Nearly every day, my kids come home from school and go on about some new app or game they and their mates are excited about.
  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    372·
    2 months ago

    This is why on principle I almost 99.99% refuse to invest time or money in any app or service that is an ongoing cost that can be taken away or enshittified.

    It needs to not collect data, have a single purchase (or yearly feature update subscriptions that don’t affect the underlying functionality that is permanently available to me as a user) and if there’s any doubt about that I’m looking for the next, more permanent solution + negative review for enshittifiers

    • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      KDE Plasma recently added a once-annually notification requesting donations to the KDE e.V. (who pay for things like server infrastructure to support the project). Is this past your line, or acceptable?

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        2 months ago

        I can handle that.

        • its a donation
        • its a presumably good product I want to continue to be funded and developed
        • once a year
        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          What if it weren’t a donation? What if the situation were a once annual subscription where your use of the software is reliant on that subscription cost?

          Yes, I realize KDE is still open source, but what if they did this anyways?

          • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            2 months ago

            Then thats a no. I’m not getting anything embedded in my workflow that can randomly decide it can’t work because the mother-ship is down or the business model needs to change.

            Edit: all software business models in general need to embrace this. Charge more if ya have to or provide the essential features initially and then use nice-to-haves as the gain-winners going forward. Thats really how it should be with everything

  • Meltrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    If it is not open source, and you are not paying, someone else is and you are the product.

  • M600@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 months ago

    There was an iOS app I used like this that did a great job of scanning text books.

    After I used it for about 6 months this exact thing happened. Started charging fees for many different things.

    Exporting images as pdf had a charge, then scanning to make the text searchable had a fee.

    I just exported as jpg and used imagic and ocrmypdf to take care of this.

    Then I learned that iOS has a built in scanner in the files app, so I just switched to that one.