You do realise that long ago MSFT switched from being a desktop software company to cloud and telemetry, right? Win10 and Win11 were free, and Azure isn’t exactly driving them into the ground.
Comment on Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 14 hours agoBanning is fine, we’re talking about remote bricking. If I hack my Xbox, I’m fine with not being allowed to use it to join msft’s network, but I am not fine with them identifying my hacked device over the internet and actively sending some sort of backdoor self-destruct instruction to it. To me that’s a violation of the CFAA.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 9 hours ago
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Are you responding to the comment you think you’re responding to?
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 hours ago
Yeah, I was.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Ah.
Yes.
That… is a little bit more insane.
Welp.