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eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.

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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.

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eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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    I hate this new trend of corpo speak using compute as a noun. Ew.

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      How else do you want to word that Microsoft purchased hardware to run the games for you, and that costs them money?

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        Processing power, server capacity, all the dozens of terms used before AI techbro trash started misusing a verb because they were twigged on ketamine.

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          Well this is around from 2000

          https://www.hpcwire.com/2000/07/28/sun-microsystems-to-acquire-gridware/

          Technology like Codine and GRD enables end-users to submit their compute-intensive jobs to a compute farm with a single-system image, looking like one central virtual mainframe.

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            Yeah, stupid tech-bro corpo marketing speech. It’s fuckin stupid.

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              Just trying to point out it wasn’t AI tech bros like you said. It was in use before them. Tech bros sure.

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