Xbox introduces default remote shut down in consoles to fight climate change - We not only hold ourselves accountable to the carbon emissions... but to the emissions created with the use of our products in the homes of our fans

[Niggernerd]

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Whats going on consolesisters?

Imagine being a kissless virgin pc faggot when real gamers are playing GTA in real life.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

$25 annually to relinquish control over your own thermostat is a pitiful amount of money. That should be more like $1,000.

Oh yeah, I wouldn't do it myself. That's like... a night of drinking at a cheapo dive. For the entire year. But the article also says that they did, in fact, advertise that you would be giving up control of your thermostat at certain points, so I don't think he read it good none.

The suggestion that Microsoft would, shortly after laying off a fifth of its workforce - 10,000 workers; while they're ginning up enormous costs to fight antitrust regulators in the US and EU over their offer towards Activision-Blizzard; while markets are all expecting a deepening of global recession; that they would choose, at this time, to launch an Orwellian "we'll shut off your console when we please for the environment, we own you" scheme - and after throwing away millions on GamePass specifically just to grow a customer base and shake their old stigma of being anti-consumer - beggars belief.

Then the article just says that they're going to schedule background updates for times of day where the sun is theoretically shining and they're making default-but-optional a power-down method that theoretically consumes less energy (which you pay for, by the way). Like, you already chose to power down your system, and the change is it's doing so in a way where it'll take longer to boot when you power it up. That's it. There's plenty of reasons to hate the company already; there's no need to make shit up.

 

[Übertroon]

You are now the fourth person I've seen this week to link to an article that you haven't read.

I think this is the relevant part

“Normally, when we see a message like that, we’re able to override it,” he continued. “In this case, we weren’t. So, our thermostat was locked in at 78 or 79.” Other Xcel users reported on social media that they also were unable to turn up the air conditioning

Key part being that they thought it was something they could just override, until they couldn't

 

[TheGuntinator]

It's weird how every wildly unpopular decision immediately gets justified with a "for the climate" anyone else notice that lately?

 

[Jasper2K]

Very nice another worthless/invasive feature that will probably be abandoned. How about you put this time and effort towards something meaningful like game development? If Star Field is delayed until late this year your going to have yet another dry year microsoft. Getting real tired of the big three.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

So if I'm understanding this right, I could be playing Xbox one day and then it just turns off for no reason, and that's a feature not a bug? Makes me pissed that I bought an Xbox and not a PlayStation a few years ago.

PC/Nintendo, never look back.

 

[StacticShock]

It's weird how every wildly unpopular decision immediately gets justified with a "for the climate" anyone else notice that lately?

it's to manipulate consensus as to "why would you go against something that is bad for the world?"
showing that again, marketing people are a plague that need some good flamethrowers to get rid of.

 

[ZMOT]

If anything would get me to use Linux (fucking ew), it would be that. MY fucking hardware that I paid for, MY fucking rules.

running YOUR hardware with microsoft software is like saying it's YOUR cuckshed

You and me both, I've been hesitant about Linux because while I'm technologically literate, I was always worried about bricking something. Microshaft and Bill Gates can eat my shit for all I care at this point, I'd rather put up with learning a new OS entirely than let these faggots shut my shit down on a whim.

if you can install and use windows you can install and use linux, just use common sense.

 

[The Foxtrot]

running YOUR hardware with microsoft software is like saying it's YOUR cuckshed

Oh I'm sorry, I thought almost everything ran on Windows, with no/few problems, therefore it makes sense to use that.

if you can install and use windows you can install and use linux, just use common sense.

Yeah, but here's the funny thing: most Linux users are hipsters and faggots who want to be different. Not serious users. It's why spending half a day fixing a problem that would never occur on Windows doesn't matter to them, because they're special.

And likewise, I don't want to waste time fixing issues for something that SHOULD work straight out of the box, but doesn't because Linux is "open source" so any faggot can jack around with the code.

 

[A-Stump]

running YOUR hardware with microsoft software is like saying it's YOUR cuckshed


if you can install and use windows you can install and use linux, just use common sense.

You make good points but also sound like a huge faggot in the way you go about making them

 

[Obamarama]

>simping for Microsoft

You're complaining about a non-issue. I'm not simping for Microsoft, I'm saying you're whining about an optional feature you can turn off. If you read the fucking article that was linked on Page 1 you would know this. I swear the average fucking IQ of this website is 65

 

[AnOminous]

Very nice another worthless/invasive feature that will probably be abandoned.

But will be left in there so eventually some douchebag leet hax0r will use it to take down the entire network for shits and giggles.

 

[Wesker]

Niggerstation I wouldn't doubt implements something like this eventually. This entire gen of consoles and it's library is dogshit anyway.

 

[Übertroon]

Niggerstation I wouldn't doubt implements something like this eventually. This entire gen of consoles and it's library is dogshit anyway.

I don't doubt it, but it should be noted that Microshit almost always leads the way when it comes to anti consumer policies

 

[Wesker]

I don't doubt it, but it should be noted that Microshit almost always leads the way when it comes to anti consumer policies

Yeah if anyone was going to do it first, it would be them. But Sony is nearly as woke retarded as them. They ban you for saying nigger on a mic. They also did a bunch of BLM shit.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Imagine using the climate as an excuse to take away owners rights to everything and it works on some plebs.

I guarantee you Twitter and breadtubers are already defending Microsoft like good corporations, worshipping funko pop-buying communists.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Key part being that they thought it was something they could just override, until they couldn't

So they agreed to get $25 in exchange for "forfeiting some control over their thermostats," they found that most of the time they still had control, and then they realized that they had, in fact, agreed to forfeit some control over their thermostats in exchange for a jackson and a lincoln (plus a benjamin upon enrollment).

So exactly what the company said would happen to an opt-in program... happened. Meanwhile, and I know reading isn't your strong suit, I'm gonna ask you to find where in that article MS suggests they at all have patched in the ability to remotely shut your system off if they think it's being an energy hog.

 

[Day Drinking]

I think we found an Xbox hate thread. Who wants to be the Marissa Moira for Xbox?

Please no. If I had to lurk through another Moira poster, I'd need to ask to put 'All' at the front of my username.

As far as the article goes, another moneysoft attempt to pretend to be 'climate aware', whatever that means. Seems like a standard console thing that they implemented wrong in the first place. I have noticed my Series S, which I haven't used in the greater of 5 months, still emits plenty of heat even though I turned it off. And yes, I do disable the quick start and standby normally, but I haven't for this console. Point being, that's quite a bit of consumption to make the case warm to the touch. I'm not worried about missing an update if they want to say that now the console will actually turn off if it's not doing anything. Climate is just their talk to pretend that they didn't think power settings all the way through in the first place and score virtue points at the same time.

 

[Pissmaster]

You're complaining about a non-issue. I'm not simping for Microsoft, I'm saying you're whining about an optional feature you can turn off. If you read the fucking article that was linked on Page 1 you would know this. I swear the average fucking IQ of this website is 65

“Yummy yummy Billy Gates let me lick up the rest of your footcheese whilst you continue to steal all of my freedoms” - literally you ITT

 

[Sniperwoof]

There's no way they don't eventually start using this tech to remotely brick the consoles of "toxic" gamers and political enemies.

I fucking hate our dead gay dystopia.