My old person trait is that I think βghostingβ is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.
I think that a basic lifestyle should be affordable for a basic person
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iβm gonna go one further:
i think everybody should be allowed to live a decent enough life, whether they can work or not.
Iβll go even further and say that meeting the needs of a population is the only point of having a society at all.
I donβt think that is an old person trait. You are just secretly Nordic.
My OPT is that you should be able to buy and own your software instead of perpetually renting it.
My old person trait is that I think we need less acronyms
That said I do agree with you
My old person trait is to inform people that they meant to say βfewer.β
Come to open sourceβ¦ you donβt have to rent or buy software. Find yourself a good alternative.
Thanks!
Iβve been a happy Linux user since 99 and Mandrake was my first distro π
Still, the only piece of (subscription-based) software thatβs keeping me from deleting the windows partition: Premiere pro π€‘
Thanks for that link. Honestly. I think an old thing is that Iβve gotten used to convenience and a going through a list like that sometimes doesnβt seem worth the time even though I know deep down that it is.
You gotta get on that private tracker shit. Public trackers are always terrible and are more risky.
Iβm not sure if the Lemmy piracy instance has an Open Signups thread, but might be a good idea to keep an eye out. Itβs worth it.
Iβm so goddamned sick of Microsoft and its greedy bullshit. I just looked at a recent KB update from them and the article must have breathlessly mentioned the word βsubscriptionβ 50 times.
After years of being a MS corporate stooge type, I finally started messing around with LibreOffice. It can read MS Office files. Check it out if you havenβt already.
You can. I think itβs called βpirate bayβ, but donβt quote me on that. ;)
Not sure if youβre joking or not, but just in caseβ¦ stop downloading media manually. Look into Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr. You can self-host on any PC using Docker.
My old person trait is that none of the things mentioned in the linked image happened on accident.
They happened because capitalism doesnβt give a fuck about anything except bleeding as much money as conceivably possible out of each and every human.
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Apps allow companies to suck more data out of your device than a website, allowing them to sell more of your data and⦠make more money.
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Video games needing access to the internet is simply Digital Rights Management and a way to prevent piracy andβ¦ make more money. Remember, most companies view something pirated as a βlost sale,β not that you would have never purchased it to begin with. As Gabe Newell once said:
βWe think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,β he said. βIf a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirateβs service is more valuable."
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This one speaks for itself. Being able to be in control of the products you buy is freedom. Having products controlled remotely by a corporation is giving them carte blanche to make more money off of you.
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Removing accessible customer service means more people will just give up on trying to get their problem solved, effectively allowing the company to steal from people and⦠shocker⦠make more money.
I agree, in theory, in respect to ghosting, but we live in a society that teaches us to be isolated, and doesnβt teach interpersonal skills unless the interpersonal skill is βFuck you, got mine.β (which is, not surprisingly, a thing about making more money.)
In other words, these arenβt old people opinions. These are βIβm not gonna let capitalism absolutely fuck me endlesslyβ opinions.
Where do I sign up to buy the awards around here?
Kiddingβ¦great post, tho
In terms of piracy, I wonder how much could be prevented by having demos, like Factorio does
Demos used to be everywhere back in the day! I think they have a huge impact, because itβs a way to try to play a game without dumping all the money on it without knowing what the gameplay is like and if its actually fun.
When I was a kid, DOOM having the first episode of the game available as shareware was huge and I used to walk to my friends place after school and watch him play until he would get bored and let me play for a while.
From an old interview in 1999 with John Carmack about this very subject (emphasis mine):
Carmack: DOOM 2 was explicitly a commercial release. We sort of half heartedly did some shareware distribution with Quake, but I think the industry has almost unanimously decided that the three or so level demo is the best test vehicle.
A lot of people consider themselves to have βfinished DOOMβ when they just finished the shareware episode.
Funny how Steam has been making sales and events around demos for a while (called Next Fests) and some games absolutely blow up out of nowhere thanks to them.
Also some people think FF16 having a demo was some weird, oddball marketing move by Square Enix, except they have been making βtry now, continue laterβ demos for games since Bravely Default.
I think cars should not be dependent on a touch screen for ANY of itβs functions (or really have one at all). They are more difficult to use than tactile buttons, distracting, and do not receive long term support from the OEM.
What do you do with a 10 year old car that runs but the touch screen nuked due to age, firmware bugs or mechanical damage? Ford isnβt going to be selling replacement units 10 years later and I have yet to see an βinfotainmentβ system that has aftermarket replacement considerations.
Totally agree with this one.
I drive an old 06 and I much prefer using the the physical buttons to adjust things like music, volume, air settings. Even prefer using it to back up and having to use my mirrors and look back.
My '18 vehicle is all touch screen, cameras,etc. While the a/c functions better and I donβt feel like my fillings are going to fall out from all the rattles and bumps, I find there is a real disconnect. I am even asked by others why I lean over and look at the back window when reversing.
I work in tech and I donβt trust tech.
βIf you think technology will solve your problems, you donβt understand technologyβand you donβt understand your problems.β - Bruce Schneier
Yeah, I have the same experience: if youβve worked long enough in Tech you know its limitations and all the ways it can go wrong hence being a bit skeptical about βhighβ-tech solutions for things which work fine already with βlowβ-tech.
Also, youβre well aware that deep down itβs still people having made all the decisions about how it works, only itβs people one level away from end-users (people doing stuff directly for people see how actual recipients of the services react and respond, people doing stuff which then does stuff for people, do not) so the design is often worse when there is Tech in the middle. This explains the fashion-following fad of using of touch screens in cars for functions that are interacted with when a person is driving and supposed to be looking at the road.
I spent a decade as am automotive locksmith, and watching things regularly fail on cars that passed through my shop has made me terrified with the touch screen. I cannot imagine replacing one of those and how easily first parties can lock replacement behind getting it done at one of their shops.
βWait, who are you? How did you get in my car?β
One of the many reasons I am glad I donβt own a car. Touchscreens are only useful for navigation stuff, everything else should be with physical buttons so you could operate it without looking away from the road for even a fraction of a second.
Yep. 100% agree. My new-ish Toyota RAV4 strikes an acceptable balance with touch screen vs real buttons/knobs. I donβt think anything critical is on the touch screen except maybe the equalizer. The touch screen isnβt massive either, but big enough to have a useful backup camera display.
My old person trait is that when I purchase a printer, I should be able to use whatever is the cheapest compatible ink without the printer treating me like Iβm smuggling unicorn blood out of Narnia