Wasn’t this the goal from the start? With the inflated RAM prices, you not owning computing. Well, they’ll surely find some idiots.
Lmao. So now I can use my rented services on my rented laptop! I can go get the laptop in my rented car, to go back home to my rented place… it really is going to be you’ll own nothing and like it.
You will own nothing but corporations will still hold you, the consumer, responsible when their decisions have catastrophic outcomes for everybody.
Here’s a solution for you. Use your old MacBook, the one with 2GB of RAM. Use your old copy of Office 2008, the one that requires no subscription and offers no AI assistant. Stop paying for Spotify, find your old mp3 collection, convert all those CDs you never play anymore. You want television? Don’t pay subscriptions for that either, buy an HD antenna, get your local stations over the air. If it doesn’t have everything you want, suck it up or pirate it, your call.
My point is, you can choose a different path, but it takes a choice.
You know, dumb flip phones are coming back, people are realizing they don’t need all the crap they’re paying for, it doesn’t all make life better. It takes conviction to trade in your smart phone for a dumb one, but people are doing it.
buy an HD antenna
In many countries you can use IPTV to get the public channels too and it’s totally legal
Why would you make it harder than it is?
libre office and you got an open source Office suite
TBF I self host and use Arch (btw) I was just making a supply joke, but your point stands.
That said, people need things, sometimes you have to buy new things, and if so, don’t feel bad, try to make good choices, but you also have to take care of yourself.
You forgot about using your rented Mac for playing rented games, music and movies.
Mac’s can play games???
Wow what are you trying to say
Go ahead, i can take itI love you. 🥺
I love you and i hope you have/had a great day!
Yeah, they always have.
Bungie made mostly Mac games until Microsoft bought them. Marathon (the original) was a Mac game.
It’s their only option when people can’t afford shit
End stage capitalism boys. Its down the tubes until collapse/revolution.
I mean, its decidedly not, but its certainly the option that means the least effort and most profit on their part.
Such a stupid saying. Nobody likes it.
Average rental enjoyer…
By owning nothing we can afford to have everything we want.
Just like investment real estate squatters buying up houses, driving up real estate costs, and then forcing you to rent.
Next, Apple keeps jacking up lease prices.
Leasing is not renting
For tech stuff basically a financial entity buys the goods for you at full MSRP (they calculate a almost 100% depreciation over the term), then you pay that full price + interest over 48/60 installments, and when you’re done, they take the goods back and sell it back via some liquidator.
And because the financial entity bought the stuff for you especially to lease it, you’re contractually obligated to pay until the end of the contract, can’t just get it for a month and then be done with it
You paid $1200 to use something worth $900 for four years and then it’s not yours
Unless you’re a business and the accountant says that’s better for taxes, leasing something doesn’t make sense
I hope you’re not saying this in general terms, because leasing absolutely has its benefits even to individuals, especially for cars.
for cars it makes sense only if you really need to have a new vehicle every 3 years and you really need to have an all inclusive insurance that covers everything
otherwise you save thousands by taking a loan, get limited liability insurance, then sell it after 5-6 years
although the absolute savings (for a newish vehicle and not a shitbox) is to get a used one ex-leasing (max 3 years old, low mileage, all maintenance made correctly because the leasing company paid for it) then sell it after 3-4 years (or keep it until it becames a shitbox)
There it is.
You stole the words right out of mouth. The beginning of not owning your own computer.
That’s how it also started, with time-sharing terminals because hardware was way too expensive.
It’s nice when the bad guy wears a black hat and twiddles their mustache, isn’t it? Really helps to speed things up.
Those of us paying attention have been waiting for this moment. It’s great living through end stage capitalism!
That’s…worse
Fuuuuck that.
And there it is, you will own nothing and the apple chuds will enjoy it.
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Looks absurd, but I’m sure a lot of people will pay for it and next year we will have news about apple getting record profits
I’m too tired of all this
And people will say leasing is a great idea!
“You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” WEF
I’ll absolutely never touch that shit, but I am kinda curious what the pricing will look like.
How long does it take for buying to be cheaper than renting. How long before you are expected to get a new one - this is actually quite a big one, could it encourage more buying new laptops and so also improve the second hand market? Better and cheaper second hand laptops could be sweet.
You’re still paying for the more expensive ram. It’s just baked into a higher monthly rental payment. Why pay more for ram one time when you could pay more for ram every month for the rest of your life?
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You’ll own nothing and like it.
- capitalism.
