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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 your thing can't be used any more...
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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:D surely:
New app idea - do this, but with the person's own photo library!
Yis that sounds like a quick iOS shortcut for a basic version!
It's all gotta get commodified
That's how bad things have become. People don't even realise what it's like to own something.
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.
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. How do you propose people own their media? Are stores selling flash drives of movies now, and I haven’t noticed?
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 my ex-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. :(
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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