People already pay these fees for everything from heated seats in their cars to online storage because their locked down garbage mobile OSes won't let them mount remote directories directly to their file system.
People are terrible at technological freedom and worse at tolerating even minor inconveniences to secure any kind of rights. This shouldn't even be SLIGHTLY surprising to someone in 2026. We're reaching the point where someone is going to make breathable air a monthly subscription fee.
It's hilarious that you don't realize that's absolutely no longer an option anymore unless you overthrow the entire government and institute a new one.
You didn't teach anyone a lesson - you just removed your own ability to influence the direction of the government completely in the future.
This is a reminder that because of rulings by the supreme court, this ruling now ONLY applies to the jurisdiction of this particular federal judge and NOWHERE else in the country, so until the Supreme Court gets to ruling on this there's effectively no change to the executive order anywhere else.
That's my feelings after seeing Expedition 33 on UE5.
The game was absolutely phenomenal, but there is ABSOLUTELY no reason that that game should've forced me to upgrade my graphics card just to throw extraneous particle effect bullshit over every location that can't even be turned off. It's beyond ridiculous.
Yeah. I've only been a veteran of the process for 20 years - I don't know a thing about what I'm talking about.
"non-breaking" is a meaningless distinction. What you're REFERRING to is a "cosmetic" bug, and "cosmetic", depending on the software and the shop, does NOT mean "acceptable for release", and FURTHERMORE, this is not a new bug that's been filed as low priority or will-not-fix, but a REGRESSION because it DID work in the past, which means it's DOUBLE damning.
I'm not interested in waving around credentials about who knows more about software development - if you work in a shop that doesn't care about quality, that's between you and the shop. But if you want to claim that someone at Microsoft said "Yeah, it doesn't correctly reflect the filename, a critical check to ensure users don't accidentally delete the wrong file, which is something that's worked for 30 years" and then signed off on that, instead of the MUCH more likely explanation that NOBODY is looking at ANY of this crap with the detail they should be, I'm afraid I'm going to have to laugh.
To give you an idea, in the XBox division, a division of Microsoft, this would be considered a compliance failure that prevents a game from going gold for launch on the platform, and if caught would cost the developer thousands and weeks to fix before the game could go live because it would necessitate starting the final step of the certification process over again, because EVERY SINGLE TEST has to be run again to ensure JUST this kind of regression doesn't resurface.
But no - the same company would claim it's totally acceptable for the operating system that runs bank software because it's "non-breaking".
Linux doesn't charge hundreds of dollars per license to fund the development, rake in billions in profit, and then funnel that money into stock dividends instead of a proper quality assurance team.
