Padding out the final issue with lots of old reviews from early issues was a cheap way of getting one last issue out.
It used to be very informative and entertaining, but sadly has been going downhill for a while, with increasingly niche content with very narrow appeal.
I ditched (k)Ubuntu when they started forcing snaps on users - apart from the slow cold start time for Firefox, it broke Firefox's Plasma desktop integration.
Now using Manjaro with Plasma on Wayland and very happy with it.
If that magazine sells advertising (and I guess it does) then getting you to subscribe, even for free, means they have certified circulation figures to base ad sales on.
A while ago I got sick of my Fire Stick's crowded, ad-flinging UI and thought I'd build myself a little celeron-powered Linux media player launching streaming services in full screen browser sessions. It turns out that all major streaming services limit the resolution of browser-based streaming (even with widevine) to SD or 1080P HD if you're lucky, with 4K out of the question. This forces people to use apps from app stores or accept a restricted service. Maybe time to think again?
"I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access"
Yep - that's how control of highly classified material is managed.....