lemmylommy
@lemmylommy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 2 days ago:
Not a tan suit though.
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 4 days ago:
What if they make you pregananant?
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 6 days ago:
The inventor of this method: „he was dead before I hit him. I was totally just checking with my medical hammer, you guys. Believe me.“
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 6 days ago:
I must admit that I am biased in that regard, but still I believe blaming Airbnb is mostly a distraction. Even in the worst of the worst places like Barcelona they reach around 10% of rental properties. Usually it’s a few percent in touristy places and much less everywhere else. Is it good for renters? Of course not. But it’s not the biggest factor, by far.
Now if I look at the whole rental market in my country, Germany, what’s on Airbnb is just a drop in the bucket. And still people are struggling to pay rent, especially in the cities. Even in those places that nobody in their right mind would go as a tourist unless threatened with serious physical harm.
Rents here started increasing uncomfortably after rental properties owned by local governments were privatized for a quick buck. Those new, publicly traded companies quickly raised rents sharply, because of course they have to earn back what they paid for the properties, plus a nice payout to investors. For the last two decades they have continued raising rents, neglecting maintenance and bought each other until now we the biggest company alone has almost half a million rental units, in a country of 80 million people. Of course, they don’t own three houses in villages here and there, but whole blocks in cities, with local market shares of up to 25%. That is much more significant than a few percent that are lost to tourism.
And don’t get me started on cost of construction, the chronic lack of new buildings, empty real estate owned by speculators or money launderers,… or I might rant again 😉
- Comment on This is real 1 week ago:
You are right. Please pm me your name and address and if you are ever deported to a torture camp in a foreign country I will let all senators know that you don’t want them to visit and will only accept help that meets lemmy.ml fever dream standards.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
Some ads have used browser exploits to infect visitors in the past. So this is a very, very bad idea, if it actually is implemented in a way that is hard to filter for ad networks.
- Comment on DeepSeek's V3 AI model gets a major upgrade - here's what's new 4 weeks ago:
People are conflating the LLM and the app.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 5 weeks ago:
Depends on where you live. In Germany the government will of course take care of the burial of no one else does it, but parents or children are responsible for whatever burial cost is left after using the estate, even if they refused the inheritance.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 5 weeks ago:
Ask the guy who had his wife deported and is still supporting Trump.
- Comment on Self-hosted media server to share with 5+ people? 5 weeks ago:
I am running plex server on a low power i3-7xxx. thanks to the igpu that thing can handle a few 1080p transcodes at once. Even 4K HDR transcoding is possible, though I never get more than one or two of them at the same time. Unless you need it to encode subtitles into the video or you have many simultaneous HDR to SDR conversions going at once any cheap old PC with an intel 7th gen or newer and igpu should do well. Oh, and I don’t think they can handle AV1, but that is still very uncommon.
- Comment on Cellebrite Dumps AI Into Its Cell Phone-Scraping Tool So Cops Can Hallucinate Evidence 5 weeks ago:
Even less shitty LLMs tend to hallucinate.
- Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people? 5 weeks ago:
As a 40 year old male I find that character becomes a bigger factor, even if it sounds cheesy. Sure, a hot but bland 20 something can be attractive and that will not change, but I would rather spend my time with an interesting 60 year old. Maybe it is because I am no Adonis either. But I also like to believe that a DiCaprio type situation would make me deadly afraid of taking advantage of someone at a much different stage of life.
I would also theorize that as it becomes more difficult to guess the age by looks alone character becomes a more important differentiator. Of course some signs of age can not be hidden, but there are plenty of 18 year olds dressing much older as well as lots of older women not giving off grandma vibes.
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally removed Copilot in the latest Windows 11 update. 5 weeks ago:
*without this bug
- Comment on What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab? 5 weeks ago:
WinSCP for editing server config
Rsync for manual transfers over slow connections
ZFS send/receive for what it was meant for
Samba for everything else that involves mounting on clients or other servers.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 months ago:
Not an American, but as an iPhone user who has had Android phones since cupcake before: iPhones „just work“, they are a lot less janky than Android, the ecosystem is smooth (although admittedly and intentionally less so when leaving it), they get updated for longer (and at the same time!) and apple has a much better privacy track record than the competition (a low bar).
Yes, I would prefer to install my apps from anywhere I want on the device I should own. An open source phone from top to bottom would be my dream, but Android is about as far removed from that as an iphone. Google took Linux and made it into a Frankenstein nightmare that is wholly dependent on them.
Just try to stick to open source and make your phone respect your privacy and see how far you get. Start at the usually locked bootloader, install a rom without google and see how few apps are left that do not require google services. And even then you are most likely dependent on binary blobs for the drivers, meaning the manufacturers can (and will) pull the rug from under your efforts as soon as they no longer feel like updating their shitty built of Android for the device in time.
I do not have time for that. What I have is enough money to buy a phone that comes as close as possible to my idea of safety, freedom and privacy without constantly jumping through burning hoops. If I am to be in a cage, it better be golden.
- Comment on Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11 2 months ago:
Knowing Microsoft it’s probably more like a cloud upload tray.
Did they fix the explorer context menu yet?
- Comment on Good morning I choose making the best of what you have. 3 months ago:
Got a new car there, Ricky?
- Comment on ugh i wish 4 months ago:
A bit of roundup and horse paste, the MAGA cure-all.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 5 months ago:
Ah yes, vitamins, the secret cure-all that has been kept from us all those years without brainworms at the helm.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 5 months ago:
There is no gray. Only black and white!
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 5 months ago:
Fuck their data, what about my own? That pest of an app is not getting onto my device. And neither is anything else that gives an employer any control over my device.
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 6 months ago:
Don’t you hate it when there is a bug in your code that magically attracts ads? They just appear without warning or reason.