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[โ€“] arnielsAdumbration@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm working on this, the subscription model has gotten so expensive now that literally everything uses it. Do you have any tips besides "just pirate everything"?

[โ€“] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Just pirate some of the things?

[โ€“] CrownCrafter@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the media, buy from bandcamp, steam

[โ€“] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Bandcamp is the move.

[โ€“] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use free or at least alternatives without a subscription model where possible

For cars? Just buy one that's a bit older

Movies etc? Pirate

[โ€“] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've wanted an EV for years, but I'm sticking with my very old and fuel-efficient ICE car until it's absolutely dead. At that point, I'm hoping that some model of EV emerges as the most hackable one, like the Nissan Leaf. I'll buy a very used one of those & hack it.

The best thing that you can do for the world is but less shit that you don't need.

[โ€“] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the only alternative for some things are becoming very tech literate and running an objectively worse mediocre open source software

[โ€“] zettajon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is what I'm resorting to. Instead of pirating Lightroom, I'm using RawTherapee for my (non-professional) photo editing of my x100t photos. In the old days, I'd have done it (I still have a very old version of LR exe in one of my hard drives) but today I'd rather not have a ton of keygens and crap on my laptop.