kn33
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- Comment on AI Summary 2 weeks ago:
Given that specific locations were named, I assume that the original message says more than what the tweet says it does.
- Comment on Re: 3d printing video 5 weeks ago:
That Willette bottle - I took one of those and drilled a hole in the base to make a bong. It’s pretty cool.
- Comment on Pastor wanted by U.S. for sex trafficking to run for Philippine senate 5 weeks ago:
Behind the Bastards just did a couple episodes on this guy. Incredible turn of events, honestly.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
Can someone give me the rundown of Deezer vs. Qobuz vs. Tidal? I’ve been using Tidal and I like it well enough but I’m curious about the other lossless options.
- Comment on It's Wednesday, my dudes. 1 month ago:
This might be the most aesthetic though
- Comment on 2real5me 1 month ago:
Absolutely. That’s the one thing I got going for me - an absolutely unjustifiable amount of self esteem.
- Comment on 2real5me 1 month ago:
Now you’re just fucking with me
- Comment on 2real5me 1 month ago:
Sometimes I think I have imposter syndrome. Then this person shows up.
- Comment on Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision 1 month ago:
And Deadlock is taking off. It “launched” (if you can call it that) sometime between when Concord released and when Concord was retracted.
- Comment on Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has Polluted the Data’ 1 month ago:
Yeah, it seems really restrained for someone who has to end a project they’ve put so much effort into.
- Comment on Inaccuracies 2 months ago:
I can do it but I have to hold down the other fingers with my thumb or by pinching them into the palm of my hand.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
Ummm… Yeah…
- Comment on Russian Embassy, UK 2 months ago:
Google lens/translate gives:
“By the way, Kacchan is talking about the under coat.”
- Comment on When PSAs go too far 2 months ago:
I like how this doesn’t summon the t-shirt bots like it did on Reddit. At least not yet.
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 2 months ago:
We need a fediverse equivalent of /r100yearago for this stuff
- Comment on Very mindful... 2 months ago:
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 2 months ago:
In that case, could she have her new VP take over for a few hours to negate that time she accumulated previously?
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 2 months ago:
Could be a trade-off issue. They can get capacity or speed but not both yet.
- Comment on This shitpost is preventing shutdown 2 months ago:
clicks cancel
“Rebooting” - Comment on Trump Airpods 3 months ago:
Is this loss?
- Comment on Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months 4 months ago:
In a way they were, but then my version stopped receiving updates and version 2 came out and they wanted me to buy version 2.
That’s… how it works? Surely you can’t expect ongoing, infinite development without paying an ongoing cost. Eventually the current version will become the old version, and stop receiving updates.
I’ve seen this take before, and it’s always been bad.
Back when perpetual licenses were normal - yeah, you could always install that software from the CD or whatever and input your key and activate it. As long as you were running it on a supported OS, it worked. Most of the time you’d get updates for a while, for the most popular software at least, but not always.
Then eventually, everyone who was going to buy it had bought it, mostly. The money stopped rolling in, and no one’s going to make updates for free. So updates stopped.
Over time, it would just become not as good. It didn’t change, the world around it did. New security vulnerabilities would be found, or the OS would update and it wouldn’t be compatible anymore. Sure you could run the old OS, and it would work how it always had. But then vulnerabilities in the old OS would show up, or the newer OS would have a feature you want, or not be compatible with newer software you also want to run. It wouldn’t be feasible to run that old software anymore.
That doesn’t mean that the company didn’t fulfill their promise. A perpetual license you bought, and a perpetual license you got. Office 2003 still runs on Windows XP. But neither of them are secure anymore, and besides, 2003 is missing a ton of features.
So they publish the next major version. It has new features (Office 2007 introduced docx, the ribbon, and SharePoint), and will get security updates while it’s supported. People buy it and use it for a while, then the same thing happens as Office 2003. It ages, and goes to the wayside. People start buying Office 2010.
Eventually, the world speeds up. The Internet becomes faster and more reliable. Updates can happen faster and more consistently. People begin to expect updates for longer. The companies decide the best way to respond is to shorten the cycle. Instead of paying a large sum every few years for the latest version, they’ll pay a small sum every month. Instead of major updates with new features every few years and only bug fixes or security patches in between, will trickle out new features as they finish along with security updates.
The thing is - the pricing hasn’t actually changed that much. The only difference is that the cycle is smaller, and some people are just now realizing that there has always been a cycle.
CNET posted an article in 2006 with Office 2007 pricing, putting the Home edition at $150. That’s $233 now. That’s about 3 years, 4 months of Office 365 Personal ($70/year).
3 years after Office 2007 came out, Office 2010 was released. Do you see what I’m getting at? The cost you paid for 2007, in terms of a modern subscription cost, is the same as the time between the two major versions back then.
Sure, you could run it until 2017 with security updates if you were frugal, but trust me it looks pretty goofy to run Office 2007 on Windows 10. And besides, most people didn’t. They bought their Windows Vista computer and bought Office 2007 with it at the Best Buy. When they bought their Windows 7 computer at that same Best Buy 3 years later, they bought Office 2010 to go with it.
So really, the license was perpetual, sure. But the software lifetime was never infinite, and people that act like they got cheated on their perpetual license because of that are foolish. The only thing that has changed is the length of the cycle. It went from paying every 3 years and getting major updates every 3 years to having money trickle out and features trickle in.
I know this is a controversial take here, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. It just makes it more obvious how much you’re spending, because you’re paying more often, which some people don’t like.
- Comment on Never make the mistake of visiting a community for your favorite podcasts 5 months ago:
Me with Sherlock
- Comment on gottem 6 months ago:
The last time I had general anesthesia, they didn’t give me any warnings but I had this weird prickly warm sensation in my crotch just before things went dark and I hated it but it’s like just gotta bear it for a few seconds until I’m out.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 6 months ago:
The last time a recruiter texted me, I replied with that meme. I haven’t heard from a recruiter since, so it appears to have worked.
- Comment on Study that asked people to count squashed bugs reveals worrying results 6 months ago:
I also leave spiders as long as they stay in the corners. If they invade my personal space, they forfeit their lives.
- Comment on He's the full text of the “PROTECTING AMERICANS’ DATA FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES ACT OF 2024” currently in in the resolving difference phase before the POTUS signs it. 6 months ago:
Part of it is that Vine was a little too early. Phone screens were smaller, and people weren’t used to watching videos on their phone as much as they do today.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 6 months ago:
They are now. Not when people were going out west on wagons. As stated above, it’s because of historical reasons.
- Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. 8 months ago:
I’m thinking they used the same BIOS password for all of them.
- Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. 8 months ago:
I hope they use unique, random passwords for each device this time. Not that I’m rooting for Corrections, but this is educational time that’s being lost
- Comment on Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor 8 months ago:
I explained this in another thread. They’re ending sale of perpetual license. They’re not breaking ones they’ve already sold. That being said, eventually the version that perpetual licenses were sold for will stop getting updates and they’ll become a security risk. That was always the lifecycle for perpetual licenses, though.
