I pirate everything, own everything and I'm happy as fuck. I even share my Jellyfin server with 20 other people so they can share in my joy.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
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the only things in life im happy owning is my home, my transportation and my informatics
Can someone explain the "be happy" part of the "you'll own nothing and be happy" quote? I fail to see what is there to be happy about.
It came from a speaker a few years ago at the Davos World Economic Forum. Davos is where the ultra rich gather each year to plot out how to be even more evil.
I feel like someone needs to point out that this saying is often conflated with the idea of 15 minute cities.
The idea of 15 minute cities is that people want their amenities within 15 minutes so they don’t have to drive.
It is not an idea to keep you confined and take away your ownership of things.
I'm not OP but I think it means "Providers are saying consumers should accept subscription-based models without complaint"
Currently I have hbo max free with my phone plan, plex on nas and my local library. I also have YouTube music family plan, but I started putting songs on nas recently, maybe I’ll replace that too.
"If buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing."
I heard this before and it is becoming more true each day.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!
Can we get communism already?
Makes me wanna throw out my hp printer I bearly use.
Edit: the printer was discovered broken lol
Brother. Get a Brother.
Oh yeah my idea
You should. The next time you want to use it, it'll probably do some bullshit. Better to be rid of it now than be coerced into giving HP money in the future. If you need a printer, replace it with whatever Brother laser printer is on sale at the moment.
we need some kind of "subscribers bill of rights" both to discourage and to check the stupid business models.
It won't make any difference. There's a gamers Bill of Rights that nobody remembers. It was produced by the owner of a company that now ignores that it ever existed.
I’m not sure what the logical outcome of this escalating arms race of enshittification will be, but as a career Sysadmin I’ve been able to avoid a LOT of this bullshit through self hosting, which is something a (Non-tech nerd) layman isn’t going to bother with, for as long as existing products (and their subscriptions) are still within “tolerable” levels.
But the thing is, a lot of the convenience with computing devices today didn’t exist in the 90’s, when it was more common for young normies to have what would be considered above average computer technical skills today.
When the entire market turns into inescapable subscriptions, the market for a non-technical friendly appliance box, like Synology came close to doing, shows up to corner the market on hardware you can own and run your own shit on with minimal headaches and no subscriptions.
To the extent you are able to (particularly if trying to stay legal).
So for streaming content, much of that isn't available to 'buy' at all. Even for the stuff you can "buy", technically speaking in many jurisdictions it's not legal to be able to rip your DVD or Blu Rays or remove DRM from a digital download.
For certain software, on-premise editions have been abolished or priced into the stratosphere because they don't want that market to exist anymore. Some of that software has competent alternatives, but sometimes your choice is dictated by your clients and partners, and opting for a less compatible or merely perceived as less compatible option is a non starter. Even among on-premise editions, a lot of software vendors have switched to still having it by subscription as the only legal way to keep using it. Again, maybe for those software you can get away by breaking the law as a workaround, but legally...
This is of course assuming the conversation narrowly applies to software type things. Everyone is also rebranding 'leasing' as 'as a service' and are copying much of the software playbook, for the same reasons, including making purchase of equipment more expensive to steer people toward the 'as a service' revenue strategy.
Then going beyond the 'tech' industry, it's getting really hard to buy a house rather than rent it from some company that has been pouring money into acquiring all the available real estate.
In short, people with the money to spend can't be arsed to inconvenience themselves with self hosting or 'alternative' sources.
Folk without the money find a way through perceived necessity and maybe learn something on the way.
Then there's people with the money and the know-how who are just looking to save or do so on principle.
Younger generations grow up with subscriptions and black boxes that are not ultimately under their own control, and lack the knowledge to change it.
It's a sad state of affairs, but their tolerance for ads and subscription slop keeps attention away from people like me.
Counterpoint - younger generations grow up in the same poverty as their parents (so that any subscriptions are unlikely) and even if they don't - their media needs may not fully align with what their parents would buy. So children in my experience do find ways to pirate. Maybe not the best ways, but still.
It's a good point.
I'd hazard a guess that they are more in the minority than before though. Closest I have seen is friend-of-a-friend referrals for nominal cost pirate IPTV services that provide cable channels & movies. Even then they are paid, and most invite trouble by just going at it without a VPN. Current going rate is £50 for a year here - bring your own Fire stick.
Funny you should mention Synology though, ours is running an Emby server for media here. Having everything properly catalogued (and presented with flair) is fantastic.
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