#fuck subscriptions

[existennialmemes]

Not to sound like a decrepit, rambling corpse about it, but back in my day Word used to be a pre installed program that came with your computer, if you were running Windows.

No subscription. Just program.

On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.

Old man shaking fist at cloud, wherein the cloud is the background of the Windows 98 logo.

[josienotfromthepussycats]

I hate self help apps that have you all excited and you go through filling things out just for it to finally tell you, you need a subscription… fuck you.

[queerintheuk]

remember when you used to be able to buy things. like. you could buy a thing. and then it was yours.

[jamieannmason]

What is the point of subscribing to Amazon Prime if everything I want to watch on Amazon Prime I have to buy?

[hajima-7]

gonna rip my CDs and put them up on my lil home server :3

[alpaca-clouds]

Genuinely, because it seems some ML-types struggle with this.

Repeat after me. Slowly: If you are renting something, you do not own it. You do never own a thing that you rent. Which is why you cannot use it to whatever extend you want. The extend in which you can use a thing you rent is limited by the actual owner, to who you pay rent, and who generally can legally take the thing from you whenever they wish to do so, with the most flimsy of reasons.

If you rent or pay a subscription, you do not own it.

Remember that.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Sometimes I pirate movies and TV shows, put them on my Jellyfin server, and then just never watch them.

I like the idea of owning media so much that I end up forgetting that I don't actually enjoy consuming most types of video media.

[theknightlywolfe]

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