Assume for a moment the platform providers are in a game of chicken, continually eating costs in the hope of soaking up subscribers from their (at some point) defunct competitors. Every year this competition continues, the victor needs to make increasingly outrageous changes to the service offering in order to bridge the profitability gap. Or perhaps they are betting that a chunk of savings will come from reduced spend on rights, in a market with fewer bidders for programming?
Are investors in the conglomerates even agitated yet?
As Disney said:
Heave ho, altogether. Hoist the colors high.
You can get a VPN for as little as 5 bucks a month. Jellyfin can run on a wide range of devices. Streaming services only make sense when they are cheaper and easier than pirating. At this rate if you stashed all your streaming money for maybe a few months or a year (assuming you're poor like me) you can afford a starter ship to sail in.
Neither do the piracy communities but lemmy.world blocks them. So I guess they probably don't care since no user of theirs can now navigate there anyway.
Curious to see how they approach this with their partnership with Verizon. I get it through a family plan, seems like it will be impossible for them to regulate who is/isn't part of a phone plan, since that could legitimately change at any time. Imagine they won't pursue it.
They could still limit the number of simultaneously logged in devices for a family plan. Verizon would know how many lines are associated with the plan.
It won't be long now before all Microsoft products need a monthly fee. Now people will actually have to switch to Linux due to cost instead of switching to Linux just because they want to.
TL;DR: $61 a year, more than half the cost of a "lifetime" Windows Home license.
After two years of extended updates, you've paid more than you would have for a license for Windows 11 Home. After 3 years, you're less than $20 away from having paid for Windows 11 Pro.
Hmmm, I could have sworn this was also the consumer pricing, but going back over the last few articles, it looks like you're correct that they haven't specified the consumer pricing yet.
No one is buying because it requires certain hardware features that only recent computers have.
Even my 2019 laptop isn't eligible for the free upgrade without some hack to install.
our pc shop restores older machines with Arch Linux using the Gnome desktop for fifty out the door and comes with a new SSD
out of all the calls we receive on jobs we have already completed Windows has more phone time and questions out of the box than Linux which surprised us
and as for troubleshooting or walking patrons through simple things Linux has been easier for them to manage and us to explain over the phone even when having to pull the console up
talking people with little to no experience with computers some being fresh beginners
we only started these restores a year ago and when we did all the main distros and others were tested and researched on for this project
ultimately Arch was chosen due to pacman and the AUR repositories plus steam was using it
the shop packed the install with what they deemed universally needed packages including edge for the browser
most patrons do like the familiarity that it provides and edge allows for office365
a lot of us were super skeptical on this when we were told and had a lot of the same reservations but it has turned sales around one hundred percent though with a lot of ewaste saved
the oldest was a centrino laptop from 2007 had the original hdd in it
the patrons either use the console and update themselves or they bring it back for updates with some watching us do the updates then doing it themselves at home
linux has made computers fun again at least at our place
Wish you the best, but its a bad choice. The AUR isn’t safe, as-in reliable between updates.
Valve makes snapshots into their versioned atomic OS, so its safe. Plus a few custom packages, they don’t just use Arch and their choice isn’t relevant IMO.
Or Fedora if the user picks Gnome. Honestly, don’t make users pick distros, but user interfaces. Most wouldn’t want to understand the technical differences between Mint/Fedora/whatever because at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter.
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