Microsoft's store is broken. I have had a similar problem with Minecraft.
Want to buy DLC for my kid in Minecraft.
Get forwarded to the Microsoft Store to process the transaction.
For some reason the money goes into my Microsoft account balance rather than going toward the DLC I wanted to buy.
Cash balance in a Microsoft account cannot be used to buy Minecraft DLC, and cannot be transferred to a Minecraft account. (Why tf not? Minecraft is a Microsoft property.)
I now have money stuck in the Microsoft account that cannot be refunded, and I can't get the DLC I wanted.
TheDude did some server maintenance on the 9th, but other than that I'm not aware of any issues. Everything works fine on my machine, so obviously there aren't any problems (j/k).
Did you have issues at a particular time? Maybe we can find something in the logs and trace down the issue.
Edit: you can also catch us on our Matrix channel for more timely tech support.
What a sweet kid. I hope the parent has a sense of humor about it and tells the kid he was good for trying to do something nice for a neighbor even though there was a misunderstanding.
You mean items that should be generic commodities, but which companies customize in order to lock you into their ecosystem, or otherwise restrict what you can do? Like printer ink cartridges or Keurig pods with ID chips, as you mentioned.
DVD region codes
Camera lenses back in the manual SLR days. I don't think there's any reason old manual-focus Nikon/Olympus/Pentax/etc. lenses needed to be brand-exclusive. The companies could have all used the same bayonet mount and all lenses would be interchangeable.
Don't forget half of them get jungle duty retaking the Panama Canal from * checks notes * a peaceful ally who has been doing a fine job of operating it.
God, every day feels less like reality and more like a fever dream.
Yes, each generation dies off and passes its wealth to the next. But the boomers are an unusual case because they hold a lot more wealth relative to their size. Boomers and millennials each account for about 20% of the US population. But boomers hold 50% of the wealth in America, while millennials only hold 8%. The wealth transfer as the boomer generation dies off is going to be massive. And most of that Boomer wealth is tied up in real estate, which will have a big impact on the housing market when it becomes available.
Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if it was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."
Also, consider going past the first page on FediDB and picking a smaller instance. I'm not knocking the big instances (I volunteer my time to two of the biggest, after all). It's just that the whole point of this Fediverse experiment is for things to be distributed. Going by the numbers on FediDB, fully half of all monthly active Lemmy users are concentrated on the three largest instances.
There are a handful of repost bots and automod bots around. If there is no haiku bot or remind-me bot it's only because nobody has taken the time to write and host them.
Microsoft's store is broken. I have had a similar problem with Minecraft.
This sucks.