don't trust cloud services with creative work
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I was a 3.8 with degrees in Engineering and a minor in Humanities, and yes actually I am a published scifi writer as well.
I don't mean to put anybody down, unlike you, but 12k simply isn't a lot in the context of a manuscript.
Anybody reading this who dabbles in writing should spend more time on it to reach realistic goals in their lifetime.
My point is that your 3.8 Engineering/Humanities assignment is not a product that needs to marketed to the masses. 5k words in that space is easy, and I think this because I have done the same thing in the same field (Engr).
12k words isn't a huge amount, but as a published sci-fi writer you already understand that fictional writing is a saturated market with brutal competition, and publisher deal deadlines can be brutal too.
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a bit harsh, but often the most important lessons in life are those that hurt the most.
I was training students for a deadline driven technical field. They needed to know that when deadline day comes, it's not "oopsie doopsy" my dog ate my homework, it's you are now out of business, everybody you work alongside is jobless, you are bankrupt, get your resume going and good luck dude.
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The fuck was this dude watching/writing down for google to think it was related to terrorism or trafficking????
It should not matter at all what he wrote. This is absolutely the wrong question to focus on.
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Actually many people use cloud as the original. I don't get why we are pretending this isn't normal.
No one's pretending otherwise, they're saying it's dumb to do so.
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The extra words are not needed. The most accurate version is just:
Don’t trust.
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There was a cool browser extension back in the days that changed the word "cloud" to "someone else's computer" in the articles on the internet. It changes perspective and eliminates a lot of headache this way.
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Don't use Google trash. Google is evil.
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I'm fully expecting them to straight up delete something... And then release it as theirs any day now
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I know it's a big jump from Adobe Cloud (which probably used user behavior tracking and their work to train AI) but it is possible to make great stuff with open source apps now.
The newly released GIMP 3.0 is quite amazing considering that it is free. Is it as good as Photoshop? Maybe it lacks all the features, but it's pretty damn good. If you install GMIC, an amazing suite of tools, it gets that much closer. Inkscape is also professional level for vector work now. Honorable mentions to Krita and kdenlive (for video editing). edit: I shouldn't leave out blender, jeesus.
I left Adobe Cloud 9 years ago. Yeah I had to endure a lot of ridicule and weird looks when I told people that I only worked in GIMP, but more recently, the response is less "You're weird" and more "I need Cloud for my job/it's all I know," which is a positive change.
If nobody ever makes the leap, things will stay the same indefinitely. Don't expect market forces to change things.
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Yes, same here - I do all my show scripts in Markdown. My editor of choice is IntelliJ. For any non-technical writers here, IntelliJ is like what Scrivener wants to be when it grows up.
I have tried lots of text editors, tons. None of them quite do what I want. I installed CudaText. It's now my favorite. I love it so much. The settings... Oh, the delicious settings...
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I know it's a big jump from Adobe Cloud (which probably used user behavior tracking and their work to train AI) but it is possible to make great stuff with open source apps now.
The newly released GIMP 3.0 is quite amazing considering that it is free. Is it as good as Photoshop? Maybe it lacks all the features, but it's pretty damn good. If you install GMIC, an amazing suite of tools, it gets that much closer. Inkscape is also professional level for vector work now. Honorable mentions to Krita and kdenlive (for video editing). edit: I shouldn't leave out blender, jeesus.
I left Adobe Cloud 9 years ago. Yeah I had to endure a lot of ridicule and weird looks when I told people that I only worked in GIMP, but more recently, the response is less "You're weird" and more "I need Cloud for my job/it's all I know," which is a positive change.
If nobody ever makes the leap, things will stay the same indefinitely. Don't expect market forces to change things.
You know a good open source Illustrator alternative? I’ve only worked with Inkscape here and there, but the interface is pretty challenging for me to wrap my head around after spending so much time in Illustrator
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You know a good open source Illustrator alternative? I’ve only worked with Inkscape here and there, but the interface is pretty challenging for me to wrap my head around after spending so much time in Illustrator
The only solid vector graphics app I've used in open source is Inkscape. I agree, it's very difficult to get to know, even moreso if you're coming from old school raster imaging and don't get all the mathiness. I had to learn Inkscape though, because I needed to make fantasy maps with textual titles that didn't look like crap when rescaled.
I'm no expert, but it does pay off to learn. It's a very powerful set of tools.
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I've not missed cloud functionality since I worked out Proton Drive and Syncthing.
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You can download stuff off your Google account here. Select what you want, not all or it might fail. Choose format, and wait for the email.
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“Well, I don’t know what I expected“
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That's a long way to go for an ad. Good read though.
Mind spoiling it for me?
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The cloud is only part of 321
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There was a cool browser extension back in the days that changed the word "cloud" to "someone else's computer" in the articles on the internet. It changes perspective and eliminates a lot of headache this way.
This reframing can be super useful in getting corporate types to understand that storing stuff in the cloud isn't a magic solution, and that it comes with its own problems (especially in terms of data governance stuff).
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There was a cool browser extension back in the days that changed the word "cloud" to "someone else's computer" in the articles on the internet. It changes perspective and eliminates a lot of headache this way.
Even on weather articles?
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What is the cloud storage provider you use? I'm currently just renting a VPS from Contabo for a few euros a month with a Nextcloud instance running on it. It costs me four and a half euros a month.
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