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

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byuu said:
I takes me half a day to download and install all the fucking drivers with a vanilla Windows and rebooting it a million times.
Even the most basic things like Ethernet and USB 3.0 controllers don't work out of the box. It's painful.
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I've done three windows installations in the last couple years, all off of a burned DVD so definitely not as fast as could be and outside of the 30 minute goal, especially not counting the GBs of updates Windows 10 immediately starts downloading once you connect it to the internet. Overall, maybe around an hour or two.

The first was to dual boot my desktop. That installation was an update from a cloned Windows 7 installation and ended up being such a pain in the ass to clean and fix up I wiped the drive and did a completely fresh installation with the key I got from updating Windows 7. That one actually turned out really well with minimal fuckery outside of GPU, motherboard and Wi-fi drivers (both motherboard and Wifi were working fine without, but installed them anyways) and is still in use with everything else pretty much working great immediately after installation.

The third was on a laptop with a wiped drive. That one had zero manual driver installations and only took so long because the hard drive is trash and I didn't have another of that form factor on hand without sacrificing an SSD from my desktop for it.

So not "Plug in game console and it works" good, but not necessarily a half day's worth of suffering either though that may be a roll of the dice depending the hardware.
 
Pissmaster said:
Jamal can plop down his Burger King paycheck for a Series S and Niggaball 2024, plug it into his $200 Walmart Black Friday TV, and he's good to go. Jamal only wants to play Niggaball on Xbox Live with his friends Dor'ito and Vajayjay. Jamal does not understand what a file system is.
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This unironically is why I stick with Xbox. It works, my friends all have one and all have halo MCC, live in different parts of the country, and for me, even though u can hook it to a computer, I like the controller.
 
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Catgirls are Love said:
I've done three windows installations in the last couple years, all off of a burned DVD so definitely not as fast as could be and outside of the 30 minute goal, especially not counting the GBs of updates Windows 10 immediately starts downloading once you connect it to the internet. Overall, maybe around an hour or two.
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This year, I did a dual boot Windows/Linux (Mint) installation, both over the Internet, and they both took about a half-hour and worked just fine with minimal fiddling. Maybe another 15 minutes each to get Nvidia/CUDA installed. And then a couple hours to get them to play nicely with each other. UEFI was the issue so I just reverted to legacy BIOS instead.
 
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StacticShock said:
spergout aside, is it okay to mention that the media is saying that M$ will force people's windows 10 to upgwade to windows 11 being on the same sense as the OP? no?
okay, i disabled my tpm2 in bios anyway so i cannot upgrade, haha, either gimme windows 12 or fuck off uncle bill, you know the rule of "one good, one bad" and windows 11 falls on the "one bad" rule.
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As soon as I noticed Windows 11 required that shit I turned it off because of M$'s asshole behavior in the past of involuntary "upgrades." Try installing it without that shit Billy Boy.

That's why I call bullshit on anyone who thinks this remote shut down stuff is somehow innocent and well intentioned. I've never seen M$ include ANY feature that could be maliciously misused without eventually doing it. If they're rolling out this feature they WILL abuse it, period.
 
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AnOminous said:
thinks this remote shut down stuff
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Do a google search for "remote xbox shutdown," and you get nothing about it, beyond redditors trying to rub their peanut braincells together to figure out how to do it on their own machine. Throw it on DDG and Kiwi Farms pops up as like the fourth result.

There is no remote shut down stuff. It's not in the article that the OP didn't read. There are no other articles about their "look at us! we're green guys really!" that mention remote shutdowns. Not that the article actually links to the fucking thing, but here's their stupid statement, in full.
When your console is plugged in, connected to the Internet and regional carbon intensity data is available, Xbox will schedule game, app, and OS updates for your console at specific times during the nightly maintenance window that may result in lower carbon emissions because a higher proportion of electricity is coming from lower-carbon sources on the electric grid. For example, instead of your Xbox waking up during the nightly maintenance window at a random time between 2:00 AM – 6:00 AM, your console will wake up at a time when it can use the most renewable energy in your local energy grid.
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Starting today, Xbox Insiders will notice that their Xbox Series X|S consoles automatically update to the Shutdown (energy saving) power option. This one-time update to your power settings will reduce your power consumption while your console is off, and will not affect performance, gameplay, or your console’s ability to receive overnight updates to system, games or apps. Remote features are supported while the console is powered-on; however, remote wake is not supported while the console is shut down. You can adjust your settings at any time, choosing what works best for you. Shutdown (energy saving) cuts power use by up to 20X when it’s off compared to Sleep.
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You've been led by the nose by an outrage-farming media and its loyal livestock.
 
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AnOminous said:
So it's okay because it was always there and they just actually used it now? Yeah. Right. I'm not going to buy this shit ever.
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Did you also not read the release? There's literally nothing in it about them being able to remotely shut down the system - there is no mention of that capability, anywhere, or anything that would suggest they have given themselves that capability. Sure, MS could theoretically trigger lawsuits and make investors flee by issuing an update whenever it wanted that arbitrarily bricked Xboxes - so could Sony, so could Nintendo, so could any distributor of any OS ever. There is nothing in this press release even remotely in that neighborhood.

The real reason not to buy an xbox is that it's a shit product at-face.
 
Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
Did you also not read the release? There's literally nothing in it about them being able to remotely shut down the system - there is no mention of that capability, anywhere, or anything that would suggest they have given themselves that capability. Sure, MS could theoretically trigger lawsuits and make investors flee by issuing an update whenever it wanted that arbitrarily bricked Xboxes - so could Sony, so could Nintendo, so could any distributor of any OS ever. There is nothing in this press release even remotely in that neighborhood.

The real reason not to buy an xbox is that it's a shit product at-face.
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The number of times Microsoft should be able to change any settings whatsoever without my permission is zero. I'm certainly not going to pay for hardware where this is baked in. Windows is bad enough but you can generally block it all (and just not pay for it for that matter).
 
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The Foxtrot said:
Oh fuck no. Macs are good for expensive target practice.
Also, Linux fag saying "windows is far from working straight out of the box" is rich, given Linux distros only "work" if you don't value your time and are willing to waste days/weeks "setting it up" (AKA fixing shit that doesn't work).

Meanwhile my Windows machine took less than 30 minutes.
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Linux Mint, nigger.
 
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