@coldfish @mcc Sounds like inbuilt obsolesce. Can you remember when we used to pay to replace our software because the latest version was actually better. Still happens with games I think and of course with security being a shit show we're extorted into paying for security updates. (Unlike with any other unsafe product where the manufacturer's on the hook for a recall) But outside of those two, when was the last time you upgraded software because they'd added some functionality that you wanted?

@mcc any software that needs to communicate with a license server has a single point of failure. If someone’s writing code to deliberately stop their product working in a given circumstance then they are baking In unreliability and increasing support costs. There’s very few less rewarding tasks than convincing software that you’ve paid for that you’re not actually a thief.

@GossiTheDog Famously, generative AI has been hilariously bad at producing a picture of a glass of wine that's anything other than about half full. Ask for one that's full or nearly empty and it can only show you ones that match it's training data: where all the glasses show a tasteful measure. And good luck asking for a clock face that doesn't show seven minutes past ten. It just can't extrapolate. However ask it what a naked child look like and it's remarkably good at it. Why? Well ask the people who tripped CSAM filters by downloading image training data. Dear Elon, why is Grok so good at making child porn. Did you train it on your own kids or ours? And telling the interface not to show you the filthy kiddie pics that it's gathered, is a bit like selling a porn magazine and asking customers not to look at pages 12-27 because you accidentally abused some kids when you made it.