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I have a Nest Hello and pay Nest the monthly fee to have recordings and alerts of people who come to my door. It's worth the $3/mo. If I didn't want to pay them, I could still use the doorbell as a regular dumb doorbell, but the utility it provides for the cost is worth it to me.
Gives various suggestions depending on your use case.
Again, it's not about the tool, it's how you use it.
JWTs, like most things, work perfectly fine if implemented properly and you understand what you're doing.
Went to a quick care the other day because of a flu that would not go away, was seen and diagnosed with bronchitis in less than 5 minutes. The quick care billed my insurance $1,840, which they talked down to $300, and had me pay $115. What?
My brother is enrolled in Lambda School, and so far is enjoying it. They do move fairly fast and the curriculum is challenging but they are learning a lot of modern architectures and skills like React and NodeJs, skills that will actually help them get a job after graduating.
I went the traditional CS major in undergrad route and most of what I learned in school was not applicable to my day to day work.
Different things work for different people, nothing wrong with options. And Lambda does have the option of paying upfront and then not having to give them any of your paycheck.
I just don't understand this line of thinking at all. You rent something out for a specific and agreed upon period of time. The person decides to keep the thing you rented out. And it's not theft? Also how is it not lost?
Now Vue is maturing and becoming more Angular/React like...so it's only a matter of time before another framework comes out that replicates VueJS2/AngularJS in being super easy to jump into and just write code and the cycle repeats.
I'm tired of updating my GPU drivers and experinece (5-10 minutes), then launching Steam, waiting for it to update and restart (2-3 minutes), then picking the game I want to play, waiting for it to update and install (5-10 minutes), then finally launch the game and have it spend more time connecting to servers before I can game.
The value prop of seeing a game trailer or game video that seems interesting and being able to say "play with stadia" and it just throwing me right into the game is the feature that speaks most to me.
If Stadia does this and it works well enough, i'll gladly get rid of gaming PC.
The basic version is also free, which is something Sony isn't going to be able to offer me. But with Stadia I can play on my TV, on my desktop, on the go, etc.
I buy most of my games digitally whether or PSN or Steam. If either of those go out of business, I'm pretty much SOL. I don't see Google allowing you to claim your license for local copies as the Stadia hardware is specialized and custom, not something you can emulate easily outside of it's infrastructure, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
Except I had to pay for the console $400, pay for PS Plus to play online $60/yr, and pay for games that I want to play $60/game.
But with PS4 I'm locked in to playing on my 1 TV at home or a small catalog of games I have very little interest in with PS Now.
With Stadia, if I can play the latest AAA games anywhere for $10/mo and the experience is rock solid 99% of the time, I'll be all over this.
Ultra - $60 Controller - $60-70? 3 month Pro Subscription - $30 3 month Pro Sub for a Friend - $30 Destiny 2 Complete Edition - ~$100
So even without taking the game in account you're saving 30% of MSRP
Games on the Pro subscription aren't free by the way either. Pro subscription just allows 4k/60fps streaming and some limited free games like Xbox Live and Playstation Plus. Most games whether on the Pro subscription or Free will still have to be bought by individuals.