My old person trait is that I think ‘ghosting’ is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.
- doleo ( @doleo@lemmy.one ) 126•1 year ago
I think that a basic lifestyle should be affordable for a basic person
- NotSpez ( @NotSpez@lemm.ee ) 77•1 year ago
Found the left-wing extremist! /s
- Silviecat44 ( @Silviecat44@vlemmy.net ) 5•1 year ago
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- riceandbeans161 ( @riceandbeans161@discuss.tchncs.de ) 50•1 year ago
i’m gonna go one further:
i think everybody should be allowed to live a decent enough life, whether they can work or not.
- A Phlaming Phoenix ( @aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee ) 50•1 year ago
I’ll go even further and say that meeting the needs of a population is the only point of having a society at all.
- riceandbeans161 ( @riceandbeans161@discuss.tchncs.de ) 24•1 year ago
that almost sounds like… anticapitalist propaganda! Can’t have that! Back to your cubicle, worker #33458!
- Juno ( @Juno@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I was so idealistic and optimistic when I saw star trek (first contact) and they t a ked about how they don’t use money, instead they work to better themselves.
- doleo ( @doleo@lemmy.one ) 6•1 year ago
One further, and one better
- Nowyn ( @Nowyn@sopuli.xyz ) 5•1 year ago
I don’t think that is an old person trait. You are just secretly Nordic.
or not so secretly, seeing as i literally live a stone’s throw from a scandinavian border
- EthanolParty ( @EthanolParty@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•1 year ago
As a very basic person, I agree
- smellythief ( @smellythief@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
That sounds like a new person trait. Cuz when was that true?
- chon ( @chon@lemmy.sdf.org ) 87•1 year ago
My OPT is that you should be able to buy and own your software instead of perpetually renting it.
- NaibofTabr ( @NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ) 22•1 year ago
Come to open source… you don’t have to rent or buy software. Find yourself a good alternative.
- chon ( @chon@lemmy.sdf.org ) 9•1 year ago
Thanks!
I’ve been a happy Linux user since 99 and Mandrake was my first distro 👌
Still, the only piece of (subscription-based) software that’s keeping me from deleting the windows partition: Premiere pro 🤡
- Xylight (Photon dev) ( @Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev ) 4•1 year ago
There’s davinci resolve, though an entirely different editing software may be out of your scope
- tr0nix ( @tr0nix@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
Thanks for that link. Honestly. I think an old thing is that I’ve gotten used to convenience and a going through a list like that sometimes doesn’t seem worth the time even though I know deep down that it is.
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
You gotta get on that private tracker shit. Public trackers are always terrible and are more risky.
I’m not sure if the Lemmy piracy instance has an Open Signups thread, but might be a good idea to keep an eye out. It’s worth it.
You can. I think it’s called “pirate bay”, but don’t quote me on that. ;)
- tr0nix ( @tr0nix@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
When I was younger I would be there with you. Now as I’m older I just want it to work and the Pirate Bay is hit or miss sometimes.
- reedthompson ( @reedthompson@reddthat.com ) 8•1 year ago
And this is why I buy still buy copies of 2015 Office from eBay
- Dekthro ( @Dekthro@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
instead of perpetually renting it
I’m assuming your an Adobe user? If so, see Affinity!
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) English84•1 year ago
My old person trait is that none of the things mentioned in the linked image happened on accident.
They happened because capitalism doesn’t give a fuck about anything except bleeding as much money as conceivably possible out of each and every human.
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Apps allow companies to suck more data out of your device than a website, allowing them to sell more of your data and… make more money.
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Video games needing access to the internet is simply Digital Rights Management and a way to prevent piracy and… make more money. Remember, most companies view something pirated as a “lost sale,” not that you would have never purchased it to begin with. As Gabe Newell once said:
“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,” he said. “If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable."
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This one speaks for itself. Being able to be in control of the products you buy is freedom. Having products controlled remotely by a corporation is giving them carte blanche to make more money off of you.
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Removing accessible customer service means more people will just give up on trying to get their problem solved, effectively allowing the company to steal from people and… shocker… make more money.
I agree, in theory, in respect to ghosting, but we live in a society that teaches us to be isolated, and doesn’t teach interpersonal skills unless the interpersonal skill is “Fuck you, got mine.” (which is, not surprisingly, a thing about making more money.)
In other words, these aren’t old people opinions. These are “I’m not gonna let capitalism absolutely fuck me endlessly” opinions.
