What is the worst thing to have only available via subscription? And what isn't yet, but would be?
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housing.
for most, at least. and utilities. the rest can probably be unlocked/hacked/pirated into working without one.
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neon_nova @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 3hr
I think there are a lot of things that are behind subscriptions that you do not realize. One example is computer mice.
They use switches that are only rated for a certain number of clicks before they stop working.
I was going through mice about once every 18 months. I decided to learn to soldier and just replace the switches once they broke.
I found that the switched in the $100 Logitech mouse I bought were only rated for 5 or 10 million clicks. The switch they use can be purchased in a 70 million version. Why didn’t they use that from the start?
I ended up repairing 3 mice and have a lot of extra switches sitting in a bit at home.
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HeerlijkeDrop - 3hr
planned obsolescence ≠ subscription
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BlueSquid0741 @lemmy.sdf.org - 2hr
This seems like a ridiculously loose use of the word subscription.
Would you say you subscribe to 700km worth of fuel in your car, subscribe to light bulbs in your house, subscribe to your pencil that is getting slowly worn down with each use?
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pleasestopasking @reddthat.com - 3hr
Yo wtf
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well5H1T3 - 3hr
TIL something totally new. Thank you
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bobo - 2hr
Meanwhile I'm on my second Logitech in 15-20 years.
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spicy pancake - 3hr
you can be the mouse fixer of the friend group. trade fixed mice for casseroles and rides to the airport
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lime! - 3hr
housing
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pleasestopasking @reddthat.com - 3hr
I am not looking forward to the day that medical implants and devices become subscription-based.
Missed too many monthly payments? Your pacemaker gets shut off until your account is no longer delinquent.
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corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca - 3hr
Find and watch the 2010 Jude Law movie "repo men.
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spicy pancake - 2hr
Spending money. Thorough a combination of a lot of bad luck and a few bad choices, I'm stuck playing credit card musical chairs to keep enough cash for rent and bills. "Ability to buy groceries/toiletries/medical copays/etc." is functionally a subscription for me. Few years of rice and beans in my future until I can dig myself out... good thing I like beans I guess
The worst I can imagine (aside from housing...) would be the others in Maslow's pyramid base: air, water, food, clothing.
Air would be some straight up cyberpunk shit.
Water/food would also be horrifying. We currently see meal subscriptions as a luxury, but for those without access to a kitchen and/or with disabilities that prevent them from reliably using one... ah fuck that's dismal.
Clothing would be fuckin weird. Because such a ridiculous volume of it exists due to fast fashion, I can't see this happening on Earth in the near future, thankfully.
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cronenthal @discuss.tchncs.de - 3hr
Oxygen
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That Weird Vegan - 2hr
Total recall style?
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bonenode - 2hr
Spaceballs style
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That Weird Vegan - 2hr
Never seen spaceballs
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bonenode - 2hr
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843563115848 @lemmy.zip - 1hr
You should watch Spaceballs. Then you wouldn't be able to brag so proudly about being ignorant.
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What is the worst thing to have only available via subscription? And what isn't yet, but would be?
housing.
for most, at least. and utilities. the rest can probably be unlocked/hacked/pirated into working without one.
I think there are a lot of things that are behind subscriptions that you do not realize. One example is computer mice.
They use switches that are only rated for a certain number of clicks before they stop working.
I was going through mice about once every 18 months. I decided to learn to soldier and just replace the switches once they broke.
I found that the switched in the $100 Logitech mouse I bought were only rated for 5 or 10 million clicks. The switch they use can be purchased in a 70 million version. Why didn’t they use that from the start?
I ended up repairing 3 mice and have a lot of extra switches sitting in a bit at home.
planned obsolescence ≠ subscription
This seems like a ridiculously loose use of the word subscription.
Would you say you subscribe to 700km worth of fuel in your car, subscribe to light bulbs in your house, subscribe to your pencil that is getting slowly worn down with each use?
Yo wtf
TIL something totally new. Thank you
Meanwhile I'm on my second Logitech in 15-20 years.
you can be the mouse fixer of the friend group. trade fixed mice for casseroles and rides to the airport
housing
I am not looking forward to the day that medical implants and devices become subscription-based.
Missed too many monthly payments? Your pacemaker gets shut off until your account is no longer delinquent.
Find and watch the 2010 Jude Law movie "repo men.
Spending money. Thorough a combination of a lot of bad luck and a few bad choices, I'm stuck playing credit card musical chairs to keep enough cash for rent and bills. "Ability to buy groceries/toiletries/medical copays/etc." is functionally a subscription for me. Few years of rice and beans in my future until I can dig myself out... good thing I like beans I guess
The worst I can imagine (aside from housing...) would be the others in Maslow's pyramid base: air, water, food, clothing.
Oxygen
Total recall style?
Spaceballs style
Never seen spaceballs
You should watch Spaceballs. Then you wouldn't be able to brag so proudly about being ignorant.
Tractors.