Lifetime access plans are (mostly) a hoax
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A lot of these are still pretty cheap.
I know people who make a big deal out of collecting physical media. Personally I find the volume of space they take up is oppressive. I spent a lot of last summer trying to gentle a stray cat
https://mastodon.social/tags/BobB
in the "cat room" in our other house (same lot) that was under renovation. I took over a TV and the XBOX and set up a wireless link with the last version of
https://uisp.com/us/wireless/airmax2-4ghz
I also took over all my DVD and Blu-Ray. I watched plenty of TV and movies off my media server and off Apple TV, Peacock and Tubi but didn't watch a single disc. I kept the best 10% and gave the rest to the reuse center who thought I was crazy to let go if it. (Boy was it hard to decide between the theatrical release and Richard Donner cut of Superman II)
I know people who make a big deal out of collecting physical media. Personally I find the volume of space they take up is oppressive. I spent a lot of last summer trying to gentle a stray cat
https://mastodon.social/tags/BobB
in the "cat room" in our other house (same lot) that was under renovation. I took over a TV and the XBOX and set up a wireless link with the last version of
https://uisp.com/us/wireless/airmax2-4ghz
I also took over all my DVD and Blu-Ray. I watched plenty of TV and movies off my media server and off Apple TV, Peacock and Tubi but didn't watch a single disc. I kept the best 10% and gave the rest to the reuse center who thought I was crazy to let go if it. (Boy was it hard to decide between the theatrical release and Richard Donner cut of Superman II)
Same thoughts. I’ve also received that email today and got really disappointed
I used to have a set of courses I bought from ACloudGuru back in 2017. I loved ACloudGuru back then as it was a solid source to learn AWS for me.
I didn't follow up with ACloudGuru anymore and I didn't access my courses for 6 years, but it looks like it's owned by Pluralsight who decided to pull the plug on perpetually bought courses.
Do I need these courses? Could be, I may need to refurbish my knowledge if I move to another job, or renew my certificates. Now, I will lose my "lifetime access" courses by end of January 2025.
Lessons learned: - There is no "lifetime" access for online material. The lifespan of these materials are how long the host doesn't decide not to pull the plug. - Anything that is online and you don't have a copy of on your own drive means you don't really own. You just rent it. - NEVER trust lifetime access plans offers you to pay 3-5 times of their annual plan for the hope they will stay longer than the average startup lifespan of 5 years.