I dont think it will generate much discussion. Maybe if it were Google, certainly if it were Apple, but with Microsoft people will just shrug and go „eh, what did you expect“.
What’s funny is that if someone tries to do something in Japanese for example someone will come along and tell you about a bunch of false steps (as they say in French) but if you point something out in English about it being non-standard people will come out of the woodwork to point out how it really doesn’t matter and if enough people do it indirectly it will become the correct way to do it anyway.
In other words a speaker of English using a foreign language is chastised for their mistakes in foreign languages but and English speaker pointing out the mistakes foreign language speakers make in English is no big deal and it’s implied people are being language nazis for pinging the error out…
>If you used this account for Minecraft, we regret to inform you that the game cannot be recovered. A new purchase will be required on a newly created account.
Welcome to the club of people who Microsoft stole Minecraft from. They deleted my copy since I did not migrate my account in time.
I’ve bought Minecraft like 5 times in my lifetime at this point if you could the multiple times I bought the OG version and lost access, then Microsoft accounts, then console versions… probably spent $150 buying Minecraft over and over
After I migrated mine I still had to contact support and send a half dozen messages because I didn't verify my email after accepting the migration and the link expired.
This is one of those things a shockingly large number of businesses do not understand. The cloud has been sold as magic, people don't realize you have all of the same needs as you do on-premise, you're just also paying rent.
Someone who knows that there's absolutely nothing this guy can do about it. Maybe he could sue, but really if a major company like Microsoft, or Google, decides to delete all of your data, and doesn't want to give it back, there's really nothing you can do about it. We really do need a law protecting consumer's data from arbitrary deletion.
It's designed by committee, with n stakeholders with n+1 opinions and motivations and pressures from other business units over 17 workshops and governance decisions
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally!
And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff.
(OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
Yep, I remember a couple of years ago Google Drive started flagging 1 byte files as pirated content - shortly after I bought a 6TB hard-drive and two 5TB portable hard-drives.
My progress in getting everything off Google Drive and OneDrive has slowed due to real life but all the important stuff is backed up offline now.
I don't know if an explanation was ever given but I assume their pirated content scanning algorithm inadvertently dropped a file size check and their other checks passed.
Late last year I could see where all the stuff was starting to go with storage and bought up a decent little amount of HDD's to get a full multi backup setup done. Worth it.
I also have a silly box that I call the 'T Box Series T' that is made out of loads of old PVR HDD's that were donated or found on the side of the road, if they burn out there is no big loss.
Some stuff is online but I have copies of copies of everything now.
Baby pictures.. That's really sad… Reminds me of when the executive editor of wired magazine, Matt Honan, trusted all of his baby pictures and movies to iCloud only for it to get hacked and have it all deleted. Always have that off-line back up.
Still DRM can revoke rights, depends on what form we download it as, but yeah, downloading locally is generally much better than keeping it "in the cloud" (which is just someone else's computer).
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 63.4 ms ] threadIn other words a speaker of English using a foreign language is chastised for their mistakes in foreign languages but and English speaker pointing out the mistakes foreign language speakers make in English is no big deal and it’s implied people are being language nazis for pinging the error out…
Welcome to the club of people who Microsoft stole Minecraft from. They deleted my copy since I did not migrate my account in time.
My most recent - "I can't search my mailbox because exchange online is broken?" - new outlook + 180days offline cache max + online only search
Timely reminder to back every fucking thing up.
Trust none of these valley assholes to do the right thing.
Just make sure YOU do the right thing.
And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff.
(OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
My progress in getting everything off Google Drive and OneDrive has slowed due to real life but all the important stuff is backed up offline now.
I also have a silly box that I call the 'T Box Series T' that is made out of loads of old PVR HDD's that were donated or found on the side of the road, if they burn out there is no big loss.
Some stuff is online but I have copies of copies of everything now.
3 copies, 2 different media, 1 off-site
But also, what a fucking disgrace, Microsoft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761944
With the barest of config, it's almost a drop-in replacement