Also renewing license plates/licenses. Basically if you need to make a yearly or monthly payment to keep using something it's a scam in my eyes.
Not sure about where you live, but where I live, that money goes towards road upkeep. That money has to come from somewhere.
Eh, you'll still need something that allows you to search for a file/torrent and gives you a hash or magnet. Right?
Apple and Google have stolen plenty of ideas. They don't care if it's closed or open.
but I can use it offline with any software I want on any device whenever I want
Tell that to all the VCR tapes in people's basements. Finding a working VCR player is nigh impossible these days, and it won't be too long until optical media is the same. Last car I bought didn't have a CD player. DVD drives are disappearing from computers. Game consoles a generation or two from now will be download only.
Content owners can't wait until the only option we have is to stream.
Lol, that's fair. If I would have spent significant hours researching all the changes and the new config files, I probably could have had a better time.
However, around that time I decided that dist-upgrades were: 1) for the birds, and 2) like Windows in that it's easier & better to wipe and reinstall.
Looks like it's subscription only, at least for now.
I wanted that service so bad as a kid. I terrorized my local cable company by calling every single day for months (sometimes more than once) thinking "if enough people called asking for it, they'd get it". RIP receptionist lady.
I wonder if we're wrong to group entertainment and physical goods into the same category though. They're wildly different things.
If I make you a pair of shoes, I need to charge you money to account for my time, my effort, and the materials it took to make them. If I make a thousand shoes, it doesn't scale; the price per shoe has to stay the same.
If I write an ebook, I would charge for the time and effort it took to write it, but there's no material charge. It scales entirely differently because I can make a billion ebooks for the same cost as one.
Considering that, the old way of thinking that I should be able to resell an ebook like some shoes I bought doesn't seem to apply logically. We're buying entertainment, not physical goods. I don't bitch that I can't resell the experience of going to a concert, so why do I bitch (and I do) that I can't resell digital media?
I just wish the publishers would price media accordingly. If they all worked out a deal with stremio to get ten cents whenever I streamed a movie, I wouldn't think twice. But instead I need to sign up with multiple services and pay $20 to stream one, and I just realized I'm bitching to the choir so I'll end there.
For me, I use Arch Linux with a 7900xtx. Had to force install the rocm torch stuff in the env but after that it worked beautifully.
Can you even buy ebooks these days without going though Amazon? Aside from an incredibly small amount of indie authors (who probably got kicked from Amazon for unknowingly pissing off some algorithm) there's no place to download them and support the authors.
Your highschool government class should have covered this. A pure popular vote system is essentially mob rule, and mobs are fucking idiots. The idea is that you vote people into office that are smart, that are trained, that are the best of us.