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Just learned that POCKET will shut down in July 2025. It is a great service to collect articles on various devices and read later on a tablet & offline.

Which alternatives are out there?

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Here's the old page:

Here's the link: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/

Credit to @[email protected] for the post.

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I removed the link to the article, since the article is on Medium, and Medium is becoming a shithole too. So here is the article. It was written by JA Westenberg and she's at https://www.joanwestenberg.com/

Subscription payments are the best thing that ever happened to software companies. And they’re arguably the worst thing that ever happened to their customers.

When I started as an aspiring digital artist in the early 2000s, saving up to purchase software like Adobe Photoshop felt like an investment — once bought, it was mine to use indefinitely. I remember putting away dollars from my paper route to buy my first copy as a kid, already dreaming about my future as a creator.

Later, as a teenager working at McDonald’s, I repeated the ritual of patient saving until I could finally purchase music production software such as Ableton Live. Owning those tools outright meant using them freely without worrying about ongoing costs. My creative output wasn’t bound to what I could afford month-to-month.

Now, companies like Adobe solely offer subscriptions — monthly fees and essentially renting in perpetuity. We no longer own our software; we pay a licensing fee.

This gives us access to regular updates, but it also means the sword of Damocles hangs over creatives — miss a payment, lose access. The freedom of creation I once relished has been supplanted by nagging financial anxiety. I miss the days when the tools felt like mine, not someone else’s borrowed goods, and when I didn’t open up a tool and wonder how much longer I’d be able to keep using it.

The Drawbacks for Customers Here’s the drawback. If I live as long as I want, paying for Photoshop every month will be very, very bloody expensive.

Yes, subscriptions provide convenience and access to varied services and products. But convenience just isn’t enough.

Psychologically, subscriptions drive overconsumption. Our paychecks are eaten away in advance before we realise how many 30-day free trials and monthly tithes we’ve committed ourselves to. And while the subscriptions seem small enough on paper, their cumulative cost is straining the budget for consumers and creatives.

We’re told repeatedly that it’s just the price of one coffee a month, but the combined cost of every single tool, service, app and game demanding one coffee a month becomes the equivalent of paying for enough caffeine to poison even the strongest constitution.

The proliferation of subscription services has led to increasing fragmentation of content. As platforms vie for customer attention, consumers confront myriad fragmented options, each requiring an individual subscription. This results in higher costs for accessing content and a disempowering user experience of juggling multiple platforms and subscriptions. The promised convenience of subscriptions is eroded, leaving customers questioning the true benefits.

It’s easy to understand why company after company is shifting their model. The allure of stability is compelling, and subscription payment models provide just that for businesses. Rather than relying on sporadic one-time purchases, companies can enjoy consistent, predictable revenue streams month after month thanks to loyal subscribers. This stable financial base allows businesses to plan for and invest in future growth, pleasing investors and looking good on paper. But that stability is hardly a victory for users who just want good software and aren’t particularly interested in quarterly earnings reports.

Customer loyalty is the holy grail for companies, and in theory, subscriptions foster (aka coerce) enduring relationships with customers, reducing the risk of losing them to competitors. This is achieved through the “lock-in effect,” where the convenience and perceived value of continuing a subscription discourages customers from seeking alternatives.

But instead of using the foundation of a subscription to cultivate long-term relationships and capitalize on increased customer lifetime value, companies treat users like a Sure Thing, taking them for granted and adding little in terms of value to justify the monthly fee.

There’s a popular argument that subscription payment models championed entrepreneurs and startups, levelling the playing field in an industry historically dominated by major players. It allows smaller companies to enter the marketplace with minimal upfront costs and directly compete with industry giants. But when all these startups want to do is sell more subscription services, it starts to seem at least a little Ponzi-esque.

And then there’s the unfortunate reality that when the economy is tanking, rents are going up, housing is unattainable, food is an arm and a leg, and it’s too expensive to put petrol in the car, more than a few users are going to look at the laundry list of adorably vowel-averse SaaS startups they keep throwing their money at and ask whether they actually need them. There’s a perfectly good email app that comes pre-installed on their phones. The same goes for the To-Do list and Notes apps. At some point, the subscription creep stops making sense.

The ongoing commitment of subscriptions is a massive burden, limiting our flexibility to adapt our spending as needs change. This financial load becomes a significant barrier to achieving financial well-being. We’re stuck in a subscription payment hamster wheel. And something is going to have to give.

Companies recognizing the potential drawbacks of subscriptions have started innovating within the model. Some offer flexible subscription options, allowing customers to pay for services or products on a usage basis. Others are exploring bundled subscriptions, providing diverse content or services at a reduced cost. These approaches address customer concerns while maintaining business benefits by prioritising customer value and flexibility.

But they’re still dodging around one simple fact. The best way for consumers to access software is to buy an app that does what they need and then choose whether or not to upgrade to the next version later. It’s a model that doesn’t require a spreadsheet of monthly expenses to wrangle alongside gas, electricity and medical bills. Although I’m sure there’s a subscription-based app to make it all easier. Roughly the cost of a coffee a month?

