I felt like my Baratza Encore was expensive at the time, but after using it daily for a few years I feel like it was totally worth it. If you can afford nice things, they perform well and last a long time, then get the nice things.
I've adopted the same IPO theory. Huffman thought this would drive more people to the official app, and he expects that increase to help the IPO so he'd make more money from it. If it works he'll make a lot more money a lot faster than the approach in the screenshot. Then he can just serve everyone ads anyway, sell data etc.
Also he probably thought we were all a bunch of spineless addicts who would cry really loud and eventually fall in line, and a lot of users have. Now let's wait and see the quality of community and content he gets after pissing off the people doing the most to create it.
What is she dreaming about? (discuss.tchncs.de)
New to specialty coffee, my setup so far (lemmy.nz)
Picked up an Aeropress and a Comandante C40....
What Creamer do you prefer? Anyone sitting on a gem? (youtu.be)
I’ve been thinking of ‘solving’ the creamer issue for myself lately and then I saw Hoffman’s video. What do you swear by?
rule :( (lemmy.world)
Random YouTube comment on the whole Reddit situation that perfectly sums up my thoughts (lemmy.ml)