* Posts by Sampler

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Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

Sampler

Re: Just another reason

Wouldn't that guarantee the death of any innovation if everyone followed such a fashion - product launches, no one bothers as they're waiting to see if it's a success, it's therefore not a success and dropped?

Electronic Arts frags hundreds of workers 'to grow fandom'

Sampler

Re: Carry on regardless

Thing is, are they? I haven't heard anyone praise large open-world games, quite the opposite with all the gripes of tact on grind, online communities are toxic af because people and I feel Suicide Squad did a great number on underscoring all the faults with a live service.

If I were a shareholder I'd be pushing for a vote of no confidence in the board as he's clearly detached from reality..

Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed

Sampler

Re: masters mind-mouse maneuvers

Seven years ago I was at a pub where a guy came in with his laptop and an off the shelf consumer grade neural scanner - googling brings up an "Emotiv Epoc-X" as something that looked like what it was, though the thousand dollar price tag is ten times what the guy said.

With this, I could think of a smell and move a cursor upwards, think of colour and move it left, a sound to move down and a taste to move it right - I forget what it was to click, but basically, for far less than neural link, nearly a decade ago, we had the same thing - well, better, as I could take the thing off to shower...

Anecdotally, very difficult to use, the mental agility to switch between the different thought processes to get it to move where you want is hard, but, still kinda cool nonetheless watching the cursor go where you want it without touching anything, and for those that can't touch anything, I imagine invaluable.

(yes, I get this is trying to do it another way, that would be easier to control, but I think I'll settle for the eeg headset than anything Musk claims to have invented)

For those interested, a really shitty video of my brain using the eeg headset where all the colour detail is lost to it white-overing:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQKkN3-gw_q/

Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data

Sampler

Have we reached the singularity?

I mean, the amount of posts I see that're clearly bot generated, we're now moving to machines teaching themselves...

It may not be the singularity we had dreamed or feared of, but, somehow, feels like the singularity we deserve...

Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground

Sampler
Trollface

Re: Wear helmets everyone!

Would these helmets be tinfoil lined?

DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on

Sampler

Maybe...

Someone hacked Ceasers and cancelled them as jolly jape - may be a bit of AI impersonation when they called to check.. /s

Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: The AI we baked in makes you more human

Sampler

Yawn

Waiting for the Xiaomi 14 Ultra.

I like my 12s Ultra and if the 14 pro's camera adjustments are anything to go by, the new Ultra should be great - plus, hoping on an international ROM, I do miss my Android Auto on the China only ROM (and having to dig out my Note 20 Ultra for long car journeys) - not sure why you can download and install Android Auto from the app store for it to just give you a warning that it must come bundled with the phone to function, you would expect a software behemoth the size of google to be able to fix it so if you don't have it, you can't get it, or that it would install prerequisites if you're now located outside of China and running all the other apps (like mail, chrome and wallet...).

While we fire the boss, can you lock him out of the network?

Sampler

Re: Likewise ...

Have done that, do photography on the side, friend needed some help for her market research company, first few projects, no issue, but then it started to have to deal with the India out source accounts team and the Kafka nightmare of circular arguments that I just told them to lose my number (once I finally got my money).

Sampler

He's lucky

Many who think it's a good idea to take revenge on an employer for being let go end up doing time, he could've easily been hit with computer misuse charges here, quite fortunate the company decide to shrug it off.

I've only been let go the once, made redundant so they didn't have to pay my visa renewal (I'd been warned by three separate colleagues it's what happens, but having saved the company nearly my wage in wasted expenditure I naively thought I might be an exception). They were clearly clueless when it came to IT (hence saving them six figures a year of wasted expenditure) and I could've done several things that would've caused them a massive headache as a fuck you.

But the boss was a cow bag and figured karma would get them in the end (which it did, saw a news article how they'd "agreed to step down" from their company a year later) and I'd got a new job six hours later, so need to endanger my visa.

Wireless priesthood begins blessing Wi-Fi 7 hardware

Sampler

Thanks for this.

I thought WiFi 7 was already certified with TP-Link selling the Deco BE85 (I was looking for a new WiFi mesh recently as my current is slower than my new fibre connection).