- KSP Atlas ( @KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ) English10•1 year ago
In terms of piracy, I wonder how much could be prevented by having demos, like Factorio does
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) English11•1 year ago
Demos used to be everywhere back in the day! I think they have a huge impact, because it’s a way to try to play a game without dumping all the money on it without knowing what the gameplay is like and if its actually fun.
When I was a kid, DOOM having the first episode of the game available as shareware was huge and I used to walk to my friends place after school and watch him play until he would get bored and let me play for a while.
From an old interview in 1999 with John Carmack about this very subject (emphasis mine):
Carmack: DOOM 2 was explicitly a commercial release. We sort of half heartedly did some shareware distribution with Quake, but I think the industry has almost unanimously decided that the three or so level demo is the best test vehicle.
A lot of people consider themselves to have “finished DOOM” when they just finished the shareware episode.
- onlinely ( @onlinely@lemm.ee ) English7•1 year ago
Where do I sign up to buy the awards around here?
Kidding…great post, tho
- dotslashme ( @dotslashme@infosec.pub ) English6•1 year ago
It’s specifically capitalism driven by GDP. Capitalism is bad but adding GDP is like removing any ethic and moral compass.
- Percy ( @Percy@lemmy.one ) English2•1 year ago
- Well said, I’m going to save this for when my friends inevitably say something about it and I have to explain why the economy, expessially in the US sucks and why I might eventually leave
- Silviecat44 ( @Silviecat44@vlemmy.net ) 2•1 year ago
Lol
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- nik282000 ( @nik282000@lemmy.ml ) 77•1 year ago
I think cars should not be dependent on a touch screen for ANY of it’s functions (or really have one at all). They are more difficult to use than tactile buttons, distracting, and do not receive long term support from the OEM.
What do you do with a 10 year old car that runs but the touch screen nuked due to age, firmware bugs or mechanical damage? Ford isn’t going to be selling replacement units 10 years later and I have yet to see an ‘infotainment’ system that has aftermarket replacement considerations.
- Indie ( @Indie@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 30•1 year ago
Totally agree with this one.
I drive an old 06 and I much prefer using the the physical buttons to adjust things like music, volume, air settings. Even prefer using it to back up and having to use my mirrors and look back.
My '18 vehicle is all touch screen, cameras,etc. While the a/c functions better and I don’t feel like my fillings are going to fall out from all the rattles and bumps, I find there is a real disconnect. I am even asked by others why I lean over and look at the back window when reversing.
I work in tech and I don’t trust tech.
- onlinely ( @onlinely@lemm.ee ) 18•1 year ago
“If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology—and you don’t understand your problems.” - Bruce Schneier
- tatterdemalion ( @tatterdemalion@programming.dev ) 2•1 year ago
Yep. 100% agree. My new-ish Toyota RAV4 strikes an acceptable balance with touch screen vs real buttons/knobs. I don’t think anything critical is on the touch screen except maybe the equalizer. The touch screen isn’t massive either, but big enough to have a useful backup camera display.
- Carlos Solís ( @csolisr@communities.azkware.net ) 53•1 year ago
My old person trait is that when I purchase a printer, I should be able to use whatever is the cheapest compatible ink without the printer treating me like I’m smuggling unicorn blood out of Narnia
- Onionizer ( @Onionizer@geddit.social ) 7•1 year ago
You get what you pay for. If you buy a loss-leader they will of course try to get more out of you
- toxic_anus616 ( @toxic_anus616@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
I’ve bought 2 separate cannon i80s (because I have a ton of leftover ink I got for very cheap) and its the best printer I’ve ever used
- lps2 ( @lps2@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
I’m glad Brother laser printers seem to work well with third party toner and any error message is easy to override
- dullbananas (Joseph Silva) ( @dullbananas@lemmy.ca ) English0•1 year ago
It is often reasonable to handwrite everything to avoid printers
- Carlos Solís ( @csolisr@communities.azkware.net ) English1•1 year ago
I once heard that the Russian security bureau was so paranoid about bugged computers, that they still fill forms with mechanical typewriters just in case.
- lobelia581 ( @lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 53•1 year ago
my old person trait is thinking that all of the above are extremely reasonable expectations and it’s a sad world we live in where most of those aren’t the case anymore
- smoll_pp_operator ( @smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net ) 46•1 year ago
I prefer written guides to video guides.
