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Nope. We bought a pretty dumb car. Sadly only the “entry-models” have no shit in them. At least no cloud-shit. Android-auto to not be bound to abysmal onboard-systems that require subscriptions. And that’s it.
I love tech from the depth of my heart. But in a car I want haptic buttons and dials and no 2m long touchscreens where I can only turn on the AC when I have reception 😁
The sheer idiocy of this take. Libre Office (or other open source alternatives) haven’t been around forever, and paying for software you use isn’t exactly an outlandish idea.
Just ignoring your ad-hominem… Libre’s around for 15 years. Ok, if you’re forced to use that shit due to work, you have not much choice. Except another job :) As I haven’t worked for the last 3 decades, I don’t know how much of that shitty MS still goes around. Paying, of course. But not for microsoft or most of the other US-corpos that destroy everything they touch. And even if i would be forced to pay, there are tons of grey-market OEM-keys. Get Office for some cents. If that goes extinct, buy current version for some cents. You’re legit (MS doesn’t care anyway, and never has) and cheap. Also if you’re long enough in the market to say Libre’s not been around forever, you also know that MS regularly kills products no matter how “perpetual” your license was.
It’s thinking like that that’s gotten us all-subscription options.
Nope. It is, has been, and will be just ignorance. People who don’t know better and/or don’t WANT to know better and/or simply don’t care at all. The sum of my subscription-costs comes down to vpn, usenet-indexer and usenet and the rest are monthly donations to several FOSS-projects. It’s either lifetime-deals (expecting them to end way before MY lifetime ends) or no deals. Lifetime-deals are always a gamble though.
If people willingly pay for netflix, spotify or leased cars…well, you will own nothing, rent everything and be happy. There’s a reason they can regularly raise prices and still not loose a significant portion of customers. I probably spent six-figures on steam and bandcamp/other-music-sources. Not one cent on spotify&co. And if i couldn’t afford to buy, I’d pirate it. But surely would not RENT stuff.
And there has been numerous studies over the last decades as to how piracy does NOT affect sales in any noteworthy amount.
So, how is my fuck-us-bigtech-or-pirate-stance the culprit for all-subscription-options? I’m the minority :-)
It does have it’s benefits. Clear, precise goals. In coding it’s really a good help in deciphering obscure errors, or just throwing a quick prototype you can work out then. As a hobby-coder this is good help.
But general chatting is totally not it. It just offers the illusion of having a talk, but there is none.it just tries everything to please you. Only thing that sometimes(!) Help is adding “no hallucination, if no data, say so. Verifyable facts only.” or such. Then again, its searching capabilities surpass mine obviously, so it’s still helpful at times.
But isn’t that just the definition of ignorance? I just do something I know nothing about and also don’t care to inform myself beforehand?
Like me going to the garage with my car. They could tell me whatever they want and I have to believe it. That is ignorance I pay with probably spiced up bills of things I never needed.
Indeed. Especially those that don’t understand the tool they’re using (or better: are being used by)
since its usually not the victim that actively tries to end up in the shitter but the perpetrator that actively attempts to exploit them.
Fair point. I stand corrected. Guess I wash a bit too harsh in judgement.
Victim-blaming to me seems inherently ignorant in itself. How does one even come up with the idea of blaming someone whos the victim of the crime?
Touché. That was indeed ignorant of me.
And that’s why I always self-hosted. In the 80s out of necessity and since the internet out of an anti-cloud-sentiment. My archive is many many terabytes of images, videos, emails, complete website-rips (before archive.org) and whatnot since the last 40 years. Triple backed up.
Either the site gets backed, or you, or they enshittify and lock you in forever.
As usual, confidently told until you start questioning your sanity 😁
I never paid for a single Microsoft product.
I get your point but why is ignorance to be accepted but corpo behavior isn’t? I mean sure, fuck MS for that, but who is really surprised by a US-company enshittifying their already bad crap? Can only be people who don’t really know what they’re doing there. Which is ignorance.
Your example kinda lacks in the regard that everyone needs insurance but noone needs Microsoft office. Otherwise same point (assuming there’d be a good free healthcare alternative): if you died because you’re ignorant to the things that matter in this world, and you refused to educate or inform yourself beforehand… Well?
If I leave my front door wide open, I can’t be surprised when someone comes in and robs me blind. Just because I don’t know burglaries exist.
Doesn’t change my point. Why pay for it? Either just use it for free or get libreoffice. If I pay a thing from a corpo like MS, behavior like that is totally to be expected. Why even be surprised?
Well, you’re not wrong, but who the heck buys a “perpetual” license for a Microsoft product unless it’s for a company? And especially why pay for stupid boost water office if you could have libre for free?
If it’s not stupidity then at least ignorance. Doesn’t mean Microsoft is an arse for doing that.
I’d guess it’s mostly young, easily influenceable boys from poorer surroundings and with a not yet refined taste in music. “Refined” not meant condescending but in the sense of diversification: “I know 5 movies. Those are the greatest movies ever!”. And “I now know 50000 movies. Those 5 10/10 from before are now the worst 5 movies ever”.
Ah, thanks for doing what I should’ve done :-)
And that’s why you should always have a can of PerriAir at home!
That’s because we nearly all live in societies that vastly favor the dark triad (or tetrad). Those traits are the worst humanity has to offer, but also you will find it in most people of wealth and/or power.
I’d guess the majority of people just want peace, love and harmony. But that shit is unprofitable.
Consoles are PCs, but that is totally irrelevant as they’re walled gardens with just a super-tiny fraction of all games there are.
You can’t narrow a definition to a limited subsection of what a PC is, simply because (ironically), some of them are locked down to block competiton
Of course one could. If you say “I’m PC-gamer” everyone knows you’re not on PlayStation or a smartphone. Despite them all, including wearables and my toaster, are kinda PCs.
If you ask gamers unprompted what the biggest gaming stores are, I guarantee that Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo’s stores will be mentioned
Mentioned of course. On top? I doubt it, but also lack data to prove it. Or the opposite. I know those stores too, despite only having had a console in the 80s (the Atari 2600) and a gameboy for a week.
Xbox might be a bit different, as to my knowledge, as you can also game their stuff on PC too with the same license.
Forced at gunpoint to get a console, it surely be steam deck. And I don’t even like steam. But it’s A) more than just a store. It’s a gargantuan gaming a community around a store. B) it made gaming on Linux totally viable
Thanks for saving me from looking it up 😊
Most people don’t even know what steam is
Maybe those who don’t own a PC but only ever knew consoles. Everyone else sure does know steam.
But that probably proved your point, if you made a pedo pissed at you 😉
Yeah of course our car does not run on love and solar energy :) I totally don’t worry about some tech, i worry about connected cars. Which only unavoidably leads to subscriptions for everything and tons of privacy problems.