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You might not understand :

• their explanation for what happens to users who’ve paid
• what I mean by “soften the landing”
• what I mean by “what that really meant”
• what I mean by “I wouldn’t be surprised”

I’m not a mind reader, mate. Even less so on the internet. I could be ESL, or from a different part of the world. Whatever’s obvious in your head isn’t going to be obvious in mine.

So, if you want me to tell you what “this” means, you’ve got to tell me what “this” is.

Schrödinger’s Surety

I saw the furry art and that’s how I knew they were a pro*.

Which part?

Not for users who paid the mobile unlock fee.

What if I’ve already paid the one-time mobile app activation fee?
For users who have already paid a one-time, in-app activation for either our mobile Android or iOS app, an extended trial for the new Remote Watch Pass subscription is available.
(Source: Plex)

They soften the landing with the “extended trial”, but anyone who paid the “one-time fee” is finding out what that really meant.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a year from now there’s an announcement for Plex 2.0 and my lifetime account only applies to legacy Plex.

I don’t think that’s it.

There were complaints when Netflix started enforcing password sharing rules.

I think the main driver of complaints is “you promised the thing I’m paying for would be X, and now you’re changing the deal.”

If you have any specific feedback on how to make the project better

Include the context from your comment above in the original post, so that the claim makes sense.

Its like a vegan having a problem with a billboard which says “Delicious meat” just because they don’t eat meat.

I would say it’s more like a random person seeing a billboard that says “This handbag is great for your garden project” and reacting with “wtf is this marketing?”

Because that’s not what handbags are typically for.

I’m defending the validity of my original comment.

You’ve gone this deep with me into the comments. How are you?

At the next board meeting:

Our COOL numbers have risen 57% this quarter. Since the most recent update, we’ve also seen a significant bump in CODE usage.

That’s a fair response.

If I had been more careful with my original comment, I would have said

I cannot imagine a single person who would want this (as a gift) for Thanksgiving.

Plenty of people (myself five years ago included) would want to be able to self-host software like this, especially when it looks as good as the competitors it’s based on.

I don’t think they’re going out of their way to misrepresent the software.

But if you’re excusing it for being a “turn of phrase”, then it’s a poor choice of turn of phrase.

Both Day One and Apple Journal, which this software is proudly positioned as an alternative to, marketed themselves on “personal” and “private”, not “for the family”.

Which could make sense, if it was designed around family-oriented features. But it’s not.

And it’s not like there’s a lack of options:

• Give yourself an early Christmas present with
• Host your own thanksgiving, with
• Preserve the moments that matter with
• This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for your support
• Host your Thanksgiving memories at home with
• Bon Appétit, Journiv is self-hosted for the holidays
• This Thanksgiving, own what you write

But “give your family the gift of memories of memories that last forever”?

I’m half-convinced they did this whole project just so they could call it COOL.

Collabora Online (COOL) is the company’s open-source solution for document editing and collaboration online and at scale. COOL provides a consistent, discoverable user interface (UI) designed with intuitive toolbars and a tabbed interface, which focuses on the tools most people use every day and enables current users to get their work done without clutter.

“I’d rather stay at home” is valid.

“No Way To Prevent This” Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens*

Patriotism as a feeling of exclusive love for one’s own people, and as a doctrine of the virtue of sacrificing one’s tranquillity, one’s property, and even one’s life, in defence of the weak among them from slaughter and outrage hy their enemies, was the highest idea of the period when each nation considered it feasible and just, to subject to slaughter and outrage the people of other nations for its own advantage.

The way Tolstoy uses the word aligns with the negative, exclusive definition of the word:

The desire to compete sharply with, and perhaps also dominate, other nations; nationalism.

and not the positive sense of the word:

Love of one’s country; devotion to the welfare of one’s compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one’s country.

That makes sense, because he didn’t have access to the word nationalism as a means to distinguish between the two. The word “nationalism” doesn’t appear a single time in Patriotism and Government or in Patriotism, or Peace?.

And that makes sense. The word nationalism didn’t see common usage until well after he published that piece (in 1900).

We’re not “inventing” good patriotism now, because it was already “invented” over the course of the past 100 years.

We now have access to both words, allowing us to distinguish between the positive and negative aspects of that love.

Leo Tolstoy’s writing is timeless in a lot of ways, but when we’re talking about terms, it’s important to take into account what those terms meant when they were used.

Masculine urge to give my partner the evidence as I skip town to retire open a beach side restaurant in a tropical paradise.

!cursed_images@lemmy.world

Check your math.

Under federal law, Members of Congress qualify for a pension, funded in part with taxpayer contributions, only after completing five full years of service. Greene began serving on January 3, 2021, and her departure date leaves her with 1,829 days of service — five years and three days, just enough to meet the eligibility threshold. Her pension would start at $8,717 at age 62, and based on actuarial data, could total more than $265,000 over her lifetime.

Source: ntu.org

Most activism groups aren’t really screening for membership.

Usually it’s, “you want to join ? Cool, I’ll add you.”

Edit: Just read the article. They went out of their way to try to make it sound like this group was up to something other than legally show up to immigrant court and keep watch for heinous police behavior.

The memo did not provide any further details about the individual or their alleged past calls for violence and offered no specifics or evidence to explain why the FBI characterized them as “anarchist violent extremists”. The courtwatch efforts have been non-violent, and the FBI did not respond to an inquiry seeking specific examples of violence and did not answer questions about whether law enforcement had ongoing access to the private group.