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Meal box service suggestions for a family of 3?
Hi! Tired father of a two year old here! I'm the primary caretaker of our daughter after preschool ends at 2:30. My wife and I both work during the day and really struggle with finding the time to make dinner at the end of a long work day. Does anyone have any recommendations on meal box services that aren't overly complicated? We tried Green Chef and another one which I can't remember, and while we liked the idea of cooking at home more, the recipes were too time intensive for one of us to be in the kitchen while the little one is running around the house. I often found their prep/cook time estimates to be incredibly inaccurate. Usually add on 15 additional minutes to what they quoted on the recipe cards. Are there any other services out there that are more simple in their prep? Bonus difficulty, I'm a carnivore and she's a pescaterian who hates anything with carbs. I don't require meat for every meal, but like it from time to time. I'm sure most parents here will understand the delicate dance that is walking the dog at 4, start dinner at 5, bath at 6:30, bed by 7:30.
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Any Miku owners out there? It might be a client side update.
For those unaware, Miku baby cameras are now charging a monthly subscription for features that owners previously had access to such as remote access, live breathing monitor, nightly statistics, DVR of movement through the sleep. We originally paid $400 because it was advertised as a product that would not require a monthly subscription, and we've been using it that way for the past 14 months. As of this month, the only functionality that exists without a subscription is video monitoring, but only on your local network. Everything else requires you to pay. Likely what led to this was due to the fact that they released a buggy firmware earlier this year that bricked everyone's cameras and they were on the hook to replace cameras. A few months after this they declared bankruptcy, only to be purchased by someone who has instituted the monthly subscription (rumors it's an investor of Miku trying to make their investment back). I didn't get an email about this change, only saw some chatter on that other site about it. Anticipating this change, I blocked the app from updating on my Android phone and all apps from updating on our iPad. I know it was a long shot thinking that would work, betting that it would be a server side change as opposed to client side. Looks like the change went live a day or so ago, people are pissed, however I still have access to features. Looks like the subscription block is a client side update based on the screen shots I've seen. Long story short, how can I pull the .apk from my phone to distribute to others? Fuck this company. EDIT: Figured it out, here's the update from May 2023 with features still intact - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sOOCY08j8nxvfXJd1SU7Kll-uMjiRftm/view?usp=drivesdk EDIT 2 - I figure this company only has a few months left, we'll easily just transition to a cheap Ubiquiti camera that records on my local network. Fuck this remote recording approach.
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