While it is no secret that exploitative practices are interlaced with capitalistic tendencies, the practices are becoming intolerable. Signing up to pay usually takes only two clicks that are prominently visible whereas cancelation options are hidden away in deep settings requiring multiple clicks. Pricing often feel arbitrary with no reference points. Every large company grows with the intention of exhibiting monopolistic behavior. This is not sustainable and should not be tolerated.
the bad news is that, despite growing up with pc’s and having had some level of troubleshooting skill as a result, i have forgotten most of it in the last 10 years as computing/tech has become pushy and handholdy. i suspect this is not uncommon.
edit - but i still miss xp. 😔
Use linux and you can have a new issue that takes 4 hours out of your day to fix… every day! That’ll get those tech support juices flowing.
Tbh, Windows computers are starting to get this way, especially when theres a glitch that stops you from using the computer the way Microsoft wants you too. I should NOT have had to create an entire new user profile on my computer just so that I could log my girlfriend into her own Minecraft account, but there was no way I could find to STOP MICROSOFT FROM AUTOSIGNING IN MY ACCOUNT
Tl:dr I’d rather troubleshoot for something I should do, rather than troubleshoot how to get around my computer doing something I dont want it to do, which is becoming more and more common with Windows