You will own nothing, and be happy about it. Welcome to capitalism.
Yarrr!
…any service which requires a mobile phone, really: i like to remain unencumbered and only carry my phone if i intend to use it…
Aren’t the blue checks part of a subscription model?
My most boomer complaint is when people don’t know what I mean when I say “let’s meet at the eastern entrance of the building”.
Especially when you live in a roughly compass oriented grid city, this is unacceptable.
Kids these days
(I’m not a boomer)
Especially when you live in a roughly compass oriented grid city
I would imagine most of us Europeans would have difficulties with that. “compass oriented grid city” hasn’t really been a thing here since Roman times.
Lol, yeah, the fucking building at work kills me.
It’s well off the road and is not congruent with it, It has two viable fronts and since not quite 45° to the compass rose but not far enough off to use it to the description.
Can’t say north south east west can’t say roadside can’t say front so I can’t say left or right.
Labeling where IT equipment is is such a fucking pain in the ass.
There are fire stairs on either side of the building and they do not differentiate them.
I could probably do NE and SW But it just feel so fucking dirty.
I just called the sides East and West in the end even though they’re nowhere near.
At least the rest of the IT staff could figure out east and west if we were compass oriented I would totally not feel bad about using it
Feel the love of Free Open Source Software.
Deadass. I’m so done with subscription services. They’re so annoying.
For real for real
No cap
finna rizz up some FOSS contributors
I pirated everything before they decided to make everything rental only.
I assumed when I got older I’d be able to afford the software and they’d get there due.
But now they want everything to be rental and I’m not down for that.
: Side eyes Adobe CS6 Suite and Ableton:
This is me. I grew up “choose between bills and food” poor, and found alternate solutions to enjoy things. Figured that once I had the disposable income I’d stop. Sure, I did pay my way for a long time too. The thing that fucked me off the most was Netflix telling me that I couldn’t share my account with a student friend of mine. I’m paying to be able to watch on 4 screens simultaneously, who the fuck is Netflix to dictate where those screens are located?
I still pay for stuff, if I feel that the service, software, what have you, deserves my money. I’ve paid enough for Netflix through the years so anything there is just me collecting my due.
So you are claiming the only reason that you are not paying for the software that you were previously pirating is that they switched to a paid subscription? Right
Hmm, immediately call me out for being an assjole without asking if I own all the software that’s not rental?
Go troll somebody else, I don’t have time for people like you.
I didn’t call you an asshole lol I just find it hard to believe someone would not just continue to pirate the software they already pirate if that remained an option
You guessed wrong, this is common.
When i was young and broke there were games that I’ve pirated. Played, and loved, and bought them redundantly to make up for it.
I wouldn’t have played the game if I didn’t.
I wish game demos were still popular.
And good and blocked bye-bye
Not everything needs a goddamn app.
Also, no I’m not gonna scan the QR code to look at the menu. Luckily, I’ve never had a resturant decline a request for a physical menu.
QR codes are great. Make a website that pays money to your bank account when people enter their credit card details and leave the QR code on top of other QR codes like the ones to pay for parking.
Its a crazy simple scam. Sure you might not fall for it but someone will.
Oh wow I just replied that QR codes for stuff like menus is nice, but for paying ? That is a terrible idea lol. Never seen one in the wild though.
In the UK a lot of them take you to a site that you order the food from and that includes payment. Replacing it with your own QR code is very easy.
That is a terrible scam, you will be caught in days when people go to court because they were towed when they paid on that site, and banks might well track you down out of spite.
It’s like fishing.
Also, web pages that keep trying to force you to use the app if you access them on a smartphone, but then the app only has half the functionality of the web page
Half the functionality that you see. Behind the scenes, it’s working like crazy tracking everything you do.
And the website runs like dogshit on a mobile for no discernible reason
Obviously you should be scanning the QR codes with your laptop, duh. /s
the app only has half the functionality of the web page
… and all the ads, that I can’t block outside the browser
PiHole
Can’t really run one outside of your home network.it also requires people to set up a bit of hardware and change the DNS records in their routers, not a everyone is up for that. Especially those who just use whatever their ISP gives them.
If you have a VPN, it’s trivial to point it at your pihole to get the benefits of both on the go, I agree it’s not for everyone but you really dislike ads and tracking, there’s little better out there to protect you and the barrier to entry is pretty low, though not zero.
that’s beyond my IT skills, but AdGuard fortunately works for most apps
With unbound
The app is usually just a PWA with extra side code to mine your phone.
I agree about the apps thing but QR code menus are fine imo. Beats having to decipher a sometimes outdated, damaged, dirty physical menu with a terrible print.
QR codes are a huge problem in contexts like this, because they are easy to overwrite and impossible for a human to verify the legitimacy of.
This means anyone with a sticker printer could slap a malicious QR code over the genuine one, and you won’t know until you’ve already scanned it. This could easily take you to a clone of the restaurant’s website for example, that instead steals your passwords or bank details.
Why is a paper menu the hill you choose?
It’s just easier and simpler. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Besides, I don’t want to dig my phone, open it, and have to turn off a 1900 ‘legitimate interest’ switches or get told to download an app and let them install a camera in my ass.
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
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.
“Of course you can use our software with a one time purchase!”
“We’ve been adding new features! To access our new features just subscribe to our premium subscription!”
“You’re still a premium member, and you have full access to our premium plan, but some of our options have changed, and to make the most of what we can offer you can subscribe to our premium gold+ plan! Try out a free 30 day trial!”
“Put your young in the payment grinder and your life and survival will not be put on the countdown timer! You need us to live, we need you to understand.”
The latest season of Black Mirror had an Episode just like this.
The beginning of the episode: “Rashida Jones AND Chris O’Dowd?! Two of my favorite comedy people! This seems like it might be a fun episode.”
The end of the episode: “Should I bother cleaning my gun before I put it in my mouth?”
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Fighting Oligopoly is not a “boomer complaint” they want you to say that because it legitimizes their hostile tactics and takeover.
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.
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.
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.
I’m a Xoomer and my knees just clicked.
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.
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?
Why wait? You can already own nothing
“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.
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
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.
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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Because that’s when the infrastructure started getting developed to support that model
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.
It’s because a lot of boomers own their homes and the concept of rent is foreign to them.
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.
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.
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
Most boomers don’t even use any paid software aside from Windows and an antivirus they got tricked into buying
Use Open Source Alternatives. You don’t even need to install Linux if you prefer a different operating system, just use the OS programs like Libre Office, Krita, or Gimp.
Edit: AND THEN DONATE TO THE SOFTWARE THAT YOU USE SO THEY CAN CONTINUE THE WORK.
VLC is open source and I am always using that while watching unlicensed content.
This^
