The app phones home to access recipes.

Maybe it works without access to the server, but maybe it just refuses to do anything.

It’s all pure CEO bullshit though, and none of it is real.

It doesn’t cost money to send a Bluetooth signal from your phone to a sous vide. Maybe the WiFi server costs money but it’s their own fault for adding stupid functionality that phones home.

I’ve got one of these and I’m prepared to bet money that almost all of their server costs come down to every recipe in the app just being a link to a web page with lots of photos. https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs

It’s always one of the first things to get cut when companies try to save money.

Yeah they’ve rolled it out to everyone, got a defacto monopoly and now they’re increasing the rates for new customers.

This is just capitalism 101 while pretending it’s for the regulators.

There’s a particular joy to going all the way into the office so you can sit in remote meetings all day. Really makes you feel like your time is valued.

This will be great for Emacs.

Finally I can have dedicated control, meta, super, and hyper buttons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard

Depends. It’s more fiddly than windows to get set up but there’s a lot more options for power management.

I’ve got a tiny 7 inch laptop and I genuinely can’t figure out how to stop the fan from constantly running under windows. On Linux, switchable underclocking and powertop make it last much longer.

This is assuming you’ve not got an Nvidia GPU in your laptop, I haven’t tried in years but toggling the GPU was always difficult.

These two together made me disable the YouTube app on my phone. Firefox is just a much better way to view YouTube.