What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years

  • The Baldness@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m not subscribing to anything. If I buy something, it’s fully functional, and it’s mine. There is no ongoing relationship between me and the manufacturer. Done.

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      1 year ago

      The only thing I’m willing to pay a subscription for are the essentials that have no product alternative, i.e. utilities - power, water, Internet. I refuse to pay for streaming when they used to sell DVDs and CDs with the same content. I refuse to pay for game subscription services when you used to be able to buy the games outright. I refuse to pay for software-as-a-service or bullshit like cloud service integrations for smart home stuff. If I don’t own it, I don’t buy it.

      • Swintoodles@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        At least for utilities you can reframe it as paying for parcels of utility, and then consuming them, like you do for food. Middleman bullshit like cloud services that refuse to let you just self-host can screw off. Having to spend money to spend extra resources to deal with a 3rd party is obnoxious, doubly so when they just decide they don’t want to support it anymore and pull the plug.

    • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Anything that doesn’t incur an ongoing cost to provide should be legally prohibited from being sold as a “subscription.”

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          1 year ago

          Except more and more companies are hopping on this gravy train because they can get away with it. At some point (and that point may be now already, depending on the sector), it’s going to be difficult-to-impossible to buy anything without this subscription bullshit.

          • The Baldness@beehaw.org
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            1 year ago

            We’ll find a way. Right now, I’m mostly concerned about cars. That’s going to be an interesting problem over the next few years.

    • Mackie@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I’m working on this, the subscription model has gotten so expensive now that literally everything uses it. Do you have any tips besides “just pirate everything”?

        • qprimed@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          you know, I (supposedly - you cant prove anything, mr. prosecutor) may have done this as a kid. then I hopped hardcore on to the FLOSS bandwagon and never looked back. everything I need I can find as a FLOSS package (firmware often excluded, of course). all the learning that I (supposedly) did through the “hack” as a kid now goes into writing original code and supporting open source software. FLOSS literally (may have) made an honest man out of me :-)

      • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Use free or at least alternatives without a subscription model where possible

        For cars? Just buy one that’s a bit older

        Movies etc? Pirate

        • The Baldness@beehaw.org
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          I’ve wanted an EV for years, but I’m sticking with my very old and fuel-efficient ICE car until it’s absolutely dead. At that point, I’m hoping that some model of EV emerges as the most hackable one, like the Nissan Leaf. I’ll buy a very used one of those & hack it.

      • Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately the only alternative for some things are becoming very tech literate and running an objectively worse mediocre open source software