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  • I disagree, it's the details that will bite you on the ass... until those people have haggled over the details we realistically have no idea how many up or downsides there would be.

    I agree it's a problem and I agree the current landlord situation is very likely contributing but removing that component by itself I believe is likely to cause all manner of problems... landlords are currently parasiting (is that a word?) off a system that's broken... my view is if you fix the system they won't be able to parasite on it.

  • Because people are talking on here like it would the solve the problem... it's a much more complex and nuanced issue than "landlords making (too much) profit". The knock-on effects and interconnectedness in (some) economies all need to be thought through and resolved/have a plan to resolve first otherwise you're just creating other problems.

    This whole thread reminds me of Brexit (I'm from the UK) and how leavers were saying how simple it would be to leave... this is such a complex problem.

  • Where do these people get their deposits from for the mortgage on the cheaper houses? Where do they live whilst saving up for these cheaper deposits?

  • I'm not convinced, at least in the UK it's been a very very long time since mortgages were accessible to the average salary.

    I'm not saying there isn't a problem but I'm not sure this would solve the problem right now. In the UK something like 70% of housing is mortgaged or owned (by the occupier)... most renters say the biggest barrier to getting a home is not the mortgage affordability it's saving for the deposit. Indeed when I bought my first home 20+ years ago I needed my parents help on that front. Where do people live between leaving education and saving up for that deposit, whatever size it is?

  • They would but do you believe they'll be low enough that a bank would be prepared to take the on the risk of loaning the money to basically everyone?

  • So let's say a landlord sells their property and somebody else buys it to live in.

    Where do the original renters live now?

    Or in a rental property, who is paying to maintain it if the landlord is not charging above their mortgage costs?

    Or why would a landlord take on the risk of loaning an expensive asset to somebody at cost knowing they may not get paid? Or the boiler stops working and they have to spend thousands fixing it without any risk to the tenant?

  • The argument would be, not saying I agree or disagree as I think it's more complex and nuanced than this, is that they are taking on the risk of maintaining and loaning a very expensive asset to somebody and hoping they'll look after it and pay that cost of borrowing it.

  • I'm not disagreeing with you but I'm curious on how the housing would be freely accessible if the landlord hadn't bought it... are you saying the renter would have otherwise purchased their home?

  • I believe you can run the monitor at 60% brightness and reduced volume on it's speakers when powering it from the 500... the separate power supply just allows you to put both of those things to max.

  • Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

    An astonishingly good story line that can only be really appreciated blind.

    For those of you who remember TotalBiscuit, he rated this as one of his favourite games.

  • The only thing stopping me moving to Brave is the awful bookmark sync implementation... when I used it for a small period in the past it was keeping some I'd long deleted on other devices etc

    I also would prefer it to implement bookmark separators (like both Vivaldi and FF do) but I can live without those if they sorted out the sync.

  • How is the management of them ? I see they shout about their app but can I just login using a proper keyboard on a computer to setup things like DHCP easily? How much is hidden behind a subscription service (the biggest frustration with my eero's currently)?

  • It cannot - more and more content is coming from AI so they are just "relearning" what one of the AI platforms has already produced... the endgame of that is convergence on nothing new being produced from AI

  • Not OP but for me just having it support macOS autocorrect in the browser would be great... I can literally load any other browser and my typed shortcuts (eg if it type @ @ (without the space in between) it gets auto replaced with my email address) just work... not Firefox though 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • I bought my iMac in March 2020... since then it's been powered down maybe half a dozen times (a couple of those were power cuts) and rebooted (outside of macOS updates) maybe ten times.

    It just sits there reliably doing its thing and sucks little juice in power saving so 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • Sentiment is fine, but it's still removing a choice (however misguided, in some people's views, that is) from the user