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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Welcome to the future, my friends, where soon enough you will not be able to own your own at-home compute because it's too expensive, and instead you'll just have to pay hourly to use someone else's compute.

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago

Just like the good old days we had to visit an internet cafe to buy a time bundle and send an email

[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

In France they call it le compute