• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Lmao. So now I can use my rented services on my rented laptop! I can go get the laptop in my rented car, to go back home to my rented place… it really is going to be you’ll own nothing and like it.

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      3 days ago

      You will own nothing but corporations will still hold you, the consumer, responsible when their decisions have catastrophic outcomes for everybody.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Here’s a solution for you. Use your old MacBook, the one with 2GB of RAM. Use your old copy of Office 2008, the one that requires no subscription and offers no AI assistant. Stop paying for Spotify, find your old mp3 collection, convert all those CDs you never play anymore. You want television? Don’t pay subscriptions for that either, buy an HD antenna, get your local stations over the air. If it doesn’t have everything you want, suck it up or pirate it, your call.

      My point is, you can choose a different path, but it takes a choice.

      You know, dumb flip phones are coming back, people are realizing they don’t need all the crap they’re paying for, it doesn’t all make life better. It takes conviction to trade in your smart phone for a dumb one, but people are doing it.

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        2 days ago

        Why would you make it harder than it is?

        libre office and you got an open source Office suite

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          That’s legit, I mean I use Libre myself.

          I guess I brought up old MS Office to point out that the world was not always like this, it used to be that sanity was mainstream.

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          Libre office got me through college without having to pay for ms office… which they still charged for even with a student discount.

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        3 days ago

        TBF I self host and use Arch (btw) I was just making a supply joke, but your point stands.

        That said, people need things, sometimes you have to buy new things, and if so, don’t feel bad, try to make good choices, but you also have to take care of yourself.

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        2 days ago

        buy an HD antenna

        In many countries you can use IPTV to get the public channels too and it’s totally legal