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And there are people who just pay for it, which blows my mind. Companies wouldn't do it if there wasn't money to be had. So now we get nickel and dimed so these corporations can get a steady stream of income rather than providing good quality products.

Apps are really notorious for it. What used to be a 10$ app now they expect subscriptions that amount to 60$ or more a year with no real noteworthy changes in service.

Calorie counting apps, for example, have been doing the same thing for over a decade now with little change besides cosmetic upgrades and "AI".

Want to heat your car seats? That's a suspension. Want to use your car's radio? Another subscription. Get a higher mileage count to the gallon? Subscription.

I liked the look of KDE plasma and used it when I first started with Linux but it is a buggy mess and extremely bloated. It feels like it's stuck trying to be Windows 7 aero.

As for NV I use Nvidia as well and I haven't had any issues on CachyOS with Nvidia's actual "open" drivers (not neuveau)

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So it's either we destroy our masters or we allow our children to destroy our societies and who could blame the kids? There's a reason why things are the way they are. Older men are dating younger women. I wonder why this is. Maybe it's because their wallets are more mature. And what am I supposed to do? Be angry at women? Get real. One of the reasons why we have so many young men who are incels is because of employment issues. Yet some forms of feminism specifically libturd females who Love castrating males and rubbing shit in their face, blaming it on rightwing populism, but populism is capitalism in crisis. We are still in fucking denial. The violence that is directed towards women is directly correlated with socioeconomics and stupid fucking Judeo-Christian values. Now I know correlation is not causation. But shit, it's got a relationship.. Now just because people do these things and there is a bad economy doesn't justify their actions but I am wise enough to know that I am a product of my environment. Look at all of these familicides that happen in our country yet we got these dumbass oinker shit rags making $200,000 plus a year and they are forming deputy gangs emboldened to the point where they're chasing ink with their gang tattoos. The Catholic Church and the police are very similar in that they just shuffle around these reprobates. I don't leave the house much only for what I need to do, the basic necessities of life. But when I do, I usually take a drive on a Sunday where all those that want to ignore our problems are in their homes sheltered buying shit on Amazon and I drive around and I look at all the people that are pushing shopping carts. Not like animals in the zoo, I'm just trying to see the temperature and where we're at. It's not looking good. Sometimes in life there are no easy answers. We live in the paradox, a open air prison, where we don't understand what's going on in the black box. If we could get inside that black box, we could turn the dials like the Wizard of Oz, and all these stupid social fucking ills would just automatically just disappear, at least at the rate that they are now. The German population hated themselves and that's why they invented the undesirables. Now you as a civilization have an option. You either start having respect for yourself or you're going to create a system that executes the undesirables while failing to realize that one day you might be an undesirable. Now it's kind of like a slow even burn, but pretty soon this system is going to open up the komono, come on out and start swinging dick. Are you ready to send your children to die for a billionaire's cock? Are you ready to be conscripted? because it's gonna happen and they're gonna start dropping nukes. You're also going to see false flag events happening in your own country, but yet you think I'm a tin foil hat man and I think you're an idiot that doesn't understand history. There is no fucking war but the class war. The left and right paradigm is a byproduct of kicking the can. And the paradoxes that we live in are really fake. So when your grandpappy got some old man knowledge. Just remember, his brain doesn't work like it used to. https://www.theviolenceproject.org/

Time to start growing our own food. People buying groceries on klarna, after pay etc is already happening

Had me eating the onion until the third paragraph

I love potatoes and cabbage personally. But this is still scarily accurate and possible.

Kroger can come eat what I flush every morning.

I'm glad to see you mention that, I was going to make a similar comment. I figure it's a message that's probably well understood here on the fediverse, but outside of this space not so much.

I think there's also an argument to be made for charging subscriptions based on overall maintenance needs. Upgrades, updates, bug fixes, and things of that nature take time and can also cost money.

However, overall, there are way too many subscription based apps that just don't seem justified. If I buy version 2.3 of AppXYZ, and as long as I stick to that version nor need any online functionality, I just don't see a valid excuse for a subscription, other than pure greed on the developers' part.

Right, but the problem with FOSS is a that it usually moves slow, typically isn't very user friendly, and has no real support from devs most of the time.