Aux @ Aux @lemmy.world

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Touchscreens are also easy to repair, they just have two more wires in the ribbon, that's all.

Plenty of motherboards do that and plenty of laptops. It's just HP sucks big time, not only their printers. Fuck HP.

You're not touching BIOS from the system. The software just downloads a cryptographically singed binary and reboots into BIOS. Then BIOS checks if the file is ok and proceeds to flash itself.

The thing is you don't need heavy batteries if you can swap them every 100-150km or so.

Stalin and Mao were pretty mainstream.

Stop smoking what you're smoking.

Far left: everyone should die.

Far right: everyone should die.

FIFY.

Prisoners go to war for a limited time, then they get freedom. First waves of prisoners are home now and cause a lot of issues.

Capitalism is powered by fapping, the fuck are you talking about?

Let me tell you how it works in the real world right here right now in the UK. Large corpos set targets on how many rentals they want to acquire. For example, Lloyds announced a few years ago that they're building a portfolio of 50k properties. Yes, fifty fucking thousand homes!

And so small landlords are forced to sell due to changes in the law. Corporate investors buy them in an instant at full asking price or even higher to ensure that property value doesn't go down and so you, a mere mortal, can't buy shit.

Next, they freeze the properties and don't release anything on the market. That creates an insane housing shortage and rental prices go through the roof. A few years later they will start introducing their portfolio to the market slowly to avoid crashes at 2-5x price compared to just last year. People are desperate and pay through the nose.

Boom! Mega profits! What is your 3% yearly cap when they just jacked up the price five times? It will take many years to make a dent.

They will. And you'll end up homeless.

Homelessness is a downside.

If you can't buy it while renting today, you won't be able to buy it tomorrow when your landlord sells it. The house will be bought by a corporate investor and you'll get fucked. Just like it's happening in the UK right now. Prepare for mass homelessness.

Well, the British government has introduced a lot of changes recently, that made the landlord lives harder and landlords did start to sell. Now we have a situation, where people fight over places to rent, most places don't even get advertised, people take them without viewings and rent prices have skyrocketed. All while housing stock in general got noticeably reduced. And, of course, homelessness is through the roof.

Not really. There's no excessive heat outside of the engine bay, but plenty of rubber and plastic. Heck, even my rubber grip on my toothbrush has turned into a mush after some years and it wasn't even exposed to sunlight, as there are no windows in the bathroom. Organic matter decays, it's just life.

Not really. They're quite popular in Asian countries.

LED bulbs last pretty much forever.

OK, not your ISP, but your VPN is shit.

IPv4 dried up a long time ago. But it's different for every country. Countries like US and UK simply took over large blocks of IPv4 addresses and countries like Brazil got fucked. So, if you're in a country with a large pool, you won't notice any issues today, but if you're not so lucky, a lot of internet services are not accessible to you because some dickhead got IP banned and that IP is shared by thousands if not millions of users in your country.

That's the dumbest thing I've read today... Your ISP is fleecing you and you're happy with it.