“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
-George Bernard Shaw
I feel like an outsider on these debates. I totally agree we should be able to own forever.
In my case I find there is so much new TV and movies I rarely go back to re-watch shows or movies so owning them isn’t on my radar. It’s a challenge just to watch a whole series I find.
I’m wondering how often do people beyond kids re-watch movies and TV shows? Kids seem to be able to rewatch the same movies several times a day…
Yes correct. This is what was suggested for NHL94.
I never really made it into the the Playstation or Xbox controllers. I wasn’t a big gamer beyond the NHL series in my teen years as I was playing a lot of hockey then I was married at the start of my 20s and things changed quick.
I’m guess I’m the odd man out with this
This seems to be the model I’ve witnessed with many apps over the years. Free at first to get traction and users, then ads, then pay one time fee to get rid of ads, then subscription to keep using the app.
Then there are those that wouldn’t even pay a single fee and get upset at the thought as everything should be free.
The part that is upsetting is the contributions the early community made is monetized when they were they there for the benefit of the community.
I do see there are costs to maintaining and updating these apps so I can understand a need to keep revenue flowing for these future costs. The one time payment is a hell of a deal for years with updates to accommodate the revisions needed for each system update let alone functionality improvements.
In the old days we would buy software for our PC and that was it. There wasn’t really any updates or further support for newer versions of Windows. The software would become very insecure or just stop functioning altogether with enough changes to windows.
It’s hard to find the right balance. I know I only want to pay once, or heck never, but I want these upgrades and updates too.
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For me it’s a big F you to HP and it has been that way for a many years now. I loved their HP 4250 series laser printers for work. Those things were work horses, almost every part could be replaced, and the toner was cheap for what it put out. I had various HP multifunctions after and they were just garbage. Updates breaking them and disabling them. Not being able to function without all ink and the ink being very expensive.
Canon and Epson came in second for me on the F you list. I had some great Canon multifunctions but Canon would just abandon them on the support side. If a windows update came along you would lose the ability to use the printer.
Epson was a true pain in the ass as the driver would constantly break and need to be reinstalled or it would reinstall itself each update and switch back to the default settings. When dealing with many of them in a office environment it was a hell.
The one special gem that deserves it’s own place in hell is the Xerox 7855. That was one of the worst POS they ever made. It was a contract service unit. It was always breaking down, there was never a tech available to fix it, and when they did fix it, it was not long before it broke again. We paid a lot up front for the thing.
We had a office party where we rolled it off the shipping deck in the warehouse into the parking lot below. There wasn’t a dry eye in the place. Tears of joy. We never used Xerox again after that.
The multiple home office brother printers we bought just seemed to work. Next time I need to outfit a factory it will be Brother. I currently have a small brother “inkvestment” multifunctions that works great at home due the little printing I need. Comes with a ton of ink and it was cheaper than replacing the ink in my last printer.
I’ve noticed they have added this trick to my FireCube. When it’s first powered on it looks for the remote and often doesn’t find it. Then as you press a button on it, it clicks the first show or movie being advertised.
I didn’t pay top dollar for a cube to deal with this crap.
I’m finding I’m using my laptop more than my cube these days. I’m also cancelling services as I go. Arrrhh time to go!
I recall watching this video sometime back covering this from the subsidy angle with new cars being made and then dumped just for the subsidy.
I see this comment often but when I view by Hot there is enough for my reading needs
Same here, but after reading those losing access to digital purchases as the rights for the properties change vendors, for those that want to truly own the thing, they can no matter where they live.
Not sure if Disney+ has this issue but I sometimes leave my Netflix tablet in airplane mode when going to another country. If the show is not available in that country when connected to the internet it will not allow play back of the shows I’ve downloaded.
Paramount+ is even worse in Canada. It was a hot mess on trying to find where show were early on. It’s not a full app like the US version. It runs as a add on tier inside the Prime app.
Then at my Firecube home page it offers to install the full Paramount, and the Paramount+ app then after the install it says the content is not available in my country. Clicking on any of the Paramount show links takes me to a app that won’t load the content due to country issues. I need to manually go into the Prime app to find the Paramount shows.
There a few other apps like this too and some I can’t even remove but it sure will notify the crap out of me about the updates for them.
I’m also under the impression the M powered books are much better at thermo management and battery usage over PC versions?
Same here, I was wondering if there was some last remnant of Pebble watches still running for a second there.
I miss my Pebble too. I went to a Galaxy Gear S3 for a few years before ending up at a Fossil hybrid smart watch with a ink screen that gives me several days of battery life like my Pebble Steel use to have. It’s ok but it’s no Pebble.
That sucks. Funny how the screens creeps in. The actual game play looks great but I suspect the hardware can't handle it?
I'm glad I'm not alone with this feeling of WTF?
Perhaps my gap is larger as I last played a Sega Genesis console and then a little PC gaming in the mid 2000s for Diablo and NHL, while my GF is still playing a Switch which I often call a Wii when I find it laying around needing to be charged.
She had joy con drift that she was just living with. When I asked her if it affected her after reading an article about it, she showed me game play in the latest Zelda game. I couldn't not believe the number of load and dialog screens she needed to get through for regular game play. I was bored in the first 30 seconds as she had to keep stopping to get through them. Thankfully I only need to replace/fix her joy sticks and changed out the batteries in the remotes as one of them was pretty swollen.
I don't think I would be interested in sitting through so many load screens just to play a game these days. That said I still have a Xbox 360 left behind by a friend and a hacked Wii for Sega games sitting in my entertainment center I never play either so perhaps it's just a closed chapter for me as it is.
When I was required to use a iPhone for work this was my savior being a android user with Block This! Blocking most things for me
Certainly a argument can be made for this. For me it is the extended family and contacts from hobbies /sports. Without FB they would have completely faded out of my life. This low level method maintains a loose family connections once maintained by the senior family members that have long since passed. As for the others yes completely disappear from your life…
Same here. I wish Disa messenger app was maintained as it was my one stop shop for a few messenger apps.
I’m wondering the same thing for my Ryzen 7 3700X as I’ve seen a lot of press recently for these chips…