It isn’t an argument, it is just a statement of something which is factual or not depending on your jurisdiction, or more importantly the jurisdiction of people who see your work.
Everything in Minecraft Java and Bedrock worked fine until we logged into Microsoft's account thing. Now everything is always screwed up. MS cloud stuff is just awful on every level.
Buying the game now requires navigating a couple sites, back and forth, in the correct order, and getting past MS attempts to block seemingly any new account for non-existent "suspicious activity". If you're buying for a kid and make the mistake of not lying about their age, you'll also experience the hell of MS' family account management interface, including having to track down an obscure and not-obviously-related setting to let the new copy connect to any multiplayer server, including local ones. There are, of course, multiple game-related settings screens, because why would it make sense? And only one of them has what you need. Plus you need to visit it in the correct fashion to have it apply to the child account, or else it won't work.
And you'll need to juggle logins to both accounts—the parent account, and the child account—and bounce between them a couple times to get it all working. There's no way normal users are managing to do it successfully.
As for the account transitions, it took me a couple tries to get mine working, and my wife's tried several times and they keep telling her on her MS account(s) that she doesn't own Minecraft and needs to buy it. I haven't looked into it, but I imagine she's missing some non-obvious step. Her experience is likely pretty common.
[EDIT] Oh, another thing I haven't looked into yet: as of a few days ago its started telling my kid they don't own it, and we need to buy it. They fucking definitely do own a copy. No idea what's up with that, and I'm dreading having to figure it out.
@MSFT employees: how do you feel about the rest of the company sabotaging every effort you do to try to get rid of your old reputation and build a new one as a reliable, sane alternative to Google?
Seriously! Between hamfistedly pushing Edge to us Firefox users, raising Office 365 cost a double digit percentage the other year (yes, we moved to GSuite a couple of months later) and all the other stuff, how do you find motivation?
Years ago I worked as a software tester in the Mission Control Center. This was in simpler times, before 9-11. On lunch breaks I would wander the campus and poke my head in areas to see what was up. Many times employees would give me an impromptu tour of the area. One of these times was this full-motion shuttle simulator. They were about to take it on a test run, and asked me if I wanted to go along for the ride. It was an amazing experience, and one of many fond memories of working there.
I don't understand the appeal of this. Chocolate profiles are mostly made in the roasting stage, which this doesn't do.
I briefly got into home roasting coffee, and quickly learned that commercially available coffee from boutique roasters was way better than I could do. I suspect this will be similar.
Agreed. Because roasting is such an important step, we leave that to the professionals much like in the coffee industry. This way, people can select different origins with different roast profiles for different recipes and end up with a variety of premium chocolate flavors. And much like coffee, if you decide that you want to roast your own beans, you can use your coffee roaster and come up with your own roast profile to experiment with flavor development.
I stopped using Airbnb in 2015 after my account and card was used to rent a place in Guangzhou, China for a month. I live in America, and have never been (or planned) to travel to China.
Airbnb's response was okay, and implied this was a "common scam". After that, I bailed. Not staying on a platform that can't implement basic security (at the time) like 2FA.
Hearing about all of the other problems people are experiencing on Airbnb now makes me glad I stopped using Airbnb. I guess I got lucky with the customer support on my issue.
These companies that disrupt industries seem to all have a common arc to them. At some point, the benefit they provided stops, and they start causing more harm than good.
The same thing happened to me except the person who was using my account changed the email and password and Airbnb refused to help. The only “resolution” was for me to change bank cards. For all I know the account in my name is still in use!
I bought a Model Y last year, in spite of my range anxiety. My first road trip alleviated that concern for me. Range anxiety is real, though. While I think the need for a "super long range" model isn't necessarily needed, it can go a long way to solving the short-term dilemma in consumer mindsets.