Video has some clear advantages when showing off a 3D space and otherwise, but I dislike pausing them over and over. Especially if my hands are covered in oil and grease, a paper version is superior to a screen.
I was playing Sim’s 2 castaway recently on an emulator, because nostalgia, and when I was struggling to find an item in game, I googled for it and found some surprise bonus nostalgia: a guide to the game that was plain black text on white background, all on one page, with a chapter section and headings labelled, and ASCII art up top. It made me long for simpler days
I also remember getting a cheat book with a gaming magazine, or very rarely getting access to a printer to print off cheats, or finding some online and writing the important ones down manually.
I studied biochemistry in uni, and usually the practical labs had the protocols and stuff in a paper booklet we’d get at the start of term, but one year, they switched to using iPads for that. I hated it; it felt unhygienic, even though I was careful to avoid contamination, and it was awkward to flip back and forth between sections.
- JasonDJ ( @JasonDJ@vlemmy.net ) 6•1 year ago
They have their place but I totally get you.
For example, when I’m planning a big home project, I want to watch a lot of DIY channels (plug for Home Renovision here) on the basic procedure.
But, if I’m repairing my dryer, I don’t want to be unlocking my screen, rotating, hitting play, watch a few seconds, pause, put it down, work, repeat. Just give me something I can print out ffs.
- lemillionsocks ( @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Sometimes the video is a lot better because those old FAQ/Walkthroughs might be bad at describing things or gloss over some VERY important details.
That said there are a lot of things that are better as text or articles with pictures. Like any guide for fixing something with technology, or hardware reviews are much better with just words and commands I can directly copy and paste if need be vs some damn 10 minute video thats way more annoying to navigate around.
- Mr_Grumpy ( @Mr_Grumpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 43•1 year ago
My old person trait is that I think I should be able to have anything I purchased repaired/serviced by whomever I wish, with whatever parts they deem acceptable.
- littlecolt ( @littlecolt@lemm.ee ) 42•1 year ago
As someone who works in a call center, screw that last person on here. So sorry you hate the automated system. Sorry you had to wait on hold. They can’t keep enough of us employed because y’all are fucking mean and no one wants to be abused for $15/hr.
Er, I mean, Thank you for calling, sorry about your wait!
- evilgiraffe666 ( @evilgiraffe666@lemmy.one ) 19•1 year ago
Don’t you think you could both be victims? Waiting for ages listening to a 13 second loop of music interspersed with “your call is important to us” might make people a bit more angry?
You should be mad at the people who gain financially from it, and could make it better for you and the customers, but might have to skip that third yacht for little Timmy.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
I understand that people get angry when they have to wait in line for ages and usually due to something having gone wrong in the first place, but dumping that anger onto a hapless call center employee who’s in many ways — like you said – also a victim of the same company is Not Cool™.
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
If I find myself feeling elevated by a company screwing me, I always start my call by telling the customer service agent that any frustration on my part isn’t directed at them, but at the company and their policies, things I understand they have zero control over. If they’re obviously foreign, I try to make clear that I think it’s an injustice that they’re paid less than their US counterparts and that I think they should be paid the US equivalent, because them being from another country does not make them any less of a human being deserving of basic respect and dignity.
Usually, having gotten that spiel out of the way at the beginning of the call, they are pretty understanding and by the time I’m done explaining I’m less elevated. If you’re frustrated, it helps to keep in mind the power structures at play and direct your frustration and anger at the correct parties: the corporate suits who use customer service lines to screw with customers and avoid ever having to hear a customer complaint themselves.
What I really want is the corporate phone numbers so I can call the fucking jackass CEO at home and direct my fuming fucking self-righteous anger right under his stupid worthless ass. Because I’m well aware that they record calls and don’t give one flying fuck about our complaints. They don’t listen, they don’t care. They’ll care when I’m blowing up their personal phone at 3am demanding them to fix the fucking issue.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Yeah same here.
Also, turns out that when you treat customer service employees as humans, and communicate your frustrations and what caused them instead of jumping down the throat of an innocent service rep, you’re way more likely to get good outcomes. Who woulda thunk?
- littlecolt ( @littlecolt@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
I have very little faith that a lot of these people would be any more pleasant. My time spent over the last year in the chat department at my company is a major reason why. Chat, unlike phone, has little to no wait time usually. But maybe something about written word makes people even more vitriolic.
Of course I am upset at our staffing policies as well, and the company who is at the whim of the shitty investors.