The Register's 2023 in gaming had one final boss: Baldur's Gate 3

Sampler

Re: No mention of Tears of the Kingdom?

Get on it, it's responsible for the singular best gaming experience I've had in the last four decades..

I'm a big Zelda fan, ever since playing A Link To The Past at a friends as a young teen, playing till you die and passing over, conjecturing together about wild theories of what to do next, it was a great game, topped by Ocarina of Time, which itself was feld by Breath of the Wild.

Picked up a switch and a copy on launch day thanks to a bonus bit of birthday money (thanks Mom, honestly, I am over forty) and played it solidly, so much that after twenty-six hours the joycons had run flat and I needed to pop them in to the side of the console to finish up..

But the exploration was unbelievable, just looking at something in the distance and heading there and there's stuff to do, rewarding your curiosity. My favourite experience being at a very low level and just going off where I shouldn't, I'd paraglided to a peninsula, using a precious potion to top up my stamina as I did, to die now would mean I wouldn't be coming back for a long while until I found another. Atop of the peninsula though was a shrine, activating it would provide a fast travel location to come back, only problem, between me and it is a not insubstantial Bokoblin nest.

Slowly, I creep up hiding the best I can in the long grass, along the edge of the clifftop, hoping my best to hide and it's going well ... up until I'm about alongside the base and I hear a horn being blown, the whole camp is now awake and heading in my direction, no need to be stealthy now I lurch forward at full speed, mashing the run button and a keen eye on my stamina meter, to run out and slow down will be insta-death with such an overpowered enemy for my three little hearts to take.

As I dash towards the shrine of my salvation my heart was literally in my mouth, I could feel the blood pump through my veins as I realise I'm sat to attention making this dash - as I opened with, no game has elicited such a visceral feeling in nearly a half century of gaming.

Tears of the Kingdom is my game of 2024 though, poured hours in to it after a turn-around. When I first started I was a little jaded, the world is changed from the last game, to an extent, but not vastly, the additional sky kingdoms felt small and the new abilities a downgrade or at best a sidestep on the previous, the new machine mechanics felt like a tacked on fad to check "crafting" as a feature list (above the previous cooking/potions).

But once I found the subterrain area that all changed, the sense of wonder of exploration was back, scrabbling around in the dark (quite literally at times as I pointless tried to preserve my lighblooms only to make bank by selling off a max 999 to a store and soon replacing them) the whole experience was amazing.

Again, creeping in to areas the game felt like the were cordoning off for later but my ingenuity let me get through was often rewarded with a "we knew you'd do this, here you go" and other times, here's a big ass boss that'll insta-kill you, come back later you cheeky chap. The pointless crafting became ingenious fun as you build machines to aid, the familiar overworld still a place to explore to find the new cave systems and the rewards within.

I wouldn't say I played it to excess, there were certainly no twenty-six hour stints this time around, though, my partner did complain about being second fiddle to the nintendo and never seeing me, so, not that reserved either..

Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs

Sampler

Re: Windows 365 Boot?

I imagine it's useful from a data protection perspective, no data is on the end users device.

We all know disk encryption is feasible (especially on modern devices where it's almost unnoticeable in the performance hit), but there's still a question mark around well, it could be decrypted, so, if you're super paranoid about dataloss, this would fill that niche.

Guess it also works with employee termination, soon as their login is invalidated so is there access to any data.

But, it is niche. Can't see this level of paranoia being needed by most use cases.

Researcher claims Harvard nixed social media research after getting Zuck bucks

Sampler

But what did the they buy for half a billion?

Because you don't just wang $500m at a University already sitting on a ton of cash.

Sure nothing will come of it though, as consequences are for the poor.

When businesses are caught doing shifty shit like this, the entire C-suite should do time, that should motivate them to be a tad more motivated to not break the law.

Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default

Sampler

Re: Does it require a cloud account?

Except to get album art, movie posters, tv ratings, character cast, bios and blurbs...

User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work

Sampler

It's tales like this that make the world seem like it has a brighter Outlook..

Right-to-repair fight going national as FTC asked to lay down the law

Sampler

Two weeks sounds like a manufacturing defect that would be covered by a returns policy for repair/replacement in all fairness.

