Glad to see this administration has its priorities straight. /eyeroll

I don't understand this one in particular either. To me Netflix is a much better custodian than whoever has been making the business decisions around HBO/MAX/HBO MAX or whatever else they have been branded, and certainly a much better home than the now quasi-fascist Paramount conglomerate.

How is this not racketeering? Like everything else this administration does, it's plainly a shakedown.

So, AI firms are gobbling up ram to power AI-services that most consumers do not want (apart from making the occasional meme or whatever), which is at the same time hurting consumers by increasing ram pricing for everyone.
 
  So it's a double whammy. This would be like ice cream companies monopolising drinking water to make, say, pee-flavoured slushies.

Why does EVERYTHING have to have this morons name on it. And why does he speak about himself in the third person. Pathetic.

Don't use Plex.

Switched to Jellyfin, works just as well and for free. Win-win.

Lucky, maybe. But smart enough seems more likely.

The warning bit comes every so often from him and has done for many years. Doesn't mean he's wrong, though.

Even after a heart transplant, he was still heartless.

I'm quite confident his tune would change were it someone in his family that was killed. Certainly would be a wonderful irony if he himself were struck.

But could you add some roles in customer service instead then maybe? Getting anywhere with them is impossible.

No thank you!

Does ANYONE actually want this?

Still being able to use them as speakers is beside the point when people paid considerable premiums for the product over other speakers.

This obviously sucks, but it's completely fine if you just give me a refund then. If a company sells a product containing online-only features, those features should be required to work for the lifetime of the product.

There is obviously prior art, so it's not patentable. Since we are seeing more and more of these malicious attempts to patent common practices, I would propose that the patent authority can issue penalties for it. Like, let them issue a fine up to 5 percent of the business' turnover of something for really egregious behaviour like this. Make them feel it.

As it is now, there is no reason not to try, which is kinda ridiculous.