Isn’t “half one” used as a short form of “half past one” these days, I.e. 01:30? That has been a source of confusion for someone used to the Germanic way.
The drive itself abstracts out the raw stream if I understood things correctly. Similar to how a PC floppy controller can’t do a low level disk image, because it does some interpretation of the signal before handing it over to the system.
There’s a lengthy explanation in the wiki linked from the github page. But basically cd drives don’t give you a raw stream, and does stuff like error correction.
This! Why does everyone and their mother need to host their own backend for basic sync? The likelihood that the end user has some kind of cloud account already is extremely high today, you don’t add much value by adding yet another “someone else’s computer” to the mix?
They do, by buying the next version. On the other side of that coin is making the next version better enough that people will upgrade.
For security/bug fixes, yes, there’s a better incentive for fixes in SaaS, but then again, if you’re known to actually fix bugs, the likelihood of people buying the upgrades are higher, so there is incentives for non SaaS too.
Sure, Ill happily pay for the next version of my password manager as well…as long as I buy a license instead of renting it.
But I truly won’t rent a note taking app.
Overall JetBrains’ model of “subscription with fallback license” seems the best compromise here, you do get to keep a license permanently if you quit your subscription, it just happens to be the one from 12 months ago.
I personally dislike subscriptions to the point where I’d gladly pay more to own, and as this thread shows, I’m not alone.
So why not offer both?