The cat is out of the bag and long gone.
People got used to the simplicity of centralized services, and corpos made great efforts to make everything 1-click.
So when the average users need to do more than 1-click, they won’t use the software.
It would help if anti-trust laws were applied and these mega-corpos got broken in a thousand pieces. Centralized monolith services would have a harder time to thrive and give space to federation/decentralization.
Boring is ok for 95% of the things.
It is how its done today.
Every semi-big or big corpos gamble their money trying to be the one coming on top and capture the market.
So it is not surprising to see that.
Bring back community servers, so the developers can keep their official servers and people that want to play on community servers can do that do.
It’s a solved problem that publishers tells you is hard to do in the name of money.
Don’t look harder into it.
We haven’t seen antitrust with teeths for a while now.
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple should have been broken up in a million little pieces a long time ago, but it won’t happen.
The goal is to lose money to capture the market and once it is done, to recoup their loss and bleed the market dry.
It reeks of shitty boss. I’ve heard the same bullshit from old folks 20 years ago that couldn’t use their computers to save their live.
When everyone’s an asshole, the common factor is you.
I can’t get anything cheaper than that because it’s a price I got when the reseller started business and as long as I don’t switch, I get that price.
Good for you that you can get better, but coax still has its place until internet providers up their game, but I won’t hold my breath.
I still use coax because I buy internet from a reseller third party and this is what they have. I have 400/50 for 35$, which is a lot cheaper yhan the competitors. No reason for me to change.
I am a 4K PC little bitch, but playing games on my 1080p TV reminded me that it isn’t all that important. Fun > Smoothness > Graphics.
I think that xbox controller are the best controllers for PC, so I don’t need all the advanced features, but otherwise, you are right.
Their market is now clearly gamepass + Windows. Microsoft is banking on their market share to sell gamepass and capture the market.
My uneducated kernel take. Flexibility is acceptable and desirable in small projects or low impact projects.
When the majority of the internet and a good chunk of PC are dependent on your project, predictability and stability is much more important than flexibility.
Destiny 2 gun play is god damn good, but the new player experience and the monetization is downright pathetic.
I bet my hand to the fire that Bill Gates didn’t eat avocado toast and made coffee at home and that’s why he is a billionaire today.
And it is still true today. Windows has the lion share of the market because we were raised with Windows and the vast majority of people don’t want to learn a new OS.
A big corpo comes in and offer you a life changing amount of money. Very few people can say no to that, myself included.
Socialism is the means of production owned by the state or the workers.
Communism is a subset of socialism, where you have a classless society. Different communist doctrines have a different view on how to achieve that.
Edit : clicked on the wrong reply button. Oh well
Capitalism created this expectation. That’s how corpos operate. Capture the market then bleed it.
The IT paradox :
-“Why am I paying for IT? everything runs fine”
-“Why am I paying for IT? nothing works”
Yeah, I opened the website thinkint it would be the github list with a better search, but it’s 95% AI crap