“have to” - spelled in a New Englandah’s accent. (Bostonian, north to Portland Maine, coastal)

It’s a great strategy.

IIRC, I discovered it when I retired my Mirror Door Drive G4 and bought a MacPro. At the time I wasn’t online and couldn’t get the fresh install to activate and on a lark, because it WAS a universal binary, I just copied over the application from the G4.

It worked, but was a bit janky, so once the internet got sorted, I did a clean reinstall of CS3 and activated it as normal… I still have the G4 with the CS3 on it, and also copies of the install I did on the MacPro.

Also, with the CS3 and the OSes later than El Capitan, you need to get the JavaForOSX.dmg from Apple. It won’t launch otherwise.

The great thing about CS3 is that even if I try to have it update, it doesn’t. I used to run it with all the Adobe “phone home” addresses blocked in my system’s hosts file. Now I no longer have to even do that. Nothing’s there online. It will launch Bridge but when it gets to the Adobe Stock Photos and accepts the certificate, it connects to their servers and promptly quits.

LOL! Too funny!

Adobe has moved on and it’s pure bliss for me.

Which is good!

Years back, I tried the trial version of CS6 and just about lost my mind when it came to finding where tools had been hidden in the submenus… but the biggest “oh hell no…” was whatever they had done to the print profiles. No matter what setting or profile I used, the images were oversaturated. Even tried importing from CS3 - nope. I gave it up pretty quickly at that point.

This, I do not doubt. ;)

Annnd well they should lose millions!

NGL, I paid out the ass for PSCS3 waay back in 2007 - Universal binary… PPC AND Intel installer - and FWIW, I’m still using it. In point of fact it’s why all my Macs are dual boot with Mojave (32-bit support) so I can continue to install and use it. Homegirl is no how, no way gonna rent what I should be able to own.

(As Adobe no longer has the CS3 activation servers online, if you’ve still got an installed, activated, instance of the PSCS3 kicking around somewhere, copy the actual application itself out to a backup location… so when you use the installer in a system capable of running it, you can swap the newly installed, inactivated copy out for the activated one you have in backup. Just do NOT try and launch the program before you do the swap… This works for PC copies of CS3 as well as Mac…)

They didn’t have to give him a fivehead.

BWAhahahahahah! Oh shit, I just choked on my coffee!

Thanks for the hearty laugh… gonna hafta remember this one!

Yeeeaaaahhh. No.

Gimme that beautiful smooth head anyday.

Yup. This is exactly it. All of it as a way to set up a situation to declare Martial Law and then shut down the mid-terms from happening.

…or, if you want ‘close but no cigar’, you could use 1701 which is the number of this thing.

Ultimate fucking evil, those things are.

Kill lists solve a political problem, but leave an economic one. If Steven Miller really does want 100 million non-white people out of the US, it’s going to torpedo a lot of profit margins.

Naah, my wager is not violence from a firearm, but let’s see how people fare once their financial lives are destroyed.

Can’t make wage slaves out of dead people.

Contextually, I’d say the word in that sentence was “would”?

Hmmm. I think I won’t be reinstaling the Epic Games Store app on my gaming PC any time soon. (My old drive failed December of '23…) I’m only playing two games anyhow - Horizon Zero Dawn and No Man’s Sky and both I got through GOG.

NGL, I only tried the Epic Store to get Bioshock on one of their free giveaways… and it turned out to be a bit much.

Really not into body horror games… Or people that make excuses for maintaining platforms that enable the creation, and distribution, of CSAM.

See ya later, Tim.

True that. Can use the measurement on a specific memorable day… or an event…

Just use any 4 mumbers that you will never forget.

Ha! Been using this wallet card number for years to put down for businesses that want the last 4 of your SS# for “security” reasons when you sign up for a service.

1120 is fantastic for adding a layer to your privacy.

Hell, as long as you can remember them, use ANY random 4 numbers. You mom and dad’s birth months, your height in millimeters… anything.

Your Social Security number is for government use only anyhow.

Business data scraping can get stuffed.

