I'd cancel it in a heartbeat but my wife would murder me.
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I've been paying for a VPN for over a decade and I am up to about 20TB of used disks. Make of that what you will.
I'm doing my part!
My renewal was literally tomorrow too. As these streaming services get worse, I keep on cancelling. Been two years for Prime (literally smashed cancel the day ads were announced) and all i've got left at this point is netflix and spotify.
Netflix pricing almost has me there.
I was so confused.
The only reason why the MBAs and Execs have jobs are because the shareholders want more money.
Customers don't decide company leadership unless it interferes with shareholder or exec goals.
The system of ownership determining everything for everyone is the problem but good luck getting those in power to give up that ownership complex.
Microsoft is maximizing subscription revenue this year. It's all about increasing that y/y revenue while burning cash on AI that will explode in their face revenue wise, unless the subscription price hikes land.
People are so stupid in this country. Do what the EU did and make it law that they have to offer sideloading and other app stores and payment methods.
It should be the law to begin with. This walled garden shit is really just another word for controlling what the user does with the device they purchased and not allowing them to do business with anybody else exclusively to add software without apple's approval and protection racket fee.
My boss showed me the article yesterday, but apparently it's the old news from earlier this year. It went from 70 to 100 back in Feb.
That's still a giant increase from whatever you would have paid last year.
They're also upping the sub price for some home user office plans. Apparently it's milk the customer time at microsoft.
I went from a 1080ti to a 6800xt, and then a 9070xt. I basically just skip a generation, but the amount of posts from guys out there this year saying "Finally retired my 4090 with my shiny new 5090!" is honestly depressing.
I mentioned the ancillary costs because TCO is relevant. If you're sweating bullets over $10-$30 a month, but you always buy the highest end gear as it releases and are paying $200-$300+ a month on just being able to play stuff... why the hyperfocus on software costs? Couldn't more money be saved by doing something differently?
I know guys who buy all the skins on LoL as they release. I know people with thousands of spend in shit like fortnite. I also know people spending hundreds a month on gacha. Financial literacy is terrible.
Anyway, I look at game sub costs as super cheap, especially compared to 1990s $5 rentals for 5 days. There's a 30 day all you can eat rental option, whether it's worth it to you really depends on you. I don't pay for it shrug
It's just like all the other garbage 'leadership' decisions based on how it's always been done, rather than focusing on actual outcomes.
Sadly it's way easier for underperforming management to say "ass in chair m-f 9-5" as a productivity improvement than to try and quantify reduced turnover as how it relates to output or wasted man hours from training up new people.
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Not far off. Most of what i've setup originates from a plex lifetime sub. Maintenance is completely trivial.
Every time I hear about the next thing I think about modernizing which then requires standing up something new. New shit requires a new virtual host and completely new setups of many things. Then training my wife and others on how to utilize the new tech, and then praying it doesn't just break tomorrow from The Establishment in some way.
Plex is one of the very few solutions that works with minimal sideloading and fuckery. My instructions for someone to start using it are "download the app, check your email for an account link, and enjoy." I would not recommend any newcomers to go with Plex though, because it's definitely not a modern solution.
I've tried jellyfin, I put substantial time into trying to get it to work but it had substantial issues with subtitles which are mandatory for us unfortunately. I figure any new solution is going to also have substantial challenges in some way as there is no standardized or simple deployment of absolutely anything.