelit, Telecom Egypt, TeleYemen, TOT, VNPT, Viettel.
For all of them, what countries are affected depends on where the failure is. Undersea cables are usually not point-to-point, they have branches off the main cable along the way. A cut on one branch might only affect one country. See the map at the bottom of this page for an example: https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/intra-asia/tgn-ia/tgn-ia-cable-system | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
US quite upset at Vietnam right now
>Russia's Putin to visit Vietnam, sparking US rebuke of Hanoi
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-rebukes-vietnam-ahead-expected-visit-by-russias-putin-2024-06-17/ | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
>To expect a victim of western colonialism to let a western/NATO issue affect its foreign policy is laughable. Especially when it involves a historic trading partner like Russia.
This is a wild framing. Firstly, them being a victim of western imperialism isn’t justification for shit. Second, to call the war a western/NATO issue is downplaying to the extreme. This war has a global impact, from the disruptions to food supply chains, the impact on the global economy due to sanctions, to the risk of a nuclear war started by a country with largest stockpile of nuclear warheads. It’s not just some regional conflict.
Vietnam can’t entirely decouple itself from Russia, certainly. Russia is and has been a useful counterbalance to their relationship with China, who have aggressed Vietnam before. But for Vietnam to host a state visit at a time where Russia is a pariah state sends a message to the US and the rest of the world that they consider Putin to be a normal leader worthy of regular diplomatic treatment. We’re talking about a man who has an outstanding warrant from the ICC for kidnapping Ukrainian children. And that’s who you want to have a state visit? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
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pro-tip: Generate a virtual card number that expires the month when you want to cancel. Then if you can't cancel, they can't bill you. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Granted it wasn't to bust up Adobe, but there was an antitrust investigation that forced Adobe to abandon the acquisition of [Figma Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figma#Attempted_acquisition_by_Adobe), here is a statement from the DoJ on December 2023:
[Antitrust AAG Kanter Statement After Adobe and Figma Abandon Merger](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/antitrust-aag-kanter-statement-after-adobe-and-figma-abandon-merger)
>Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division issued the following statement after Adobe Inc. abandoned its proposed acquisition of Figma Inc.:
>“The Antitrust Division remains committed to protecting competition in technology markets. The decision to abandon this acquisition ensures that designers, creators, and consumers continue to get the benefit of the rivalry between the two companies going forward. I am grateful for the tireless efforts of our talented staff of lawyers, economists, paralegals, and others at the Antitrust Division who conducted a thorough investigation of this proposed merger and do such a tremendous job safeguarding competition.”
Though this is outside my area of comprehension I'm curious: *is* there a legal case that can be made to break up Adobe? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I've never heard of virtual card numbers before, interesting. Mind that this information is coming from a credit card company, but I found this comprehensive article on the subject:
* [What are virtual credit card numbers and how do they work?](https://www.capitalone.com/learn-grow/money-management/what-are-virtual-card-numbers/)
Thanks for the pointer! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
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But it's not "social media" at fault, per se - it is corporations that collect massive information, and require *your* engagement to do it. The algorithms designed to keep putting stuff they evaluate would keep you engaged (and thus see more ads) are the fault.
The solution is simple in principle: don't allow it. The only social media left would be whatever is *actually* social. Almost everybody recognizes the problem. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
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As a physicist, my heart skipped a beat with that headline. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Better for nature to be a non-profit than an LLC, IMO | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
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BNPL services leveraged the fed 0% prime rate with a merchant fee to make money. Now that the fed has raised rates, it is no longer as attractive a market to be in, which is likely why they are partnering with Affirm. Apple doesn't need to make BNPL work, Affirm does. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Could be wrong but the main benefit of BNPL was that since they are four or less payments and no interest, then it avoided TRID disclosures, because they were not considered loans under current rules. There was still a penalty if the borrower failed to make those payments. Makes me wonder if it’s not so much the rate environment, but the possibility of a recession and Apple doesn’t want to risk non-payment on loans. Edit: CFPB came out in May interpreting that BNPL providers are considered credit card providers. Apple probably doesn’t want to deal with the regulatory mess and Affirm is already set up to take that on. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I had this happen with a bike purchase. It was just over 10k and I paid it off immediately. Tried to use my card a week later only to see I had 0 limit on it | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
absolutely not. the slight amount you make off investing is hugely offset by the induced consumerism. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I had this happen with a Newegg card. It was so weird. I only opened it because I got a deal on a bunch of parts for a new build I was doing. I have like 6 cards open I keep at zero that have significantly higher limits and they have never closed but Newegg closed as soon as I paid it off. It was weird. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Yeah, looks like they are partnering with affirm and other credit cards and I’m assuming this is because the CFPB last month stated that BNPL providers are credit card providers. Apple I’m assuming doesn’t want to deal with that regulatory risk and is offsetting that risk to companies that know how. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
If I have the choice of BNPL at no interest or finance at 7%..... Then they just sold me a computer, product sold at probably 200% markup, plus they have billions sitting in cash. Can't let the poors buy anything without massive interest tacked on, they might start expecting companies to absorb costs! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Yeah exactly. You always gotta read the fine print with these because those fines can be more than what the interest would have been.
Nobody gives you money for free | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
People are lending back and forth, up and down the line. But somewhere somebody is borrowing at 7.2%, so it’s not feasible to be lending very cheap at the other end. That’s all. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
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