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- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 10 hours ago:
Businesses in North America also refuse to comply with the EU rules surrounding the display of prices including VAT and unfairly compete with companies in the EU. A consumer cannot know if a company has to pay VAT in the EU or not.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 14 hours ago:
OnlyOffice is worse (and not because of the security breach implications), but because it misses the Ctrl+D shortcut (copies the cell above to the current cell). Which is something I use A LOT for data entry.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 15 hours ago:
I switched to mint like a month before PewDiePie lol
My main issue is that I kinda need actual Excel every so often because I require things like power query. I tried installing it using Wine, but it needs to authenticate with Microsofts servers, even the older versions.
- Comment on Deserved honestly 1 day ago:
Ow right … hard to see sometimes
- Comment on Deserved honestly 1 day ago:
6 whole litres?! How are you not dead yet?
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 day ago:
The issue here in NL is with the power grid, not the price of the panels. The installing of them is already one of the most expensive parts of getting panels since you need to build scafolding for most houses.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 day ago:
Some of Seagate’s drives have terrible scores on things like Blackblaze. They are probably the worst brand, but also generally the cheapest.
I have been running a raid of old Seagate barracuda’s for years at things point, including a lot of boot cycles and me forcing the system off because Truenas has issues or whatnot and for some fucking reason they won’t die.
I have had a WD green SSD that I use for Truenas boot die, I had some WD external drive have its controller die (the drive inside still work) and I had some crappy WD mismatched drives in a raid 0 for my Linux ISO’s and those failed as well.
Whenever the Seagate start to die, I guess ill be replacing them with Toshiba’s unless somebody has another suggestion.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 6 days ago:
BYD?
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
Its already law that the director/cea etc should earn at least 56k or the same aa the most earning employee.
But if companies wheren’t allowed to exist your job wouldn’t and the internet won’t exist, etc
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
People have overbid 10-20% or even more here in NL in the last few months for all kind of houses and apartments. Including once that need a ton of work.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
There will still be a lot of people homeless even with affordable houses since they most likely cannot afford a house. Social housing doesn’t have to be affordable, it just needs to be there, but that has little to do with the availability of houses and more the amount of people that can be processed by the system. At least in NL.
The issue all around the globe is people owning more than one house. You can only live in one so they rent them out. Generally asking way to much since they took a mortgage for it, costs are deductable against the profit. So you always end up paying the mortgage rate for the house you rent + a profit margin for the owner.
If you stop people having 2, 3 or more houses or at least make it a lot less likely for people to own more than one. In NL some people are also debating if we should remove the deductibility of mortgage rates.
Houses costing 1m or more being empty doesn’t do anything for the homeless, they will not be able to afford that. A lot of the houses in the empty house statistics are include houses being built/renovated/destroyed etc. Heck in the US (and other countries) you have some ghost towns, are those counted as well? Or houses that are rented out for tourists? How many of them where empty for more than 6 months?
Taxing empty houses is fine, don’t get me wrong, but the not building medium density houses, places where you can walk and/or bike and actually want to live, the lack of social security and people owning 2 or more houses are issues as well.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
Most people aren’t homeless because there is no house available no.
You want to tax just having that second home
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
The plummer cost will most likely be for you if it clogs the drain, otherwise you have a pretty good landlord.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
Most restaurants have a grease trap, but most houses do not.
Even what is naturally in the pan is often to much and you need to clean them with paper towel before washing. At least according to the Plummer I work with
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
Why into general waste? Just put it with the other glass, they wash that anyway.
(Btw they are not happy that you do this, but whatever)
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
Companies should be allowed to make a profit, you need that to cover bad years, invest in the future of the company, etc. A company without profit (unless it is a non-profit) will not survive.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Personally, I missed the shortcut Ctrl + D too much in OnlyOffice sheets, but does it really matter?
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 1 week ago:
Probably none of them, I prefer MOM-and-pop shops
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 1 week ago:
Considering I work in the accountancy, yes, I have heard of Goodwill /s.
Considering the closest Goodwill or Value Village is like a 9 hour flight away it doesn’t do me any good.
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 1 week ago:
I mentioned the arr stack somewhere, I believe.
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 1 week ago:
Honestly, if I wheren’t addicted to Lemmy or Reddit, I would have a pretty decent life.
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 1 week ago:
Oof, yeah I hate the lack of proper payment platforms on so many websites. Even Amazon.com doesn’t offer a lot more than creditcards, which I only got after buying my house otherwise my mortgage would have been a lot lower …
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 1 week ago:
Well yeah I am probably talking about UHD BlueRay, it has been a bit since I looked that closely to it. I just remember the Back to the future trilogy for 140 euro
- Comment on Just.....why? 1 week ago:
You have brushed in New York and Philadelphia this we Sorry, not sure what you mean by this (not a native English speaker)
- Comment on An open letter signed by 602 tech founders, VCs, and more urges Sequoia Capital act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything” 1 week ago:
Well probably, but having the discussion about what is acceptable and not is a discussion we should have to make the world a better place.
- Comment on An open letter signed by 602 tech founders, VCs, and more urges Sequoia Capital act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything” 1 week ago:
Yeah, sorry, my bad. I changed the original comment as well
- Comment on An open letter signed by 602 tech founders, VCs, and more urges Sequoia Capital act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything” 1 week ago:
Yes Shaun Maguire is a racist, that’s obvious. Heck he specifically mentioned the Islam.
But that doesn’t mean people should continue this trend by saying crap like this
White people get really triggered by uppity brown people.
That was what I was responding to since the comment of Shaun was about the religion
It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda
- Comment on Just.....why? 1 week ago:
You can use the Oral B with some electric brushes to see where you have brushed and where you haven’t to help you with not missing anything.
- Comment on An open letter signed by 602 tech founders, VCs, and more urges Sequoia Capital act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything” 1 week ago:
No, people need to stop making shit about race or skin if you want to beat racism. We are all people in the end.
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 1 week ago:
Well DVD’s are yes, but Blu-rays are rare second hand. Heck, they are rare online and in stores, at least in NL and the parts of Europe I can order from.
As far as I know, the libraries here don’t really store a lot of movies and games any more.
These days I just use the arr stack … Doesn’t work for most of my music though.
I hate subscriptions with a passion and only pay for a couple that are needed (domain, website, bitwarden, Proton, etc), but for things like music, physical is way more expensive than Spotify (especially now with the family discount and I get it for free), buying the album of every band I listen to at least one song of. Finding a Green Day CD for a couple euro is possible, but even for things like Kensington it is already quickly 10 euro per album. Heck Discogs even has issues realising that Europe is not a country …