I'm not into the subscription library thing (though I do have PS+ premium, because it was a reasonably cheap upgrade from the base package on Black Friday when I caved and bought a subscription), but I can see how some people find value in the subscription library that's included.

That said, fuck Luna specifically, because I tried the "included with prime" version with one of the legends of heroes games, got moderately hooked, and it will only let you export the saves when they remove the game from the paid library. So even your saves are held hostage to a paid subscription.

If we're talking "free" devices with some commitment, I'm OK with some limitation until the terms are met.

The second you charge a dollar for it, it should be unconditionally illegal to have it carrier locked the day they walk out of the store. 60 days isn't good enough.

You shouldn't be buying anything from there.

Those cheap clothes would be overpriced at free.

It's still massively downgraded from a console. And many faster twitch games are straight up unplayable in the absolute best case scenario.

Yes there are really bad products and their QC is horrible. I'll say the same for Aliexpress, Taobao, Amazon, Walmart and Bestbuy.

There's a huge difference between some 5/10 products at Walmart and Best Buy and the best case being a 5/10 product with the majority being 2/10 and some being actually dangerous like Temu.

They're not remotely similar.

Hey, they also decided to take screenshots of everything you do every 2 seconds and put them in an unsecured database. That might work.

It's too bad conspiracy theorists bullied them into half assed encryption and allowing people to turn it off until next time Microsoft reverts it.

They can identify new accounts with the same behavior patterns easily enough if they really want to. Amazon can absolutely shut them down.

I meant they have no recourse against Amazon refusing to host them.

If you're scared about Microsoft tracking your UX engagement on a website, the best way to make sure your sex life stays private is to file it in federal court.

They can ban them for TOS violations. Good luck suing.

There is no alternative that they could choose.

RCS is absolute horseshit unless you send it to Google, which is absolutely unacceptable.

People discuss tech companies, and when a company keeps jacking up its price while making the experience worse for an offering that would be a ripoff at half its original price, people are going to be annoyed.

Especially with the trend of not being able to just buy shows any more.

I did. A long time ago.

People are allowed to recognize a dogshit excuse for a product is a bad product.

I don't care about the why. It was worth it.

Now it's not worth it.

That's not "being bad at a game". That's "worse than a 5 year old".

And the source of that video absolutely thought they were qualified to complain about difficulty.

I absolutely install stuff that doesn't have a signature verified by Apple, but you should be damn sure you know what you're installing before bypassing that security.

The entire source of their growth was "you can get almost anything you want to watch for one low monthly cost". They no longer have rights to any of that content, and for most of it didn't even get an opportunity to make a bid.

It's the equivalent of Oreo shipping 3 Oreos in a big box for 3x the price. But also they had to change their recipe because they didn't own the old one.

Because everything about Brave is complete fucking nonsense and doing business with them in any way is deranged.

Netflix can't do what got them to the top.

Fuck everything about the changes they've made for the last several years, but they were always going to hit a wall when content owners put their content on their own platforms.

IBM has been doing (actually legitimate) business "AI" stuff with Watson forever.

They fucked up here because LLMs are at best part of an interface for the language processing portion and letting them anywhere near the actual business logic of setting up an order is insane, but partnering with IBM for "AI" isn't dumb at all.

It looks really good.

But it's completely devoid of any sort of message at all, even by the standard of ads. It's basically entirely abstract.