I don’t read DMs.
In 2012 (ish), I bought a lifetime subscription for a flat $75. Over the next few years of using it, they got worse and worse with shit like this, so I switched to Emby for a bit, and then Jellyfin. I never shared with friends, tho, because I have no friends, so it was always just a pretty interface and convenience for me. Lately, I’ve just been opening the files directly in VLC, because Remmina is refusing to connect to my media server, and I can’t be arsed to figure out why.
Why not both?
If money is the only motivation, and especially if some part of the job is demotivating for you (maybe ethically speaking), then I’d count that as burnout. Remember, they can never pay you what you’re worth, because then there’d be no profit for them to leech. Also, the corporate entity has no morality. It’s just a machine.
I’m making the transition. I use both, for now.
Only when the pain of bowing to Microsoft, and their increasing intrusions and demands, exceeds the (IMO) minor pains (multiple) of switching to Linux, do people make the jump. That threshold is low for some, and high for many.
I’m a Linux Mint exclusive guy for one year next month, and I’m never installing Windows again. No, it didn’t “just work”, but it did work 85% out of the box, and the rest I was able to figure out. I’m NOT “an IT guy”, and the only OS I used before Windows was MS-DOS (so, yeah, I’m old).
I play Fallout 4, and Half-Life 2, and run Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, LibreOffice, Calibre, Jellyfin, Forge AI, PrusaSlicer, Meshroom, SABnzbd, etc. etc. Everything works fine, now, and I’m perfectly happy without Microsoft all up in my shit.
Oh, and, BTW, Gimp 3.0 is the shit. I’ve used Gimp off and on over the years, as a Photoshop user for nearly 30 years. Gimp doesn’t do everything Photoshop does, but it now does everything I ever used Photoshop for as a graphic designer for 20 years.
I use StartPage because it does image search, and none of the AI BS.
I’d be here more if I didn’t need to re-log in every few pages. It’s annoying, and I haven’t found a solution.
“What?! Logged out again?! Well, screw it, at least Reddit doesn’t log me out every time I refresh a page.”
I never fell for it. I hope none of my siblings did, either.
I would have thought that data would be worth more. Maybe the AI guys will just steal it, instead?