End of the day, someone has to get the one's made on a friday arvo..

Sampler

I recently replaced the thumbsticks on my nintendo joy-cons, I'm a bit lazy, I didn't want to, but no where sold the grey joy-cons that came with my launchday console, a bit annoying, happy to pay the $110 AUD as lefty had developed a bit of drift over the years but all I could buy is the gaudy coloured versions (not even the plain whites that comes with the oled unit).

In my search for my colour preference though I came across the hall-effect replacements for a fair crack under half the price I was going to pay, figured what the hell, it's my only option to keep the colour I preferred.

Replacement thumbsticks came with all the parts needed, spudgers, drivers etc.. to get in to the units and they were fairly obvious on how to disassemble and rebuild that I didn't watch the youtube video link in the box.

Now I have fixed joy-cons, I spent a lot less than if Nintendo were still making the colour option and they're technically better than the originals (hall-effect sensors have a much smaller deadzone than traditional thumbstick designs) and it didn't even take me that long, like five minutes with each controller.

So, good guys Nintendo, a hardwearing product (six years of use is pretty good mileage for the twiddling these sticks have done) that was simple enough for this idiot to repair, avoiding stuff going to landfill and doing all this at potentially lost profits. If only more companies were like you.

Sampler

Re: So whats the balance?

Apple place authentication on each part of the phone, you replace the fingerprint reader, it no longer authenticates with the system.

Because Apple are that fuck you about repairing your own device, so you can't even use parts from another device.

Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024

Sampler

Re: a spokesperson for Google told us...

You're lucky, I have third party cookies disabled too and come across a situation about once a month where it fails and they need to be enabled for that site (or I go elsewhere, which happens a good third of the time).

So I feel it'll be an interesting time coming up, whilst the laggards finally do what they should've done years ago.

Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB in a PC

Sampler

Re: Insult to injury

No, no, the exact same factory they're coming out if in Shenzen owned by Foxconn are putting more care in to the mac line than their other customers, like, totally...

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

Sampler

Re: Cognitive dissonance

I actually paid the subscription service.

Was a long time user of Google Music, I loved being able to upload my music to the service and be able to stream it at work or my phone on the go. Eventually I ponied up for the premium service as it was worth $9.99/m (AUD) for access to pretty much every record that wasn't in my collection and hey, free YouTube Red thrown in (when it started) so good bye YouTube ads, nice.

Then came the push to YouTube Music, an absolutely crippling of the UI to make it more like Spotify or whatever (which is a tech trend I still don't follow, you have program X, you're doing ok, program Y comes out, it's popular, so you redesign your service to be a half Frankenstein of it, no one will switch to you because it offers nothing more than what they already have, existing customers leave because it's no longer what they wanted). Eventually my uploaded music disappeared altogether and I'm left with the poor Spotify impersonator.

Now they want to up the fee to $16.99 a month (AUD) from the $9.99 I was paying, yeah, nah, feck off.. I was already disgruntled, now you've pushed me out. Just like Netflix when they stopped me sharing my account with my friends, hey, I wasn't really watching it, but happy to pay it so my mates can, now they can't, well, that's a subscription you've lost (and the top tier 4k one at that).

I went off and found Plexamp, ironically, it gives me access to all my media on the go, at work or stream to my phone, and, with a $10.99/m (AUD) subsidised Tidal subscription, I have access to all the albums not in my collection - so now I'm back to what I wanted, paying about the same, and Google can go fuck themselves, it's not like they're sitting on billions and actually needed to up the price in the first place.

Fuming Tom Hanks says he had nothing to do with that AI dental ad clone of him

Sampler

https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Why would they need to clone extra's faces?

Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death

Sampler

Re: Were there no signs indicating that the Bridge was out?

in the dark and raining, it'd be hard to see (given the included image) - it's been ten years, plenty of time to pop a bit of rope across the road with a reflective sign on..

Jury orders Google to pay $340M patent-infringement damages over Chromecast

Sampler

Sounds like what sonos do with their speakers - or are they omitted from reach of the patent because they limited it to tv's and not just devices?

