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Got a nice email from Uncle Msft offering me a "free" trial of ... TaDa... Windows 365. Wow, 30 days free on a cloud PC, how could you beat that? So, clicky, clicky, userid, password, , password again (typo) and here we go. Oops: "you haven't entered a payment method yet!! Give us your credit card numbers. We won't charge you. Unless, of course, you forget to cancel". Me: Bye. When someone "bites", let us know how it is up there in the world of Msft rent-a-PC. Oh, BTW, there is a new Linux distro (Sdesk) that is going to take over the desktop. Bound to send penetration levels from 1.5 to 1.6%. Can't wait. I guess it would be useful on all those W10 systems headed for the dumpster. Don't know why they need a new distro for that. Now back to my Debian system and Windows VM's.
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Got a nice email from Uncle Msft offering me a "free" trial of ... TaDa... Windows 365. Wow, 30 days free on a cloud PC, how could you beat that? So, clicky, clicky, userid, password, , password again (typo) and here we go. Oops: "you haven't entered a payment method yet!! Give us your credit card numbers. We won't charge you. Unless, of course, you forget to cancel". Me: Bye. When someone "bites", let us know how it is up there in the world of Msft rent-a-PC. Oh, BTW, there is a new Linux distro (Sdesk) that is going to take over the desktop. Bound to send penetration levels from 1.5 to 1.6%. Can't wait. I guess it would be useful on all those W10 systems headed for the dumpster. Don't know why they need a new distro for that. Now back to my Debian system and Windows VM's.
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
I hear your pain. Wife and I are thundering into "retirement." Doesn't mean we'll stop working, hell, she has 3 business proposals she's spinning already. Yes, it's tough to live with her. You have been warned. I got pissed off at apple because they kept charging me for apple TV although I had cancelled it. After working for 30 minutes trying to figure out who to talk to in Apple, I sad f'this. (Chris Maunder, the elephant needs an upgrade) - I cancelled my credit card registered with apple and contested 4 months of charges, the blood sucking vampire. Turns out, I cannot get to the apple app store without a registered cc. Okayyyyyyyyyy, created a virtual CC (God bless Citi, but other cards support this as well). The virtual cc has a $1/month limit. If you are signing up for some perpetual service, please use a virtual card.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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I hear your pain. Wife and I are thundering into "retirement." Doesn't mean we'll stop working, hell, she has 3 business proposals she's spinning already. Yes, it's tough to live with her. You have been warned. I got pissed off at apple because they kept charging me for apple TV although I had cancelled it. After working for 30 minutes trying to figure out who to talk to in Apple, I sad f'this. (Chris Maunder, the elephant needs an upgrade) - I cancelled my credit card registered with apple and contested 4 months of charges, the blood sucking vampire. Turns out, I cannot get to the apple app store without a registered cc. Okayyyyyyyyyy, created a virtual CC (God bless Citi, but other cards support this as well). The virtual cc has a $1/month limit. If you are signing up for some perpetual service, please use a virtual card.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Oh yes, I love virtual cards. They put the consumer back in control of purchases. :thumbsup:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Oh yes, I love virtual cards. They put the consumer back in control of purchases. :thumbsup:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Oh yes. Create the card, pay the money, destroy the card. quick and safe(r). :-D
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Got a nice email from Uncle Msft offering me a "free" trial of ... TaDa... Windows 365. Wow, 30 days free on a cloud PC, how could you beat that? So, clicky, clicky, userid, password, , password again (typo) and here we go. Oops: "you haven't entered a payment method yet!! Give us your credit card numbers. We won't charge you. Unless, of course, you forget to cancel". Me: Bye. When someone "bites", let us know how it is up there in the world of Msft rent-a-PC. Oh, BTW, there is a new Linux distro (Sdesk) that is going to take over the desktop. Bound to send penetration levels from 1.5 to 1.6%. Can't wait. I guess it would be useful on all those W10 systems headed for the dumpster. Don't know why they need a new distro for that. Now back to my Debian system and Windows VM's.
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
A while back I was taking a Pluralsight course and in one of the exercises the instructor said to go to a website that had an API for doing currency conversions. Said it was possible to setup a free account. Went to the website and it wants a credit card number. If the account is free why do I have to give you a credit card number. So, I didn’t do that exercise. After reading some of the other messages in this thread I see now what I should have done. I didn’t think about making a virtual CC at the time. Thing is just a few days prior one of my wife’s credit cards got hacked. Someone tried to buy some stuff from Walmart.com. So, yeah, I’m a little more cautious about giving out a CC to some place I know nothing about for a free account.
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Got a nice email from Uncle Msft offering me a "free" trial of ... TaDa... Windows 365. Wow, 30 days free on a cloud PC, how could you beat that? So, clicky, clicky, userid, password, , password again (typo) and here we go. Oops: "you haven't entered a payment method yet!! Give us your credit card numbers. We won't charge you. Unless, of course, you forget to cancel". Me: Bye. When someone "bites", let us know how it is up there in the world of Msft rent-a-PC. Oh, BTW, there is a new Linux distro (Sdesk) that is going to take over the desktop. Bound to send penetration levels from 1.5 to 1.6%. Can't wait. I guess it would be useful on all those W10 systems headed for the dumpster. Don't know why they need a new distro for that. Now back to my Debian system and Windows VM's.
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
And this hear in is the very reason WHY I will not buy in to the subscription economy!! I got caught out once by Amazon AWS (Well the startup I was part of at the time did...) and Amazon happily took $19,000 of the start-up's money (That later turned out to be something that was their fault) and we had a hell of a time getting it back. I simply do not trust companies that want to have a "tap" connected to your funds before you can even trial anything, because it's all just insidious attempts to take money from you as and when they feel like it. It's quite basically, legalised robbery. "But what happens if you use more of a thing than you've paid for, how will we ever recoup our monies then?" Um, no that's really very simple. YOU OWN THE RESOURCE. when my credit runs out, you turn that resource off until I give you some more money. pretty simple concept, web hosting companies have been doing it for years. When my credit runs out on my linode server, it gets deactivated, the few things I do have turned on (Like my excessive bandwidth charge), they send me an invoice for if it goes over.... and take me to court if I don't pay it. Why should cloud services be any different? From a recent discussion I had with a plugin provider for SketchUp that I use: ME: "Hi, I'd like to upgrade to the latest version please, I have V1 and I see that V2 is released" THEM: "yea sure, what's your account login name?" ME: "Account? I don't have one, I paid for this about 4 years ago, gave you my pay-pal, you took payment and sent me the plug-in electronically" THEM: "oh I see... yea we don't do that any more, you have to have an account with us." ME: "Why? SketchUp is not an online thing, well at least not the pro desktop version I use anyway, I'd like to just buy the upgrade and then go install it on my offline laptop" THEM: "sorry, the machine you use it on has to be online!" ME: "Why?" THEM: "because that's how we do things now." ME: "that's silly, the SketchUp pro app is still desktop based, works without being online, and I like it that way because I often have to take my laptop and go out in the field to use it." THEM: "we wrote the new version so that it always checks if it's licensed when you start the app up, it won't work if your not online" ME: "ok, I guess I understand that, what if I create an account, buy my plugin, register it then close my account." THEM: "that won't work the
