Also renewing license plates/licenses. Basically if you need to make a yearly or monthly payment to keep using something it's a scam in my eyes.
Not sure about where you live, but where I live, that money goes towards road upkeep. That money has to come from somewhere.
Is it? I don't remember seeing a guy running for Congress that promised he'd prevent huge corporations from running rough shod over everything.
People like saying stuff like "just vote better", but the fact is the vast majority of people that run for any office are pro-big business because that's their background and the lobbyists give them lots of money to get elected. Where's the anti-big business guy going to get his money to run? And without money, you sure aren't winning.
Through lobbying, corporations have us all by the balls. It doesn't matter what side of the isle you're on; both sides have basically been endorsed by big money.
I used to like Dilbert back in the day, but it's been ruined for me (and obviously many others if you can't tell by now) by the author being a total piece of human trash.
Eh, you'll still need something that allows you to search for a file/torrent and gives you a hash or magnet. Right?
but I can use it offline with any software I want on any device whenever I want
Tell that to all the VCR tapes in people's basements. Finding a working VCR player is nigh impossible these days, and it won't be too long until optical media is the same. Last car I bought didn't have a CD player. DVD drives are disappearing from computers. Game consoles a generation or two from now will be download only.
Content owners can't wait until the only option we have is to stream.
The screenshot literally says "sponsored recommendation". Not sure how much more clear it can be that somebody paid money for that.
Lol, that's fair. If I would have spent significant hours researching all the changes and the new config files, I probably could have had a better time.
However, around that time I decided that dist-upgrades were: 1) for the birds, and 2) like Windows in that it's easier & better to wipe and reinstall.
That's basically what I did. The only change was I installed Arch instead. No more dist-upgrades!
I feel like the people that perpetuate this meme have never used Arch. I've ran it on multiple computers for just over a decade and only once have I had an issue. And that one time, it was my fault. It's been the most solid OS I've used.
Meanwhile, my headless Ubuntu server couldn't do a dist-upgrade without shitting all over itself. I only ran Ubuntu because of the constant "never use Arch for servers" talk. I wish I had never listened to that. Everything I own runs Arch now and it's so nice.
Well, they probably use Macs.
That would be annoying, since my password is pisscockshit.
If this actually works, the next step will be abolishing the two-term limit. "Leave it to the will of the people to decide if they want a dictatorship."