Given Sonos were founded in 2002, I think they probably pre-date this.

Also, I guess a little irony of Google running in to a similar problem they did with Sonos..

Sampler

How does one get such patents in 2010

I might be old, but even a bit over a decade ago I'd've thought it fell in to the "obvious" category.

I mean, I didn't need it as I already had an athlon pc hooked up to the crt with an s-video cable all the way back in 2001 so any "phone" content was already easily accessible on the tv, but the idea of screen mirroring should've failed the patent test on the obvious clause a decade later...

Logitech reports broad declines as pre-pandemic buying cycles return

Sampler

Re: Make decent kit, Logitech

I'm fairly certain Logitech make most of the microsoft branded gear, so I'm going to say like I do every time this topic comes up, re-release the natural desktop 7000 kit - for my RSI there's no mouse come close to the one bundled with that, I'm stuck using a trackball after my last two died (one due to the duracells leaking which was quite galling as I'd bought "premium" batteries in hopes they wouldn't) and my two remaining 4000 keyboards and going (the home one's not too shabby, but the office one has no key markings on half and the leatherette padding is more duct tape than leatherette).

You can see the insane prices the second hand versions of these are going for funded by those of us who have found nothing that comes close to prevent the agony of "non-specific lower limb pain" (which is a stupid name to swtich RSI to, given, let me tell you dear reader, it's pretty fucking specific where the lower limb pain is..) - logitech would make bank releasing these again, I'd straight up happily buy a stack to horde for the rest of my days..

(especially if they had more modern conveniences like be rechargeable than having batteries, but keep the form factor..)

Microsoft's Surface Pro 9 requires a tedious balancing act

Sampler

Re: Laboured Ergonomics

Agreed, I think by v9 it's a bit odd to spend half the review complaining about the form factor.

Can't think I've had cause to use my on my actual lap but have found it fairly simple to use in tablet mode when sat on the couch and not enjoying the missus taste in tv and not too heavy (but then I use 600mm lenses on a full frame camera for recreation, so my basis for heavy might differ to some). I haven't really noticed the heat issues either, but then I'm not really taxing it when carrying around, mostly a bit of chrome or office.

Fair point in the review on connectors, I guess I can kinda see the point from MSs pov of keeping the surface connector for the surface hubs they sell (and market higher than the thunderbolt or usb-c hubs you could now choose instead) but from a user pov, it's not really needed and I do like the options having two thunderbolt 4's has but would've appreciated more connections (but that seems de rigueur on most laptops these days, to do away with ports) - personally a full size SD Card slot would be great (as a CFExpress A is unlikely as most sensible companies (ie, not Sony) use B - or even a framework style slot to fit a port of your choice, problematic as the form factor would make that, but seeing as I'm already in to ideal dreams that'll never eventuate, why not dream big). Or even having one of those USB-C / Thunderbolt4 connections being on the other side for choice of set-ups.

As a small, light, portable windows machine, I find it great. I have an actual desktop for real work, and this does great when out and about.

Yes it's expensive, some of that can be mitigated by not paying their ridiculous tax on SSD's, for less than the price delta between the 256gb and 512gb models I got a 2tb ssd to replace the 256gb one so now have a model with twice the capacity of the top of the line they ship for less than the middle option, but, end of the day, it is good at what it aims to be. Fucked if you need to fix anything though, as only the SSD has an access hatch and presumably also is the only thing to not come soldered to the motherboard underneath a glued on case.

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

Sampler

Re: Rent seeking

I have a 48" OLED monitor, if TV's become so annoying, there's alternatives.

That said, hoping the laser 4k 100" projector in the living room will have a fair bit more life in it yet so be a while before I'm shopping a new TV.

I hope no one buys this and it shuts down not only LG but anyone else who thinks riding their coat trails is a good idea.

Intel pulls plug on mini-PC NUCs

Sampler

I have an actual NUC at home, but I received it from work (or was that relieved it..) but quite like it, the tiny form factor made it a great little HTPC back in the day before 4k chromecasts were a thing, but it's still sat there, hooked up to a UHD blu-ray drive (that's ironically got a larger footprint) for the times it's needed.

