• pleasestopasking@reddthat.comOP
    13·
    18 days ago

    I am not looking forward to the day that medical implants and devices become subscription-based.

    Missed too many monthly payments? Your pacemaker gets shut off until your account is no longer delinquent.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    142·
    18 days ago

    I think there are a lot of things that are behind subscriptions that you do not realize. One example is computer mice.

    They use switches that are only rated for a certain number of clicks before they stop working.

    I was going through mice about once every 18 months. I decided to learn to soldier and just replace the switches once they broke.

    I found that the switched in the $100 Logitech mouse I bought were only rated for 5 or 10 million clicks. The switch they use can be purchased in a 70 million version. Why didn’t they use that from the start?

    I ended up repairing 3 mice and have a lot of extra switches sitting in a bit at home.

    • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
      7·
      18 days ago

      This seems like a ridiculously loose use of the word subscription.

      Would you say you subscribe to 700km worth of fuel in your car, subscribe to light bulbs in your house, subscribe to your pencil that is getting slowly worn down with each use?

        • Crotaro@beehaw.org
          2·
          16 days ago

          Because it’s frankly a somewhat ridiculous stretch of the word. That way, anything you purchase more than once in your life would be a subscription (toilet paper, bathroom repairs, even food and water). If anything, it gives more power to toxic subscription services (like how BMW gatekeeps seat heating iirc) by muddying the waters and making their subscriptions seem less outrageous than it is.