They are all maybe later. Regardless of the wording..

Where's the "Fuck off" option??

Keepass2Android shows a pop-up each October asking for donations. Perfectly fine, but the dismiss button is labeled "I don't like the app that much". Even free software isn't spared that sort of thing.

(The pop-up also breaks the fingerprint reader prompt for extra annoyance)

well I don't... it's never a deal, and I'm usually forced to buy more and spend more in order to get that 'deal'

You might be able to open the remote and put a sticker over the netflix buttons contacts on the pcb

Yes. And that shit is a one-way door.

Every customer you piss off the way you are pissed off, is A LOT less likely to be a return customer.

What the fuck? Lol. They are not cartoony villains preying for the old and weak.

Somebody has made a calculation, that shows that they will make more money from people who takes the deal than they are going to loose money from people who get mad and leave their enviroment.

In the future they will do test how far they can go using a/b test and/or testing different markets.

It will work. Even if they get 10 new subscribers, it probably took them 20 minutes to whip up this splash screen. They're wasting much more of your time. And people have proven time and time again that they will get outraged but they'll never actually do anything about it.

For now. But eventually they do. That's how entire governments have fallen time and time again.

They won't stop playing Xbox. They won't stop buying games. People grow increasingly accepting of advertising and invasive business practices every day.

Indeed. People can get used to a lot. But being used to something isn't the same as being ok with it. No-one I know is ok with there being ads on their tvs, phones and laptops. Living with something isn't the same as accepting it. People are tolerating more BS than ever, but that doesn't mean they wont rally the second there's a way out of it.

Remember how angry everyone was at horse armor? Most people wouldn't think twice about it these days. It's so much worse now.

I still am. So are many others. Remember when people thought NMS would be a good game on day one? Remember when Fallout 76 was going to be bigger and better than 4? Remember Concord? Remember when Overwatch was going to have a story?

Suicide Squad.

There was real hype. The second people found out it was a live service, they simply didn't play.

Every fuckup, is another portion of the masses getting the memo. And the fuckups aren't stopping. If anything there's more of them than ever.

These corporations used to be afraid of looking bad, but mistakes happen. Except when they did, and stocks didn't suddenly implode, their takeaway was they could be horrible, and still make a profit. Because yeah, most people don't learn the first time. But what about the second? Or the third? Or the tenth?

If you ask me, given time, the one thing every person on this planet can do, is learn. Eventually.

The only reason Roblox and Fortnite keep growing is that there are markets they haven't penetrated. Finding new customers faster than the old ones leave doesn't work forever. There are only so many humans on this planet.

Meanwhile, indie games with actual passion behind them and fair business practices that still feed the mouths of the devs, without private equity firms in the middle sucking up all the value, are absolutely exploding.

XBOX is dying. MS won't say it, but they are less involved in the game-industry than ever. This price hike is a death-throw. Not the next step in their master plan to dominate the market forever.

IMO, the only gaming mega-corporation with the goodwill to exist 20 years from now is Nintendo, and even they are burning through the nostalgia people have for them faster than ever before in their insanely long history.

Running SteamOS on my living room gaming PC. There are more options than windows 11.

I'm gonna have to "upgrade" at work soon and it's going to suck

I got a new computer with win11 a year or so ago. I made them buy me a win10 license because I couldn't do my job anymore. fucking file explorer doesn't even work on win11. astounding

Microsoft? QA? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I lowkey considered getting a second SD, just to keep it plugged into my TV 24/7. I cart mine back and forth from work and home, and the minor inconvenience of packing it into my bag each morning had me considering a second purchase.

But then I remembered I’m fucking broke.

Why? It doesn't cost them anything to flip that bit on hardware that you own.

Huh? Just get an old Dell optiplex tower on Ebay or Craigslist and install Batocera on it. It'd probably cost a similar amount

Thanks for this. So annoying.

Depends on the host name, I’m sure there is a PiHole blocklist out in the wild but likely only targets telemetry.

Not justifying it, something that I paid for should not show ads. But there isn't a current mainstream console that doesn't have ads, so getting it once would still be better than getting it on every boot.