Was even contemplating getting one of the newer models so I can use the UHD part of the blu-ray drive (as the rather old i5 in it doesn't support the security instruction set needed, which is a bone-headed way of preventing people from legitimately purchasing your products that can already be ripped and shared on the internet anyways..).

Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!

Sampler

Re: RISC OS always used three buttons

Is, is this news? People didn't know this? Technical people on a technical news site?

Microsoft dabbles in self-repair with Surface devices now DIY-friendlier

Sampler

Re: Malicious compliance?

Not to mention the price of the components or the tools Apple says you have to use making it practically pointless to actually do it yourself (once you've bought the part, rented the tools and taken the time to see if it'll fix it, you might aswell have bought the new landfill device).

Phosphates on Enceladus could mean sub-surface oceans teeming with aliens

Sampler

The chances of anything coming from Enceladus...

..is a million to one, they say..

Software picks out more satellite photobombs in Hubble image

Sampler

Could be a great plot of an alien invasion movie

"Why didn't we see them coming?"

"Well...the algorithms that remove artificial satellites mistook the alien ships due to similar characteristics (being bright, metallic, close) so removed them from the data before we got to view it..."

Sampler

Re: I Blame Elon

And everyone building "competing" systems, because we can't decide as a planet on a single system with open and fair use for all..

Can noise-cancelling buds beat headphones? We spent 20 hours flying to find out

Sampler

I accidentally washed (and driered) the "Galaxy Buds Live" that came with my last note as a pre-order bonus, ear buds survived just fine, but the case no longer holds a charge (will charge the buds through it, but its own battery has had it).

Ended up buying a replacement as the weird little things fit my ears perfectly, never binged one out and the sound is a reasonable approximation to what it should be given the size and comfort - but it's a little ironic the free bundled earphones have (technically) outlasted the phone they came with as I now use them with my Xioami 12S Ultra.

These A40's do look interesting though, may be I'll try them if these ever end up in the spin cycle again...

Thousands of subreddits go dark in mega-protest over Reddit's app-killing API prices

Sampler

Why not make it better?

If your official app is what you want people to use, but they're willing to pay for third party apps (whom you claim are profitable), then make your app as good as the others, don't lock them out - you've got direct access to everything unlike they who had to reverse engineer from the API, you're the step ahead.

Your userbase is your content, it's what drives the forever growth you'll need to achieve for your "investors" (ie, masters) going forward, the internet's a fickle bunch and they'll soon go elsewhere as you find your technology isn't all that, half of what Reddit does could be replicated in phpBB from the early two thousands..

US Senators take Meta to task for releasing LLaMA AI model after token safety checks

Sampler

Re: The old adage

Hanlon's Razor

Whistleblower claims Uncle Sam is sitting on hoard of alien vehicles and tech

Sampler

Let's hope it doesn't happen, space is a dark forest, we would do best not to make enough noise to attract anything that hunts such easy prey..

The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it

Sampler

Re: Baseband processor

That feels like a security exploit in the waiting, get in to that and you'd hack anything and everything?

Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers

Sampler

Re: "the plethora of deadly creatures found in the one-time prison colony"

Come now Simon, it's not just the deadly creatures, but the deadly fauna too (gympie gympie I'm looking at you), the deadly sky and then when you want to cool off the deadly water (rips) and its contents (sharks, jellyfish, stonefish, rays etc..).

They should advertise it to techies as "Want to level up? Come play on hard mode.."..

The future of digital healthcare could be a two-metre USB cable

Sampler
Coat

Re: The next frontier …

I don't know, seems a bit of a bum joke..

Coat icon 'cos I can't spend all day arsing around here..

Sampler

IP Webcam

I came across IP Webcam during lockdown, our weekly board game group couldn't meet in person, but, with enough cameras hooked up to OBS, I could still run a game remotely.

All the old phones and tablets came out the drawer and I could tell the wife "told you so" that there indeed was a use for a 2013 Sony Xperia that needs to be permanently wired in to a power source...

Figure this could equally be useful, given OBS's virtual webcam output, you could simply switch from your webcam to the ipcam running on your phone and point it at the necessary body part. No cables required, we are, quite, living in the future..

