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time to dust off that 20 year old edu email address. with these discounts, college has paid for itself!

yardie 9mo ago
I finally had to give mine up. Needed to reset the password which required a trip to 4HELP office and I live halfway around the globe now. But the kiddo will be starting college soon so I can mooch off their edu email address.
- qingcharles 9mo ago
  Ah, I've been mooching off an old library card for years to rent books for my Kindle. Finally got an email saying "Just pop into your local branch to renew this year." Ah...
  - bookofjoe 9mo ago
    YES! I was a happy Kanopy movie viewer until last year I got a message that my library card no longer worked on Kanopy and I had to physically go in to the library to get a new one. Maybe someday....
  - yardie 9mo ago
    You have to renew them? I've been using the same card since '03. I went in a 2 years ago to pay my fine for a book lost in the couch cushion for a few months. Librarian thought it was quaint that I still have my old tattered library card.
    - qingcharles 9mo ago
      This was Chicago. I believe a lot of people had managed to get online cards without physically being in the city and they decided to call it in and get everyone to renew in person to see who was still legit.
WmWsjA6B29B4nfk 9mo ago
If you are planning anyway to break the terms of the license and effectively steal the software, why even bother paying something for the privilege? Just get it for free, surely it has to be available cracked
- embedding-shape 9mo ago
  > break the terms of the license and effectively steal the software We're all (mostly/some) software people here, you don't need to use terms established by the "anti-piracy" firms to make your point, no one is "stealing" anything here, even if they were getting it for free from TPB or whatever.
  - renewiltord 9mo ago
    Indeed. But people are stuck on these archaic unrelated terms for now. AI firms will make the whole thing obsolete while luddites cry about “stealing from artists” and stuff like that.
    - embedding-shape 9mo ago
      > But people are stuck on these archaic unrelated terms for now Seen it in media for decades at this point, which makes sense, most people can't tell up from down. What's sad is hearing those things echoed here of all places, a community for hackers, and people are repeating the words of the MPAA.
    - Forgeties79 9mo ago
      >luddites cry oh come on I thought we had gotten past this crap
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- prodigycorp 9mo ago
  Spare me the morality play. Apple gifted Donald Trump a 24k gold statue! They will gift me an educational discount to Final Cut Pro.
SirMaster 9mo ago
That almost never works for me, they usually use a service that verifies current student enrollment like SheerID.
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I finally had to give mine up. Needed to reset the password which required a trip to 4HELP office and I live halfway around the globe now. But the kiddo will be starting college soon so I can mooch off their edu email address.

qingcharles 9mo ago
Ah, I've been mooching off an old library card for years to rent books for my Kindle. Finally got an email saying "Just pop into your local branch to renew this year." Ah...
- bookofjoe 9mo ago
  YES! I was a happy Kanopy movie viewer until last year I got a message that my library card no longer worked on Kanopy and I had to physically go in to the library to get a new one. Maybe someday....
- yardie 9mo ago
  You have to renew them? I've been using the same card since '03. I went in a 2 years ago to pay my fine for a book lost in the couch cushion for a few months. Librarian thought it was quaint that I still have my old tattered library card.
  - qingcharles 9mo ago
    This was Chicago. I believe a lot of people had managed to get online cards without physically being in the city and they decided to call it in and get everyone to renew in person to see who was still legit.

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk 9mo ago

If you are planning anyway to break the terms of the license and effectively steal the software, why even bother paying something for the privilege? Just get it for free, surely it has to be available cracked

embedding-shape 9mo ago
> break the terms of the license and effectively steal the software We're all (mostly/some) software people here, you don't need to use terms established by the "anti-piracy" firms to make your point, no one is "stealing" anything here, even if they were getting it for free from TPB or whatever.
- renewiltord 9mo ago
  Indeed. But people are stuck on these archaic unrelated terms for now. AI firms will make the whole thing obsolete while luddites cry about “stealing from artists” and stuff like that.
  - embedding-shape 9mo ago
    > But people are stuck on these archaic unrelated terms for now Seen it in media for decades at this point, which makes sense, most people can't tell up from down. What's sad is hearing those things echoed here of all places, a community for hackers, and people are repeating the words of the MPAA.
  - Forgeties79 9mo ago
    >luddites cry oh come on I thought we had gotten past this crap
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prodigycorp 9mo ago
Spare me the morality play. Apple gifted Donald Trump a 24k gold statue! They will gift me an educational discount to Final Cut Pro.

SirMaster 9mo ago

That almost never works for me, they usually use a service that verifies current student enrollment like SheerID.

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