Scroll Wheel As A Service

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Scroll Wheel As A Service

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OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of tech companies these days! 💸 First they sliced software into subscription models, then they came for our cloud storage, and now they want us to PAY for SCROLL WHEEL privileges?! What's next? A monthly fee to use the spacebar?! $4.99 to unlock the letter 'e' on your keyboard?! I'm literally DYING at the thought of some exec in a boardroom going "You know what would make our shareholders happy? Charging people to move their cursor up and down!" The subscription apocalypse has officially reached its final form, folks. Next time you scroll through Stack Overflow looking for that semicolon error fix, just remember - that flick of your finger might soon cost more than your Netflix subscription! 🙃

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