Get well soon Simon!

All Microsoft Surface Pro X cameras just stopped working

Sampler

isn't it to make it harder to replace the components from anyone but an authorised reseller of your equipment, wouldn't want users putting any old camera in their laptops..

Sampler

I bet both users must be very upset

I mean, did the X sell that well? What's the market for it over a regular surface that can actually load applications or a cheaper tablet that can load apps, it seems like the worst of both worlds..

Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it...

Sampler

Re: Back to the past

I bought a Surface Pro 9 recently as I wanted something portable and don't really need the umf (though, I did buy the i7 version) but, for less than the price difference between the 256gb and 512gb models I could buy a 1tb ssd (even in the oddly small format it has), so I did, got the i7, 16gb, 256gb and pulled the drive and stuffed in the 1tb (especially as the v9 finally has a handy hatch to access the ssd).

What would be nice now is if I could find a small enclosure to put the old 256gb in and have a spare USB drive for my keyring, but the only one I tracked down (aliexpress) doesn't seem to fit the keying of the drive..

An annoyance of the Surface, related to a mention in the article about the macbooks ethernet on power adaptor, is there's a USB socket on the powerbrick for the Surface, but, it's power only and doesn't pass through to the unit (presumably so they can sell you their vastly overpriced docks instead), would be quite nice to have a couple of usb's and an ethernet on the powerbrick with passthrough, for those that don't need a full dock for screens and such, but keyboard and mouse on their home desk, would be ideal for my partner for instance. Even my chromecast has a functional ethernet port on its powerbrick, if they can do it on a hundred dollar (aud) dongle than a few grand laptop shouldn't really have an excuse.

Privacy Sandbox, Google's answer to third-party cookies, promised within months

Sampler

Re: Sounds worse

You may, but, as sites that've dropped personalisation have found, click-throughs go up without it.

Because, shockingly, when you've bought a toilet, you're unlikely to want to buy another for a while, but if all your ads a naval gazing then they're not going to show you something you may be genuinely interested in..

This "echo chamber" of personalisation web giants seem to push for are terrible for business, and for people, I'm sure if many americans weren't in closed groups being reinforced with the same idiocy every day and could see outside their bubble the country would be in a bit of a better place..

Electric two-wheelers are set to scoot past EVs in road race

Sampler

Re: What do these give you that an electric bicycle does not?

Charging at home isn't a negative.

Tell that to the people whose homes burned down due to faulty batteries..

'Top three Balkans drug kingpins' arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats

Sampler

Re: Nationalise The Drugs

Plus you could ensure needles aren't shared and offer rehabilitation services to those that need it in your government sanctioned, free drug clinics, you know, like they do in the Norway..

All whilst having specialists on hand for when any one OD's and they can sort them out.

You'll [BZZ] like Intel’s [BZZ] NUC 13 Pro once the fan [BZZ] stops blowing

Sampler

Re: Not a fan of fans

Definitely feels like it's an issue for getting the higher end chip in it, I have a five series i5 (iirc, it's at home under the telly so can't check right now) and it's quite as. Originally got it for work to drive a large 4k display and when the company was bought out it found its way under my tv where it's happily sat for the years since, the logitech keyboard with a built in touchpad makes it a perfect little htpc as it's whisper quite and smaller (in footprint) than the USB blu-ray drive plugged in to it.

Have contemplated upgrading it, one issue with it being a five series (or however old it is) is it lacks the UHD blu-ray security on the chip, so a newer model would let me watch the two discs I have, but given how much chromecasts have moved on, the need of a htpc is starting to decline too, especially as mobile phones have improved enough to browse the web without having to break out a desktop means I don't need el'reg projected at a hundred inch..

Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams

Sampler

Re: About time

When I was complaining about my frustrations with sharepoint, someone I was boring said to view it as a minimal viable product, microsoft pinches it out and bundles so businesses will use the one they're "already paying for" rather than getting something better. It only being good enough to get in the door as microsoft has no real care for it, just care about you not going elsewhere.

It's honestly helped my mental health a lot to think about it that way, even if my day to day is still a frustrating hell..

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