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Originally Posted by mjohnson

I saw the cloud coming and bought a standalone version of photoshop four or five years ago. I think it's now bound to the processor in my pc - so I guess this old box is my forever picture tweaking machine.

This modern life-by-subscription is infuriating. Even the things you "buy" like the aforementioned photoshop or some MP3s off of Mr Bezos' big phallic platform have restrictions or magically disappear.

For music, I'll use Amazon like I do Hotels.com - an initial search to see what's out there _then_ go direct to the source.

And yes, I understand that you never actually buy any of that stuff. You "buy" a license and accept the myriad nonnegotiable conditions which always include that you can play with their stuff for only as long as they want to let you.

Oh, and a Brother b&w duplex laser is the only printer in this house. If I need better quality, larger paper or colors I'll drop some pocket change at our local pack-it/ship-it/print-it storefront. For us, the (maybe) $10/y we spend with them is worth 100x in not dealing with the urge to throw yet another inkjet out the window.

I held on to a stand alone version of PS as long as I could. I know that at one time I had a copy for MacOS and would love that now, except that it was old enough that it almost certainly would not work with my current version.

I also switched to a Brother laser after my last HP laser printer died. We rarely print stuff these days, probably <50 pages/yr, and most of that is probably taxes (I print a copy for our files and also save an electronic copy).

My wife refuses to buy any books or media of any sort from Amazon since they can kill it afterwards if they want.