You will own nothing, and be happy about it. Welcome to capitalism.
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...any service which requires a mobile phone, really: i like to remain unencumbered and only carry my phone if i intend to use it...
Aren't the blue checks part of a subscription model?
My most boomer complaint is when people don't know what I mean when I say "let's meet at the eastern entrance of the building".
Especially when you live in a roughly compass oriented grid city, this is unacceptable.
Kids these days
(I'm not a boomer)
Lol, yeah, the fucking building at work kills me.
It's well off the road and is not congruent with it, It has two viable fronts and since not quite 45° to the compass rose but not far enough off to use it to the description.
Can't say north south east west can't say roadside can't say front so I can't say left or right.
Labeling where IT equipment is is such a fucking pain in the ass.
There are fire stairs on either side of the building and they do not differentiate them.
I could probably do NE and SW But it just feel so fucking dirty.
I just called the sides East and West in the end even though they're nowhere near.
At least the rest of the IT staff could figure out east and west if we were compass oriented I would totally not feel bad about using it
Especially when you live in a roughly compass oriented grid city
I would imagine most of us Europeans would have difficulties with that. "compass oriented grid city" hasn't really been a thing here since Roman times.
Feel the love of Free Open Source Software.
Deadass. I'm so done with subscription services. They're so annoying.
For real for real
No cap
finna rizz up some FOSS contributors
I pirated everything before they decided to make everything rental only.
I assumed when I got older I'd be able to afford the software and they'd get there due.
But now they want everything to be rental and I'm not down for that.
: Side eyes Adobe CS6 Suite and Ableton:
This is me. I grew up "choose between bills and food" poor, and found alternate solutions to enjoy things. Figured that once I had the disposable income I'd stop. Sure, I did pay my way for a long time too. The thing that fucked me off the most was Netflix telling me that I couldn't share my account with a student friend of mine. I'm paying to be able to watch on 4 screens simultaneously, who the fuck is Netflix to dictate where those screens are located?
I still pay for stuff, if I feel that the service, software, what have you, deserves my money. I've paid enough for Netflix through the years so anything there is just me collecting my due.
So you are claiming the only reason that you are not paying for the software that you were previously pirating is that they switched to a paid subscription? Right
Hmm, immediately call me out for being an assjole without asking if I own all the software that's not rental?
Go troll somebody else, I don't have time for people like you.
I didn’t call you an asshole lol I just find it hard to believe someone would not just continue to pirate the software they already pirate if that remained an option
You guessed wrong, this is common.
When i was young and broke there were games that I've pirated. Played, and loved, and bought them redundantly to make up for it.
I wouldn't have played the game if I didn't.
I wish game demos were still popular.
And good and blocked bye-bye
Not everything needs a goddamn app.
Also, no I'm not gonna scan the QR code to look at the menu. Luckily, I've never had a resturant decline a request for a physical menu.
QR codes are great. Make a website that pays money to your bank account when people enter their credit card details and leave the QR code on top of other QR codes like the ones to pay for parking.
Its a crazy simple scam. Sure you might not fall for it but someone will.
Oh wow I just replied that QR codes for stuff like menus is nice, but for paying ? That is a terrible idea lol. Never seen one in the wild though.
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Also, web pages that keep trying to force you to use the app if you access them on a smartphone, but then the app only has half the functionality of the web page
Half the functionality that you see. Behind the scenes, it's working like crazy tracking everything you do.
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No subscriptions, thank you. I straight away turn down even free trial periods even if they are offered as a compensation for a CS ticket.
And when Strava automatically set a bunch of users to Premium for a while, hence showing a "paid user" icon for those users (nice marketing trick though), I removed my account.
No.Subsciptions.
I wouldn't mind renting software, if only subscription-based software was such that you only paid the money for the subscription. It would be a fine way of using something for a short term, and a fine way to get some sort of guarantee that the software is maintained.
But you'll also end up paying with your data that they sell out.
Maybe for the short term, but there is software you use every day, for years. Some android apps I have been using since 2014.
Reverse question: would you maintain a program that you wrote 11 years ago if it wasn't making you money?
I do that, so I can say “yes” with conviction.
No, but I also don't expect that as a user. It is also fine if the developer makes version 2.0 and I can decide to buy the new version or not. Before the internet this was pretty much how it worked, a new version came on a new floppy or disc you'd buy in a store.
Then again, application software wasn't cheap. Given inflation, would you pay a thousand bucks for a lifetime license of a piece of software that didn't get any updates ever?
Certainly not a Boomer complain.
The most boomer thing is getting suckered into subscription services. This is like an upside down meme. I got no strings on me. And I'm a real boy. * Pinocchio
“Of course you can use our software with a one time purchase!”
“We’ve been adding new features! To access our new features just subscribe to our premium subscription!”
“You’re still a premium member, and you have full access to our premium plan, but some of our options have changed, and to make the most of what we can offer you can subscribe to our premium gold+ plan! Try out a free 30 day trial!”
“Put your young in the payment grinder and your life and survival will not be put on the countdown timer! You need us to live, we need you to understand.”
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Fighting Oligopoly is not a "boomer complaint" they want you to say that because it legitimizes their hostile tactics and takeover.
They say fight the oligarchy because they want to maintain the oppressive capitalist system that got us in this position to begin with. Capitalism in crisis produces fascism. We go through these cycles and it's always the liberals that paved the way. Remember, they tell you what you want to hear and be careful what you wish for. I think they call it pacification. They are the masters at the sofist Uno card. Unfortunately, the likes of Bernie and AOC are really just sheep dogs.
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Use Open Source Alternatives. You don't even need to install Linux if you prefer a different operating system, just use the OS programs like Libre Office, Krita, or Gimp.
Edit: AND THEN DONATE TO THE SOFTWARE THAT YOU USE SO THEY CAN CONTINUE THE WORK.
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