My old person trait is that I think 'ghosting' is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.

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[–] 145 points 3 years ago (5 children)

My OPT is that you should be able to buy and own your software instead of perpetually renting it.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    My old person trait is that I think we need less acronyms

    That said I do agree with you

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Come to open source... you don't have to rent or buy software. Find yourself a good alternative.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks!

    I've been a happy Linux user since 99 and Mandrake was my first distro 👌

    Still, the only piece of (subscription-based) software that's keeping me from deleting the windows partition: Premiere pro 🤡

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks for that link. Honestly. I think an old thing is that I’ve gotten used to convenience and a going through a list like that sometimes doesn’t seem worth the time even though I know deep down that it is.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And this is why I buy still buy copies of 2015 Office from eBay

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I'm so goddamned sick of Microsoft and its greedy bullshit. I just looked at a recent KB update from them and the article must have breathlessly mentioned the word "subscription" 50 times.

    After years of being a MS corporate stooge type, I finally started messing around with LibreOffice. It can read MS Office files. Check it out if you haven't already.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You can. I think it's called "pirate bay", but don't quote me on that. ;)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not sure if you're joking or not, but just in case... stop downloading media manually. Look into Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr. You can self-host on any PC using Docker.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago

    Half joking. Pirated apps are sometimes sketchy, but you can get older versions of things that just worked. Alternatively there's Linux and the open source world, which has never let me down.

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