@pleasestopasking@reddthat.com
Post #55619
2025-12-12 06:07 UTC
Replies (9)
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@umbrella@lemmy.ml 2025-12-12 06:21
housing.
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@lime@feddit.nu 2025-12-12 06:21
housing
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@neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-12 06:24
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.
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@pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 2025-12-12 06:32
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.
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@cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2025-12-12 06:44
Oxygen
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@PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 2025-12-12 06:48
Tractors.
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@janus2@lemmy.zip 2025-12-12 07:38
Spending money. Thorough a combination of a lot of bad luck and a few bad choices, I’m stuck playing credit card musical chairs to keep enough cash for rent and bills. “Ability to buy groceries/toiletries/medical copays/etc.” is functionally a subscription for me. Few years of rice and beans in my future until I can dig myself out… good thing I like beans I guess The worst I can imagine (aside from housing…) would be the others in Maslow’s pyramid base: air, water, food, clothing. Air would be some straight up cyberpunk shit. Water/food would also be horrifying. We currently see meal subscriptions as a luxury, but for those without access to a kitchen and/or with disabilities that prevent them from reliably using one… ah fuck that’s dismal. Clothing would be fuckin weird. Because such a ridiculous volume of it exists due to fast fashion, I can’t see this happening on Earth in the near future, thankfully.
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@flamiera@kbin.melroy.org 2025-12-12 15:04
The planned internet as a subscription idea that has been on and off. It's teetering, but I believe it's going to happen one day or another. Where, you'll have to pay a subscription for a part of the internet. Like for Streaming or Social Media or whatever else .etc
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@yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-12 15:36
Toilet. A lot of the world has you paying for water anyway, but just wait until they add premiums for flushing your Toilet and offer an unlimited (Fair Use Applies) subscription