You can order whatever you want, you’ll get whatever the chef decides to give you. They have several Michelin star chefs on staff, but also several people who have never boiled an egg. If you order the chicken parm you might get a chicken parm, but depending on their internal kitchen decisions they might deliver a turkey sandwich or a Greek salad or caviar instead. It’s a gamble every time.

There’s a commission in the kitchen that gets paid money to push diverse food to the chefs, even outside of their normal creative process. Which sounds great, you want your diet to be as diverse as possible. But if you were hoping to feast on some eggs and bacon and instead get peas and broccoli, your taste buds might be disappointed with the… Creative choices.

When ordering, you might be tempted to think “the vegetable soup” contains some different types of vegetables. And depending on the chef, it might. But if you get one of the stingy chefs, your vegetable soup will only have carrots in it. You can still add other vegetables, but you need to pay extra. Sometimes you go from a $30 soup to a $2000 soup, if you want all the ingredients. And no, this is not a problem only with the vegetable soup, it’s with all food.

Some other food tastes excellent, but just when you get your third of fourth bite in and are enjoying the flavors, the entire waitstaff comes and tries to pull on your hand and make it as hard as possible to eat. You will still progress, but it will be harder and they don’t really care if you’re hungry or not, they just want to make it slower for you to continue eating. But don’t worry, if you give them 10 bucks they leave you alone for a few moments - then they come back and form the next paywall.

You have a limited time with your food. If you don’t eat it in time, they take it away and kick you out. No refunds.

Speaking of which - if you don’t like the food you got, good luck getting it removed from the bill. There’s like one manager that will comp partially tasted food if you didn’t like it, but the others? Not so much.

But you can appeal

And if you want to know what’s in the food you can! Only $9.99 per month extra!

the removed like half of the features (including mic tray), removed ukrainian localization (which my mom relied on), removed the option to disable hw acceleration (which is borked with my specific gpu in chromium and results in extremely blurry text and ghosting artifacts) and switched to ms edge webview from chromium (so if you’re using windows and uninstall edge, it won’t start)

They’re changing a bunch of things about how the Office apps work. They’re doing a similar thing with Outlook. There’s also now “New Outlook” that they push you towards, which looks a little bit fresher yet is also missing features from the last version.

I’m assuming they’re changing something architecturally about how the apps are put together, but the only thing I’ve actually seen is the bugs and all the headaches that come from migrating everybody to what’s basically a brand new app.

They’re in a lawsuit with slack about monopoly. They can’t sell it bundled with 365 in the EU anymore, and they appear to be planning to separate it Globally. That’s the most generous reading, but Microsoft forces annoying changes all the time, so it may just be Microsoft being Microsoft. Also new teams installs very differently than teams, especially if using virtual desktops with either nonpersistent machines and/or using FSLogix, which is irritating from a support perspective. Imagine having to reinstall teams every time you reboot (there are ways around it, but we had to track them down unexpectedly and our client wasn’t happy).

The plate is also served with a 56 page Burger Consumer Licensing Agreement.

“Ingredients Extra”

“Please.”

I assume it’s a furry mastodon instance thing because I looked up the Ninji person and they admit on their website to being a fursuiter.

Edit: it was their mastodon bio that said that.

Those are misskey reactions, seems people decided to add a lot

There are also duplicates with a count of 1 next to both

What icons? I’m not seeing any such things. What am I missing out on and why?

As a software developer, they are

The developers don’t get to decide things like this. It’s the business folks in charge

You’ve never encountered the dark pattern choice in modern software where you want to say “No” but theres no such option? And the software keeps asking you occasionally? Windows got a lot of them. Lately they’ve been trying to get me to move my documents folder to onedrive, and they change the wording and button position every time they ask. Neither choice is “No”. Phone social apps often have “Invite friends” or “Import contacts”, and “Maybe later” instead of “No”. Cookie consent rarely has a straight “No” button either even though they should.