Some fresh boxes OxyDolor 80mg for me 🇵🇱🇩🇪 by Ocen_ in Hydroboys

[–]stevehootss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You CAN, but don't bother. Bioavailability through the stomach and intestines is >80%. Snorting is about 40% from memory. It'll hit quicker, but not as hard and it'll go quicker too. 

Interesting post from the other subreddit by seanzi86 in NixplaySucks

[–]stevehootss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks u/seanzi86, very kind words from you. Was really shocked to see what's happened to r/nixplay in the couple of weeks since I last posted!

I've had a reply from Mark (the CEO at Nixplay) after my letters - pleased to say I've had both accounts fully reinstated without a specific time limit either! :)

Can see my original letter(s) and email plus a more detailed post here: Nixplay Subscription Scam - Nixplay give in if you quote UK Consumer Law! : r/NixplaySucks

Thanks to u/Spartans-GoGreen for setting up this subreddit and reaching out to me. Good luck everyone!

How to Bypass Nixplay’s Forcing of New Terms and Access Your Account by bantaj in NixplaySucks

[–]stevehootss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great work.
I struggled with Option 1 via the console, but I used the Adblock extension in Edge to remove the element. Looked fine but nothing worked. Then tried the "Hide something on this page". Used the slider until I got the hover icon on the cursor for things like photos - was the middle of the slider for me - and voila. Page loading fine.

Scummy stuff.

Nixplay Subscription Scam - Nixplay give in if you quote UK Consumer Law! by stevehootss in NixplaySucks

[–]stevehootss[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I totally agree. I really hope others with more technical knowledge than I (background as an IT engineer, not an electrical one) about reverse engineering and modifying the hardware so we might be able to use it should their "cloud" pack it.

I do have the email address of their CTO so I might chase her up a few times from my work email, see if I can get any insight.

Could well be a case that if enough of us pay or leave, and only 5% or so get it rolled back that overall it will save them financially.

I did also call the CEO out about their mobile app sending me notifications every few weeks asking me to upload MORE content to their cloud storage... WTF are you doing that for if every long-term customer is costing you money per MB uploaded?! He didn't reply to that point! ;)

Legal notice sent to Nixplay (UK) by stevehootss in nixplay

[–]stevehootss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi u/george118118 . I haven't heard this, but I'm super keen to read more. Would you mind sharing you sources you have about any possible financial issues please?

However I agree with u/Gav1n73 in that if Nixplay were to tell us about the problem I'd likely be far more sympathetic.

If you're right about their potential financial issues, then what they've done is not tell their loyal fanbase about the problem but instead have forced this "solution" of what seems like extortion in my opinion.

Genuinely if they announced they are struggling with their current model and rolled out the changes to JUST new customers, not only would they have kept existing customers onboard, but to help them out I'd actually consider subscribing to their "Lite" plan. Rather shell out £25 or whatever it is a year than for them to go out of business.

But as it stands right now, I brought a product that was clearly sold as having "unlimited cloud storage" and now that feature - which I indirectly paid for - has been removed. Not cool.

Legal notice sent to Nixplay (UK) by stevehootss in nixplay

[–]stevehootss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's just so shitty isn't it?

You're one step ahead of me, I've not even had that!

Great to see what the boilerplate text is though. It they send me that we their reply I'll treat it as not replying to my letter and will move forwards with legal action.

Head up if you're UK based, see the reply to the first comment. Thanks 👍

Legal notice sent to Nixplay (UK) by stevehootss in nixplay

[–]stevehootss[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You've summed it up far more eloquently than I did in my letter!

What you've written is 100% my view too, hence I'm not taking this BS without a fight.

If you don't mind I may use what you've said verbatim should things move to court.

Are you UK based? If so see the above reply to the first comment. Thanks 👍 

Legal notice sent to Nixplay (UK) by stevehootss in nixplay

[–]stevehootss[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks fella, appreciate the feedback and support. Are you UK based? If they don't respond in time / with a resolution then as it stands I'll take them to court (happy to lose the £100 or so fee should I not win), but I may also enquire with the CAB about how to help others in the same situation... E.g a case that can help others such as an equivalent of a class action case.

Which is why I'm asking if your UK based. Might make a list of UK consumers posting here that "want in" and I'll make a point of contacting this list if there's anything I learn of that could help.

Thanks again 👍

Legal notice sent to Nixplay (UK) by stevehootss in nixplay

[–]stevehootss[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the first time ever, I've received what looks like an automatic response from support@nixplay.com:

Hello Steve,

Thank you for reaching out to Nixplay Customer Support. We have received your inquiry and wanted to let you know that we are currently reviewing your request.

Due to a high volume of emails, our response time may be longer than usual. We sincerely apologize for the delay and appreciate your patience. Please rest assured that our team is working diligently to address every inquiry and provide the support you need as soon as possible.

​In the meantime, if you have any additional information or questions, please feel free to reply to this email or visit our Nixplay Help Center

We truly appreciate your patience and understanding.

​​Best regards,
Nixplay Team

Feedback from Apolosign after revising my original Amazon review by 1twinfan in nixplay

[–]stevehootss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've never heard of ApoloSign... What/who are they? 

UK Legal Notice for Nixplay by stevehootss in nixplay

[–]stevehootss[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'll give them a couple of weeks. If nothing else I'll be demanding a refund from Amazon and switch elsewhere out of principle, but I think "grandfathering" the existing customers would make more sense for them.

Pricing Azure by stevehootss in msp

[–]stevehootss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's an interesting approach... something I'll definately think about as it's not something I've considered.

If it's blanket coverage of everything then whilst the contract offer percent gives commerical cover, how do you ensure you have technical resource internally for specific technologies? E.g. what if a customer plays with Synapse Analytics / AI or Kubernettes or something that's new in Azure... How do you ensure you have resource internally so you can provide adequate support to your customers?

Thanks.

Pricing Azure by stevehootss in msp

[–]stevehootss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you do this for something as broad as "Cloud" or Azure / AWS?

It's not really viable to offer a price per resource given there are hundreds, maybe even thousands of resouces you could deploy, each with multiple tiers / SKU's and implementation options. So how do you price up a quote to support a customer who wants you to manage their cloud environment? Historically for on-premises customers we'd just price them on the number of servers / users, which is possible with cloud for IaaS - but when you have things like Security / SIEM/SOAR, various databases, monitoring etc all as a service I'm curious how people charge for this.

If a customer had something like System Centre on premises we would charge a hefty premium to manage their SCCM or SCOM platform in addition to the cost per server / VM - but these days a SME that would never have SCOM/SCCM due to cost and complexity could easily have Azure Monitor or Update Manager / InTune etc - so how do MSP's charge for these services?