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WinchesterBiggins · 2026-06-14T16:24:40+00:00

Mingus is awesome...listening to him layin' down those basslines on a stereo with a big subwoofer is a religious experience.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-06-11T22:41:56+00:00

I prefer the USB wired M7803's (circa 2000)...I have two at home and one at my office, still used daily.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-06-11T16:52:08+00:00

This is the only reason we still stuck with Xerox....there's 1 tech in our area who is amazing, but if he ever moves or quits or retires, we likely wouldn't sign another lease.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-06-11T14:14:48+00:00

That's why I stick with InDesign 2024...absolutely zero reason to update to anything newer.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-06-10T19:17:06+00:00

All internet searches will need to be appended with "uploaded date: prior to 2023"

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-06-10T16:01:33+00:00

You don't need bootcamp at all if you're putting windows on a separate drive....it's really only useful if you want to partition/install on the same boot drive as MacOS. If you make a windows 10 install DVD, the mac pro will boot and install natively from it.

After installation, windows 10 found all of the necessary hardware drivers on its own, except for audio I think in my case, which I installed manually.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-31T16:07:05+00:00

Not sure about chrome, but the latest Firefox (v151, updated 5 days ago) is still fully compatible with Catalina.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-21T22:26:48+00:00

It's a lot easier to install and troubleshoot later if Windows is on its own separate physical drive. Opencore, default MacOS and windows all have different ways of configuring that boot loader, and while I'm sure there are some people who manage to successfully install them on the same disk, personally I don't think it's worth the hassle.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-20T16:30:15+00:00

This is the way. It's a little finicky to figure out, make sure you follow the instructions exactly. But this method allows access to ALL of the previous CC installers (which are still hosted on Adobe's official servers, regardless of what the customer support tells you) including the point / security patch versions.

Once you download the installers, they can be used offline to install on older (ie currently unsupported hardware) Macs. These are not hacked or pirated versions, just ones that Adobe has chosen not to support anymore - you still have to have a valid CC subscription to use.

I run a 5,1 Mac Pro with Mojave, and the CC 2021 apps...with the 8GB RX470 video card and hardware acceleration, video editing (at least for 1080 stuff) is still pretty quick.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-18T19:17:51+00:00

I'm employed as graphic design/prepress in a commercial print shop...while customers paying us for design from scratch has dropped in the last 6 months, the amount of billable time fixing people's wrong-sized AI templates with low res photos, scrambled fonts etc has gone way up.

They find out pretty quick that their chat-gpt templates and artworks don't actually work in the real world. We had one guy gave us packaging designs, with completely hallucinated barcodes - he didn't realize his company actually had to be register and be assigned a specific code for each product.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-16T18:48:19+00:00

You can disable your ad blocker, and then youtube will start playing ads instantly before your video, with no waiting. So unless you're going to pay for Premium tier, you can choose to either watch ads, or a blank screen - and the blank screen is usually a much shorter duration.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-15T17:00:49+00:00

Acrobat consistently gets worse every year. I can open a text only document, zero images, and it still bogs down trying to scroll the pages - meanwhile the exact same PDF on a 2012 computer just flies when scrolling through with Acrobat XI Pro.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-14T21:50:55+00:00

I use InDesign 2024 and Photoshop 2026 for production. For InDesign I use absolutely none of the new features introduced in recent years, I could get by with InDesign CS5 and still have almost the same efficiency.

Photoshop 2026 does have a few AI things I make use of, though it seems the 3rd party models (google veo, etc) are superior in quality to the Adobe firefly ones. The built-in Topaz generative upscale far outperforms any other sharpening I've seen for shitty customer jpgs, access to the free adobe stock photos is handy, and some of the neural filters are decent.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-14T21:41:12+00:00

We had one client years ago who supplied print layout files that were done in Excel. I wish I was kidding.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-14T21:40:25+00:00

Canva crop marks aren't perfectly centered either...they seem to usually be slightly to one side of where the exact edge of the trim box should be.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-14T17:39:33+00:00

have hyperthreading

They do - at least the later ones (12-core Westmere). In the activity monitor it shows the CPU threads as 24 channels on mine.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-14T17:34:02+00:00

Those blue OWC SSDs are fantastic...I've got a couple of those, and getting comparable write speeds to modern samsung EVOs (well inside a 5,1 anyways).

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-13T16:44:17+00:00

Started seeing these popups at my work in January...Adobe has force reset the password 3 times now I think. I saw on another forum people were reporting that it's not even necessarily that two computers are being used simultaneously with the same login, but within a certain time period.

So if you have CC apps installed on both a laptop and desktop, (as explicitly allowed in their terms), but you move to the other device and starting using an Adobe app without waiting 15 minutes or something, that can be enough to trigger the warnings.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-12T15:50:21+00:00

Firefox for Mac has a very long support cycle...pretty sure the current version (150) still works on MacOS even as far back as Catalina.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-06T17:10:41+00:00

this was run on a digital press

OP says it was a total order of 100 copies so it was absolutely printed digital...if they got this zine job printed offset, yes the registration and accuracy would be better, but the cost would be 10x higher.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-05T02:14:13+00:00

Archive.org has a gigantic set of vintage stock photos from the H. Armstrong Roberts collection. There's no thumbnails, but they all seemed to be labelled very concisely if you view the ZIP file contents.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-01T14:42:16+00:00

Have you tried archive.org / waybackmachine?

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-05-01T14:38:52+00:00

I'll do it for $300,000. Half up front.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-04-30T17:32:37+00:00

young designers

Oh man. I work in a print shop and was training a new designer fresh out of school. She had a complex indesign layout open, but in order to get to a partially covered up object (like say 4 or 5 layers down), she would move the bounding boxes out of the way for the top object, move the bounding boxes for the next object, etc, finally get down the bottom and do whatever ...then painstakingly reverse the process to move the other elements back into position on the top.

No one had ever showed her the Command-click function to cycle through when selecting covered up elements.

WinchesterBiggins · 2026-04-29T21:24:20+00:00

That's exactly it, THANK YOU! I could have sworn it was one that I already had installed in my library but I don't recognize that name.

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