earthworm

You might not understand :

• their explanation for what happens to users who’ve paid
• what I mean by “soften the landing”
• what I mean by “what that really meant”
• what I mean by “I wouldn’t be surprised”

I’m not a mind reader, mate. Even less so on the internet. I could be ESL, or from a different part of the world. Whatever’s obvious in your head isn’t going to be obvious in mine.

So, if you want me to tell you what “this” means, you’ve got to tell me what “this” is.

Which part?

Not for users who paid the mobile unlock fee.

What if I’ve already paid the one-time mobile app activation fee?
For users who have already paid a one-time, in-app activation for either our mobile Android or iOS app, an extended trial for the new Remote Watch Pass subscription is available.
(Source: Plex)

They soften the landing with the “extended trial”, but anyone who paid the “one-time fee” is finding out what that really meant.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a year from now there’s an announcement for Plex 2.0 and my lifetime account only applies to legacy Plex.

I don’t think that’s it.

There were complaints when Netflix started enforcing password sharing rules.

I think the main driver of complaints is “you promised the thing I’m paying for would be X, and now you’re changing the deal.”

If you have any specific feedback on how to make the project better

Include the context from your comment above in the original post, so that the claim makes sense.

Its like a vegan having a problem with a billboard which says “Delicious meat” just because they don’t eat meat.

I would say it’s more like a random person seeing a billboard that says “This handbag is great for your garden project” and reacting with “wtf is this marketing?”

Because that’s not what handbags are typically for.

I’m defending the validity of my original comment.

You’ve gone this deep with me into the comments. How are you?

At the next board meeting:

Our COOL numbers have risen 57% this quarter. Since the most recent update, we’ve also seen a significant bump in CODE usage.

That’s a fair response.

If I had been more careful with my original comment, I would have said

I cannot imagine a single person who would want this (as a gift) for Thanksgiving.

Plenty of people (myself five years ago included) would want to be able to self-host software like this, especially when it looks as good as the competitors it’s based on.

I don’t think they’re going out of their way to misrepresent the software.

But if you’re excusing it for being a “turn of phrase”, then it’s a poor choice of turn of phrase.

Both Day One and Apple Journal, which this software is proudly positioned as an alternative to, marketed themselves on “personal” and “private”, not “for the family”.

Which could make sense, if it was designed around family-oriented features. But it’s not.

And it’s not like there’s a lack of options:

• Give yourself an early Christmas present with
• Host your own thanksgiving, with
• Preserve the moments that matter with
• This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for your support
• Host your Thanksgiving memories at home with
• Bon Appétit, Journiv is self-hosted for the holidays
• This Thanksgiving, own what you write

But “give your family the gift of memories of memories that last forever”?

I’m half-convinced they did this whole project just so they could call it COOL.

Collabora Online (COOL) is the company’s open-source solution for document editing and collaboration online and at scale. COOL provides a consistent, discoverable user interface (UI) designed with intuitive toolbars and a tabbed interface, which focuses on the tools most people use every day and enables current users to get their work done without clutter.

What’s really weird is that the byline(?) says this article was published “today”, when I saw this exact same headline more than a week ago.

Forepend.

The rocket science button, apparently.

Meat used to refer to any kind of food. Now it means animal flesh. Girl used to be a gender neutral term for any child.

Install in a smartphone context means “from the app store” now.

No amount of “here is an idea” hohoho sarcasm is going to reverse the flow of language.

No one’s forbidding you from using the word install.

We have universal words like go, as in “go by foot” or “go by car” or “go by bus”.

But we also have words like walk, run, drive, bus (as a verb), and Uber to specify how you go to a place.

And we can have words to specify how you install an app.

In my opinion, we’re more likely to win by reclaiming sideloading (by giving it a positive connotation) or creating new words (and giving corpo installs a negative connotation) than we are to get current and future smartphone users to go back to using an older definition of the word install.

It’s useful to have specific words for things.

Sometimes you want to express that you’re specifically eating meat, not vegetables. The word food doesn’t do that.

It’s fine to want to install “from ANY place”.

Sometimes you want to express that you’re installing from local source not from the app store. The word install doesn’t do that.

Install is an umbrella term for all installs.

We want to be able to differentiate between direct and store installs.

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The assumption is that they believe a not-insignificant portion of their customers are fascist or fascist-adjacent.

If everyone upset about this boycotted and tanked their bottom line, they’d probably shift gears in a heartbeat.

But I suspect that the number of fascist/fascist-adjacent customers is high enough that they need both groups’ money to survive.

A remake should always try to stay as close as possible to the original for its initial presentation. The intention of a remake is to become the current market replacement of an old product, for various reasons.

Reading your comment, it seems like you’re locked onto the idea that all remasters are lazy, low quality cash grabs and that remakes should actually just be high quality remasters.

It sounds like you wanted a high quality remaster of Silent Hill 2, and instead they gave you a remake and never released a digital version of the original. So now everyone’s playing the remake and calling it Silent Hill 2, instead of properly differentiating it as Silent Hill 2 Remake/Silent Hill 2 (2025).

And I agree that the situation is ass for navigating online conversations.

But a remake should not “stay as close as possible to the original”. That’s what remasters are for.

The only thing they should do is be good.

(And also release the originals DRM-free on GOG.)

The only games I 100% are the ones where llooking for weird secrets is still fun.

If it’s just “collect all 2 million Pokémon because… you get an achievement”, I’m out.