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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but affected macs that are still running office 2019 have serria or high serria, and can't run libreoffice (current requires os11)
The cybersecurity part of my life would say that one shouldn't run an unpatched and EOL operating system and install Linux but yeah I guess if people wants to run old insecure software and hold on to microsoft that sucks I guess.
i've got someone here clinging to winme of all things. it's only just this year started to be a 'problem', i.e. not allow him to do something he wants to.
that's not even the dumbest part.
he got a replacement years ago--that's literally still new-in-box. that new pc has sat unopened and unused for its windows' entire service life.
the old coot lives too far away for me to go help. i keep asking him to bring it all to me to see what's what, but he hasn't yet.
Yet another reason, I aint got a mac.
Can't they just run an older version of LibreOffice?
I think you meant sierra...