Yeah i guess you are right. Did not even think about it.

I dont know really, havent used paid versions of JetBrains products. I was always just eyeing with them.

Because you need to pay for further patches / newer versions, and need to pay 12 months worth to be able to use without a subscription.

It gets cheaper each year, so it incentivizes you to pay year to year.

Their explanation of the license

The best subscription model I have seen so far is for the JetBrains products. They call it the perpetual fallback license.

Quote: “A perpetual fallback license is a license that allows you to use a specific version of software without an active subscription for it. The license also includes all bugfix updates, more specifically in X.Y.Z version all Z releases are included.”

Yeah i agree, that most people do not pirate because of morality, but because pirating is more convenient meanwhile being way cheaper, you said it yourself. I do not watch a whole lot of movies or shows, but for example if i could buy Arcane, I would, but instead I can only watch it if I buy a Netflix subscription. I dont like this arbitrary limitation to be honest, you could buy movies back in the day.

For games, it is the case, because steam is actually a good service. People got what they wanted from Baldurs Gate 3 plus it is on a service which gives you tons of features. For example netflix on the other hand just limits how you consume content instead of enabling you other features.

One more thing, when Netflix was the only streaming service, people actually paid for it. Now that it is worse, pricier and there are more competing streaming services, it is way more convenient to pirate.

Of course they do, there will always be people who pirate. Most people dont mind paying for stuff and services if it respects them.

There is Baldurs Gate 3 for example, you can buy it on GOG without DRM, and I highly doubt it made a dent in their sales.

You dont ‘need’ custom CSS. It already adjusts to your firefox theme, so it actually looks as if it was native. Its such an awesome extension!

It is not ‘might’. We know they will do something like that.

Before AI went viral, how much did Giogle search improve, Youtube at all? Not at all really, but they cranked up the adverts. So now i am paying for Kagi search, I also sponsor open source projects so dont tell me that I am entitled. Youtube is the last Google product that cannot be replaced as of right now.

At the end of the day all i want is to be a customer, not a product.

I would gladly pay for it. BUT

• it is owned by google
• monopoly (i am waiting when will they announce a new tier of subscription with limited ads, and increase the price of the current model)
• i wouldnt pay for extra features, i would only pay for not making my experience worse, and this is probably the biggest reason for me.

I am the same with the bidet. Without water (or something wet) touching my chocolate starfish i feel kinda dirty as well. Crazy.

Absolutely agree with this one. Write down the problem and then the connections you made and the task that made you understand it.

For me it was interfaces (c# in this context). Like when do you even need them. How could an interface even be an argument for a function??

Then a problem came up, where a List or an Array could be a parameter in a function, but their length/count is not accessed the same way (still c#.) After this it clicked, that with interfaces you dont care whether it is a car or a cat, even a dog, if it can bark, it can be passed as a parameter into this function, and inside the function we only use these interfaced functions.

I was literally thinking about this the other day, and my top 5 (it was fcking hard to choose not gonna lie.)

• #5 Witcher 3

• #4 Warhammer 40k Darktide

• #3 Cyberpunk 2077

• #2 Bloodborne

• #1 Warhammer 40k Mechanicus

Honorable mention: Ghostrunner (havent played it, but that OST is fire)

You know, it is literally pick your poison, google/alphabet is not a better company either.

I guess i am from an ad agency as well. Damn, i did not even know i get paid for it.

Microsoft did not like that

There is no way that someone said:

“Hmm, that liver blob looks awesome! Lets make it our Company Logo!”

Firefox logo with its gradient colors is really nice imo. Just look at chrome and the others, those are really bland and boring.

These posts reassure me that I chose the right instance. Thank you!

I just realized this a few days ago. This is a very big reason why i’ll be keep using linux.

POV:

Linux: lets goo there are new updates

Windows: there are new updates… please no more AI and edge…

This I do not understand. I am sure a ton of people pre-ordered Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty even though we know how it launched. (And I love the game, I followed all the news, but even I could wait for a fckin day to wait for the reviews)