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Shopping for a laptop as a Linux user:

Screenshot from the Simpsons where Otto is talking to Marge and Homer standing next to a window in their house with a caption “Oh wow, windows!.. I don’t think I can afford this place.”

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Unfortunately it’s concept which were in the past.Nowdays u are not owning ur device,you are actually just renting it. Unless new laws are passed that will prohibit such a business model.

    • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      I do own my devices.

      Companies want you to not own the devices, and rent them through a subscription model,
      however I refuse to do that.

      If you do that / fall for that,
      then you’re part of the problem making such a future a reality…

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        8 months ago

        I refuse this too,but i explained current trend and we will not able to do anything about it without law.

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        8 months ago

        If you do that / fall for that, then you’re part of the problem making such a future a reality…

        Lots of peoples’ buying habits and trust-based attitudes were forged last century.
        It’ll take a generation or two for new habits to form.

        In the meanwhile modern businesses will make hay by selling trojan-horses to old school customers , and using the profits to tie-in new users to new services to try to capture/brainwash the next gen into thinking there is no choice.

        I think you’ll remain in the minority unless ‘ignorant’ consumers who ‘fall for that’ can become educated and learn about the options.