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Replika: Your Money or Your Wife / GioCities https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/03/17/replika-your-money-or-your-wife/#fnref:if 184 comments
Is AI eating all the energy? Part 1/2 / GioCities https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2024/08/18/is-ai-eating-all-the-energy-part-1-of-2/ 64 comments
How Nintendo Misuses Copyright / GioCities https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/11/21/how-nintendo-misuses-copyright/ 1 comment
Netflix's Big Double-Dip / GioCities https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/05/20/netflixs-big-double-dip/ 0 comments
CDL: Publishers Against Books / GioCities https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2024/03/03/cdl-publishers-against-books/ 0 comments

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As more automakers put factory features behind paywall, we’re racing towards a bleak future https://adguard.com/en/blog/subscriptions-cars-mercedes-netflix.html 5219 comments
BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23204950/bmw-subscriptions-microtransactions-heated-seats-feature 4821 comments
BMW Doubles Up On Paid Subscriptions In The USA, Charges $105 A Year For Remote Engine Start | Carscoops https://www.carscoops.com/2023/01/bmw-now-offering-more-feature-subscriptions-in-the-u-s/ 4255 comments
Audi Owner Finds Basic HVAC Function Paywalled After Pressing the Button for It https://www.thedrive.com/news/44967/audi-owner-finds-basic-hvac-function-paywalled-after-pressing-the-button-for-it 2893 comments
Intel's Pay-As-You-Go CPU Feature Gets Launch Window | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-software-defined-cpu-support-coming-to-linux-518 2663 comments
The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus. | by Arlo Gilbert | Look Ma, I’m Blogging! https://medium.com/@arlogilbert/the-time-that-tony-fadell-sold-me-a-container-of-hummus-cb0941c762c1 2180 comments
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/ 799 comments
BMW owners are figuring out how to pirate their heated seats | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/bmw-owners-are-figuring-out-how-to-pirate-their-heated-seats/ 695 comments
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926 500 comments
Intel Officially Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Chip Licensing | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-officially-introduces-pay-as-you-go-chip-licensing 499 comments
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite.html 408 comments
Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/macroeconomic-changes-have-made-it-impossible-for-me-to-want-to-pay-you 401 comments
In the Future, You Won't Own Any Gadgets https://gizmodo.com/in-2030-you-wont-own-any-gadgets-1847176540 289 comments
The erosion of personal ownership - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22387601/smart-fridge-car-personal-ownership-internet-things 257 comments
GameStream End of Service Notification | NVIDIA https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5436 221 comments
Auto giants like BMW, GM and Toyota make drivers 'subscribe' for basic features https://nypost.com/2022/08/21/auto-giants-like-bmw-gm-and-toyota-make-drivers-subscribe-for-basic-features/ 214 comments
Post-Incident Review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage - Atlassian Engineering https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/post-incident-review-april-2022-outage 190 comments
Accelerating our journey to the cloud, together - Work Life by Atlassian https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/journey-to-cloud 150 comments
Tesla is charging owners $1,500 for hardware they already paid for | Electrek https://electrek.co/2021/07/18/tesla-is-charging-owners-1500-for-hardware-they-already-paid-for/ 132 comments
Eufy’s “local storage” cameras can be streamed from anywhere, unencrypted | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/more-eufy-camera-flaws-found-including-remote-unencrypted-feed-viewing/ 127 comments