grimacefry

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The only two that have been good to me and still going strong is Plex and PocketCasts with their lifetime memberships. That was a good deal. But too many to name that turned out to absolutely not lifetime. GPS systems definitely the worst culprits.

The service is the developers releasing bug fixes and features that should have been there to begin with.

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https://theinstructionlimit.com/i-know-this-global-game-jam-2015

Custom OpenBox and tint2 setup.

I remembering it being bundled for free on a CD with a computer magazine

I frequented Cape Town and Johannesburg doing research, that also included going into black townships to chat with people. I myself had an escort of 15 huge guys with guns and still had all sorts of problems around Nyanga including a shoot out over me recording video. Would never walk or drive around there on my own, I saw so many tourists and (white) locals being targeted, attacked and beaten on the street. There’s a reason everyone lives in highly secure compounds. You should know this before going to SA. The most beautiful place, best food on the planet, but you may die for it.

I worked in design for a major global automaker, I designed and prototyped various user experiences around enabling/disabling features on demand, and paying a subscription. This was 7-8 years ago, and the context was developing countries and what we called “emerging markets” where people just bought bare bones base model vehicles, but there were always 1 or 2 highly desirable features they needed but could only get in a high spec model - they couldn’t afford.

The idea tested very well, they could buy their cheap vehicle and then enable just the things they really need. And they would pay for that. I still think this is a valid and good use case for subscribing, in these markets and for these people.

Somewhere between then and today, sales and marketing entered the chat, and I know because I fought them tooth and nail. What I designed morphed into subscribing to everything for everyone. I don’t work there any more and that’s part of why.

Moved from Netscape to Firefox and never used IE or Chrome. I never understood the obsession with anything made by Google, glad its going to finally all fall apart for them.

has shrunk so much its comical

I think re-nationalising telecommunications (land line, mobile and nbn) is looking pretty attractive. Critical national infrastructure that serves the whole population should never be privatised and run with capitalist objectives.

Inter Display - all UI stuff, it is designed for max legibility on screens. In Debian repos as fonts-inter

PragmataPro - all monospace/code. Paid for it 15 years ago and worth it, best mono font

Utopia Std - all serif document text. Purchased all the way back in 1998 and used for every doc i’ve ever written.

Props also to the complete IBM Plex family which is solid for sans, serif, and mono versions.