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Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday night.

The gunman, named by police as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, approached a group of four people leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire, killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

Metropolitan police chief Pamela Smith said the shooter had been pacing outside the museum, which is steps away from the FBI’s field office, before the shooting.

After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

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Hello,

I can't do anything that implies the use of dpkg or apt. No matter what i do, i get the same message (on french).

stem@stem-kubuntu:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Vous pouvez lancer « apt --fix-broken install » pour corriger ces problèmes.
Impossible de satisfaire les dépendances : 
 libkf5textedittexttospeech1 : Dépend: libkf5textaddons-data (>= 1.5.4-0ubuntu1) mais il n'est pas installable
 libkf5textemoticonscore1 : Dépend: libkf5textaddons-data (>= 1.5.4-0ubuntu1) mais il n'est pas installable
 libkpim6akonadisearchcore6 : Dépend: libakonadisearch-data (>= 4:24.12.3-0ubuntu1) mais il n'est pas installé
Erreur : Dépendances non satisfaites. Essayez « apt --fix-broken install » sans paquet
   (ou indiquez une solution).
stem@stem-kubuntu:~$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Correction des dépendances... Fait              
Les paquets suivants ont été installés automatiquement et ne sont plus nécessaires :
  libaccounts-qt5-1               libkpim5akonadicontact5      libkpim5imap-data              libkpim5ldap5           libkuserfeedbackcore1
  libkaccounts2                   libkpim5akonadisearchdebug5  libkpim5imap5                  libkpim5libkdepim-data  libkuserfeedbackwidgets1
  libkpim5akonadiagentbase5       libkpim5contacteditor5       libkpim5kontactinterface-data  libkpim5libkdepim5      libqt5keychain1
  libkpim5akonadicontact-data     libkpim5grantleetheme-data   libkpim5kontactinterface5      libkpim5textedit-data   libsignon-qt5-1
  libkpim5akonadicontact-plugins  libkpim5grantleetheme5       libkpim5ldap-data              libkuserfeedback-l10n   qml-module-org-kde-userfeedback
Veuillez utiliser « sudo apt autoremove » pour les supprimer.

Installation de dépendances : 
  libakonadisearch-data

SUPPRESSION :
  libkf5textedittexttospeech1  libkf5textemoticonscore1

Sommaire :
  Mise à niveau de : 0. Installation de : 1Supprimé : 2. Non mis à jour : 0
  7 partiellement installés ou enlevés.
Taille du téléchargement : 0 B / 27,8 kB
  Espace libéré : 190 kB

Continuer ? [O/n] 
(Lecture de la base de données... 403326 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Préparation du dépaquetage de .../libakonadisearch-data_4%3a24.12.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Dépaquetage de libakonadisearch-data (4:24.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: erreur de traitement de l'archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libakonadisearch-data_4%3a24.12.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack) :
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/akonadi_search.mo', which is also in package libkpim5akonadisearch-data (4:23.08.5-0ubuntu3)
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libakonadisearch-data_4%3a24.12.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb
Erreur : Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
stem@stem-kubuntu:~$

My hardware

Intel Core i5-8500
Ubuntu 25.04
nvidia GTX 1050i
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Hello users of hexbear:

Due to recent meta posts in our mutual aid community we wanted to open up discussion about the community [email protected]

We will never require explanation or justification from a user asking for aid in the community, and the mod and admin team continue to commit to not featuring an individual's mutual aid request to prevent unfair exposure.

In addition, we will maintain a strict "No critical comments or meta comments" on a mutual aid post.

This post is to discuss the mutual aid community's rule of allowing meta posts: mutual aid as a community, those making posts in it and those commenting on posts.

We are considering removing the exception allowing meta posts but wanted to involve the userbase before committing to a change.

Please comment with any thoughts, feelings, or suggestions regarding this change.

Thank you

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Never have I been in so much pain in my LIFE SMH

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From Fei Cheng

Burrowing Owl in flight at sunset

March 2025, Central WA

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Saying the plight of white South African farmers affected him on a deeply personal level, President Donald Trump issued a statement Thursday in which he shared his own experiences as a victim of white genocide. “I’ve kept quiet about my past out of a fear that I could still be persecuted, but I too know what it’s like to live under a Black president who wants to see your entire race destroyed,” said Trump, adding that he had narrowly survived the attempt to eradicate white people and their culture by hiding for months in his 126-room Palm Beach resort. [...]

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[https://archive.ph/Gz69T](archived link)

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I saw the movie in high school, when it came out on VHS, and I loved it. I bought the book, and couldn't put it down. It was perhaps my favorite piece of sci-fi for a while. I thought John Travolta was delightfully hammy, and that the movie was extremely quotable and fun.

A coworker of mine were just talking about musicals this morning, and my strong dislike of Hamilton. For some reason, it popped into my head that I would love a musical of Battlefield Earth, and John Travolta should sing in it. This sentiment was not shared by my coworker. So, yeah, that's it.

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