We have all got very accustomed to the notion that we can put content on a website and it will stay there forever, permanently available, as if that site somehow has an obligation to look after it. But they don't.
It sucks, and there will be a lot of stuff lost, but it's also good to have a reminder that if there's data you really care about, you need to look after that data yourself.
800W is very much a standard for a home microwave in the UK and what the average consumer would expect. 1000W is also popular, though.
As for the food, it doesn't "ask" for 1000W - rather it tells you the time for 1000W, and it is up to you the consumer to add or remove time based on the power of your own appliance.
Part of the reason food manufacturers like to stipulate 1000W on microwave meals is so that they can advertise "Ready in 2 mins!" on the front of the carton - that time being made shorter with higher microwave power - so it's in their marketing interests to calibrate against a higher wattage.
Cooking food on lower power for longer can sometimes give better results, as you will get a more even heating and reduce hot/cold spots.
It was to figure out if they /really did/ start charging for it, how many people would actually pay.
I hope Tado goes bust because they don't deserve to survive, treating customers like that.
If it's not broke...
Well yes, that's the point.
That's how we know exactly how this playbook goes, because we've seen it before.
The fact that all big companies are doing this doesn't mean that we should think any less badly of HP for doing it too.
Only if you're rich enough
The problem, as far as HP will be concerned, is the strategy was leaked to the public. If there was no leak there would have been no news, and no 'feedback'.
HP won't take this as a signal to not do the shitty thing. They'll take this as a signal to back off for now, and then try the shitty thing again later, but slowly and bit-by-bit, so there's no big news.
Melodies of Steel Intensifies
The translation:
"Luigi, are you okay?!"
Mario rushed over
The detail:
"Kakeyorimashita" is a compound verb which is the masu-form past tense of 駆け寄る
駆ける = kakeru = To run
寄る= yoru = To come closer
So it means to run closer / come running / rush over, etc. It's narrative rather than spoken.
The tiny text next to the wiggler is a label that says "Hana-chan" (flower-girl) - which is the Japanese name for Wigglers!
Truly, it's the existential horror that really keeps me going :')
It's infuriating, for sure.
I don't want to defend this pattern, but I will at least say it's a little more understandable when you consider how Discord has grown and changed as a service.
In the beginning, Discord never required phone number at all, ever. And life was good.
But then there came a lot of problems with spam and bot accounts. Discord added the ability for 'server' admins to require phone number verification for people in their servers to help prevent this, so that's one thing that could trigger it.
They also have other security factors that determine whether a number is required and trigger it account-wide, like if you use VPN, or if you DM multiple people you aren't friends with, and presumably other factors which Discord keep to themselves.
Some people manage to use Discord without it ever asking for a number, but other people get immediately forced to.
If you don't run into this wall then you'd never notice, but if you do hit it then it feels like a nasty bait and switch, when you didn't seem to need a phone number at sign-up, and then suddenly you do.
Did you genuinely interpret that as a child to mean "If you put something on the Internet will be safe forever"?
As I'm sure you are now aware as an adult, the intended meaning is very much "If you put something on the Internet which is embarrassing to you or damaging to your reputation, then it will be around forever"
It's a warning that the things you don't want to stick around could end up being precisely the things which do.