this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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Fuck Subscriptions

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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:

Right to Repair/Ownership

Hedges Development

Privacy

Privacy Guides

DeGoogle Yourself

F-Droid

Stallman Was Right

Some other useful links:

FreeMediaHeckYeah

Louis Rossman's YouTube channel

Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:

Piped

Invidious

Nitter

Teddit

 

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[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a vintage joke that implies all the seeding of pirated torrent's a person is doing are just Linux iso's, i.e. something that is legal to share via p2p means.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Indeed. Like my 100TB collection of Linux ISO's.

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

You never know when a distro hop is in order!

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What’s your favorite Linux iso?

Is it the dragon ball z complete distro?

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm quite pleased with the Complete Blu-ray remaster of Star Trek: The Next Generation.iso

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

That’s great! I’m currently using the voyager distro, but in a bout 2 season (fall, winter) I’m going to switch to the tng distro for about 7 seasons.

Is it weird that I track time by seasons and not months or years?