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Many years ago I paid 170 dollars for a forever license to what was essentially a VPN that only worked for netflix.
The company got shut down several months later and I could no longer see netflix from around the world.
Now days I don't even have netflix though
I took a similar risk with Bean (a Lemmy app for iOS). It was all good for the lifetime of the company. Turns out, it wasnβt very long.
Airport Sandwich β¬12 and it tastes like gas station sandwich.
Airport prices are on a whole other level
I thought 18β¬ for 2 ham & cheese croissants & coffee in the Netherlands was excessive until I paid for (my son and my lunch) 80$ for 2 burritos & 2 beers at SeaTac....fucking insanity.
They have sucked out all the joy of the beer at whatever time your bodyclock says.
Yeah it's just extortion. They know you can't go anywhere so they set those ridiculous prices and get away with it
From the hitchkikers guide:
It is by eating sandwiches in pubs on Saturday lunchtimes that the British seek to atone for whatever their national sins have been. Theyβre not altogether clear what those sins are, and donβt want to know either. Sins are not the sort of things one wants to know about. But whatever sins they are are amply atoned for by the sandwiches they make themselves eat.
If there is anything worse than the sandwiches, it is the sausages which sit next to them. Joyless tubes, full of gristle, floating in a sea of something hot and sad, stuck with a plastic pin in the shape of a chefβs hat: a memorial, one feels, for some chef who hated the world, and died, forgotten and alone, among his cats on a back stair in Stepney. The sausages are for the ones who know what their sins are and wish to atone for something specific.
My spouse and I were broke grad students with a baby on the way. We needed a car. Someone in our tiny town was selling a 1992 Accord for $1000 (this was in the early 2010s). We bought it and put in another $1000 to get it to run.
The only problem? It was a stick shift. I didn't know how to drive standard; at the time, my spouse didn't drive at all. I tried to learn, but I was so nauseated from my pregnancy that I nearly puked every time the car lurched... which was often. I never did get the hang of it. Eventually we bought a newer automatic car and traded the Accord in for a whopping $250.
These days we could weather a $2000 mistake without too many problems, but back then... yeah, that one hurt.
>$1500 on an all new parts DIY PC complete with a Windows license. Nowadays everything's outdated and these same parts would be like $800 max. Even back then I could have saved at least a couple hundred just by swallowing my pride and buying used.
I haven't bought brand new tech since, and I have not regretted it yet.
I got an iPad, think it was second generation. That thing was fucking useless. Couldn't do anything without a subscription service. Games sucked. Couldn't sideload. Don't know what I was thinking.
A decade later I got a galaxy tablet and its one of the most useful things I've ever bought. Writing tablet in meetings. Second screen while gaming. Portable screen while training/cooking. OLED is perfect for reading comics.
Sorry I think I got distracted and missed the spirit of the question.
I've owned many iPads. To claim you can't use it without a subscription service is ridiculous. Yes, you need an Apple ID to download apps from the App Store but that doesn't cost anything (just like a Google account).
You're comparing two electronic devices that are ten years apart from each other. Of fucking course the new one is going to be better. If you think a Galaxy tablet is great, you should really try a new iPad.
I mean, you're just coming off sounding like an Apple-hater and someone who hasn't ever actually owned an iPad. Maybe even a bot.
You had me in the first part, but that last paragraph reeks of Apple fanboyism.
Anyway, I also had an iPad 2 back in the day and it was a pretty solid machine coming from media players and digital photo frames of yore. Also an amazing mobile gaming experience compared to the cramped iPod touch or iPhone of the time. But terribly frustrating if you wanted anything outside the walled garden, even something as ubiquitous as Adobe Flash support.
What plumbercraic says though is absolutely the case today. Some of my family use Apple devices. Mind-blowing what ad- and subscription-infested apps they endure on the regular. Sometimes they'll ask me to recommend friendlier apps and I really wish iOS had its F-Droid equivalent. Yes, the Play Store also has terrible apps, but when only the Apple App Store exists, I have to spend time hunting for the one good app, which could just as well enshittify the next year.
