Well, Fuck.
I got the phone call today letting me know that I could no longer use my stand-alone copy of ACAD 2014.
My company recently merged with another company, and it came time to renew our ACAD licenses (which I didn't have to use, because 'stand-alone').
I requested to be left the fuck alone, because I had what I consider to be pinnacle of ACAD, since nothing beneficial had been added in the interim (I think I've done at least one post regarding this), and the only things that had been changed were the equivalent of rearranging deck chairs (mostly trying to make it look like Autodesk's other shitty 'flagship' pieces of software).
Unfortunately, I was told that ACAD 2014 was apparently vulnerable to some kind of RAM overflow exploit that hackers can use to cover their tracks (sounds highly implausible, and hasn't happened in the eight years I've been here, but hey).
This meant I had to install ACAD 2024! Yay!
It looks like shit.
It runs like shit.
I noticed as I was tearfully uninstalling 2014, that the entire goddamned thing was less than 400MB (That's MEGABYTES), and 2024 is 3-1/2 GIG (for no perceptible reason other than 'why not make bloatware?')
I was impressed that it was able to import most (if not all) of my settings - and the one good thing I can say about Autodesk (or at least their Autocad Devs) is that they tend to make things forward/backward compatible as much as possible.
I had been having to rely on 'TrueView' to be able to convert newer .dwg files back to a version I could use on 2014, so that's no longer going to be an issue.
Fortunately I'm not up against any deadlines, so I will have some time to fiddle around with the settings to try to strip this baby down to the bare minimum, and (if at all possible) get it looking and running as much like 2014 as possible.
Of course, I will now be beholden to the license server always working properly to keep from being locked out of the goddamned software I need to do my job, and that sucks. I've probably ranted at length before about how you no longer own software (which is bullshit) but apparently that's 'just the way it is' now (because people got down on their knees and sucked the dick of the subscription model).
I can foresee a day in the near future where I am up against a deadline on a massive project, only to come in to work and 'derp'. Hopefully that day never comes, and color me cynical, but I don't have any trust whatsoever when it comes to people who aren't me, and don't have any skin in the game when it comes to me being able to do my fucking job.
I think that's been the through-line of this entire blog from the beginning. Stop fucking with my ability to do my goddamned job.
Stop trying to redefine what my job entails - especially when you don't have the first clue what the fuck my job even is, and couldn't do it, even if I held a gun to your head.
And even if you do know what my job is, and think you've found a better way to do it - you can tell me about it, and while I promise I will try to assess it with an open mind, if I don't immediately see how it will improve my workflow, and get even a whiff of it hindering my ability to crank shit out - I'm going to tell you to go fuck yourself.
Again, if you think it's helping you - and you've got the work product to show it, then more power to you - but I implore you, for the sake of keeping all of the pieces of your face intact, I suggest you take my suggestion to fuck off to heart, and FUCK OFF.
Well, I'm off to see if I can't make some improvements - and curse at Autodesk if I find that they've hardcoded any retardation into this thing (not that I wasn't going to curse Autodesk anyways).
I guess I should just be happy it's not Revit...
Because Fuck Revit, Fuck Autodesk, and (as always) if you don't like it - FUCK YOU.
-SkullFuck Rel. 2023 V5.24
Next Time: Well Holy Shit Ya'll...
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