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Wow, I paid €118 for it in 2022, but then stopped using it around 2024 or early 2025 when it started to enshittify.

In general though, I think lifetime subscriptions for services that cost a company money are a shitty business model. Its like a pyramid scheme.

SuSe 7.1 was my first experience with Linux, I got a boxed copy with paper manuals and everything. It was glorious, I learned so much from that.

Part of the problem here in the Netherlands is that kids just use their laptops at school to access the same social media and chat apps.

They block it on the school WiFi, but kids either just tether their phones, hidden in backpacks or use VPNs, etc.

That being said, as the parent of a teenager, I still strongly support the ban.

Here in Europe we already have that, at least for comfort and above.