I’m apparently in the top 6%
How do you know? How would I find out?
I’m apparently in the top 6%
How do you know? How would I find out?
Nah I’d be mad if I was the team that got the rejuvenater stolen from them.
And r2o is spreading them. Typical day in the lemmyverse.
For me it can take a full 30+ seconds sometimes, to the point where I’ll think I missed and click multiple times and have it open multiple times over top of each other.
Could be a trade-off issue. They can get capacity or speed but not both yet.
You’re assuming sending them two at a time is enough to outpace their reproduction.
On one hand, I agree he’d be good at it. On the other hand, I’m selfish and want him in MN
Yeah, why’s she thinking about other people’s junk so much? Weirdo.
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I’m not. I’m still disappointed it failed.
In a way they were, but then my version stopped receiving updates and version 2 came out and they wanted me to buy version 2.
That’s… how it works? Surely you can’t expect ongoing, infinite development without paying an ongoing cost. Eventually the current version will become the old version, and stop receiving updates.
I’ve seen this take before, and it’s always been bad.
Back when perpetual licenses were normal - yeah, you could always install that software from the CD or whatever and input your key and activate it. As long as you were running it on a supported OS, it worked. Most of the time you’d get updates for a while, for the most popular software at least, but not always.
Then eventually, everyone who was going to buy it had bought it, mostly. The money stopped rolling in, and no one’s going to make updates for free. So updates stopped.
Over time, it would just become not as good. It didn’t change, the world around it did. New security vulnerabilities would be found, or the OS would update and it wouldn’t be compatible anymore. Sure you could run the old OS, and it would work how it always had. But then vulnerabilities in the old OS would show up, or the newer OS would have a feature you want, or not be compatible with newer software you also want to run. It wouldn’t be feasible to run that old software anymore.
That doesn’t mean that the company didn’t fulfill their promise. A perpetual license you bought, and a perpetual license you got. Office 2003 still runs on Windows XP. But neither of them are secure anymore, and besides, 2003 is missing a ton of features.
So they publish the next major version. It has new features (Office 2007 introduced docx, the ribbon, and SharePoint), and will get security updates while it’s supported. People buy it and use it for a while, then the same thing happens as Office 2003. It ages, and goes to the wayside. People start buying Office 2010.
Eventually, the world speeds up. The Internet becomes faster and more reliable. Updates can happen faster and more consistently. People begin to expect updates for longer. The companies decide the best way to respond is to shorten the cycle. Instead of paying a large sum every few years for the latest version, they’ll pay a small sum every month. Instead of major updates with new features every few years and only bug fixes or security patches in between, will trickle out new features as they finish along with security updates.
The thing is - the pricing hasn’t actually changed that much. The only difference is that the cycle is smaller, and some people are just now realizing that there has always been a cycle.
CNET posted an article in 2006 with Office 2007 pricing, putting the Home edition at $150. That’s $233 now. That’s about 3 years, 4 months of Office 365 Personal ($70/year).
3 years after Office 2007 came out, Office 2010 was released. Do you see what I’m getting at? The cost you paid for 2007, in terms of a modern subscription cost, is the same as the time between the two major versions back then.
Sure, you could run it until 2017 with security updates if you were frugal, but trust me it looks pretty goofy to run Office 2007 on Windows 10. And besides, most people didn’t. They bought their Windows Vista computer and bought Office 2007 with it at the Best Buy. When they bought their Windows 7 computer at that same Best Buy 3 years later, they bought Office 2010 to go with it.
So really, the license was perpetual, sure. But the software lifetime was never infinite, and people that act like they got cheated on their perpetual license because of that are foolish. The only thing that has changed is the length of the cycle. It went from paying every 3 years and getting major updates every 3 years to having money trickle out and features trickle in.
I know this is a controversial take here, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. It just makes it more obvious how much you’re spending, because you’re paying more often, which some people don’t like.
This is the only way to change that. I don’t have much hope that it’ll pass, though.
Been doing fine for quite a few years already, thanks
Nah, those get their own, unique set of security issues, discovered or otherwise. Hint: every firmware does.
The issue was never that it’d stop working completely. Instead, the API would limit the app once a certain number of requests happened, and charge for more. Since a lot of people use the app, there’s a lot of requests, and it stops working quickly unless the developer pays.
Now that the app has been pulled from the market and it broke for everyone, it sees very little use. The limit doesn’t get hit, and the app works. But if everyone starts using it again, it’ll break again.
Edit: Just for kicks, I downloaded it from apkmirror and tried it. I very quickly got the 429 error when the API key has hit the limit.
It’s important to know that they are - you gotta know how people get here to know how to prevent it
What was the motivation? It’s easy to say “antisemitism” but like if that was the case - why here instead of a synagogue? And why did they put in minimum effort, accomplish nothing, and quit? It doesn’t make sense.
“Donkey Kong by Nintendo”
This won’t stop me because I can’t read.