- mercurly ( @mercurly@slrpnk.net ) 14•1 year ago
I had two friends quit call centers within a month of joining because it immediately sent them into a depression.
I’m sorry for everything you have to deal with at work.
- Waker ( @Waker@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year ago
Worked in a call center for a long time and I somewhat agree with the last person.
It’s often easier to deal with something with a real person. That is not the issue.
The issue is people being polite and respectful. If everyone was a decent human being, call centers would be a good place to work and they wouldn’t be understaffed.
- Johanno ( @Johanno@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
So what you are saying is that you should be allowed to categorise them into nice and “wait until smb. Will find the energy tot talk to them”?
- Waker ( @Waker@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Lmao. That could be a way to get around it, but those calls would be permanently in queue if that was the case hahaha
- Johanno ( @Johanno@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Well don’t be a dick then.
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
I wish call center software had better features on dealing with overburdened staff. Callbacks are a great thing to avoid having to be on the phone constantly. A dash of statistics might be nice to recommend an alternative time to call to get a better wait time.
- Spaceman Spiff ( @Nollij@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
I don’t use callbacks, and I don’t leave messages, because no company has ever actually called me back. It’s a great idea, but IME they never execute it.
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
My HMO’s advice line uses them. They very handy for when you’re trying to get non-urgent advice.
- potpie ( @potpie@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I was disappointed to learn that some companies set fucked up quotas for their customer service people. If you call to cancel, they can’t just process the request: they need to try to keep you, because they have to keep a certain number of cancellers each day. And in those situations and others like it, being polite seems to come off as susceptibility. It’s a system designed–it seems to me–to cause confrontation.
I think we can safely blame the corporate overlords for this situation: set impossible goals for one side of the phonecall while pissing off the customer at the other. Whatever moves that needle, no matter how it dehumanizes people, no matter how big the CEO’s yacht already is.
- dottedgreenline ( @dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml ) 41•1 year ago
An urge to destroy fascism.
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
Just don’t follow the US lead and hire all the ex-fascists for your space program. Destroy it all the way this time.
- potpie ( @potpie@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
These days that’s more of a young person trait.
- ikiru ( @ikiru@lemmy.ml ) 40•1 year ago
I think I should be allowed to order food from a restaurant without needing to scan a QR code which requires me to have a smart phone and an active, paid plan in order to access their menu.
- Calabast ( @Calabast@vlemmy.net ) 37•1 year ago
In regards to OP’s comment about ghosting, I just want to ask, are you a man? Because women all-too-often have to deal with men who can’t take no for an answer, and some of those men go from mad to violent very quickly. You might say “well, no man should act that way, they should be able to hear ‘I don’t want to see you anymore’ and just accept it and move on” but the fact is they are not all able to do that. So should women do the respectful thing and stop ghosting, even though some of them definitely WILL end up being yelled at/attacked/killed?
(I know my example doesn’t cover all situations involving ghosting, like for instance if the ghoster is a man. If you want to modify your claim to be ‘ghosting is unacceptable, except in cases where having a face-to-face conversation could put someone in danger’ then I guess I’d agree with that statement. It’s just that it’s really hard to know which person will be dangerous when they are turned down.)
- tchotchony ( @tchotchony@mander.xyz ) 15•1 year ago
Yeah, at the very least scratch the “face to face”. I’d be more inclined to agree if a message or a call is acceptable, but some guys you really, really don’t want to see in person a second time.
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) 11•1 year ago
I’ll offer the other side of the coin just to give more food for thoughts, but I will also add that unlike OP I believe a phone call or a polite text would be enough: Should someone ghost in the name of safety, when a dangerous person would still look for you in person anyway or should they consider the feelings of someone they don’t like just because they don’t know they are a decent human being?
I understand where you’re coming from, but a phone call or a message will keep you safe from a beating or being yelled at, homeboy starts yelling? Block the number. If you ghost someone they might still get really angry and look for you in person, maybe I’m ignorant and stupid but I don’t see a lot of extra safety in ghosting unless we assume that to tell someone you’re not interested you have to do it in person.
If you ghost someone there is a chance you avoid their anger, a chance. But there’s also 100% certainty that you’re going to hurt someone’s feelings. Not to mention I do believe that’s not the only cause, there’s definitely people that ghost because they just don’t care about the other person.
- Spaceman Spiff ( @Nollij@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
There’s a wide spectrum of responses people can have to a breakup. Anger to the point of violence is naturally low in most modern societies, but it does exist.
