Treedrake

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Awesome. Sounds like you made the same journey. Right now it feels like I might ditch the dual boot too in a near future.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I use Proton for Steam games. You can enable it in Steam settings, just run it via Steam afterwards. For games purchased via GOG, I use Heroic Launcher which uses a variant of Wine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I saw a comment expressing this ruling is only applicable to e-books where there already exists an e-book from the publisher, and that it won't affect media preservation or books that have been scanned (e.g., old textbooks) and that do not have an e-book. Is this true? If so, it's not all bad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

This isn't possible. You can only see people who viewed your stories.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

It's generally really hard if you have no experience. But if you're willing to pay, maybe. Check this out: https://hitchwiki.org/en/Hitchhiking_a_boat

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

And wasn't that what we were promised by capitalism? That we could own our land, our homes and our lives. But even that, they're turning back on, except for the privileged few. Back to feudalism it is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Chick-fil-a starting a streaming service sounds like the worst idea ever.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

For sure. And Libreoffice doesn't constantly try to make you save your documents in OneDrive...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is an interesting point as well. Before, if you weren't happy with an update or whatnot, you could just keep running the older version. But nowadays that's impossible in many cases.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

I see your point. But as someone else mentioned, there are many programs, apps and what not that shouldn't require a subscription just by looking at how the software or hardware is set up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Absolutely. I constantly revisit the services I subscribe to, but to be honest, I still keep some streaming services on a constant subscription even though my viewing patterns differ from month to month. In that case I'm just too lazy, and it's not a huge hit to my disposable income. I pay for it to be available when I want to use them. I think this might be the case for many others, and coupled with not having a budget and/or financial sense, this can definitely add up for many. I also think many people just forget what services they are subscribed too, and barely even watch their bank account/credit card slip and what's being withdrawn.

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