Use and support open source where ever possible
Actually supporting open source looks a lot like a subscription service. I donate monthly to a handful of projects that I use regularly.
You will own nothing, and be happy about it. Welcome to capitalism.
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Boomer? Thats just a HUMAN complaint!
Finding economic rents is the core of capitalism. It’s so iconic even Adam Smith railed against it
Fighting Oligopoly is not a “boomer complaint” they want you to say that because it legitimizes their hostile tactics and takeover.
And we all know a Boomer would complain for the oligopoly.
Falling into the boomer and whole generational strife fallacy is basically falling for oligarchic propaganda. Intergenerational strife makes people forget that the actual enemy is the oligarchy.
The only Boomers I talk these days are old hippies and they would disagree.
Don’t generalize old people. Its irritating and aggravates our sciatica.
I’m a Xoomer and my knees just clicked.
Well sadly if the only boomers left alive were old hippies that would be tolerable.
Old people overwhelmingly support hate and right wing governments, and we won’t generalize. This is the generation who sold off our planet for a quick profit, and doomed our species.
I encourage you to get to work on the systemic issues outside your control so that in 50 years you won’t feel guilty. By the numbers, Gen Z men are supporting right ring autocrats so I ponder if ignorance is a better excuse than apathy.
They say fight the oligarchy because they want to maintain the oppressive capitalist system that got us in this position to begin with. Capitalism in crisis produces fascism. We go through these cycles and it’s always the liberals that paved the way. Remember, they tell you what you want to hear and be careful what you wish for. I think they call it pacification. They are the masters at the sofist Uno card. Unfortunately, the likes of Bernie and AOC are really just sheep dogs.
I don’t see how that’s a “boomer” complaint lol I’m a millennial and don’t know anyone that’s excited to pay monthly fees for something they already bought
Yeah. The subscription model really only took off during GenZ.
There was a joke about “rethinking the Microsoft model” in a 2005 episode of The Office. The move to subscription based software has been in the works for 25 years or more.
This has been the goal of Microsoft for 20 years, like you stated. Bill Gates stated it. We’re just now to the point of ubiquitous internet connectivity, and cultural conditioning to accept this model.
Windows itself is eventually going to be a subscription service, with all your data saved on Microsoft’s servers. Microsoft announced at the end of last year a dumb Office terminal that does just this, to test the waters.
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not only that, but people usually use boomer, in this context, to say that the complaint is stupid, or selfish, or something
the gradual loss of ownership is a real fucking issue
In the future, you’ll own nothing and like it!
Wait, you guys own something?
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“Boomer” has lost all meaning. It has just become an empty counter for when you disagree with someone but you lack the emotional intelligence to have an actual discussion about something other the superficial.
I’ve always blamed Adobe for the subscription mess, and that started in the early 00’s.
My vintage copy of Adobe CS6 needs knee surgery at this point.
Because that’s when the infrastructure started getting developed to support that model
And no gen-Z is happy about this model or pushing its use. It’s mostly being pushed by Gen-X and Boomer executives as a further mode of profit extraction in our rentier economic system.
Sure, we’ll just wait for the gen-Z executives to roll it al back then right? It’ll never happen, this is a money thing, not a generation thing.
that’s the point I was trying to make
Most boomers don’t even use any paid software aside from Windows and an antivirus they got tricked into buying
It’s because a lot of boomers own their homes and the concept of rent is foreign to them.
The thing is, you never really “own” your home. Don’t pay your property taxes, and see what happens. You just pay less when the mortgage loan is paid off.
I really don’t understand why people call themselves homeowners when they are paying off a 30 year mortgage.
Feels like rent with extra steps.
I mean it depends on whether they actually pay it off. Many boomers were able to leverage the explosion in housing prices into paying off their cheap mortgages ahead of time. The boomer success metric is actually based on this principle. Buy a $150k house in 1998. Sell it in 2018 for $450k. The mortgage is irrelevant.
The obvious problem with this is that it completely fucks over the next generation.
I blame iPhone and Android apps that required developers to keep paying a $100 minimum yearly fee to keep an app in the App Store.
There were tons $1-$5 apps in the early days of the stores, but 3-4 years in they switched to either freemium subscriptions or adware (or ad ransom models). Usually as publishers bought out indie devs, if they just didn’t copy them anyway.
Because software needs to be maintained. Well at least most software that has a subscription model is maintained and gets regular updates. People don’t work for free, you have to pay them
That’s the result of a fucked business model. Many software devs came and went prior to the subscription model. Technofeudalism is not wanted by anyone but the software publishers.
To them, it’s the perfect business model. Keep you customers in perpetual debt, and dependent.
I don’t think you can compare software from like 20 years ago to software today.
Things got way more complicated and applications require a lot more work
If that’s a boomer complaint then hell yes I’m a fucking boomer! Fuck your subscription!
It is definitely not a boomer complaint, man’s not paying like 2 bills a month for 10 different subscriptions for the newest shit hollywood productions only for the one tv show I want to be unavailable across all of them smh 🤦♂️
Picard would be ashamed.
they just need to outlaw subscription based services on services that don’t need it.
And no continuous support is not a valid subscription reason, if you want to charge support separate that’s fair to do but this pay 60$ a year “because it’s a continuous development” needs to go away.
Same with the “pay a rent for a building”, it’s just money drain. Being a landlord should not be allowed to be for profit, and should be heavily regulated. If you wanna rent? Sure, but at max it should be equivalent to costs the building has, and restricted to only apartment complexes. So annoying that you can’t find property anymore to actually /own/ because a handful of rental companies can just write a blank check and buy it all.
if you want to charge support separate that’s fair to do but this pay 60$ a year “because it’s a continuous development” needs to go away
Can i pay extra to not have continuous updates that often breaks shit?
Protest with your wallet. Open source and self hosted communities living real chill right now.
This is the answer. If you pay for software you have only yourself to blame. I pay for email because I don’t feel like dealing with it. Everything else is open source and/or selfhosted.
Certainly not a Boomer complain.
The most boomer thing is getting suckered into subscription services. This is like an upside down meme. I got no strings on me. And I’m a real boy. * Pinocchio
Looking at you, Adobe. Creative cloud has sucked so much from me, but I need it for work.
I remember back in the day the year 2000 something I was willing to pay like fucking $400 for that shit, but I kept it forever. Now, I just question why I even bother with a with Photoshop. Wait a second, I don’t. I’m a man. I use gimp. Most of the features they offer are fucking stupid. Art and design is subtle and it is made for humans by Humans. I think these fucking ad agencies are gonna have to learn the hard way. Not that the herd is going to all of a sudden be a bunch of badass punk rockers, but people are just not going to be susceptible to it anymore. And then where do they go? I look at advertising nowadays and it’s just so gross and unappealing. And like, I have a hair trigger. Like, everything I am experiencing, I know is somehow a fucking lie. I move slower nowadays with my purchases and usually some form of verification like a human being is needed for me to buy. And just a side note, I use to think people that were suck asses and just, you know, tooted the horn of corporate America acted like robots. And I think it’s kind of funny that they’re being replaced with robots. like you’re a tool and now you’re being replaced by a tool. The whole model really is just lower the bar and shoehorn in nonsense. lowest common denominator thinking and when they corner the market who else are you gonna go to or just give up on it entirely and say fuck it …I hate suck asses. They’re nothing but a bunch of goddamn phonies.
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.
FOSS users pay zero times.
Though hopefully contribute in other ways, like code improvements (not necessarily to every project:-).
