I was skeptical at first, but then I saw the option added to the menu of the breakfast place I go to. Didn't regret it, was delicious.
The combination of sweet and salty flavors, and the fluffy and crunchy textures was 👌
I took it, no way I'd miss spending quality time with our newborn and be there for my wife.
The employer has some heads up that it's coming too, so they can adjust the workload for something that occurs maybe once or twice in an employee's lifetime.
But then I live in Quebec, Canada and the father can take 5 weeks and the mother can take a year. (The father can take more, but they're swapped of the mother's year).
For me it's wasn't just about the ads, but that the official app is terrible compared to the great third-party clients out there.
Instead of shitting the bed and charging abusive API rates to the third-party apps developers, they could have just made the use of third-party apps require a Reddit Premium subscription at the end-user level. That way they'd have solved the inability to display ads to third-party users by making them pay, and third-party devs could have kept doing their thing without worrying about a hefty API bill.
But instead they chose to be a bunch of dickwads and alienate the devs and give the middle fingers to their most loyal userbase. I left my 16 years old account dormant since.
The grocery store I often go to had these barcode scanners you could borrow at the entrance and scan your stuff as you go, along with scales on which you could print a barcode sticker for the stuff you pay by weight.
Once you were done, you'd scan a QR card at the self-service checkout to upload all the stuff you scanned, then pay.
It was awesome, you could just pack as you go. Unfortunately they scrapped the project once they found out that the amount of theft was significantly higher with this system. So yeah, we can't have nice things 😒
Hopefully this will improve the sync/federation process between LW and other instances, especially those further away geographically :)