Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by fartcannon on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:40AM
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It's amazing, eh, how people will actively defend a company like Microsoft as if they're friends. They think it's fair to treat them with the same level of forgiveness and fairness you'd treat a colleague. Corporations behave like a hungry psychotic animal, simply because of the number of people in them and the incentive structure. The bigger, the crazier. Our colleagues and peers deserve the benefit of doubt. Microsoft deserves a leash.
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by TheRealDunkirk on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:15AM
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Indeed. I'm all in with Apple, but I ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years, and ran my own infra out of my house. I keep close tabs on Apple. It was a lot of work, but if they renege on their current "privacy" stance, I have an escape path.
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by charcircuit on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:35PM
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Many of us have colleagues and peers who work at Microsoft and many of us have experienced something similar where our company gets hated on based off misinformation / not having the complete story which we often can't provide because of NDAs.
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by fartcannon on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @04:33PM
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They've admitted to gaming Hackernews in the past. Nothing is sacred to them. Their 45 plus year reputation as a shitty company is their own fault. Your friends don't need to work for Microsoft. They made their choice.
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by beeboop on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:22AM
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I hate capitalism as much as the next far left person but sometimes too much malice can be attributed to corporate actions when it's actually just stupid bureaucratic bullshit
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by krageon on Thursday July 07, 2022 @04:48AM
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We recognise that in people the internal state is fundamentally unknowable. That is why we judge them first on what they do and second on why they did it (if we can figure it out at all). Corporations are often judged the other way around when the actual internal processes that happened are just as unknowable. Know them through their actions, this is how you figure out whether or not they are bad.