this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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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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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3882090

Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.

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[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If your consulting skills are on par with your reading comprehension skills I am not afraid in the slightest.

Just to clarify, there is the IT director and then there's me and then there's all of the other it employees in the entire company (about 50 people).

And we don't hire jackass consultants who barely managed to get their GED and had to be dragged out of their mother's basement to show up and make fun of us.

We actually laugh when your sales people call us thinking that they're going to make a quick buck doing some bullshit work that we've already got under control.

[–] satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. Do you throw a tantrum over everything? Or just stuff that you don't understand?

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you just seek out strangers on the internet to cause of being redundant validate your own fragile self worth?

[–] satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I'm confused about that middle part there. I get the idea though.