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zero competitors are forced to raise prices 10% in europe, though

it’s a console launched 5 years ago with no new revision, it was unattractive for €500 in 2020 and it’s even more unattractive for €600 in 2025, if they want to move more units they should lower the prices, not increase them. With this price people can get a real PC with better performance, where you don’t need to pay a subscription to play online. And there are no cool “must have” exclusives like the ps5 or the switch, so the premium is not justified.


Trump puts tariffs on Americans and then companies use this as an excuse to raise prices worldwide

Good luck selling a “Xbox one series x pro plus elite series s” for €600


I can’t believe that Microsoft had almost a monopoly between msn messenger and Skype. Then they slept and let WhatsApp/Facebook take everything (iMessage is not a thing in my country)



The repo is about an exploit and then hundreds of people just run the script? Seems interesting



What? It wasn’t already the same company? Are you telling me that managed to create a useless company with no revenue from his asshole, persuaded idiots to pour billions in this new startup, then used that money to pay the billions in debt that other idiots lent to buy another useless company with no revenue?


You joke but their idea is to migrate all the remaining skype users to Microsoft Teams (consumer edition, incompatible and not interoperable with Teams business edition, they have the exact same icon but with the colors reversed)

It’s the same stuff, but worse™️


The real reason is that they want to save money on the text messages (outside of the US they need to pay $0.05 each time), not because they actually care about user security.

Like when xitter ran out of money and didn’t pay their sms bills and people were locked out of their accounts


Do you think he got obscenely wealthy paying armies of people?

He’s famous for firing people, not hiring



They’re not apple, if they increase the price it means they think most of the competition will increase the prices or nobody would buy their stuff

After all, the margins are thin and the tariff is high


Final Fantasy iOS game shuts down over unfixable bug
The game was launched in 2019 so instead of fixing the bug they just pulled it from the store. Refunds only for who bought the DLC up to ~~3 weeks~~ 1 year ago. Sucks to be a paying user. Edit: LOL I thought it was still 2024
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A reminder that recaptcha is no longer free, but since a few months ago now the website owner needs to pay $0.001 each time a verification is performed

https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/compare-tiers

Free tier is only 10k verifications per month and must link a valid credit card so they can charge you immediately when you reach higher level.

Hopefully this kills the product in the long term as bots solve recaptcha faster than humans, so it’s just for slowing down humans than actual security. I personally use a browser extension that solves them with a click in a second.


That’s “useful” when you can effectively only use it for Baidu, rednote, TikTok (the local version that’s isolated from the rest of the world) and WeChat


That would work only in the console (or Apple) world where you can control who and how can access the data. Otherwise someone will stick it to an USB 1.1 hub connected to the USB 2.0 port for the mouse and then complain “the game is unbearably slow!!!”

Plus I don’t think anyone would want to pay $150 for a game (no, you can’t use a $10 USB drive for this)


According to Bengu and others, anyone can become a [shitty] web designer by using free services like ChatGPT, WordPress

That’s not web design, that’s copywriting. Impressive that he managed to get that money monthly from Fiverr, that means hundreds of websites made every month, I wonder what was the quality. I don’t want to be an asshole but maybe the same quality that you could get from chatgpt+WordPress and a free theme


Makes sense.

On YouTube what kind of support you can offer with that limited platform?

On their community forums there are already thousands and thousands of fanboys that already give their time for free to help strangers

On Twitter it would require enterprise APIs for managing the massive amount of messages and it’s ridiculously expensive for no reason. Especially now that direct messages between users that aren’t paying the subscription are basically broken


That CPU is weird, I wonder if “industrial grade snapdragon” is much more expensive than “consumer grade snapdragon” if the difference is just driver support


Elon Musk’s ‘fund your legal bill’ tweet is a brand new level of bullshit
Sorry, another news from this asshole, but this is too much assholery to don't be shared Despite him being a shitty boss that fired employees that criticized him on twitter, he promised an "unlimited" legal defense fund to fight against employers that fired employees because of something they wrote on Twitter. Under his tweet a lot of "verified" (=right wing) accounts plauded this and asked to fight employers who fired employees for having written something homophobic
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I was searching info on a crypto scam and saw that now reddit has jumped on the crypto bandwagon too? Everything must be on a blockchain for some reason
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Google unexpectedly sells its domain-hosting business to Squarespace | Engadget
Imho a decision that doesn't make sense, Google already has paid for all the infrastructure so running the service to them is pure profit, not to mention the lost possibility to upsell Google workspace (paid gmail with a custom domain) or Google cloud services to all their customers. Although I would never subscribe to something from Google for my business, then when they eventually change mind and kill my product, i have to migrate in an hurry. I've been hurted too many times
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Windows 11 beta fixes major taskbar gripe, removes old File Explorer settings
Finally after so many years the "never combine labels" setting is back and i can uninstall explorerpatcher
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Microsoft is no longer making Xbox One games
Because they're making Xbox *Series* games (I was seriously thinking the new console was called "xbox one series S")
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