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Learned the term recently and really enjoy it, subscription fatigue is the feeling we all have had now where we are just over how everything is subscription based.

Which one was the last straw or most annoying/frustrating to you?

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Adobe Reader needing a 5€ subscription for rotating pages. Fuck techno feudalism.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Oh my god I didn't even know about that one. Why?? Browsers read them fine

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Reading a PDF is something, editing is a whole other thing. For a while I had an Adobe Reader subscription it was the only one I know of that can edit a pdf were I can delete entire columns from a table. (It was a PDF generated by shitty sales software I was using)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Found this open source, docker based, self hosted app for editing PDFs a few months ago. Works well enough for basic operations the last time I tried it (though not sure if it can delete columns from tables): https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF

Figured I'd post the link here in case it helps you or anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I went with stirling. It has a lot of great features, but it’s lacking in actual editing. Adobe allows you basically to edit a PDF like a word file.

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