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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by ReactiveJelly on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:03AM (#31987706)
There's a difference between apologetics and explaining
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by fartcannon on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:41AM (#31988779)
To explain, you'd need to know the truth, which you don't. So you're just assuming they're innocent when history has proven time and time again that Microsoft is an active troll/bad actor.
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by dspillett on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:46AM (#31989647)
> To explain, you'd need to know the truth

Unless you have some imagination, in which case you can explain a hypothetical or a possible truth.

> So you're just assuming they're innocent

The post you are responding to does not really suggest innocence overall, just perhaps they are guilty of something else (laziness or incompetence) in this instance and perhaps that they are covering that up.

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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by throwaway894345 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:05PM (#31990809)
I don't have a dog in this fight (the only MS thing in my life is my xbox, everything else is Apple/Google/Amazon/OSS), but can we dispense with the low-effort flame bait posts?
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by kyriakos on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @12:25AM (#31996701)
Similarly you are assuming that they are is an evil intend behind these issues without information. We truly can't know why (unless someone in Microsoft runs an investigation) but we can think of potential reasons.
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by josefx on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:02AM (#31989043)
The language used is positive. For example instead of "good business decision" one could say more neutrally "maximally lazy, standard breaking and anti competitive". In the context of mega corps it means the same but doesn't try to present it in a positive light.
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by ask_b123 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:11AM (#31989159)
That is not more neutral. Perhaps it is as neutral, but in the opposite side of the neutrality spectrum.
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by omniglottal on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:18PM (#31990982)
A neutrality "spectrum" does not have sides any more than the autism spectrum has "100% neurotypical". Imagine a gearbox - neutrality is a Boolean, either in gear or definitively not.
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