No they are not the average person doesn't care one bit. Most don't even know about all this stuff happening which is why companies do it. Online there is a stink but in the real world nobody cares. Look at Netflix and password sharing it did not have the drop.off of subscribers that online would have you believe.
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No they aren't. This is an article written to pander to a specific bubble of people. Unfortunately a dwindling minority
If it's commercially viable to pander to them, it can't be that much of a dwindling minority
Its viable to write an article about anything theyre dirt cheap to produce. Its less viable to create products for this audience.
I'm in this audience so I'm always looking out for the products that do try and meet these values. They always seem to fail. They spent ages designing and bringing the product to market and then sell like 100 or less units. When the major players release a version thats slightly less shit it has no difference in sales because their consumer audience doesnt think or care about the issue.
Irony that this is on a paywall website?
I suppose the website owns their article though?
trust me, people are not pissed enough. noone cares about these topics around me.
This unfortunately
It keeps coming up in my circle once in a while. Usually people complaining about subscriptions. That's your in.
Yup. Doesn't feel widely popular yet but I think it will increase especially thanks to Sony discontinuing physical releases. My family luckily is getting there too.
Yeah, it's the small groups on the edges of these techs that can see it for what it is. Most people are too far removed and refuse to see what world these technologies are creating around us, the prison walls being built.
I think that most people don’t want to tinker. They also hate choice paralysis. Buying the subscription or leasing the car is an easier decision than committing the money to own the thing.
They definitely take the easier paths.
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Fuck whoever downvoted you. You’re doing great bro. Keep it up.
While I haven't seen the DDOS attack in their code for a while now, once you have done something like this (tampering with captures) the trust is just gone.
Assuming the commenter created the archive (probably not) they should've used a better service. Maybe Ghostarchive.
Didn't know about this! Thanks for the info. I didn't create the archive, just went there and saw that someone else already had. But I'll check out Ghostarchive for future links.
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Thank you.
"Our continued existence as a publication relies on people being able to freely access information, and there's a burgeoning movement to actually make people aware of something they've been too arsed to bother with for decades. Wrote an artic-"
"Paywall it."
"On it, boss."
It’s not perfect, no, but what are they supposed to do to keep the lights on? Double down on ads giving everyone malware, that everyone should be blocking anyway?
…That being said, we have every right to try and bypass the paywall too, heh.
They should be a little bit discerning about what they paywall. It won't kill them make public interest stories of serious value free as a public service.
This is true.
Some sites do this already. Wired may do it; not sure, though you are right in that advocacy posts should make the cut.
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I'm literally one of those consumers that goes to great lengths to pick devices and appliances so that I really own them. I can tell you that right now it is harder than ever.
These movements really have to put some weight, otherwise nothing will change.
I had to downvote due to the paywall. Sorry.
Oh, Louis Rossmann. Sounds good.
Shit means electronic devices here.
He has a non-profit now and I can hear him speak through the text of the site.
No paywall for me btw. Here's a screenshot of the article.
It’s a righteous screed that feels infectious in the crowd. People cheer and call out their own ownership issues. Rossmann is a preacher at the pulpit of people pissed off by subscription services, the steady decline of physical media, and the inability to fix their stuff.
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I do feel the more and more pervasive all of these subscription models become the more compelling data hoarding becomes. The main problem being as it gets worse, storage prices keep climbing. Physical media is cool and all but collecting DVD, Blu-ray, books and CDs or any combination of the 4 quickly becomes a physical space issue. Collecting all of this media digitally and keep it all on HDD space is a much more attractive solution. Give you ‘physical’ forever access and doesn’t take up so much space.
storage prices keep climbing
This is just another oscillation cycle in the generally declining cost per bit of storage. We recently went through an oversupply price crash: 2023 prices of $40 per TB and less were an aberration due to supply creating a glut beyond what market demand would consume at any price.
Now we're hitting a double spike both from production ramp-down after the 2023 over-supply, coupled with an unanticipated demand spike with LLMs in 2025 and beyond...
How long before we're back down below $40/TB ? If you could predict that, you could make so much money on Wall Street that you woudn't care about the cost of storage anymore.
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I just started my physical media collection but it'll take a while
Does it count as physical if I pirate it then put it on my hard drive? I see no difference to owning DVDs or BluRay disks.
There is a difference, and not just a legal one. For DVDs and BluRays, the disc's first purchase partly funds the people who worked on the disc's contents. With pirating, nobody gets paid (unless the pirate(s) that is/are distributing the content accept donations).
Although that does make me wonder how different is buying a second-hand disc from pirating... other than the legal part, that is.
Second hand markets help to keep the primary market propped up higher than it otherwise would be. If you can buy something and it retains resale value, then the initial purchase price is more worth it. Whether that balances out with supply/demand and price/sales numbers if there were no resalability is another question.
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that Framework laptop is on my shopping list.... WHEN ram prices go down
or when LPCAMM2 RAM is easy to find.
Suggestion: you can buy it now with less ram than you need and add a stick later when prices are more reasonable.
The hard truth is that ram prices are not going to go down, but inflation will eventually make the price of all other components catch up.
yeh good idea. With this AI shit going on, maybe next year we'll have 1 ram stick = 3 laptops....
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