Except this one even started shit.

Call me oldschool, but I like my games available when I want them, not held hostage behind a subscription fee.

Optimization? Did you mean to write monopolistic, anti-competitive, and unethical practices?

Because if there’s one thing Nvidia knows how to do, it’s to play dirty.

Tidal doesn’t even have anything over Spotify.
Their version of Spotify Connect barely works at the best of times, on my AV I couldn’t get it to work at all.

And Qobuz… isn’t even available in a bunch of countries.

For me, the only real alternative is piracy and setting up my own streaming.
But I’m too lazy for that, so with Spotify at least the artists get paid something, and I can be reasonably certain that whatever I want to listen to will actually be available.

Also, Bandcamp was sold a while ago and fired half their staff, so not sure about ethics here.

I’m not saying I don’t sympathize, but when this happens to me I just downvote and move on.

There’s a difference between what you’re saying, and intentionally visiting threads about a thing you supposedly care so little about that you have to announce it for everyone.

Well, you’ve spent 200h on it, so clearly you must enjoy it.

Nothing bad with enjoying a shallow game.

Yeah, I remember, now we still have Windows being vulnerable, but in addition we also have untested changes pushed automatically to paying customers.

Forced updates are great!

Sure looks like a paywall to me, except you get a choice of a currency you can pay with.

Well, I’d expect a professional driver to anticipate and switch lanes early enough instead of hugging the left lane for no reason…

As we can see, they already have that kind of control, and what’s worse is that it’s not limited to just one country.

Maybe the OP has a point, and it’ll take them fucking with something else than “just” hobbies to get regulated.

“Run out”? They never had any arguments.

It was pure unchecked greed and they’re panicking since the movement has a real chance of succeeding now.

Simple auth was honestly one of the upsides for me.

Plex claims to have an offline mode, but I could never got it to work, for some reason.
And I got pissed off one too many times when my Internet went down and I couldn’t watch anything from the NAS a few meters away…

What’s better, exactly?

I switched years ago from Plex to Jellyfin, and while the UI wasn’t quite as nice, everything else is better.
And I don’t have to pay to use HW transcoding on my own hardware…

$3 ink from a bodega

That’s actually a fair price for 3rd party replacement.
I used to work at a computer shop, and people only ever bought the cheapest available cartridges.
We also used to do printer repair, do you know how many printers had to come in because of shitty ink?
The answer is zero.

And anyway, in your example the printer manufacturer has no business tracking your ink usage, whether it’s by spying on you and phoning home, or recording this info in the printer’s memory.

People being excited about getting spam from a scammer.

What a time to be alive…

That’s a very charitable way of looking at DRM.

Company’s PR dept saying “we didn’t do it” is not proof of anything.

If they’re not blocking 3rd party cartridges, why even implement DRM?
Do they have so much extra money that they’re developing features they’re not planning to use just because they’re bored?

That’s an optimistic view.

But really, that’s just Google being Google.
Even years before the “AI” hype their Assistant kept suddenly losing features that worked perfectly fine before.

Thanks for the link.

Looks like not really closed-source, but not fully open as the previous printers were.
And the reasoning is the usual, other companies stealing their designs. :/

What is that even supposed to mean?