It's surprisingly often that the login page doesn't use the same password processing code as the password reset/account creation pages, and it can be very frustrating at times.
iOS is still much worse than Android in terms of "walled garden" practices but Google has been slowly inching over that way, what with the recent crackdown on sideloading apps.
In that regard I think both Epic and Valve are trying to advance the industry in different ways: Steam trying to break PC gaming from Windows, and the EGS trying to free up restrictive mobile app store policies. We really should be able to directly buy and play mobile games from whatever storefront we choose, not being limited to Google Play or the App Store.
Since Valve and Epic are both for-profit companies, the advancements are largely for profit's sake of course. I agree that we should take wins where we can secure them, but always be vigilant for how a company might turn the tables once they have the upper hand and try to mitigate that. We've seen the same anti-consumer practices happen many times over in the PC hardware market, such as with AMD v Intel or AMD v Nvidia, where a given company pushes for an open standard only when they are the underdog.
Reminds me of how the YouTuber Angela Collier detailed once reading Atlas Shrugged and really enjoying it. Wanting to read it blind, she did as little research as possible on the book beforehand, only knowing that the author was made fun of for relying on food stamps leading up to her death. As she worked through the book, it was shaping up to be a masterpiece satire on much the same level of A Modest Proposal.
It was only upon finishing the book and looking through the other reviews on Goodreads that she realized it was not satirical.
You might not even need them, it's more just an option if the unit wiggles around too much for your liking after dropping it in.
Definitely don't use screws or nails! Glue should be fine but you might need a method to hold them in place while it dries. Masking tape would probably do the job just fine; in fact, you could probably skip the glue and just tape the blocks into the gap from underneath the countertop. The latter case would definitely require careful inspection of the cooktop to make sure you're not covering up anything important.
The idea with the blocks/shims isn't to hold up the cooktop structurally, just to keep it from sliding side to side (and only if you need them, it might be perfectly fine without). The weight should still be primarily on the granite itself in all cases.
Disclaimer: I never installed cooktops but did have to work with the spec sheets frequently at a previous job that included kitchen design work.
It's a bit dependent on the specific model, and if there are any load bearing parts of the design that would normally fall onto the extra 2cm of countertop the new one is expecting. You should be able to determine that by looking underneath for anything of the sort.
I'd say in most cases you should be fine, as long as the flange covers the whole cutout, which it should in this case. If the new one feels loose, you could glue in some 1cm wood shims on either side just to keep it from sliding around.
If people are willing to listen but not actually to address your concerns, they don't actually care what you have to say.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience working at such a place. It's no wonder that the industry ends up devoid of both empathy and efficacy when it actively screens out such qualities, if not in intent then in practice. For the time you were able to endure despite the impossible demands and pressure, I hope you were a ray of sunshine for those patients you were able to help.
Is there a range limit on magenta? Do they have to be in my presence, just able to hear my voice, actively be paying attention? These are important factors!
Can we do Pathfinder instead? There are a lot of canonically sapphic relationships among the goddesses, and then there's also a random man who essentially became a god as a drunken dare gone too far and he's still just a really chill guy
The problem, like with many things in life, is that there's a desire for people to place clear delineations on things for purpose of clarity and peace of mind, when it actually exists on a very fuzzy spectrum. I'd argue you do gamble a tiny percent chance of getting in a wreck every time you drive in exchange for getting places much faster. Likewise, were you to walk instead, there are unique risks and payoffs associated with that choice too.
Whether or not the risks are well known or there's a decision to increase the level of risk is a little beside the point. There are plenty of people addicted to gambling who genuinely believe they'll hit it big and retire one day, and that the reward payout is inevitable even when it's clearly not.
Risk management is at the core of both investment and gambling. The riskier your investment, the closer it comes to just putting the money on a roulette position in practice. There are plenty of portfolios that slowly hemorrhage money and/or eat up any would-be growth via fees: those are your 51-49 splits. Also it doesn't matter if there's such a split if you decide to go all in and it goes belly up, however you slice that.
If you do risky shit with money, it's a gamble whether it pays off. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the point you're trying to make?