The maximum price that I’m willing to pay for a brand new Xbox x (or whatever it’s called this week) is $150 and only if it comes with a blu-ray reader and two wireless controllers

I’m sure it’s not a service problem.

People have no problem in paying €500/year to watch 1 match / week only from a single device in a single household

1993 and they didn’t update the song for Czechoslovakia?

That can be fixed easily* with programs like beets

* = the program itself is easy to use, but installing and configuring it, requires a PhD in Linux-Arch-ology

Italian here: one Saturday I start to get lots of downtime notifications

I don’t understand what’s happening, because they come and go, I get hundreds of them

I connect to the server, waste four hours, everything looks ok but pages don’t load? Weird?

I go to sleep without solving the problem

The morning everything looks fine, so I can go to my self hosted news reader and I discover in my feeds that the FUCKING soccer league blocked cloudflare “accidentally”

The best part of our system is that if the block isn’t disputed within a week, then the IP address is permanently banned. Can it be more stupid than that? Do they really think that pirates won’t change their ip address?

We gave the keys of our internet to two litigious copyright trolls

And this exclusively harms honest people because pirates just use a VPN. I saw pirate websites that when accessed from an Italian IP address have some legitimate content, need to access from a VPN. So the block is completely useless

easy and effective way to dismiss without argument bugfix requests on operating systems the developer doesn’t care to touch

if you ask $60/year to each user to support an operating system, then it’s better to have first-class support with maximum issue priority

This is the most expensive music player app ever commercialized

Did I understand right that you are forced to side load an APK and create an account to use the camera paid with real money?

I tried once to compile sm64 on windows and I took over 1 hour and dozens of gigabyte to download and install all the prerequisites, plus visual studio clutters the start menu with lots of “useless” shit, normal people gonna get pissed

Winget just downloads an installer from the source.

Microsoft doesn’t provide build time or hosting space (except if you’re using GitHub)

Repo only contains URL to download and hash for check

On Windows? Where you need to install visual studio and 10 gb of libraries?

Access to macOS and Windows releases are currently restricted to sponsors, a 5 USD monthly sponsorship is required.

What the fuck?

Fuck that, isn’t this just a maintained fork of clementine??

And I tried this player, it’s nothing special

I could understand a permanent nag button like nanazip, but $60/year where most of the hard job (libraries, decoders, base ui) was done by someone else for free?

I’m blacklisting this shit even if I’m a Linux user

Yes, get them separately

If you are on Linux the best option is to run this:

https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

Basically a small “virtual machine” that assures that the torrent traffic always passes through the VPN. No VPN=no traffic

If the house was purchased before 2023, theoretically they get market value +15%

But still it’s a waste as we all know from the beginning that the project will never ever be completed, it’s from the 80s that’s “will start soon”

Paying for using a model hosted on someone else’s computer is technically prostitution 😛

At least with self hosting if you really like that model you don’t risk that tomorrow the ai Bros change the backend with a different model (gpt5) or raise prices

what groups?

Or ignore it and let Americans pay higher prices. 20% while the floor for any other country in the world is 15% is almost the same. Also, it’s not like you can purchase those chips from somewhere else.

Otherwise they risk doing like Fuji that spent millions to move production of some cameras back to Japan just to let TACO to change mind after a few weeks and get a similar tariff applied. End result: customers pay more

The “change” is almost nothing, allowing to airdrop a few pallets doesn’t stop the genocide

And the bribe is so cheap compared to what the company would had to pay

Examples:

Boeing, just needed to donate $1 mil and let the CEO travel with an idiot to help the Qatari royal family dump their white elephant that was actually a money pit

Nvidia, just needed to book a $1 mil dinner at mar a Lago to lift their export ban and start printing billions

All the crypto bros,

And so on

It’s basically a no-brainer move, a 1000x return on investment

The problem is exactly because Israel is fucking distributing It via the Gaza “humanitarian” foundation, which is the wolf in the sheep’s clothing