The closest Ive come is DarkTable for C1 alternative but its still not as quick for my own workflow. It is way better than RAWTherapy though in my opinion and I can achieve equally good output with it, just much more slowly than C1 or Lightroom Classic. Worth a shot if you haven’t tried it yet.

This is exactly how I feel about VW. Clearly an unscrupulous company that will lie to anyone to make an extra buck. If they were willing to deceive powerful regulatory bodies in a vast conspiracy with the side effect of fucking over the already fucked environment, what hope does the lowly consumer have to trust such an organization. Fuck 'em, they can go out of business for all I care.

If you’re not feeling the age of the chip for your own particular use cases (gaming, work, whatever) then I would wait until you do feel it. Put the money in an interest bearing account until you are ready.

I’m on an i9 and in much the same boat, I could definitely upgrade, but nothing seems to be bogging down on CPU for me right now so I don’t feel the need. I will wait another generation or two and things will be ever better.

I am sure there’s a significant survivorship bias to the responses you will be getting on this platform, but I really am glad to be off of Reddit.

It has allowed me to find other discussion platforms online (Lemmy) that feel more genuine somehow, at least for now (I don’t question if I’m talking to a human or a bot/shill).

I’ve also spent more time just learning and doing stuff that I am sure would have been simply wasted in the endless scrolling in Apollo.