When you have that breakup moment in person, you force a lot of emotions to flood them all at once. Often, they thought things were going well. This creates a strong sense of rejection, hurts their self-esteem, and puts them immediately on the defensive. It can also trigger a fight-or-flight response, and manifest as anger.
Ghosting flattens the curve. Over the course of days or weeks, the ghostee more gradually recognizes and comes to terms with the fact that the ghoster is no longer interested in them. This often happens without there being a flashpoint moment to set them off.
It’s still rude, but I absolutely see the value in it
- stappern ( @stappern@lemmy.one ) 10•1 year ago
honestly everytime i hear talking about ghosting i justimagine incels
- Spaceman Spiff ( @Nollij@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 9•1 year ago
Face to face is not only unnecessary, but often counter-productive. You aren’t likely to just already be at the same place, so one or both of you must travel to the agreed upon meeting place, just to deliver the bad news. It also often forces an unwanted and pointless conversation, and draws out what may be a painful subject for both people. And this assumes that it goes well- others have mentioned the risk of violence, extreme emotional distress, etc.
I (generally) oppose ghosting, but it can be done remotely.
- Lumi ( @lumi@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
There’s also the fact that you can communicate (therefore not ghost) in ways other than face-to-face. If someone is dangerous or makes me uncomfortable, I’m not putting myself in that situation, but sending a message is courteous.
I also wonder if there’s an expectation of time investment in OP’s face-to-face comment. If I’ve been chatting with someone on an app, or had one date but didn’t hit it off, I think a text is perfectly acceptable and doesn’t count as “ghosting” either.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) 32•1 year ago
I hate all websites that move things around as they load. If I see a button, that button should stay where it is when I try to click it.
- aname ( @lauha@lemmy.one ) 6•1 year ago
Your old person trait is that modern UI should follow the same sane UI design guidelines as theybused to in the past. In your example, the UI elements should not move around unexpectedly. :)
I agree with you whole heartedly.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
Not even that so much. I mean, I get that UI needs to adapt to the screen size it’s being displayed on, rather than older sites that would end up malformed on different displays.
All I ask is that the page figure all that shit out before it displays anything to the user. Figure out where it wants to put the buttons, then put the buttons there. That, and get rid of bullshit slow animations that only exist so that a web designer can showcase to their client, rather than accept input from the users. “Look how smooth it slides out when you hit that button!” Fuck that, I just want to click the next button as soon as possible - and ideally minimise the number of clicks to get to what I want.
Saying that though, I do have a soft spot for old Unix systems. The kind that were kind of slow loading pages, but if you knew what the page contained you could press a bunch of keyboard keys and go through and queue up instructions for page after page. It would take a few seconds for the computer to catch up with your input, but it would process it all and you’d end up where you wanted to be.
People shouldn’t be waiting for computers, computers should be working to make work easier for the user.
- mrnomoniker ( @mrnomoniker@lemmy.studio ) 6•1 year ago
The number of times the “news” headline display shows me something that catches my interest and then disappears and refreshes to something else before I was able to finish reading it infuriates me.
- A10@kerala.party ( @A10@kerala.party ) 3•1 year ago
Google does this with their search suggestions
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
It should pause when your mouse hovers over. I mean, google already monitor that kind of shit with all their ad scripts and crap, the least they could do is pass on some benefit to the user.
- superflippy ( @superflippy@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Muscle memory matters! The original MacOS designers believed this. Now, all software seems to have abandoned this idea.
- Jordan Lund ( @jordanlund@lemmy.one ) 31•1 year ago
Owning physical media > “owning” digital media.
- jpants ( @jpants@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
game companies constantly pushing towards digital only stuff pisses me off.
- Spike ( @spike@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•1 year ago
“Always Online” form of DRM is the most stupid thing anyone could ever do to a single-player.
Ubisoft and EA Games come to mind.
- quantenzitrone ( @quantenzitrone@feddit.de ) 4•1 year ago
What do you mean by “owning”? Steam/EpicGames game and Amazon movie like owning? That would not be owning, but since they are commonly refered as such “owning” makes sense. It is important to differentiate this with GOG Game like owning, because GOG games are, once downloaded, completely independent of GOG and the Internet. Similar to that would be pirated Movies, and most pirated Software with the difference that you don’t legally own it. Like a stolen DVD lol.
