>"For the first two decades of personal computers you bought a product, you owned it, you set it up your way and it always ran that way and it solved your problems and let you make presentations of financial data to your managers. It was your but now you have to subscribe to service and pay something per month and they'll make changes to how things work and even your muscle tap memory goes away with changes and they'll take things away. Features that you were using and you can't counter anything. They'll take your data away sometimes because...I dunno, you made a mistake and didn't pay a bill one month or something."How is it that some of the most influential people, like Wozniak, drop truthnukes like this and people still use shitty services and computers?
it only became the way it currently is because you allowed it toyou could've lobbied congress to pass laws so that you own software you paid forbasically you can pass any fucking law you want and corporations will be forced to follow it
>>108470596>How is it that some of the most influential people, like Wozniak, drop truthnukes like this and people still use shitty services and computers?a lot of people are just dumb and ignorant when it comes to that world.
>>108470596>How is it that some of the most influential people, like Wozniak, drop truthnukes like this and people still use shitty services and computers?Because most people think touch screens are optimal for input.Because most people literally don't think about anything.Because most people don't care if they are actually doing something productive at their job or are just doing busy work.
>>108470656>you could've lobbied congressI can't print money or blackmail pics.
>>108470779>Because most people literally don't think about anything.Why lie? To feel like mommy's special little boy?
>>108470902Silence milf
i mean it should be obvious, its convenient and cheap. for example xbox game pass is 5(last time i check) dollars a month and spotify is 10. you get all games and all songs for a pretty cheap price. its a subscription so you never "own it", but it is not a big deal because new games will come out or you will discover new music. it may eventually become a sunk cost, and you will be a slave to the subscription. i wouldn't know i dont have any subscriptions i pay for.
>>108470596Partially upfront cost and convenience. I've never used Win11 myself so when my mom called me panicking over not being able to access her own photos directory and running out of space for emails I discovered it pushed one drive on her, she didn't opt to pay for it, but it started automatically uploading everything to one drive. Literally the singular solution I could find was paying for one drive so she can access those photos and put them on a different space....getting a small NAS for her is still on my to-do list...
>>108470596>people still use shitty services and computers?People start using them while they're good. Good examples here are spotify and netflix. Both services started as great services providing a change users were looking for. Then gradually they turn to shit, because the economy rewards screwing people over. So once you've tied the public to your service, you squeeze the money out of them.tl;dr: It pays to be shitty.
>>108470656Maybe that worked back when only white, male landowners could vote, but in current year half the population votes based on if they can murder babies and equate deporting illegals with Hitler.
>>108470979>xbox game pass> google price xbox game pass > results are in ruppees/south east asia currencies etc.what the fuck . Also its 27€/month for everything apparently. Idk why anyone would make a long term subscription most of the games fucking suck.
>>108470656>if-if-if only you lobbied congress Holy shit. Just don't buy the software, don't buy the hardware. It's that simple. You people get what you deserve.
>>108470596You've been told here repeatedly offline LAN NOW! With systems and software and media that require no internet connection yet here you are.
>>108470656>lobby congress to not break userspaceGolden age The Onion would have killed this skit.
>>108470979I have tens of thousands of mame, spectrum, commodore 64, Amiga, Atai 2600, Sega games as well as physicall over 100 PS1, 250 PS3 and 450 xbox 360 as well as phyically library of 250+ PC hames, my bhyicall media is over 3000 movies and TV series and my LAN has well over 100,000 Mp3s, thousands of ripped youtube videos and thousands more PC games and others. Amazons CHEAPEST 1TB storage is 20$ a month for shit tier, that's 240$ a YEAR. Why the fuck do I now want to give 324 Euro a YEAR for something that does not even work offline and if I stop paying POOF it's gone (pic related). Not just that but the contract says you own nothing and prices can be raised, or your account suspended just because. you know, haha suffer.Online LAN now anons. Now you are getting late.
>>108470979>wouldn't know i dont have any subscriptions i pay for.Well aside from malwarebytes and your mobile and your broadband...etc etc
>>108470656congress is useless, half of them want to destroy america and the other half want the first half to destroy america just to prove they were right about them wanting to destroy america
>>108471214>250 PS3PS2before you laugh at physical media, which can be understandable consider thisI have a LOT of Raid hdd and stata and spares bought before prices went mental but you know what, it has a cost, running is uses electricity and there is wear and maintence like a drive dying. Physical media just sit's there aside from space it consumes no power, is independently resilent and your average mediocre quality movie rip is going to be half a gb a lot more when you go to 180 and above. Same for CDs a full rip of a data CD is 700MB a full rip of a DVD is 8-9GB. Stuff like TV series can be 10-20 DVDs. The average xbox 460 game is 5-7 GB. 450 360 games consumes 2.25TB of RAID space minimum. The thing is you are LATE and have missed when you could buy sets of 1000 sealed movies and TV shows for 400$ the prices on physical media have soared. Same with the old phyical media games like the PS1, PS2 and 360. YOu could buy a shelf full for 50$ when the rental stores shut down, less for the odler stuff like PS1/2. Now they are fucking collectors pieces. And here's the thing with phsycial media for older (good) PC games like your warcraft 3s or whatever that are good also for LAN gaming. No online activations. Of course you may have a library of warez too sure, everyone does but given that old PC phyical media was less than a dollar and has zero cost to store, why do that? Now, you are running out of time on actual components like HDDs and even older PC parts. If you don;t get your offline LAN does soon you will be left with the plebs in subsciption hell. FOREVER. The move to cloud portal crapware small storage devices and the concentration of data centre storage in Microsoft, Google and Amazon also means the end to sailing the high seas. They all also sell media music and movies and the high seas depends on people having stirage themselves, ripping and sharing. Cloud computing makes that virtually impossible. .We saw what happened mega and rapishare..
>>108470596>people still use shitty services and computers?They bassume it won;t get worse which is foolish becaus ethat is all that has happened for a decade. The real screaming in the blackness will happen when gabe has a stroke and steam management goes for a IPO and a year later intoduces subsciptions for basic access. That is pretty much inevitable as well. In fact steam must be getting absolutely hammered on costs for the memeory and drices they need for their data centres and under quite a it of pressure on margins right now.
>>108470902But it's true, most people are on autopilot almost all the time and they prefer it that way.
>>108470596>>108470656 fpbp
>>108470779>Because most people think touch screens are optimal for input.They are for some
>>108470596>most influential people, like WozniakI don't know a single normie who knows who Wozniak is... Only us geeks know.>>108470656I can't believe there are still people on this planet who believe this.
>>108470902They don't. They don't think about this shit at all past what they want. Take the average /g/ poster as an example.What does the average /g/ poster claim to think about when it comes to their tech? Two things: 1. Adobe products - that they claim to require in order to perform one of several careers, none of which they actually hold, 2. video games - which they claim to not play despite obsessively doing so daily, with NEET amounts of time at their disposal, and 3. internet busywork - email, shitposting, cat videos, etc. all of which can be done within a web browser.As long as the operating system on the magic box doesn't take away internet shitposting or video games they don't think one fucking bit beyond. Now realize the average computer user isn't really much different from a /g/tard.
>>108470596This exact kind of thinking is why Apple nearly died without Steve Jobs btw
>>108474896Nor was he influential. Apple succeeded in spite of him not because of him.
>>108470656This is true btwIf there's a law you have to follow it
>>108470656>lobbied congress to pass lawsthat would make us communists and communism is bad, I heard it on TV
>>108470656Why didn't YOU do those things?
