Similar boat: started working out with a trainer in Feb 2x a week, and 2x on my own. Although having a trainer is a luxury the return has been great and I've never felt better.
That's probably one of the 2 improvements in my lifestyle caused by moving from Paris to SF. The other would be that I can walk to work in 25 minutes, although my commute was just as short in Paris, except in the subway.
At the same time, it is a great investment for that overinflated tech salary so I don't regret paying 70$/hour for this service.
It is also in part a factor of the way procurement works, many beancounters still can't grasp that needs vary and problems happen, so you get a budget, if you come up below budget you lose the extra and may get your next budget lowered to match, and getting more budget is a hard fight.
As a result, departments want to have a budget as close as possible to a worst-case scenario, spend the entire year thrifting in case something major occurs and then have to blow it all up right before EOY.
I think it was common understanding that Great White sightings decline when there are Orcas in the area, but I've never heard of these predatory behaviors just to get some shark livers
It may be common understanding amongst certain groups. I don't think it's common understanding amongst the general population. I could be wrong of course...
Really? Are there certain services you find to be buggy? I feel like Sonos is one of the least buggy pieces of tech in my house. That's what I love about it. It just works, I don't have to explain to non-technical family members how to work around issues, etc. But we almost exclusively use it for Apple Music and Spotify, so maybe there are some rough edges we haven't encountered.
5. "Hi, we think now would be a great time to update the firmware on your Sonos devices. We could have done this at any time during the last two weeks since you used any of your Sonos devices, but your time is worthless to us, so we'll make you babysit the update for the next 5 minutes. Hope you weren't launching the app because you wanted to play music right now."
At a minimum they should have the decency to launch the app-store review flow during this forced delay so that they'd have some public recognition of the supreme annoyance this process causes.
Ok, yeah, that's definitely not a use case I have tried. (In fact, one of the biggest reasons I switched to Sonos from using Airplay is that I wanted to get away from relying on my phone's network connection to have the music play.)
I have not used it in a while, but I actually have a good occasion soon. I just updated it to only return interesting lines, which for now means at least 10 letters. That filters lines like "}".