- Jordan Lund ( @jordanlund@lemmy.one ) 3•1 year ago
You don’t own digital media. It can be taken away from you at any time for any reason or no reason at all:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ps4-players-getting-locked-games-123900616.html
Not the first time, either…
- quantenzitrone ( @quantenzitrone@feddit.de ) 3•1 year ago
All the examples you gave are examples of not owning.
GOG games are DRM-free, so you will only lose ownership, if GOG ceases to exist and you don’t have a local digital copy of your purchase. This would be similar to losing or breaking a DVD, only that you can get as many replacements as you want as long as GOG exists.
I don’t know any example of legally aquiring DRM-free digital copies of movies or shows, but I think Bandcamp would be the music-equivalent for that.
- Jordan Lund ( @jordanlund@lemmy.one ) 1•1 year ago
“so you will only lose ownership, if GOG ceases to exist and you don’t have a local digital copy of your purchase”
Then you don’t own it.
- Spike ( @spike@discuss.tchncs.de ) English5•1 year ago
If the publisher ceases to exist and you lost the CD/DVD you don’t own that media as well. Since you lost it. So the point you are trying to make in regards to GOG and Bandcamp is invalid. Those explicitly state that whatever you buy there is yours to own and keep.
GOG only has the convenience that you COULD get it back, if you lost it.
Anyway back to topic: This is the reason why I buy the media from digital distributors, download the media, crack the encryption, which I am allowed to do, because European Laws and this is my own bought copy of this media. I self-host it on a physical server I have access to and give no public access to it. I bought this thing to own, not to own the right of consumption.
- Jordan Lund ( @jordanlund@lemmy.one ) English1•1 year ago
Out of print physical media is still available, it’s just out of print. This is why record/book/comic shops exist. Challenging to find? Sometimes, sure. But once something physical is put into the world, you don’t have some copyright holder clawing it back.
- Spike ( @spike@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•1 year ago
The same can be said about GOG and Bandcamp items. Most of them are easier to find than physical media, too. Thanks to the Internet Archive!
Digital Media is just another form of Media. It’s a lot easier to copy, too. That’s why the publisher’s thought it necessary to implement DRM, just in the worst way possible. In fact they tried to copy-protect books! Here is a stack question and great answer about this.
- MechKit ( @MechKit@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
arrrrrr, I own me treasure.
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) 30•1 year ago
My actual old people trait is that there should be two spaces after a period. I will die on this stupid fucking hill. Even though computers automatically change it to one space. Like here.
- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 8•1 year ago
It was necessary with typewriters.
Then the earliest word processing programs didn’t do layout well, so the habit made the leap to computers.
Then years later it’s seen as an old person’s habit by people who’ve only ever known systems with smart text layout.
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) 11•1 year ago
One of the best conversations I ever had was when I had taken psilocybin mushrooms and was wandering around downtown and found my way to the local typewriter museum.
I was stoned out of my gourd, but wildly, I don’t think that was evident to the historian, because he eagerly answered all my questions and showed me all manner of typewriters and early word processors.
It was wonderful. We truly do stand on the shoulders of giants, all of humanity stands on the knowledge of those who came before. The history of technology is amazing.
- andrew ( @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ) 7•1 year ago
Or he knew and just loved getting the chance to talk to someone who was currently enraptured by facts about his passion.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
Well before typewriters the space left after a period could be huge like 5-20 spaces (hand written or in printed books) even though we don’t have typewriters dictating it it does help readibilty.
- Underwaterbob ( @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ) 6•1 year ago
I succumbed to the single-space-after-periods madness a few years ago. I’m used to it now, but the transition was hard.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
Computers automatically change it?? I see two spaces here In what you wrote. Typically phone and things like word have settings to show double space after period as single or not and some android keyboard apps auto correct spaces. But I hate single space it makes it hard to read. Punctuation and Capitalization it helps the reader.
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Try highlighting what I wrote. Even when I edit it, it will show the two spaces I added, but when it posts to the website, the formatting is changed to a single space. When I go to highlight and copy any of the text I posted, only single space.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
I did this. i see single space after comma and two after the period. Both visually, and character wise pasting into text editor. Must be your phone app or browser being used, and the respective settings.
- Faresh ( @Faresh@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
It has the advantage of distinguishing abbreviations (e.g. “e.g.”, “i.e.”) from sentence stops, so that’s why the GNU coding standards recommend using two spaces in code comments, to allow emacs to be able to properly detect sentences and correctly use commands like (
backward-sentence
,forward-sentence
andkill-sentence
)