Submitted 1 day ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to games@lemmy.world
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.
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 aro&nd 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.
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.
remember no streaming
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yet again, pirates get the better experience than the paying customer