Stovetop @ Stovetop @lemmy.world

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No arguments here. I used to love Geoguessr when it was 100% free, but have never once paid for it since they switched to a subscription model. I just blame Google more than Geoguessr is all.

Depending on who you ask, a lot. Or very little.

For me today, though, it was the large downtime earlier. It's big by Fediverse standards, microscopic by Reddit standards, and as-is it struggles to keep stable uptime some days.

The only thing that would have me worried, even given these examples, is the fact that the current supreme court seems to enjoy wiping their ass with precedent.

They haven't been afraid to dismiss older rulings, or to say that this time is somehow different than before because it'd be more convenient.

Sous vide was a game changer for me. I don't use mine often but break it out when I want to convince people I am not terrible at cooking.

Just wish that it wasn't necessary to use so much plastic for it. If there was any sort of plant-based film that food could be sealed in instead, it'd be perfect.

Honestly I think it's hideous. Wish they would take this one back to the drawing board. I prefer the sleek and minimalist push they used to have, but now it feels like they're going back in a maximalist direction.

My phone's OS doesn't need to be a theatrical experience with every press or swipe, it just needs to get me from point A to point B as quickly and simply as possible.

Sometimes. Probably should more often, but when you cook something enough times to know when it's done, it makes it a bit redundant.

My understanding is that Google charges for use of their API. The game could switch to a traditional flat price model, but the moment they stop making enough in sales to pay Google for API access, the entire game is dead for everyone.

The subscription sucks but it's basically a requirement to continue running. Would be nice if there was any sort of open map standard with even half the street view data Google has so they wouldn't need Google at all.

We're all entitled to opinions.

Some opinions are awful, though.

Fair!

They're mostly contracted services, but I meant more that it wasn't the services managed directly by the big food delivery companies like Grubhub/Uber Eats/Doordash etc.

If I don't order through Doordash, I would expect no involvement from a Doordash driver whatsoever.

Millions of traumatized children, though.

It's been a hot minute since my college days, but I do remember learning about singing as one possible avenue of speech therapy in one of my classes. Something about using different parts of the brain I guess.

For what it's worth, this is the latest among several prominent Microsoft-owned teams to unionize. Bethesda is union, Raven Software is another former-Activision studio that unionized, and even at Blizzard, the World of Warcraft development team has been union for a bit.

There are lots of problems at Microsoft, but it doesn't seem like they've continued Activision's old union-busting strategies at least.

Blue team has joined the game.

Anything related to queer identities could fall under obscenity by whatever arbitrary definitions they want to use.

No more pride or rainbow flags, no support groups for queer youth, no sex education, all of that is obscene.