Comment on Anon uses GOG

otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s getting rare to own anything. Everything is just a temporary license or subscription or even if you own the thing it’s dongled to the vendor and when the vendor is in a bad mood or goes bankrupt you think can’t be used any more…

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m far too old to play the “everything is rented” game. I refuse to participate and I’m stunned anyone else does.

    OTOH, I brought up how Trump/Project-2025 is dismantling NOAA on neighborhood.com, rather crucial to us on the Gulf Coast, and had this (heavily paraphrased) discussion with Karen:

    “I PAY for my weather app! Don’t care if you can’t!”

    “Uh, where do you think that app gets it’s data?”

    “Not arguing with an idiot!”

    And that was the day I learned that people pay monthly fees for free data. (I heartily recommend Weawow. Free, does everything I want except tide tables.)

    I also learned that Project 2025 is a conspiracy theory and I’m an idiot for believing in it. Live and learn!

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Privacy vibe check passed

      Weawow iOS privacy report card (no data collected)

      :D surely:

      Weawow is a free (and ad-free) weather app enhanced by beautiful weather-related photos taken by photographers around the world. The photos reflect the current weather at your location, … so you can decide whether you’ll need your umbrella or your sunglasses when you go out. The Weawow marketplace also allows you to promote and sell your beautiful photos to people around the world … . With many data sources …, you’ll be able to judge upcoming weather conditions for yourself. You free from the stress of annoying advertisements, there are no tracking mechanisms to monitor your actions. Through beautiful weather photos that transcend borders, people can forget about conflict, and we contribute to world peace. When people see a photo of a golden sunset sinking over the horizon, they will surely feel calm and gentle. I declare that through Weawow, I will contribute to the development of human civilization and world peace. The Weawow is sustained by user donations. If you like the Weawow and want to support the Weawow project, please donate to us. Of course, this is not mandatory, so please feel free to use the app.

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      • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        New app idea - do this, but with the person’s own photo library!

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  • Ging@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s all gotta get commodified

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s how bad things have become. People don’t even realise what it’s like to own something.

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been asked what a dvd is by a teenager. When I amended and said Blu-ray, they still had no clue. It’s only going to get worse.

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  • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s still the modern media format. They sell them beside checkout lines! Piracy aside, there really isn’t any other way to own your media, at present. Everything else is a rescindable contract

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t even own a player, for either format. Got 800 movies and years of TV shows on a pair of mirrored drives, backed to Google Drive. :)

    20-years ago was wife was talking to another women in line at Walmart, “Me too! We get all our movies from aXXo! He’s the best.”

    And somehow people forgot they could steal media with impunity. :(

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IMO we only let them think it was theft because they couldn’t do anything about it. Who di they think they are to say what I do with my stuff?

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      • nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        cookie for high quality reframe

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