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Aint it grand how contract in the US is only enforced against the customer?
Do you remember that time when company got too many arbitration claims and was able to get a court to allow it to get out from that contract?
"Because it was not fair to them and this is not the system is intended to work"
US contract law for me but not for thee...
I remember seeing this commercial. I knew back then that it was horseshit.
"This is what happens when the government lets companies swallow the completion (the latest being Sprint). We have antitrust laws in the country that are being ignored and ultimately the consumer loses," a New York resident told the FCC.
YES. The government needs to stop rubber-stamping these enormous mergers.
Yep, I quit T-Mobile and switched to Mint last month for this exact reason. My price is now 1/4 what I was paying before, and everything else is exactly the same. Should’ve done this years ago.
Didn't T-Mobile buy Mint this year?
Yes lol
Fucking hell.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't suck. At least I have no contact.
Boost Mobile is advertising the same thing right now. Who actually believes these ads?
"Sir, the customers are complaining about charging more money even though they had a pricelock for life deal".
"Yeah? And? Fuck em!"
I mean.....I kid, but that's the CEOs legit stance on the issue.
Telecom companies and trying to fuck over their costumers, name a more iconic duo
This is felony level bait-and-switch going on, here. This really should have criminal charges attached to the perpetrators.
I had a Google GSuite account from back when they advertised it as a free for life solution for families who wanted to use their own domain. They stopped offering this a long time ago, but kept us around. A few years ago, they tried to end it, but walked that back after facing resistance. We were among the earliest adopters and many of us shilled pretty hard for gmail over the years. Not only would they have gone back on their word, but my app and media purchases would be tied to a crippled no-email account (identity only) because they didn't have a migration path to normal gmail. That means multiple logins. Also, the gsuite inbox doesn't have the inline ads or anything while the regular one does. I've been working to move away from google because I imagine they'll try to end this again later, but also just because we understand better who google really is.
The site the greedy little pigboy runs was instrumental to the resistance but since it's enshittified, we may not be able to resist again. Its fine to say something is for a lifetime, but you have to honor that or you've been dishonest and no one can trusts thing you say.
The only reason I still have google around is android. When we finally get a linux daily driver phone that meets my minimum needs, I'm migrating the remainder of my stuff. I'll happily give up some functionality to do it. I just hope they can keep their free for life promise until then.
I can only vouch for my setup; many variations are available.
Hit me up if you ever decide to go self hosting route and need a hand with a thing or two!
Curious about your issues with jellyfin? Ive been using it basically issue free for a few months
Takes half a minute to start playing, which gets annoying real quick when a toddler gets involved with all the short videos.
Random buffering every 10-15 minutes on most 1080p as well as 4k videos.
Random buffering every couple of minutes on certain videos - the whole of the office us is the last one I remember.
Crappy multi audio track support - some of them play, but most don't. What was most infuriating at first was jellyfin happily selecting the track I want in UI and then just playing the default one anyway.
The UI is kinda crap - I understand moving on a tv screen is more difficult, but god damn - what jellyfin is doing with arrow navigation is plain masochistic.
When it works - it's beautiful. But it rarely does so for long enough.
I really want to like it, but it's doing its best to push me away.
And before you suggest anything - I've already tried everything there is to try that's available on the open internet. Happy to hear something that's never been posted anywhere, though!
I haven't really had any of these issues. Those would certainly be enough to push me away. I know I was having somewhat similar issues with consuming the content before enabling hardware acceleration. I haven't tried changing audio tracks so idk there. I'm sorry to hear you've been having a bad time
Did you configure video encoding?
T mobile going downhill since merging with sprint and losing Legere.
Who could have predicted less competition resulting in worse service other than everyone
Caught me completely by obvious
Yeah, but a couple dozen sociopaths at the top got significantly richer, so fuck this entire portion of the population. Clearly the right people won.
~/s~
"Not for long," T-mobile said as it dispatched hit squads to quash the lawsuit rebellion.
One of the companies making GPS navigators for cars used to advertise lifetime map updates. Small print: lifetime of the device, two years after release
I bought my dad's 2014 MKZ off him 4 years ago. They stopped producing GPS updates several years before I bought it off him. According to the device, there are times it thinks I'm driving through farmland when I'm at a Target parking lot.
Careful, Users. TMobile is large enough to go the Boeing route, and start making people disappear. Then, Users, your Lifetime Price Lock will be literally void.
Although, it would also be void if tmo died--err... disappeared...
They could easily claim damages, considering they may have made sacrifices over the years against other providers in anticipation of the T-Mo guarantee.
Only thing you can rely on staying the same anymore is Costco hotdogs.
Any guarantee of a price lock with the stipulation of "You can just NOT use us if we ever decide to fuck you over!" - should come with HEAVY penalties.
