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The thought of paying a monthly subscription for a trivial app is not very appealing.

With ads! Grrrr

wowwwwww. pretty sneaky.

IPTV, FOSS, and piracy are the best things right now. Physical is still hit or miss, but data hoarding is never a bad thing.

This! I miss local offices the most! Pay the bill in person. Customer service, in person. Even walking up to a line man for the Internet company, they're always nice, but all appointments have to be made thru the painfully long 1-800 number. Eliminate the middle man. We can co-op everything.

-and mobile gaming became “freemium”: ad-based endurance trial, and in game paid skins/mods/lvl up, and again often basic subscription service.

And if Apple users weren't such judgemental, obsequious assholes, then I daresay we wouldn't be in this position to begin with.

You can get all of that moved to a hard drive and help others in your community do the same... A smallish lifetime pcloud license for cloud storage backup or trading backup external HDDs with a neighbour you helped do the same and you are golden. Since you are able to do this... You can do that 🌟

Actually a lot of kids are looking for analog now. It is kinda awesome.

Sign onto a website like discogs, where you can sell recordings.

There must be someone out there who would be interested in your media. You are actually preserving history. That will be important when the corporations get everything online with no physical backup that consumers can access. Because then they can change history with no one able to question them.

& I remember my green computer that was an absolute pain in the arse! Slow! I do not want to go backwards! We can hold these corporates accountable & set regulations. & The entertainment had been 💩 since day one! Run by greedy, corporate scum! Artists are always fighting! Why we have writer strikes.

Tax the Rich!! Our future depends on it.

In libraries, they stopped selling us serials and books, forcing us into subscription models, meaning that libraries no longer own their materials and have little means of preserving their collections for the future.

Archiving for the long haul is difficult. Analog sources degrade just like digital ones. That said, I enjoy my personal media library in all it's facets, and very thankful for public libraries.

Astute observation Jon! We now have a very narcissistic relationship with #tech - we are just an exploited resource and they are the parasites!

#Cyberpunk is becoming reality: #Multinationals own politics & the economy. The 🤑 #uberwealthy own the multinationals. There is no real #corporateaccountability. The #environment is degrading rapidly due to human activity. #Nuclear 💀 is just minutes away for 80 years. 🤖 #AI dominance is exponential.

My buggaboo is having a subscription for LightRoom, photoshop and acrobatic. I would buy them outright for my old computer. I kept LR but bought editing software from another company.

Ain't that the truth.

I intend to reform my life. I'm moving into a 100+yoa house in an urban core. I'm placing myself at the heart of the storm that is sure to come. I'm too old to choose anything else.

Same for the damned NFL, NBA, et al.

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It's a replay of they 'company store' model, and indentured servitude....how was that overcome in the past?

...which is why some of us old guys are keeping our old tech working. I keep VCRs, burn my own CDs, use a phone that is still (barely) able to stay on the the network despite the newest software upgrades, and maintain my music on multiple external hard drives as well as vinyl. #NotQuiteObsoleteYet

Yes! Bastards!

How do you buy music now without having to pay monthly for a streaming service. I still buy CDs. I’m tired of paying for music and having to pay monthly for a streaming service in order to listen to the music I BOUGHT.

I swear by the new flash drives that have both USB-A and USB-C connectors. It freaks my coworkers and classmates out that I can move files faster than they can set up a presentation off the cloud. 🤪 And they connect to my phone too. “Retro” has so many perks.

Totally… personally I miss the shit out of land-line phones, particularly in the workplace where our VOIP/Microsoft Teams setup is crazy unreliable and pisses me off daily.

I still remember the year Quickbooks decided to charge an annual fee to update payroll tax tables for my already purchased business software. I said no and got the booklets from IRS to look up deductions myself. Mind-boggling.

The same strategy is in play for the upcoming Ai revolution. Another way of isolating & marginalizing low income families. Make it cheap, make it an integral part of everyday life, from bills to banking, to access to Dr's etc. Automated, essential & then price the lower classes out if the loop.

My hard drive came with 2 Cd/Dvd slots. It's only 2 years old too. So I can transfer music to my phone. Honestly, I own movies & will stream cause it's faster than using the Blu Ray. I only use it if I can't find it streaming. Tubi & others are free too. Lots of free movies out there.

And with the push to online the information is available for AI access and abuse.

I cant even replace the battery on my phone anymore.

And then they give us commercials to program us. We can’t choose our commercials, only our programming sometimes.

I'm glad that I wasn't the only one who saw something was going on with all of this.

Lol. You deserve what we deserved. We enjoyed our lives. We are not MAGA.

Libraries are also use them or lose them. Let’s all use them.

Beyond Books: Exploring the Library of Things Movement - Illinois Library Association share.google/Apo7JwowmtKF...

2/ I went back to a calendar ten years ago. what a joy it is...

I went back to pen and paper some time ago ...fk it.

I pick up cd’s and books at Goodwill bins.

Can't. Work computer for state agency.

I'd say Mint is best for newbz like myself. Someone that has only ever had out of the box, pre-built PCs and too chicken to dig around the files. And the learning curve from moving off of windows is easiest.

www.debian.org yes, had this installed by a friend. Linux Mint is very nice also. Excellent post, thank you.

Of course work use is different. I work for a private company and have to use what they dictate too. But I am weary and wary of the personal information it asks me to enter.

I apologize if I'm spreading misinformation. I saw a tech video on YT about six months ago that claimed this, but when I search around now I don't see any signs of this happening.

I’ve saved all of my favorite dvds and cds and bought a brand new dvd player Just because I know at some point …… things won’t always be made available

Last Superdrive iMacs are 2011s, not Safari version capable now. Bought a remote CD drive. Quality is better on CDs than digital, I think.

Go to Shakespeare in the Park & support local theater. Local musicians. Local athletes. Local comedians.. people have been bought by the mainstream & your local Artists are just as talented, but aren't willing to fit into a box run by greedy rich arses.

I never bought into this and dislike renting my music collection. I want the best version of favorites, not any version they decide to put out there. It depends on if you want music to be magic or just something to play in the background.

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Oh no. Record players drove me nuts. & I have records. They basically sit up high, so my cats cannot get to them & act as pieces of artwork. I never liked the muffled sound either. I like the ease of my phone & Bluetooth. I own my music on CD & transfer to my phone w/my computer.

Yes. I have an old computer with a CD/DVD drive. I think I’ll keep it. I used to cast the yoga DVD to the TV. I have an external CD/DVD drive for my laptop, but I rarely use it. Seeing your post does expand one’s perceptions. Smh.

And each new smartphone you get will have the contents (photos and videos) of every single smartphone you’ve “owned” prior transferred onto it, requiring ever expanding storage space. Which also requires paying for a cloud if you want it protected. And don’t forget updates stop for old phones 😭🤭

EVERY FUCKING THING has to be monitized. You have to pay for internet and tv streaming services, and still have pay to watch more commercials than before and more frequently

The new form of serfdom. It's been building for two generations.

Damn it, you’re exactly right!

I got an external cd drive for laptop, burned my cds, then added all to my android phone! 5,000+ songs to enjoy. Still aggravated no cd player in new cars!! I kept my dvds to enjoy! Pay for 1 streaming only!

yes, right now Apple is trying to turn their Excel equivalent "Numbers" into a subscription service which I will never agree to.

can't even change the batteries on our phones or computers either... now we have to trade them in for new ones