Excuse me? Are you trying to say that side-loaded apps are more free of ads than those in app stores? What motivates a developer to release an ad-free side loaded app while refusing to submit it to (or failing to get it approved in) an app store?
How is this specifically an iPad issue and not an app developer issue?
I'd like to know, because I don't have a Google device or account, how the Google Play Store is superior to the Apple App Store when it comes to ad or subscription supported software.
Side-loaded apps could be anything, ad-free or ad-infested. It costs money to publish an app to Apple's App Store, even if the app is going to be free. For commercial developers, that's an incentive to monetize and recuperate the $99/year Apple charges. For open source developers, that's a barrier to entry.
On the Android side, free and ad-free apps are correlated with being open source. Many open source developers are philosophically against publishing on Google's Play Store, or at least know that their main audience does not want to sign up for a Google account to download it from the Play Store. But that's not saying that the Play Store is inherently superior to Apple's App Store. It just happens to overlap with open source apps that are guaranteed to be free and ad-free, given the lower barrier to entry (one-time $25 fee).
This is more an exception than the rule so far, but one final case is an open-source developer wants to publish their perfectly safe and legitimate app, but is rejected. This happened to Organic Maps on the Play Store.
Contrast these app stores with F-Droid, where users do not need to sign up for an account and developers can publish for free without handing over personally identifiable information. However, it relies on a form of sideloading that is not possible on iOS devices, at least outside of the EU.
An Intel Atom notebook with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage acquired for $200 on Black Friday. Despite many attempts to optimize it, it was practically unusable 4 years in. If I had the foresight to buy a used ThinkPad for the same price instead, it could have been my daily driver to this day.
Also a faux leather wallet. The "leather" started turning to goo and powder about a year in. Some of my cards and my wallet photo still have some of those decayed fake leather bits stuck on the edges or rubbed in.
I have an irrational hatred for faux leather I wonβt touch anything with it that melty And peely texture is so awful
I got a saddleback wallet for Fatherβs Day 10 years ago and it is gorgeous. If it ever dies and they still exist theyβll replace or repair it for free
Rent every month. The scam eventually ends so at least it won't be forever. It just lasts the rest of my life.
Hm, no, I can't imagine that I've ever experienced a worse purchasing regret than the one you described there with the pizza.
Those Samsung earbuds which had a proprietary connector from back when every phone manufacturer refused to use 3.5mm plugs to push their own breakable standard.
Got an expensive leather jacket as a kid, for far more money than I had paid for clothes before or have since. Assumed it was indestructible being leather. It was not that kind of leather jacket, and I managed to tear it wide open in maybe a couple weeks.
2012 Indian Scout. The price was decent, the miles were low. It was my first motorcycle, and I was sure that I wanted a cruiser. It seemed perfect for me.
It had some pretty major issues. The stator failed in the rain; it got fixed under warranty. Then a coil pack failed, stranding me two hours from home. That took about a month to get fixed under warranty. It wouldn't start in cold weather worth a damn; anything under 50F, and it was a bitch to start. To top it off, I live in the mountains, and once I got past my initial trepidation of riding without anything but skill and luck between myself and the pavement, I was out-riding the capabilities of a cruiser. It's really unpleasant to drop into a corner and get your foot knocked off the foot peg because it's dragging on the pavement...
It turns out that the way I ride is much more suited to a sport bike.
I did a title swap with someone that had a '12 CBR600RR that needed some work; I took about a $5000 bath on that trade, but I got a bike that I loved. I ended up putting 80,000 miles on it before I wore the engine out, and then bought a '16 Triumph Speed Triple that I rode to work today.
Windows Vista (never did this in past and future, but with this ver. I repent... I have sinned. Linuxoid from 2000 y.
My chevy cruze. Biggest dumpster fire on wheels ive ever owned. DO NOT MAKE MY MISTAKE.
What does this have to do with windows vista? π€
I guess Chevy makes Windows OSes now, TIL.
I posted under a comment by accident lol
Regrets on buying, per the title
You replied to a comment instead of the OP, so your answer looks a little funny from being out of context, that's all.
Wasnt my comment, I'm just continuing the out of context chain
Lol I can't read today