Not really. If their culture has parts about it you disagree with, you don’t need to adopt those parts.
Ex: If I move to Russia, I don’t have to become a bigot.
This will only make sense if you’re mentally an adult. If you’re still a child mentally, then going along with what other people do just to please them is the only thing that will make sense to you.
You shouldn’t face special punishments just because you’re an immigrant.
This anti-immigration dogwhistling needs to stop. It’s unbecoming for people who aren’t members of the alt-right.
I don’t think the security issues with windows stem from not having the user enter their password a bunch of times.
Yeah, but you gotta admit it’s possible windows does some things better.
I also think a lot of linux users get tunnel-visioned and believe that something is incorrect simply because it’s how another OS does it.
Thank you for the informative response. I was unaware Windows machines employed similar behavior in corporate environments.
Do you think, then, that it would be acceptable for Linux to remove these restrictions in home environments?
It’s not nearly as bad as it is now.
And it was always a scam, even back then.
Yep.
Sorry.
You didn’t subscribe to those things.
But you are effectively consuming them. Just like renting books and movies
No, you’re not. Consuming something means it is no longer available after consumption. We can’t “consume” media unless we destroy it afterwards.
Sorry, you’ve been played by industry talking points just to get you to spend as much money as possible. Now you’re doing your part in perpetuating them.
There’s a term for people like you, but I’ll refrain from using it here.
Goodbye. You may have the last word since you need to push your products on others.
The problem is that you’re renting access to something you’re not actually consuming.
Once you stop paying, you lose access and have nothing to show for it. They still have your money, though.
This is different than, say, paying for electricity which is consumed and no longer available for either party after consumption.
Sorry bud, you’re defending being scammed.
Plus a large part of the article is about non-profit libraries anyway.
Nice talking point just to cover your bum from shilling.
Hmm. It sounds to me you just don’t want to acknowledge when you’re being taken for a ride.
But hey, to each their own.
Businesses want a lifeline to our wallets, which is why subscriptions and renting are pushed on useful idiots.
What the fuck is this rent-a-center propaganda?
How stupid are we?
Found one.
Because they’re not actually pulling too much from the grid to cause damage to others or even the grid itself.
Any musings about curtailing AI due to power consumption is just bullshit for clicks. We’ll improve efficiency and increase productivity, but we won’t reduce usage.
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Emulation, baby.
Use your brains before your wallets.
Also don’t pay for things you can get for free.
Not really. If their culture has parts about it you disagree with, you don’t need to adopt those parts.
Ex: If I move to Russia, I don’t have to become a bigot.
This will only make sense if you’re mentally an adult. If you’re still a child mentally, then going along with what other people do just to please them is the only thing that will make sense to you.