Fuck Subscriptions
Naming and shaming all "recurring spending models" where a one-time fee (or none at all) would be appropriate and logical.
Expect use of strong language.
Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.
No flamewars or attacking other users, unless they're spineless corporate shills.
Note that not all subscriptions are awful. Supporting your favorite ~~camgirl~~ creator or Lemmy server on Patreon is fine. An airbag with subscription is irl Idiocracy-level dystopian bullshit.
New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.
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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:
Some other useful links:
Louis Rossman's YouTube channel
Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:
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Two words: Libre Office
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Also, if anyone out there's wanting to learn about other ways to get away from paying for subs, I did a series of videos on this earlier this year.
Any chance you have a text version?
EDIT: Posted the text list of the alternatives lower in the thread.
Yes. The description in each video has chapters in the description telling you application or software names, for the TLDW crowd.
But I can write up a quick list if you life. Happy to do it.
A text version where I don't need to load any video seems a lot more useful. Not that your face isn't adorable.
Okay, here's the abridged version of my 'Stop Paying For' series. I hope something here is new to you and helps you give the billionaires a kick in the dick. Happy to write it out because I hate billionaires that much, but if this is useful to anyone out there, I'd appreciate a like on one of my videos. Being a small creator who vocally supports FOSS/alternative apps is tough.
Euro Alternative Apps (To Divest from US Apps)
Spotify Alternatives
Cheaper Video Games
Netflix Alternatives
FOSS Software
if you're not afraid to give winks towards piracy - in Netflix alternatives i'd also include Stremio. the base app is fully legal, and kinda useless, but with just one plugin (torrentio) it replaces all streaming services
I wish I could send users a dollar as easily as hitting the updoot button. Keep being awesome.
Happy to help. Thank you for the kind words!
Have a like on all your videos...
I've been OOL for awhile, is LO the new hotness and OO is out?
From Wikipedia:
"Oracle OpenOffice" is a discontinued office productivity suite. Originally acquired by Oracle through their purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2009, the project was officially discontinued in 2011 when Oracle laid off the development team and donated the code to the Apache Software Foundation.
The Fork to LibreOffice: In 2010, the majority of the original volunteer developers left Oracle to form The Document Foundation, creating a fork named LibreOffice. LibreOffice has since become the standard, actively maintained open-source office suite.
Yes that is correct. You have been out of the loop for a very long time.
I got sucked into 10+ years of Microsoft-centric corpo gigs. Womp.
Except libreoffice is pretty crap. Especially their spreadsheet program.
They're looking to optimize the project for collaborative working, browsers and smartphones. I reckon the UI might see some modernization, as well.
https://www.heise.de/news/Kurswechsel-LibreOffice-fuer-Browser-und-Smartphone-kommt-11309343.html
Alternatively, Euro-Office could be of interest. It's going to be much more modern and is to ship with most of the comfort Microsoft Office has. Euro-Office is a reviewed and improved OnlyOffice (a Russian project) fork. It was forked to avoid potential Russian influence on it. The first stable version will be available from June 9th 2026, next week. Not finished yet, though.
https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/euro-office-europaeische-alternative-zu-office365-startet-am-09-juni.97589/
Sources in German, apologies.
I tried using LibreOffice Calc when I was working on my OSCP and some of the basic functionality was so broken it was almost laughable. I think my text was pasting in as an image sometimes? I forget the exact details but it was unusable for my purposes and I decided to try again in a few years.
open office kinda went out when oracle took them over. yeah it was handed to apache but by that time libre was the standard.
apache has all but let openoffice go. there's, i think, like one guy that works on it occasionally.
Yeah. No offense (because not everyone can pay attention to everything, for various reasons), but it's been the most popular open-source office suite for at least the past decade.