Time will tell. People can change as they get older. It will be interesting to see what happens, that’s for sure.

Where in amything that I’ve written did I make a single assumption about you as a person, or part of a generation?

You want me to kiss your ass and I’ve rightly remarked that you are angry, which I DO respect.

I understand that entirely.

However… I ain’t puckering up and kissing your winking starfish.

Sorry. Won’t do that to anyone. Ever…

What you may not be liking is that now that I can’t be held to some “wealthy older indulged fuck” standard because I’m in a shitty boat like you are, you pivot this to some disrespect thing… when it’s not about your generation, but you and the personal disrespect you seem to have of anyone older - as if having a longer time in a shit situation doing the SAME things - fighting for positive change - is somehow your duty and yours alone and negates anyone else’s?

Seriously?

Put away your martyr Mahatma…

Also, no “net worth” other than a decade old car, and to be honest, someone’s “net worth…” is a capitalist value standard of a system YOU believe in, not me. It absolutely CAN be done, I’m seeing more and more people your age are deciding it’s the best route forward to stay free of the hooks of indebtness. Just save what you can, live light on the earth, aim to rise above being consumed by rage and stay free of the pot. Instead of clambering for a general strike, aim to push a foundational change to the society… but not until you get the split level ranch with the 2-car garage?

That’s what I’m seeing, and when called out on it… well… here we are.

Boiled frogs indeed.

Hey, anyhow it’s a Sunday, be well, go out and have a wonderful day and take care.

But uh… lets not do anything rash is how we fucking got here, to this moment.

Uhh… nope. We got here because too many people in every generation born since 1955 have been thrust into poverty stagnant wages and broken promises. This is pure rage at the classism couched with racism that we’ve been held down with. This is the despair of countless people in the poor corners of the country who’ve lost their jobs, their dignty and any chance of getting ahead.

This is the end stage of capitalism that’s now all-but consumed the remains of the middle class, and is soon to be heading for those who think they’re not gonna be served up next to the imminent trillionaire class.

It needs to happen literally.

You won’t survive the slaughter. Few agitating for it really ever do. You think soccer moms in grocery getters being murdered in broad daylight by government agents is something new? They were college students roughly “my age” when National Guardsmen shot up Kent State. 4 dead. Even further back to the mid-60’s the Watts riots in LA saw 34 dead.

For all that rage you have, you likely won’t do shit, otherwise “shit” would have happend 6 decades ago. Boomers tried and failed and saw all their progressive heroes killed for the effort. JFK, MLK, Malcolm X… That one will come around again.

Charlie Kirk a hero? (not to you I would assume) I dunno. You tell me. Listened to him once or twice and wasn’t impressed. Seemed like he was regurgitating Rush Limbaugh’s early work. Eh, not the right “side” anyhow.

You’re all for watching this unfold on a TV or computer screen over your last decade, maybe two on this planet, because you have some kind stable home, housing situation of some kind, from which you imagine you can do that.

Okay. Yeah… right.

Uhhh, nope. Don’t own a home. Rent an apartment. Saw my rent go up over 200 bucks this month. Charming. No lease. Tenants at will. Best we could find, so I suck it up even as I’m getting fewer and fewer jobs coming my way now that ageism is biting my ass. (Just wait until it hits you… fuck…)

Haven’t earned more than 32k in a single year. Ever. Spouse spent decades as a sous chef making less than 25k. No kids. No new car. Scant savings.

No TV (haven’t had cable TV since 1999 when it got too expensive. Had to make a choice between internet or TV and TV lost. Wasn’t a part of my childhood diet as I grew up homeless in California in the 70’s. Mom and I lived in a VW bus. Know being worried about where you’re gonna sleep next… Had a fractured education. In 12 years I went to 12 schools on two coasts in 6 states… so yeah. Know the homeless thing well. Sorry you had to experience it also.)

