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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I'm generally ok if somebody is charging a reasonable rent which covers their reasonable mortgage, so long as they're still taking care of all the other stuff (repairs, city taxes, etc).

What burns me is people who either a) knowingly buy in a hot, excessively priced market with full intent to charge excessive rents while providing absolutely minimal service or support

b) bought 10+ years ago but have pumped up rents to the same as those who bought at mortgages 2-3x the rate, citing "market rates" and often doing sketchy things to raise rents including renovictions etc, while being shitty - often absentee - slumlords

Maybe I'm showing my age, but there did used to be quite a good number of mom & pop type landlords who weren't shit, and while the commercial ones cost a bit more there was a decent mix.

Now, the commercial ones are actually mostly a safer bet in small cities. They'll raise rent every year but consistently, and the decent ones are pretty prompt about repairs and not fucking people over deposits etc. There are bad ones but it's pretty easy to tell which are which. The problem is of course that availability at the good ones is lower and they do cost more.

Good private landlords are increasingly hard to come by, as the best ones generally end up quitting after either getting too old or after a bad tenant experience, while the slumlords have leveraged their existing properties to finance buying more and more, leading to a market full of increasingly overpriced mould-monsters.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Oh for sure. I'm not knocking those that can do it, just that my regular soldering skills are shit enough that I'd probably be hesitant to reball something more complicated even with the right gear :-)

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ah. Other than fixing the old Xbox360 RROD , I've never needed to do any BGA work, just circuit soldering

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (5 children)

What's the IR bottom heater for?

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Insurance and ownership papers here generally require a primary owner here, at least on paper

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And you got that from what?

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pretty much, unless he was planning to donate one of his existing illegitimate children to her.

"Hey, I've got a bunch extra of these and nobody's answered my sale ad on X, you should take one"

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Strange, the words i think of are more like: "narcissistic" "obnoxious" & "asshole" with a side of "moron" thrown in

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 days ago (7 children)

You get judged by the company you keep

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

"She makes some good points. I might vote for her if she wasn't a Democrat" - Republicans

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Or a voting scam

"Hmm, it says here that Sir Barkinwoof IV is a registered Republican. If there is some discrepancy out must be the fault of the former owner"

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Outdoor temperature in °C, unless you're talking about an outdoor pool then it's often enough °F :-)

I think part of the reasons it's so mixed might just be due to how many Amero-centric devices and parts are common between the two countries.

Y'all can take your shitty Phillips screws though. Roberts is by far superior ;-)

 

One of the problems with having switched over a number of relatives to Linux is that I'm "the guy" when they have issues, and I can't always get over to help them in a timely manner. A lot of the time most stuff is working just fine and it's just a matter of popping into the desktop and fixing a bad link or a naughty plugin that's slipped into Chrome etc, but it DOES require being able to see what they see.

Windows has a system where you can "request assistance" and then provide a code for access at which point it shares your desktop. There are similar systems where one can get a link in email and click it for support.

I'd like to find a system that I can host myself to allow users to queue up for support at which point I can pop into their system, without needing to open ports on their routers or using something hackish like forwarding a VNC port to an SSH server etc

 

Has anyone seen anything in terms of locks that could be used for smaller doors etc. For example, a drawer/cabinet style lock or something that might work for bifold closet doors etc. Also setups that could be used to automatically slide out a drawer.

I'd like to create some "secret drawers" as well as be able to lock out stuff like the "candy/snack drawer" as certain members of my household have poor impulse control and like snitch candy then not easy their dinner

(Yes I've tried hiding it, putting it up high etc, but they're sneaky and automation is more fun)

 

Does anyone use X11 forwarding with Android devices, so that they can access their UI apps remotely?

If so, what apps do you use and what issues have you run across?

There's a "MobaXterm ssh" app and while I do love that app on other OS's it doesn't seem to be made by the same company so I don't really trust it

 

While I quite like the ability to broadcast TTS, media, and other such things to Google Nest or Amazon Alexa devices, I'm trying to rein in my HASS setup so that it doesn't send data to our require cloud services.

Does anyone know of or recommend a wireless speaker service that can accept broadcast/streamed/sent audio without needing an internet connection. Bonus if it has a microphone that can integrate with something like a local Genie instance for accepting voice commands (without cloud processing)

 

I'm looking for a wall switch that I will take Tasmota firmware (so a ESP82XX chipset generally) but can get easily sourced and aren't a huge pain to reprogram.

I'm totally cool with soldering some serial jump points from the board of the appropriate Rx/Tx/GRND/3.3V and pin0 are readily available, but try to avoid stuff that requires soldering the chip itself.

I used to be able to get Globe etc dimmers from Costco that were flashable via the old OTA Tuya-Convert method, but that seems to be a thing of the past and I just need a regular ol' non-dimmer switch which is easy to find and access the required pins these days.

If there are switches which take 110VAC but don't output power, that's even better as some I'm just looking to supplement devices already have power but are inconvenient to access

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