For sure but if the goal is to have it not financially benefit the creepshit author, digital isn’t a bad way to go. I don’t necessarily want Gaiman’s boobs in my hands.

I meant digital volumes. I agree, support your library, do not steal from it.

There’s also always piracy arrrrr.

But yes support your local library.

If that happens, prior Crucial consumers (like myself) should boycott because they already showed what they actually care about and it isn’t their loyal customer base. They don’t want us to buy their products? We should happily give them what they want now should they change their mind later.

Anyway yeah, if they come back, they’re officially on my shit list.

You gotta be fucking kidding me, I swore by Crucial RAM and SSDs. Eat shit, Micron.

This is what most companies seem to be aiming for these days as well, along with business-to-business sales as opposed to business-to-consumer sales.

For a long time now, many companies have stopped trying to increase profits by increasing the customer base, but rather are shrinking the customer base with intent to make up the difference and then some with increased costs.

I did some back of the napkin math on the price increases for Xbox Game Pass the last time around, and the numbers were basically that they could lose about a third of their customers for Game Pass and still break even, so as long as they lost less than a third of their customer base, they were still creating more profit than before. They would need to be pushing losing fully half of all subscribers for it to make a negative dent on their profits.

This is late stage capitalism. This is rent extraction where they are indeed happier to make $0 because their customer base was already so vast that they can afford to have a significant portion of those customers bail and they will still make money.

Marjane Satrapi

Yes, I do like Primus.

Mom’s Spaghetti.

Seriously, Mulder, this is why no one cares about your fucking conspiracy theories!

Unless the Cigarette Smoking Man is responsible for keeping poor people poor, which I don’t think he is, I dooooon’t caaaaaaaare.

They’re about 5 years past their best-by date for playing teens.

Feminem isn’t real she can’t hurt you.

Someone left a cake wet floor sign out in the rain.

No worries, I wasn’t as clear as I could have been, for sure.

MetaFilter literally used Adobe Coldfusion to put together their site and the site is still using ColdFusion as of 2025. There wasn’t “backend development” in the same way there is for projects like Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon, and so on. MeFi is only just considering rebuilding the site from scratch since 2024 and the main head of that exploratory project has been MIA for several months now.

You’re right, it doesn’t have to mean no development, I was really just referring back to MetaFilter as an example. A site can work without updates for a long, long time, especially if the core of the site is off-the-shelf stuff like PHP, CSS, and HTML, which is what MeFi largely is made up of.

This is the answer. Pretty sure, for example, MetaFilter is running bespoke code for their forum (which means no development at all), and it’s been online since 1999.

Cancer at 42 over here.

I am glad I kept around my old pirated copies of Rosetta Stone in various languages for this reason.