If I ever get expendable income, I might donate. But I don't see that happening. I do buy some luxury stuff occasionally, because I just want to support the creator, like a calendar from Kurzgesagt or a book from Tibbees.
Today I broke a colleague's app, because I repurposed an unused app registration on azure, or at least I thought it was unused. I thought that would be faster than asking the admins for a new registration on a Friday afternoon. But I forgot that I had used that registration for my colleague 's application.
So when he came complaining that it didn't work, I just told him he had done something wrong and that he should just restart his computer.
Yeah, some people get a new phone every year or so. I know a guy who trades in his "old" phone for a brand new model every few months. He doesn't really trade though,he just resells. It only costs him like 200 or 300 euro, if you factor in the resell. For him that's worth it, aparantly.
I'd say it's like a tailbone. It was once useful (when we were apes), but has long since lost all purpose. Now it is just a useless appendage and if you touch it the wrong way, you can end up paralized for the rest of your life. We can't go without though, because it's attached to out spine and muscles.
I watch on my phone all the time in the train to and from work. I don't really care for the aesthetics, I'm in it for the story.
When I download, I go for the 700mb rather than the 15gb movies. I only have a small, dumb tv that's 10 years old. So watching it there isn't really a theater experience either.
If I ever get expendable income, I might donate. But I don't see that happening. I do buy some luxury stuff occasionally, because I just want to support the creator, like a calendar from Kurzgesagt or a book from Tibbees.