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Shocked face (lemmy.zip)

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Business 1: but it's only $18.99/month!

Business 2: but it's only $13.99/month!

Business 3: but it's only $25.99/month!

Business 4: but it's only $10.99/month!

Business 5: but it's only $35.99/month!

Business 6: but it's only $14.99/month!

Business 7: but it's only $55.99/month!

Me: ...Yeah everybody, that's the issue.

[-] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Gave me some high school flashbacks there. "But it's only 5 pages...", yea, 5 pages from everyone.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 94 points 3 days ago

Corps figured out sustained income was better than marketing and making products. All they had to do was take away every digital product and turn it into a subscription.

Then they'll buy each other up until they are an effective monopoly and raise prices forever.

I don't see a way out of this for products already captured if you need them.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago

Remember the "Cable Wars" of yore (the 90's)? Guess who's back... back again?

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Shady, is that you?

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

No, the real one is standing up.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Tell some men

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Bill Clinton?

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

[intense saxophone solo]

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Samurai jack?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

I don’t see a way out

Free software exists. And if you have any power over a non-small organization, it's also something you can help improve to fit your needs.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago

FOSS

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago

for products already captured if you need them.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

The point is to make an alternative product no one can own/ruin.

[-] Arcka@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

There is no real need to use captured products though, so OP's question is flawed.

Any desire to use said products (or not) needs to weigh the pros and cons of the captured products vs alternatives.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Problem is, they should realise this only creates a gap for a competitor or even worse (from the companies' perspective) a viable open source project that they'll never be able to compete on price with.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Their solution is to buy them in most cases. It's gets hard to turn down $100M.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Fork that.

[-] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

If the licence is already open source then they can't do shit. Unfortunately, they have other methods of discouraging programmers from working on the project, but ultimately open source will prevail.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I think we are seeing that gigantic companies made out of other companies don't function well. People move on eventually

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

🏴‍☠️🦜 THE ONEPIECE IS REAL!!

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 days ago

All the logos over his face makes him look like a rainbow eldritch horror when I see him in my periphery.

[-] HoornseBakfiets@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago

Buy yourself a NAS, you’ll thank me later

[-] amotio@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I have done that a week ago, put Immich on it and planning on other services to degoogle myself. Now i have 6tb of space for my photos, for "free". Minus the initial investment but that should pay itself in few years.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

What's this meme from anyway?

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

Bee movie

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh, I thought maybe it was from that creepy Jehovah's Witness propaganda show, although comparing the mother directly, the meme image is clearly of higher quality.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

No, it's the movie where Jerry Seinfeld is a bee and tries to bang Patrick Warburton's human wife.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Laughable, she's clearly much too old for his taste.

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Okay I'm intrigued, what's the name of this show?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Become Jehovah's Friend.

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Holy shit, I just watched one at random.

It was about a young JW girl who was depressed because she didn't have any friends at school because she wasn't allowed to join in on things like the science club field trip. She went to her dad for advice and together they studied the bible where she learned that she needs to choose her friends carefully because the followers of Jesus chose their friends poorly and it resulted in Jesus getting murdered. In the end, the young girl decided she didn't want to join the science club because she should only befriend those who bring her closer to Jehovah.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, they're really disturbing. Great instructions on how to fuck up your kid's mental health (as if the world today needs more help with that).

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

I've never heard of nvidia doing subscriptions?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 24 points 3 days ago

I guess it's Geforce Now

[-] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

GeForce Now.

[-] Persen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Or Xiaomi

[-] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I was thinking Intel.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/01/11/intels-rental-service-on-chips-could-face-buyer-backlash/ Not a subscription yet

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Maybe a bit controversial but I am fine with business products being subscription based as their income depend on it and they get priority support quite often. I work with SAP products so that's what I am basing it on. Kinda same feeling for something like adobe commercial licences but the problem is with the extremely high cost, hidden fees and other shenanigans. The only subscription that I have is Tuta and Addy which I find reasonable. I would probably be getting a subscription for music and videos as well if any of them were actually good, reasonably priced and somewhat ethical for business standards.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

I work with SAP products

I'm so, so sorry.

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

I got roped into it without consent :(

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

SAP is crazy expensive and dog shit slow.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Yay, a likeminded person!

For Microsoft I fully understand that they’d rather have a subscription model for Windows. After all you’re getting updates every fortnight and critical patches ASAP. I wonder they let you buy their shit for so long.

Just in case someone brings it up—and someone will bring it up regardless—: I’m not defending their recent enshittification and “always online” mindset.