examples of things that you physically have but can't use due to it being tied to a subscription model (real or imagined)

the flipside of this is stuff that you bought and hoped to keep for awhile, but the manufacturer no longer supports it, so you better upgrade/replace or you're SOL

Like my Chromebook

Off-topic, but I've had scanners and digital drawing tablets get bricked because Mac OS gets updated and leaves those appliances in the dust.

For a second here I genuinely thought they were going to make you pay a subscription fee to use any colours at all in photoshop:

Fun times ahead for #Adobe designers. Today, if you open a PSD (even one that's 20 years old) with an obscure PANTONE colour, it will remove the colour and make it black. Pantone want US$21/month for access, and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November. pic.twitter.com/BUxzViYFaQ

— Iain Anderson (@funwithstuff) October 28, 2022

It's still a shitty move but slightly less ridiculous than what my brain conjured up.

Still desperately clinging onto my CS6 suite for as long as humanly possible.

^^^