Lots or file formats are just zipped XML.

I was ~~reverse engineering~~ fucking around with the LBX file format for our Brother label printer's software at work, because I wanted to generate labels programmatically, and they're zipped XML too. Terrible format, LBX, really annoying to work with. The parser in Brother P-Touch Editor is really picky too. A string is 1 character longer or shorter than the length you defined in an attribute earlier in the XML? "I've never seen this file format in my life," says P-Touch Editor.

Or in America, "We're going to sew you back up, but first, please enter credit card details and sign here regarding your payment plan"

What's the value proposition here? Free no-questions-asked replacement if it breaks? Free upgrades when new models come out (though they have no real incentive to keep developing new "forever mice")?

If my mice on average last, say, 6 years and cost $175 (I splurged on a high-end one last time), the subscription will have to be less than $2.40/month, and since customers absolutely hate subscriptions, especially if there's no real benefit, probably even less than $1.50/month for most to even consider it.

In fact the Logitech mouse before my current mouse lasted 12 years and cost me $75, so that's a max subscription cost of 50 cents/month for it to be comparable.

Knowing is half the battle

Ubuntu users fight Canonical all the time too.

The americans are crying in 110V right now.

Probably because it looks like he only speaks in anime quotes and brings his plastic replica katana ("well ackchyually, it's a tachi, as you can see because of the way...") when going to the mall with his mom.

Once it’s on the internet, it’ll be there till the day you die.

Unless it's something you want to stay. Then it vanishes into the ether, and nobody seems to have it archived anywhere.

EDIT: Join us at !datahoarder@lemmy.ml or /r/datahoarder (unfortunately the datahoarder community is mostly active on Reddit still).

I'll happily donate 5 bucks now and again to Firefox development, but I don't want my donation to go to a 5-6 million dollar CEO salary.

What about the predictable beginning and the predictable middle part, between the beginning and the end? I usually just skip those too.

More like I can't ever manage my own tabs so they keep piling up 😭

Me too, and that's why I don't use vertical tabs! If I stacked all my tabs vertically, they'd surely topple over and injure someone really badly.

For real though, I just couldn't seem to get used to vertical tabs last time I tried them.

Yes, by not posting or commenting anywhere. Everything you do on Lemmy is public.