Not even a mouse, since Logitek is planning on making your computer mouse a monthly subscription service.
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Silencing the Right
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Don W Curton · August 1, 2024 at 9:21 am
So on my home laptop, I got the full microsoft suite – outlook email, excel, word, powerpoint, etc. Used to you’d simply buy it, get a code, log in and it was yours forever. Now they don’t sell it that way – you either have a recurring monthly bill or recurring yearly bill, but the intent is to pay forever. Supposedly this also provides some backup capabilities and allow for automatic upgrades. Essentially I no longer own the programs I use on my own computer.
So all of that to say I cancelled one credit card due to other issues and that was the one tied to the monthly charges. So the bill stopped getting paid. I continually get emails telling me my service will end by such and such date (usually several weeks out) and ask for payment. It’s been several years now with no payment, still got service. I’m not sure if they figure to let me continue in the hopes that I will eventually pay, or if they are just so inept that that can’t write a good cancellation program. Either way, I don’t own it and I’m not longer paying for it.
At some point I think all this subscription stuff will run headfirst into a struggling economy and everyone will suddenly decide to stop paying. Oops.
Divemedic · August 1, 2024 at 9:46 am
You have seen my posts on making your car a subscription?
Don Curton · August 2, 2024 at 9:02 am
Yes indeed – you are a daily stop on my morning internet stroll. And yeah, even ten years ago they were trying to sell subscriptions (nav package, onstar, etc.) but at least those were optional and the car worked just fine without them. I can only imagine it’s way worse today. There are ways to bypass that shit, but the easiest is just to drive a ten (oops, 11 now) year old vehicle.
Tanfj · August 2, 2024 at 12:23 pm
The day I have to subscribe to use a mouse is the day I get a Temu knockoff and go back to Father Debian.
Jay Dee · August 1, 2024 at 10:04 am
So long Logitech. It was fun while it lasted.
IcyReaper · August 1, 2024 at 10:31 am
So the issue is, since they intend to get rid of whites and any others who actually create, produce and run things. Who do they think will be paying for this bullshit?
Because this will surely be called racism against the poor savage masses.
But yet, there will be the tech junkies who think this is just wonderful and shows how special they are for paying for a mouse….
Anonymous · August 1, 2024 at 10:59 am
Still running 2007 MS Pro office suite-brings up install when I start it, but I simply shut inst. down & office comes up. Everything works fine to the degree I need it.
I also don’t use Cloud; each PC has it’s own ext. backup drive.
Not a trusting soul.
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Tanfj · August 2, 2024 at 12:24 pm
> I also don’t use Cloud; each PC has it’s own ext. backup drive.
Not a trusting soul.
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External drive and rsync. This is the way.
Jonesy · August 1, 2024 at 11:53 am
Seems like they are going the way of movies and music. $15 per month for a family plan on Spotify, and I never have to buy a download or album again. In a way that makes sense….if anyone in the fan adds more than 1 new album or artist in a month, then the cost is justified (to an extent). Still need a network to access the content.
Hardware subscriptions for a mouse? They’re claiming it to be like a Rolex or something that you keep? I’ve never got more than a couple years out of a mouse. Hardly permanent.
Tom from East Tennessee · August 1, 2024 at 2:22 pm
Like Jay Dee said… “well, bye”
I hate hate subscription model software and avoid it if at all possible. I have an Office 97 that came with a computer I bought in the late 90s that still gets the job done and a copy of Office 2007 I think it is also. When that quits working, I’ll switch over to Libre OpenOffice (Apache maybe? whatever the Open Office is). I find Open Office clunkier and harder to use but I hate subscription models a lot more and will do that before I start paying monthly for this stuff.
A slightly different topic but I think would resonate the same way with this office, do you feel like discussing or writing about de-googled phones at some point? I got into that this year and the vibe is very similar: accept Apple/Google and put up with whatever shite they keep pushing including your phone reporting everything you do to them every day, or, de-google and stop that at the expense of making do with a bunch of open source apps that mostly work but aren’t as convenient or slick as Google Maps and the rest. I got one of Erik Prince’s “Unplugged” phones but you can do it yourself for less $ if you ‘re so inclined. Get a phone, wipe it, and put graphene OS on it (there are online videos showing how to do it). Jiggle some privacy settings and you have most of what an Unplugged phone does.
I know the Google stuff is the electronic equivalent of crack, but I do miss Google maps and a lot of other things. But it is very satisfying to have stopped giving the borg all kinds of data about what I do and talk about and where I go, and I think it’s worth it.
joe · August 1, 2024 at 5:25 pm
steel series makes a better mouse anyway…
it's just Boris · August 1, 2024 at 6:19 pm
Yeah, no, Mrs B and I now tend to react quite negatively to these attempts to cash-flow our lives.
I think we started saying “nope” and being more aware thanks to what Intuit started doing with Quicken, back when.
D · August 1, 2024 at 10:54 pm
Switched to Linux in 1999, never looked back, never paid Microsoft for another piece of software that enables the rapid spread of viruses again.
A few years ago I switched a ~70 site healthcare organization to Linux on all their server infrastructure almost exclusively. (There are still a few Windows virtual machines laying around to run some stuff that absolutely will not run on anything other than Windows) But yeah….we’re seeing approximately half a million dollars per year in IT savings. Mostly due to not having to buy Windows and Office licenses anymore.
Jonathan · August 1, 2024 at 11:02 pm
Logitech is already not worth the money IMHO; if they do this it will ensure I never consider their stuff.
I don’t trust the cloud and I don’t pay subscriptions for software. The more stupid Microsoft gets, the more I consider going back to Linux, especially with forced updates and increasingly limited hardware support.
I’ve used Open office and Abiword for years at home; I only use Office at work – and Adobes gotten bad enough the same goes for them too.
If I can’t buy once and store ONLY local, I’m not interested.
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