Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination
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I'm not sure I understand the problem there, the writer gives a few "better" ideas just off the top of their head, but they actually sound worse.
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I'm not sure I understand the problem there, the writer gives a few "better" ideas just off the top of their head, but they actually sound worse.
I mean, the demo idea is almost the same thing but worse. The rest sound like further enshittification.
I don't like it when companies are creative with enshittification. They shouldn't be doing it at all, but then that's what capitalism is about at the end of the day: capital.
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Welp, Xbox is the last thing in the Microsoft ecosystem to go, personally. I've got rid of everything else, backed up everywhere else, and slowly switched OSes even. Just can't deal with the shit anymore. And no, PS/Sony isn't any better.
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Welp, Xbox is the last thing in the Microsoft ecosystem to go, personally. I've got rid of everything else, backed up everywhere else, and slowly switched OSes even. Just can't deal with the shit anymore. And no, PS/Sony isn't any better.
I know the anecdotes get thrown around all the time, but I needed to backup about 40gbs off my wifes phone, so I connected it to her laptop USB 3.0, started the transfer after constantly waiting on things like the start menu and file browser to load, and it sits for awhile before eventually informing me it would take 3.5 hrs. I check up on it 30 minutes later and it had gone to standby because it's not like it was doing anything, right? After eaiting for Settings to load and turning off power saver, I leave it be. Come back an hour later and it says that the storage was full, which is news to me because there is over a terrabyte of storage available. That's when I realized that by putting the folder on the desktop while I transferred it with the intentions of organizing it later, I wasn't putting it on the device at all, but uploading it to Onedrive, which filled up and stopped the transfer. This stuff was already backed up on to her Onedrive, I just wanted a local backup. So, I connected her phone to my linux machine and had it done in 20 minutes. What a complete waste of time.
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I remember when the Xbox 360 put ads of their which my friend defended because it would give him “relevant ads”. Its made the menu slower. Every game ad is relevant but completely unnecessary since the console has its online store built in.
That’s the first time I saw the console purposely get worse for zero good reason.
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I know the anecdotes get thrown around all the time, but I needed to backup about 40gbs off my wifes phone, so I connected it to her laptop USB 3.0, started the transfer after constantly waiting on things like the start menu and file browser to load, and it sits for awhile before eventually informing me it would take 3.5 hrs. I check up on it 30 minutes later and it had gone to standby because it's not like it was doing anything, right? After eaiting for Settings to load and turning off power saver, I leave it be. Come back an hour later and it says that the storage was full, which is news to me because there is over a terrabyte of storage available. That's when I realized that by putting the folder on the desktop while I transferred it with the intentions of organizing it later, I wasn't putting it on the device at all, but uploading it to Onedrive, which filled up and stopped the transfer. This stuff was already backed up on to her Onedrive, I just wanted a local backup. So, I connected her phone to my linux machine and had it done in 20 minutes. What a complete waste of time.
That's understandable. Microsoft, without much information or training unless you're familiar enough with it, gave everyone "cloud storage", but only enough for absolute basics (initially 15GB then only 7GB iirc)
Anyway, it redirects libraries to C:\Users\username\OneDrive\ so those files typically do reside locally but also instruct OneDrive to back those up. The downside is, unless you have the paid version of M365 personal or family, it fills up fast. I think there's a lower tier now with maybe 100GB for $20/year, but still.
The issue is moving large amounts of data with all the power saving shit they also started doing to hibernate and save power overall, but why a data transfer doesn't keep it awake is beyond me. They probably hope everyone just is either too dumb or computer illiterate to try anymore.
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Yet again, pirates get the better experience than the paying customer
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That's understandable. Microsoft, without much information or training unless you're familiar enough with it, gave everyone "cloud storage", but only enough for absolute basics (initially 15GB then only 7GB iirc)
Anyway, it redirects libraries to C:\Users\username\OneDrive\ so those files typically do reside locally but also instruct OneDrive to back those up. The downside is, unless you have the paid version of M365 personal or family, it fills up fast. I think there's a lower tier now with maybe 100GB for $20/year, but still.
The issue is moving large amounts of data with all the power saving shit they also started doing to hibernate and save power overall, but why a data transfer doesn't keep it awake is beyond me. They probably hope everyone just is either too dumb or computer illiterate to try anymore.
How do you backup alot of data on the cheap on the cloud without big tech snorting around
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How do you backup alot of data on the cheap on the cloud without big tech snorting around
Look, I know people hate and protest Proton for their own reasons, and "a lot" of data is relative, but proton offers their bundles of 500GB for $120/yr or 2TB for $180/yr. Personally, this would be about the most private I could imagine you getting for the price. Others can probably do it far cheaper, however, at what cost?
https://proton.me/drive/pricing
However, I didn't realize Nord also had offerings now, so this seems like it'd be the best value by far. $84/yr for 2TB!
Edit: sorry, that's for the first 12 months, after that it's back to $180 like Proton.
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Look, I know people hate and protest Proton for their own reasons, and "a lot" of data is relative, but proton offers their bundles of 500GB for $120/yr or 2TB for $180/yr. Personally, this would be about the most private I could imagine you getting for the price. Others can probably do it far cheaper, however, at what cost?
https://proton.me/drive/pricing
However, I didn't realize Nord also had offerings now, so this seems like it'd be the best value by far. $84/yr for 2TB!
Edit: sorry, that's for the first 12 months, after that it's back to $180 like Proton.
Infomaniak is even cheaper with kdrive https://www.infomaniak.com/fr/ksuite/kdrive/tarifs
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Infomaniak is even cheaper with kdrive https://www.infomaniak.com/fr/ksuite/kdrive/tarifs
They seem good, but I only stayed away bc I've not heard much about them, and I've been burned by storage companies starting out with really good pricing only to be unsustainable and then go belly up.
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They seem good, but I only stayed away bc I've not heard much about them, and I've been burned by storage companies starting out with really good pricing only to be unsustainable and then go belly up.
Well they are based in my city and they’ve been around for 30 years.
They use their datacenters to heat buildings and seem to have good ethos.
I’ve been using kdrive for 5 years and I can only complain about the lack of Flatpak (Appimage for Linux) and the fact that they don’t have an alternative to something like Google Photos.
Of course I can’t guarantee they’ll stay like this, but they’re really not a startup
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Well they are based in my city and they’ve been around for 30 years.
They use their datacenters to heat buildings and seem to have good ethos.
I’ve been using kdrive for 5 years and I can only complain about the lack of Flatpak (Appimage for Linux) and the fact that they don’t have an alternative to something like Google Photos.
Of course I can’t guarantee they’ll stay like this, but they’re really not a startup
Thank you! That's really good to know. Probably good info that's not readily available but I'm definitely going to look into them more!
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That's understandable. Microsoft, without much information or training unless you're familiar enough with it, gave everyone "cloud storage", but only enough for absolute basics (initially 15GB then only 7GB iirc)
Anyway, it redirects libraries to C:\Users\username\OneDrive\ so those files typically do reside locally but also instruct OneDrive to back those up. The downside is, unless you have the paid version of M365 personal or family, it fills up fast. I think there's a lower tier now with maybe 100GB for $20/year, but still.
The issue is moving large amounts of data with all the power saving shit they also started doing to hibernate and save power overall, but why a data transfer doesn't keep it awake is beyond me. They probably hope everyone just is either too dumb or computer illiterate to try anymore.
Their free plan of onedrive is only 5gb now
I remember reading (I think on Wikipedia or something? ) that they used to offer unlimited when they were SkyDrive. But I may be wrong (it's been a few years)
