Aren't the blue checks part of a subscription model?
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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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 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?
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?
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 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:
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
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
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.
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