Mastodawn

Back in my day, we bought things once and actually owned them. Imagine that! You'd get a CD, a movie, a game, or a piece of software, it was a tangible item with a set price that was all yours. No strings attached.

Now? Everything's a fucking subscription. It's like renting your life, but somehow it ends up being way more expensive in the long run. Go figure.

This is why open source matters a lot. It still gives you freedom and whenever possible please support your favourite FLOSS app 👍

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@nixCraft
I too remember these times. I also remember the “album” book of floppy discs, then compact discs of all of the software that was installed on your computer. Some would come with your brand new device, but others had to be purchased and then stored in the “album” (sometimes it was just a box too 😹). This collection ensured if in the event the computer crashed or lost one of those software systems you could install it again! Or if you wanted you could install it on a newer computer…