Didn’t ingest any, but it’s still there somehow

The UK is about to ban disposable vapes, but I fear it may achieve little.

What the legislation does is to define what “reusable” means, and demand that vapes must meet that.

In reality, I suspect that manufacturers will simply adjust their strategies to produce vapes that are “technically” reusable and rechargeable and meet the law in a bare-minimum way, but really are intended to be used exactly once, just like disposable ones were, and that’s exactly how they will continue to be treated by consumers.

Cost will probably go up 20% to cover it, but that’s all, and in the end even more material will be going in landfill.

In my opinion, what the legislation should have done is to set an absolute minimum price on the cost of a vape pen. That would be very heavy-handed, but it would actually create the strong financial motivation required to force consumers to genuinely treat the vape pen as something they will re-use.

Those few days between jobs are moments of pure joy.

You’re finished with all the bullshit of the previous job, and are blissfully unaware of whatever fresh bullshit is waiting for you at the new one.

This problem has become more prevalent with AI, but deceptive item listings have been part of the online shopping minefield for a long time.

The same rule applies now as it always has - if it seems too good to be true, then it is.

Personally, I don’t feel that analogy is a fair comparison.

Begging a dev for new features for free would definitely be entitlement, because it’s demanding more, but what OP is upset about is reduction in the service they already had.

I don’t think any free tier user of any service could have any right to be upset if new features were added only for paying customers, but changing the free tier level is different.

In my opinion, even if you aren’t paying for it, the free tier is a service level like any other. People make decisions about whether or not to use a service based on if the free tier covers their needs or not. Companies will absolutely try to upsell you to a higher tier and that’s cool, that’s business after all, but they shouldn’t mess around with what they already offered you.

When companies offer a really great free tier but then suddenly reduce what is on it, then in my opinion that’s a baiting strategy. They used a compelling offering to intentionally draw in a huge userbase (from which they benefit) and build up the popularity and market share of the service, and then chopped it to force users - who at this point may be embedded and find it difficult to switch - to pay.

So yeah, it doesn’t matter in my opinion that the tier is free. It’s still a change in what you were promised after the fact, and that’s not cool regardless of whether there is money involved or not.

Fair :) But on that basis why are you wanting to block things off if neither you nor anyone else is living there?

I don’t understand what you mean when you say you “don’t live there” ?

Regardless, if you consider mold in general then the room which most typically gets mild growing is the bathroom, because it’s moist and warm which is perfect condition.

It doesn’t take much to get mild growing in other places too though. If you have moisture in the air then mould could happen.

Good ventilation helps prevent mould because it lets the humid air created from normal activities like cooking and washing escape and be replaced with drier air from outside - assuming you live in a climate that doesn’t have crazy humidity.

One could argue that Tado should have had more certainty about their business model before they started selling promises they couldn’t keep, but that’s business I suppose.

Presumably Tado anticipated they could capture customers on a free tier and upsell later, but it turns out that when customers have a fully functional basic tier, they generally don’t want to pay money for extras they don’t care about.

And so now, Tado are left with an online service that costs them money to run, but no ongoing revenue. So of course they will try to monetise the subscription.

Of course, part of the problem is that customers have almost been conditioned to expect cloud stuff to be free. And so that’s the price Tado tried to aim for, and now that is causing problems.

Either way though, what they are doing now represents “changing the deal” Darth Vader style - the product previously was a one time purchase and then free after, and they are now trying to make it paid after selling it as free. And that is bad.

It was to figure out if they /really did/ start charging for it, how many people would actually pay.

I hope Tado goes bust because they don’t deserve to survive, treating customers like that.

If it’s not broke…

Makes sense, thanks

Why?

Genuine question. I haven’t really used peertube.

It’s quite easy to understand, even though it’s bullshit.

When the sales department has a good month and makes loads of sales, the business too has a good month. The activity of those individuals directly correlates to revenue on a month by month basis, so management are naturally going to be incentivised to give the sales team perks and bonuses as motivation.

In a given month the IT/dev department doesn’t “generate” any money at all, they only cost. We know they generate value in other ways of course, because the product the sales team sell is surely built and operated by the dev team, but because the relationship is indirect management don’t care to reward you.

Reward sales with nice perks -> Revenue goes up

Reward devs with nice perks -> Revenue doesn’t change

So of course management doesn’t see the benefit in giving more money to tech, because it doesn’t seem like you get anything back.

Of course, the reality is that investment in tech will make the product and the business better and more profitable, but it takes months or years to see the impact of changes, and management has a short attention span.

I wish the best for you, and hope you find yourself a better boss soon.

Can you imagine the absolute misery of working for someone like this.

A person who thinks developers are all useless, and has total contempt for any skills that aren’t “business” stuff.

A person who thinks tech is easy and you can “just” do this and “just” do that and everything will be done, always telling you “this is so easy I could do it myself” while any contribution they make only makes things worse, and if there’s any kind of hold-up it’s because you’re either “lazy” or “incompetent”

No thanks.

To be fair, this is probably just a bad translation / bad phrasing.

I expect what they mean by this is “to continue without signing up”

It’s a pretty common pattern on ecommerce sites. You can sign in with an account, or you can make a one-time purchase without an account.

And of course if you don’t have an account they still need somewhere to send the confirmation (and in this case, probably send the tickets)

It doesn’t need it. That’s exactly the point.

Even though air frying doesn’t need Internet, the manufacturer is restricting that feature as a way to force you to set up the WiFi, so they can then slurp up all your data.

They’re literally holding the feature hostage, as motivation.

They don’t “work” at all, in the sense that most of us understand that word.

Perhaps you could simply allow the cron to run on the same schedule, but add supplementary code within the method body to check for holidays and exit early.

Not seen Nagato in a while