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[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago

Aren't the blue checks part of a subscription model?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago

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

[–] Merva 1 points 44 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

Feel the love of Free Open Source Software.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Deadass. I'm so done with subscription services. They're so annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

finna rizz up some FOSS contributors

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

: Side eyes Adobe CS6 Suite and Ableton:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

You guessed wrong, this is common.

[–] bitwolf 2 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago

And good and blocked bye-bye

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Half the functionality that you see. Behind the scenes, it's working like crazy tracking everything you do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

The app is usually just a PWA with extra side code to mine your phone.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe for the short term, but there is software you use every day, for years. Some android apps I have been using since 2014.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Reverse question: would you maintain a program that you wrote 11 years ago if it wasn't making you money?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Certainly not a Boomer complain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“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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[–] BomberMan9865 37 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Fighting Oligopoly is not a "boomer complaint" they want you to say that because it legitimizes their hostile tactics and takeover.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If a software is not important, why would I pay for it?

If a software is important, maybe I could pay for it.

If a software is REALLY IMPORTANT, then I have no choice but to keep using it, at which point I can't possibly subject myself to the long term risk associated with a licensed piece of software. A free software is the only viable option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Our country runs off the buying and selling of nonsense. If we truly want to make America great again, we've got to get back to work, doing things that make fucking sense, not that revolve around the billionaires' cock. These rich idiots have cornered the market that anything that actually makes sense never makes it to the surface. All the ideas that make it to our plate are nothing but coke-induced delusional garbage from out of touch clowns. They always say it can never be done. But if you look back in the day like I say the Cold War era, we did make it to the moon, but now we can't even tie our shoes. We're running on fumes the billionaire leaning over to smell his own brand, wafting in his own essence of nonsense. Like I'm not a military boy, but if you look into the whole issue with the military and the right to repair I mean all these people that toot the horn of stupidity are gonna get fucked too Like we won't be able to win a war because we can't afford it because the private companies won't let us repair our own equipment. I mean that's some dumb fuckery cuckery. Things have gotten so absurd that you don't even need to appeal to morals, but just use juxtaposition and point out contradiction. Like we're so far gone.

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