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D-4got10-01
4d

Some two years ago I purchased a license for AV solution on Amazon UK which is my default place for shopping.

When attempting to activate the license, I kept getting this annoying error somewhere along the lines of:
'License from another region.'

I contact the support, they did their magic && the license got applied.

Fast forward some two years - the license is about to expire.

The software is actually good, so I make the choice to renew it.

Thing is, I keep getting redirected to the local site w/o an option of choosing the English language.

I edit the site's address to reach an English version of the site.
On UK's site I am unable to choose my country of residence so I can't complete the purchase form.
I try a few other things && finally reach the Global site where I am able to input the correct data for the purchase, but all attempts to finish the payment fail.

Fine... I'll purchase from the local site.

I purchased the license, activated it w/o problems, but when attempting to download the installer it keeps downloading the localized version which doesn't allow me to change the language.

I contact Support.

S: 'The license you've purchased can be used solely w/ localized version of the software. If you want to use the English version, you'll have to get a refund && purchase from our Global site here [link w/o redirection].'

_Fuck_ this trend of automatic redirection to localized sites && forced localized software.

One shouldn't have to go through all these hoops to get the software in the language of their choice, instead of having the localized version shoved down their throat.

rant

forced

localization

fuck you

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  • 2
    4d
    Good that you buy software. I should donate more regarding software. I do only charity.
  • 3
    4d
    @retoor I do what I can.

    I like showing my appreciation when I like the software.

    While I'm !swimming in money, I have made a few donations for otherwise free software.

    The current situation is just very unfortunate.

    Luckily this doesn't happen often.
  • 2
    4d
    Are the devs retarded or why isn't there a single software where you can choose the locale in settings
  • 2
    4d
    @devRancid No idea.

    They seem to have some weird gating thing going on.

    Either way yes - there should be some language selection present.
  • 2
    4d
    @D-4got10-01 I have two new projects on site btw. One is a kind of blazor for python, it works great but it does need a rewrite already tbh. The other one is an intercepting proxy. It changes the data of streams going trough it. So can I host my site under two names. Also, it prevents certain to show up on the site. It replaces sensitive data. Didn't get a good review score because didn't use asyncio this time. Traditional forking. Code actually looks nicer this way than with asyncio imho.
  • 1
    4d
    @retoor Interesting info.

    Especially the proxy one, which sounds very useful.

    Today I've been trying to get the whole tikker fully working.

    Went through a fresh installation of Kubuntu 24.04 on a different machine.

    Have been having similar results i.e. some packages would refuse to get installed.

    Then updated Kubuntu to 24.10 - _that_ was a mistake, as the installation went FUBAR.

    Lastly started from scratch using Xubuntu.

    Here things have been progressing quite smoothly.

    So maybe Kubuntu had newer / incompatible packages.

    Things _seem_ to be almost in full working order, even got the ollama example working.

    I'll be taking a more thorough look once I've slept, as I'm just exhausted by the whole troubleshooting.
  • 1
    4d
    @D-4got10-01 with the intercepting proxy, I could host devrant with everyone having different avatar. I could make a translated version. I could make everyone talking about ponies. You know what, I will do that now.
  • 2
    4d
    @D-4got10-01 I came far. Btw, funfact, if you will change the devrant IP in your host file to local host and you navigate to devrant.io, you see a test page from them. They probably have smth like if (hostname == localhost) {}. Really need too sleep now.
  • 2
    4d
    @D-4got10-01 I have devrant now running on molodetz: https://retrant.molodetz.nl/feed authentication and everything works fine. I only have to test websockets somewhere but I don't think this site uses any.
  • 1
    4d
    @devRancid @D-4got10-01 because the company probably offers regional discounts. Clients from Venezuela pay less than clients from the US. They don't want US customers to buy software in Venezuela and using it in the US, and it makes sense.

    But if that software costs the same everywhere, then it's fucking stupid.
  • 2
    4d
    I always pirate big corpos' software and games. I don't care about them, it's not like they're gonna get poorer or something.

    I buy indie games and small companies' software because it makes all the difference for their creators.
  • 2
    4d
    @kiki You're correct about the regional pricing.

    The prices don't vary _that much_, but it's enough to make a difference.

    The fact that it comes at a cost of localized software itself w/o means of changing the language is abhorrent, though.
  • 2
    4d
    @kiki I always liked the

    'If you like the software - buy it.'

    mention in *.nfo included w/ scene releases.

    If I enjoyed playing a game / software was useful to me, then I would buy it.
  • 2
    4d
    @retoor 'I have devrant now running on molodetz'.

    This is impressive.
  • 1
    3d
    yeah fuck the fascists and their retarded borders
  • 2
    3d
    @D-4got10-01 nah, that's nothing, see my other comment. I have a new server written in C with python support for routing. nginx grade stuff. It allows more advanced features for redirection of streams protocols than nginx does. Compared to this, nginx is what nano is to vim. The python support does slow down a bit, but I will make it able to disable, and then it's prolly faster than nginx. But thanks to python, we can make an AI load balancer now, or advanced statistics. But it's build in for advanced routing. You also could do ratelimiting with it. Why would you do it with this app? Well, web apps are heavy and this server can take a pounding if under attack. It can filter connections. Also, it can make sure that the same client always connect to the same server so the server only have to care about their own session and don't need redis or so in between.
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