It felt like Higby lost control once Gamepass started getting popular. He did great work getting the Xbox series launched but dropped the ball on the ‘both systems need to run the same.’ Concept.

But once gamepass started raising prices and gutting itself into different tiers on both systems and they went hard into acquisitions I was done.

She uses the same CEO speak of our team “family” will bring it back trying to insert herself into the group but when it goes to shot it’ll be the workers fault not hers as it is with any Corperate drone put in to place. I expect more downward spiral and studio closures from them. I left the ecosystem some time ago with the writing on the wall.

Behind closed doors and away from the press they are going to be all in on the AI slop.

Well played people. A line of Royals next to a guillotine mockup would also be approved.

Guaranteed it’s going down the route of:

“Want your store at the top. We can make that happen” nudge, nudge

But it feels so damned blatant for the grift that it is. The “It’s not about my name” is very blinkered view to take.

So it’s a price checker extension. That scrapes other websites for better deals.

I feel like this is just a plug piece to spotlight her product tbh.

It’s a ‘Feature’ 😏

Cremation and mixed up with my furry companions that have passed on before me. After that I wouldn’t mind being spread out in the far reaches of the wilderness. Be up to the wife really.

But for all its worth Do Not put me on a cemetery.

TeamSpeak 6 maybe. Don’t know where they’re up to on it at the moment kinda lost the thread a while ago.

Brief lookup seems things are still selfhosted: https://github.com/teamspeak/teamspeak6-server

I don’t know how often its updated though all things considered. I’ve been out of the ‘clans’ games for sometime and just easing myself back into things from those rose tinted glory days of Blueyonder Gaming, Barrysworld and Gamespy shenanigans.

First ever live voice over IP I used was Roger Wilco where I met the misses and spent the current 30 years messing around. Roger Wilco(Bought out by Gamespy), Ventrillo, mumble, ICQ, TS, TS3, Discord seems like we’re coming full circle again 🥲. Ah the nostalgia.

We’re really, really, really sorry we were caught and pinky promise never to do it again …

Same here. Got fed up after every damned update to subscribe to this, want to setup backup to cloud, setup office. Switched to Linux and now not a single subscription popup in sight. It’s been bliss. Spent the weekend with the misses sorting out 30 years of photos and getting to know exif editor 🫣

[edit] exif not exit editor.

Odd that the many deaths in ICE facilities, camps, didn’t trigger this earlier but the very public ones did.

These outdated troglodytes in the cushy retirement home probably wouldn’t know what a VPN was if you explained to them. Half the time they’re asleep on the bench dreaming of days gone by.

Natures is amazing at what it is capable of. That’s a perfectly eroded walkway. 😜

New to Lemmy, Edited original post.

This weekend. I’ve asked my significant other to check through and backup any files she may need but we’re switching off Microslops ecosystem this coming week. Got it down to Ubuntu or Mint for an ease of use while not jumping in the hole too deep. But we are in agreement at least to turn away.

:: EDIT 17/01/2026 ::

Thanks Everyone. We went with Mint Cinnamon Distro. The hardest part being how to get into the BIOS and turn on the USB boot. Everything that was installed windows wise is now installed mint wise and got the other halfs’ bookmarks up and running in a browser for her (Vivaldi if anyone’s interested). VPNs up and working and so far so good. Didn’t get spammed to death with subscriptions windows which is a major plus.