Edit: shoving AI down your throat
And this all besides all the other already present points to shit on Microsoft like the data collection
Reminder that every time they say something that causes offense they say it was just a joke.
Narrator: it was not a joke
Maybe one of these is interesting? I have no actual experience with them though:
https://github.com/DumbWareio/DumbBudget
They should all be self-hostable.
Edit: I don’t know of these all match your criteria. Maybe finance looks pretty Sleek imho. I just dread the thought of exporting my transactions and importing them because my bank is forking horrible w.r.t. integrations.
And logging in every time to do a CSV export is just annoying.
Edit 2: formatting
Sorry I don’t fully understand your question. Forced/hooked on what exactly?
The Xbox eco system?
Switching between consoles is a costly switch which will likely not pay off the price hike. That is assuming the competitor you’re switching to also doesn’t do a price hike shortly after you decide to switch.
They can switch to games from other publishers or other platforms ( e.g.: Nvidia ) instead of gamepass. But that would depend if the game is on there to begin with ( which is also an argument against game pass ). If all your friends are playing cod or Minecraft there isn’t really an alternative to switch to either.
Switching from Windows to Linux is ‘harder’ because people think it’s all terminals and magic and difficult. It generally isn’t nowadays. But there isn’t an initial cost to that. You don’t need to buy new hardware, there’s just a learning curve which doesn’t have to be that steep. But I have a technical background so could be biassed on that.
People can still buy games second hand or through the various discount websites I suppose. But I suppose you’ll still feel the price hike there as well. 10% off on a 60 or 80€ game is still the difference between paying 54 and 72.
Note: I actually didn’t read the article, but only the headline. So I could be completely beside the point.
That’s one way to try and shift your audience to your game pass subscription I guess.
Huh. Didn’t even know about this. Maybe I’ll browse their episode list to see if there are some episodes that are interesting.
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I like the timer and the error icon on a fail. I can’t recall how often I think: damn this is taking too long. I should’ve timed the command
Geolocation is an accurate way to predict the user’s language.
This makes me so angry. It really really really really really does.
Despite setting everything to English I still get my receipts in French. And all because my IP is CG-NAT to the capital which is marked as french speaking.
What is so hard about letting me decide. The absolute fucking arrogance thinking you as a company know better than me in which language I would like to be served.
Eat a dick Microsoft.
I think you’re reacting to the wrong person as I didn’t make the NIH claim, but merely explained its meaning. :)
I think “Not Invented Here”. Meaning he wants to build everything himself from scratch despite there being alternatives he can use instead.
E.g.: Building your own httprequest library rather than using the existing one which is good enough.
I prefer the one where you randomly sort the array until all elements are in order. ( Bogosort )
Hey man,
We’re in the business of selling hammers. So if all the problems look like a nail that’s great for our company! /S
I wholeheartedly agree with you!
Look there’s a concept of a plan alright!?
A tech billionaire responsible for creating the laws his own companies run under? What could go wrong.
I looked into that at one point, but 15$/month is quite steep just for that ( imo )
The fact the family can’t sue. They absolutely can (edit: in my opinion). Disney Lawyers believe they can’t ( edit: in their opinion). But wether or not they can is up to a judge in this case. And not up to Disney.
So saying they can’t is false until there is actual clarity.
Edit: that is my opinion of course
They can believe all they want. Unless it’s ruled and a precedent is set, the statement is false.
I hope people stop believing they have that kind of power, but decide not to do it from the goodness of their heart or bad publicity.
I should hope the actual law still has more relevance than a ToS.
That was something Disney Lawyers claimed, but was never actually agreed/enforced.
So it doesn’t actually hold any weight until a court actually rules on it.
You think that’s infuriating? Imagine having an ISP that wants you to pick a password of max 8 characters.