• @theneverfox@pawb.social
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            91 year ago

            And what’s the alternative? You learn to maintain your own equipment and take operation of your powerful and dangerous tools into your own hands, like you do when operating it? You find a local mechanic, like you would with a car, plane, or boat? You keep using the same equipment without paying the manufacturer more until it deteriorates too much to repair?

            That’s insane. There’s not even a subscription involved, it’s deranged. Forget your rice, the shareholders need bigger made up numbers!

      • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I feel like printers started it. Everyone I had used to setup came with some insane cable. Not to mention the actual cartridge

      • @Leviathan@lemmy.world
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        111 year ago

        It’s the legacy that stinky piece of shit Steve Jobs left behind. That, skirting foreign labor laws, treating your own child like shit and stabbing your friends in the back.

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      121 year ago

      Agreed. But other companies like Samsung and Google that dunked on Apple for their shitty practices, then completely adopt them a few generations later are fucking pathetic.