Graduated at 17 with honors and no opportunity or anyone to help me go to college. Was living with dad and the step-mom from hell the last year of school, and I burned out of there a few weeks after I graduated. I got a job in a shoe factory making $2.85 an hour. Sofa surfed with a friend for the first three months and hitch hiked for a year until I saved up 500 bucks for my first car. Moved often and in fact once I was married and we’d been in the same apartment for 5 years… it was the longest I’d ever been in one place in my life.

That’s a weird feeling, to be sure.

But here’s the thing you’re missing in this.

I don’t make any stereotypical assumption about a single person younger than me. Can you say the same about those older?

I know that growing up as a turnkey welfare child, what I’ve experienced is what is coming down the pike for what used to be the middle class.

Watched this unfold over decades.

Trump is a fascist. Reagan was a fascist as well and he set in motion the economic nightmare of deregulation that allowed for the assole we’ve currently got infesting the White House.

Did my fair share of raging at the injustice and protested for women’s rights (NARAL), picketed for union wages (Stint as a IATSE stagehand for 5 years… AFL-CIO), joined political action for gay rights (ACT-Up in Boston - they were off their tits, fun AND scary!) and canvassed for environmental action (door to door with the League of Conservation Voters for years). But by all means, be my guest and throw down some stereotypes about what I have done that doesn’t meet your approval…

Dude, I don’t even assume that the majority of my own generation are in much different shape than me anymore, as other than the really rich older affluent folks (like “old money”) I’ve worked for as a housepainter/decorator on and off since 1980… the reality I’ve found is MOST of the people that have hired me since 2000 who have been in the nicer, more expensive homes are younger than me. Gen X and Millennials. (Right now, apparently Millennals have more investment wealth than boomers. So… take of that what you will.)

I’m not gonna own a home… I know that. Poor people don’t get that luxury… demographics about generations aside, that is a reality for the “lower” classes.

Welcome to my world.

Friend, my entire life has been a general strike against consumerism. (I don’t even carry a credit card… I do not have bad credit… Fuck that shit. Credit is a 6-letter word for debt. I have NO credit.)

What I find is pissing people like yourself off the most is that you’ve probably been told the SAME lies. Work hard and that merit will pay off… You’ll be rewarded with the nice house and the secure job… sure. Yeah… you bet.

The reality is, it’s Classism 101: As long as you try to stay in that consumerist, conforminst pot, pining for the materialist middle-class yupwardly mobile lifestyle… billionaires are gonna boil you like the frog you are.

Leave the pepe shit for the MAGA chuds who’re festering in the same rage you are.

That’s what Trump leveraged to get elected on, and why we’re here.

I was thinking at 13 seconds in, the little dance-hop it makes then wags it’s tail… the body movement… That rhino kinda was giving off “let’s play!” vibes.

I think that is changing, albeit slowly. I have an avid Alex Jones-listening co-worker and he’s now very, very, unhappy with the whole Epstein stuff coming out, the tax code changes and permanent breaks for the bilionaires and the H2B visa worker prefereces Trump has (oh that last one pissed him off mightily, called Trump a bilionaire classist, which it honestly shocked me to hear coming from his lips…)

For years before the election, my Trump warnings were all “lies” from the left and now that more people around Trump are distacing themselves as Triump’s instability and corruption take hold… it’s changing…

I used to constantly hear that I had TDS for not liking Trump…

Recently, I flipped that back on co-worker and told him he had Trump Delusion Syndrome, in that he actually believed Trump was looking out for working people and cared about stopping child abuse…(He was certain Trump was gonna release the Epstein Files like he promised that he’d do once he became President… Gonna expose all those baby-eating, child-fucker Demon-rats after all… right? Nope. Covered his own pedo ass is what Trump did.)

Got nothing back in return, but a half-hearted grumble so that told me right there that more than a few pennies dropped.

No more Trump banners or those tattered flag 1776 stickers on his truck. It’s all gone. No more MAGA hat.

It’s changing… slowly with some. I dont attack, but offer even MORE ugly truths about things that weren’t even on co-worker’s radar.

Ultimately, it starts with individuals and I’m having SO much fun gently poking holes in that Trumpist idolatry in the MAGA folks in my orbit.