and so all Apple products broke almost instantly and all the tools that we thought we we could rely on broke down. Al the subscription Services, all the DRM things, everything.

I mean, in some cases you think you develop a skill, right? Like you you become a Photoshop illustrator and and suddenly that skill - that you thought you had - was actually entirely owned by someone and even though we’ve been paying for the software for years, the moment that you can’t have access to validate/authenticate yourself - well, that skill is taken away. And this we didn’t expect, and really scared us.

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'Weathering Software Winter', Handmade Seattle 2022

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Make sure that the skills you are learning are fully yours to exercise. If you need someone else’s permission to perform a skill, you are in a compromised position.