It’s always better to be safe than sorry. Many Software devs can be trusted to not do anything too stupid with their machines, but every person has blind spots and can be tricked. At the company I work at, the IT system is pretty permissive at what can and can’t be done, but the Admins do block installing programs that ask for too many permissions under the hood (like some custom drivers and things that want console access) or that simply aren’t allowed due to company policy (i.e. Postman, because it just sends too much information to the cloud). Even a well-meaning dev usually isn’t aware of all the details of a program they want to install or the company policies - there are too many to reasonably know at all times. So it’s easier to block stuff, and if someone really does need something they just ask and get it unblocked for themselves.

You can also never be sure that a dev isn’t doing anything malicious. Of course that’s rare, but when it happens the damage to all company projects is just too large.

It’s also not much of a hierarchy thing, the Admins are on exactly the same level as devs, their job is just a bit different.

Maybe Mealime? It’s mostly for optimizing grocery shopping by suggesting recipes that have the most overlap, but it does have the option to automatically filter recipes to have specific macros.

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Personally the P12 was too large for me to ever really get into the details, but looking at GSM Arena it does seem fairly similar? The only spec of the P12 I’d be iffy about is the USB-C 2.0 instead of 3.0, and I’m not sure how the Mediatek chipset compares. I couldn’t find anything about a '23/'24 model on GSM Arena, maybe they would have improved

The specs on the P12 Pro look much more promising, but apparently it was released in September '21 and is stuck on Android 11. If you don’t mind that, it might be a decent option too. Wireless charging and a fingerprint sensor seem pretty useful :o

I really like my Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen2! It’s not too large and the screen and sound quality is excellent. I got it in a Bundle with the 3rd gen Pen and the Keyboard case for around 450€ from Mediamarkt, but that offer is probably exclusive to Germany. The keyboard is really solid imo, way less spongy than all of the Samsung keyboards I’ve tried.

New Year’s was always my favorite holiday because I loved setting things on fire, but apparently I’m the kind of person now that gets a panic attack from the loud explosions. It sucks man