“People acting in their own financial interests frustrates money-hungry company”
FTFY
Funny way of saying “half of Gen Z are not falling for the typical consumer spend spend spend trap”. And as a millennial I say good for them. About time large chunks of people see the consumption driven economy game for what it is.
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Turns out saddling a generation with debt, and then telling them the AI is gonna take all the jobs doesn’t do a lot for moral, or our finances.
Nevermind that there’s a middle East forever war 2.0 going on that’s jacking up the cost of everything right now.
Being an elder Gen Z (1998) adds a special layer to this cuz I’m pushing 30, running an open-source OS everywhere I can and I’m indirectly being called an iPad baby lmao
They have no money, and they’re going to have to live with the result of choices made long ago by wealthy people who are dead now.
I wouldn’t be doing a damn thing if I was them, except maybe riot.
Good. Cancel your streaming services. All of them. Just pirate shit.
I cannot upvote a paywalled source
yes, blurring the article if you don’t disable ad blocking is a paywall
Firefox’s Reader View works for me.
People will do just about anything but use Firefox. Whatever, I love Firefox + Ublock Origin. I cannot imagine being a chump and rawdogging the internet will all the ads and bullshit.
I haven’t seen an ad in 3 years, and I haven’t wanted to see one once in that timeframe.
Go ahead and check out what shows up on the Edge start page when you first launch it on a new profile/fresh Windows install. Pay close attention to specifically which shortcuts and news stories they present to you by default.
Sir, I’m a dork. I have used neither Windows nor Edge in, well ever. I switched before Edge was even created.
I only use windows at work, and only when I really have to. The other day I had to use a new fresh VM and I had some…concerns…over the “default” choices.
Noscript too!
Pfft. I’m in my 40s with an established engineering career and a small home that I’ve owned for 18 years now.
I am also not paying for any streaming services I can avoid, not buying many games, sailing the high seas, and our cars are like 13/14 years old.
Because shit is crazy, especially being in the US. I am keeping my world small and focusing on my family and my community.
Things get too expensive and people who don’t have the extra cash will find a way to spend less, or not at all. Remember this, all of you shareholders, if you price the customers out of buying your product then you’ve only screwed yourselves and your greed is to blame. What is wrong with a standard, healthy 10% profit?
The second to last time i bought DLC at launch was the assassins creed game in colonial america, which was a waste of money. Then Starfield came out and you could play it a weekend early if you bought DLC, another scam. It is so much more fun to buy an indy game in alpha and get an update every few months from someone isnt a whore for share holders.
Teddy’s Haven (a cozy little shopkeeper game) has received updates almost every week. It’s by one person, and it’s in honor of his pet. It’s been awesome seeing updates, QOL tweaks, and even fishing get added to the game in 7-day stints.
Arrrr matey
People are still buying full price games?
Buy the game after a few years of bug fixes on sale with all the DLC for basically the same price as a sandwich… or pay $80 for a buggy broken incomplete experience with no real guarantee any promised content will ever materialize.
Although I guess I need SOME people to keep buying them at launch to subsidize my frugality.
Yeah, wtf? I’m a huge fan of buying entirely too many games on sale, myself.
Hopefully some significant life extension tech develops before I die so I can enjoy them all.
Am I supposed to be mad about this? The only jobs available to most of them basically constitute slavery.
Guys, learn to pirate. If you stick to media and familiarize yourself with filetypes (also enable file extensions, windows users. Chaps my ass that they’re hidden by default) then you’ll be fine. Nicotine+ for music, qbittorrent+jackett for movies/tv, or the *arr stack if you’re fancy, or Usenet if you’re paying for it.
Edit: Also use a VPN. I know “but that’s a thing to pay for,” my dude you should be using one anyway. I recommend Mullvad, maybe Proton.
Call it fracturing the resistance if you like, but I avoid streaming services, and I also avoid pirating. I can find enough through library services, PBS subscriptions, and other free, even ad-free offerings.
I don’t like giving media companies the message of “I really am very interested in watching this thing you made! I can’t resist not watching it! I just want to avoid paying for it if I can.”
seriously, signing back up just for a title won’t make them change. It will just lead to them releasing weekly and adding more ads so you have to stay longer and get a worse experience. I don’t have a single amazon product but I’m still caught up on The Boys. It’s not that hard and you will save so much money.
Streaming platforms broke the piracy truce first. You don’t owe them anything.
Real Debrid type service is super cheap and worth paying for for movies and TV, used with stremio you have a near identical experience to Netflix (superior even in some ways).
100% still have to keep your seed ratio up. It works out for me, though, because I use it for my home media server, so it’s mostly files I’m holding on to anyway.
