FishFace
@FishFace@piefed.social
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 7 hours ago:
Do you want to trim my hedge with that non-secuteur?
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 8 hours ago:
If you think your chosen OS doesn’t have irritations of a similar magnitude either you’re looking past them or they just don’t irritate you.
My Linux laptop has a problem where, when unsuspended while docked, tends to lose the dock in such a way that the USB devices attached to it become unusable - even if they are then plugged in directly; the USB stack just gets completely broken until reboot. It’s really annoying - but I put up with it, because there are other things about Linux I like. If I had switched from Windows to Linux because of a nag screen that I could just click to get rid of and this was what I got in return, I’d be back to Windows in a flash.
At this point I’ve been using Linux for multiple decades and would never go back. Not even if Windows became genuinely better. I mean, it has improved a lot since when I switched away, but I’m used to Linux now and it’s comfortable.
And that’s what people don’t get: Windows, for most people, is comfortable. Comfortable and good enough. There are many reasons why it’s not good enough for me, but most people don’t share the mindset behind those reasons, so they don’t apply to them.
So hopefully that explains “why stick with Microsoft”.
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 1 day ago:
I feel it’s unfair that bussy is already taken and this has to get the frankly third-rate “bunussy”
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 1 day ago:
Where I live hot dog buns are not pre-cut.
- Comment on The Cellussy 1 day ago:
Don’t fuck a cello
- Comment on Usually 13. 1 day ago:
I was just thinking so that’s where DRG got the design!
- Comment on Why are you sad? 2 days ago:
Because Imgur decided to block the country I live in
- Comment on Parking police 2 days ago:
This is a conspiracy theory as nuts as fake moon landings
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 2 days ago:
In grad school your institution should be paying for fees like that. If the school itself isn’t paying, then doesn’t the supervisor have a grant they can file it under?
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 days ago:
I get all my air accident info from Mentour Pilot these days :)
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 days ago:
The very last words are often relevant to explaining the sequence. They are often “oh shit!” or equivalent as the ground appears in front of them. It can help tell the difference between a flight crew that knew what was going on but couldn’t fix it and one which lost situational awareness
- Comment on Zero Chull 3 days ago:
For some purposes, I’m sure they do. But I dunno if that’s what’s going on here.
- Comment on Zero Chull 3 days ago:
Good luck running iOS that way
- Comment on revenge 4 days ago:
The people doing this are not behaving rationally. Asking “why…” is fundamentally misunderstanding
- Comment on Following your dreams 4 days ago:
I’m sure they’re very excited about their Lemmy metrics
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 5 days ago:
Kerosene is still a non-polar solvent, why wouldn’t it dissolve styrofoam?
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 days ago:
Take it back. How does the vibrating air equate to all that? It’s not like there’s a drums bit of air and a vocals bit of air - the vibration is all smushed together. Your brain separates it back out again. That’s why it can take training to separately hear some bits of music, or why you can’t usually pick out individual voices in a choir.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 days ago:
But all sounds are vibration. If you capture the vibration, you capture all of the sound. The “different sounds” are all a single pattern of vibration; it’s the brain and inner ear that decodes the vibration into separate sounds. And hence it can also be difficult to do, depending on what the sounds are.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 days ago:
No, because flattening the layers is a lossy operation but this is reversible.
- Comment on Pioneer species 5 days ago:
Sorry, but it’s spelled “harbinger” and originally meant someone who goes ahead to arrange lodgings.
- Comment on Avocado 5 days ago:
Pretty sure this image is older than ai image generation.
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 6 days ago:
I don’t think that’s really true. I think that rape isn’t talked about much in comparison to the kinds of consensual sex people get shamed for, and that’s being mistaken for a lack of shame.
The ultimate expression of what society deems worthy of shame is what is illegal. You might rightly point out the abysmal conviction rates for rape in many countries, yet whatever it is where you are, I’m sure it’s higher than the conviction rate for women having consensual sex.
- Comment on Erosion is a voxel open world shooter in which deaths cost decades, and you can win the Wild West with armies of cats 6 days ago:
I guess I’m skeptical. First: it seems pretty random ecks dee, so I don’t think there’ll be much emotional significance to finding your daughter when she’s old when you got there with the “Ebony Rooster that shoots bouncy eggs.” Second, it’s easy to say that every choice matters but the proof of that will be in the gameplay: will it be very limited evolution of the world or will it be a crazy simulation like Dwarf Fortress? Either has pitfalls, I suppose.
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 6 days ago:
But you can easily remember the approximate position of the lever, which is all you really need to get appropriately warm water for hand washing. The problem with normal hot and cold taps is really that it’s hard to replicate the settings, even approximately. (Also, while you can try to remember “half turn cold, two turns hot”, you then have to do arithmetic to get any different flow - ew)
Since the cold water supply will fluctuate in temperature from day to day, you won’t actually get exactly the same temp unless you use a thermostatic mixer (which exist for showers but I’m guessing are hard to find if they exist for sinks, because… why would you need one?) even with your solution - so I think the single lever version is always good enough.
I don’t understand what centre-bias means here.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 1 week ago:
OK. I don’t think we disagree over very much at this point.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 1 week ago:
Protip: switch to “yes, and”.
Right back atcha, pal. You had ample opportunity to agree that the biggest problem is lack of housing. Instead you embraced the narrative of the OP.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 1 week ago:
As far as I understand, in the USA large corporate ownership of housing is a recent phenomenon, whilst vacancy rates have been trending downwards. Example chart
What is “all the empty and unused housing”? Why are vacancy rates going down if this is pushing the price up?
I agree: if large companies bought up enough housing stock that they were able to let it lie empty to push prices up (and then actually did it) it could cause a big increase in prices/rents, and that would be a big problem. But we just do not see it in the data.
In contrast, we do see that, in the USA, home building has not kept pace with increases in population. This chart plots the ratio of population growth to housing growth. It was about 1.5 in the 70s, meaning that for every 3 people who were born or arrived in the US, 2 houses were started. Nowadays that ratio is around 2.5.
There is a MASSIVE OBVIOUS explanation for huge increases in rent/house prices.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 1 week ago:
If people really thought that companies buying real estate might, at most, contribute a few percent of the price, while limited supply has led to price increases of hundreds of percent, then we’d be getting constant memes about insufficient house-building and pushes to change that, rather than this kind of thing.
I want to change the narrative, because if all people hear is “COMPANIES ARE BUYING UP HOUSES AND JACKING UP RENTS” they won’t push for the policies which will have a bigger impact.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 1 week ago:
When people are forced to spend more on necessities, they don’t cut necessities. They can’t. They’re necessities.
Well then, we’re back to some people cutting their costs by doing all the things I said above. You dismissed them all as if reasons why they’re not practical are reasons why they’re impossible.
You’re saying if all rented properties were owned by single landlords who owned no other properties, rents today would still be just as high?
All those landlords have the exact same incentives to charge as much as they can get away with, to subdivide properties and to exploit their renters as corporate landlords do. Consolidation can allow prices to increase - but it doesn’t always, and typically not by a lot, until consolidation reaches very high levels. 3-7% is what I’ve read for company mergers (note that the case studies include large market shares and companies dealing in necessities).
So I propose that corporate landlords have manipulated the market by no more than 10%. So about 6 months of house price increases at current rates, or two years at less crazy rates. Everything else is caused by low supply and such.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 1 week ago:
I mean, if every house for rent is owned by someone who only owns a small number of houses. They still want to charge as much rent as they can get away with. Always have.
