droopy4096 @ droopy4096 @lemmy.ca

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the only way to bend system towards social democracy - progressive taxation is needed on high incomes. Calls to "let landlords die" etc. are unproductive and divisive. Mom-and-pop landlords owning some older family properties, maintaining them and renting them should not be penalized by market or anyone else, as long as rental market is regulated, fiscal policy does not allow for spectacular crashes because of risky investments etc. It's not a simple problem. Housing is not a privilege - it's a right and it has to be supported by laws and policies. This approach leaves plenty of room for landlords and removes pressure from tenants as their ability to make rent should be guaranteed. Givernment should be taking human rights nore seriously.

real estate business operations are part of the reason we're in this mess. At present real estate is a lucrative investment as you can buy properties hold on to them effectively shrinking the market and driving demand up... and driving the price of your investments up. Then, after you've bought a place for $300k and it's market price got to $500k you take out a loan against the remainder and go live in warm places until market conttacts some more and you can repeat the process... TLDR; it pays to buy real estate and just sit on it, which is what real estate companies do (or help others to do)... it does not positively contribute to supply of new housing, quite the opposite. So please tell me that business that literally created this mess for us (and profit for themselves) sponsoring politician is lobbying for more housing? Would they be willing to shoot off their both feet?

So the person advocating to solve housing crisis is spinsored by big real estate? Smells aquatic here... gills and all. There's a rodent in this pile, that everyone will forget to look for untill it's too late.

I've got Acer Nitro5 this year on sale ($800) and love it. Hidden perk: memory can be bumped to 64G. I do play slightly older titles so can't say for newer ones.

I've got fairly old nVidia cards (8yr) and running current Fedora. There's some lag insupport but you still get older drivers supported to a degree

despite my socialist views I'm also a realist: no elected government in Canada or US would socialize real estate. None. Within current economic and political system it's a surefire recipefor country implosion. The only feasible solution is taxing "luxury" properties and diverting that money towards subsidized/public housing. Demand outpaces supply and supply is being choked by corporations and individuals scooping up properties and not releasing them back either as rentals or for resale. Make it passable for them to sell and impossible to hold and we can bring market to some shaky equilibrium. Build more affordable housing and you may stabilize the market. There are no other options on the table as far as I know.

combined with idea of progressive property taxes: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/canadas-competition-bureau-ordered-pay-nearly-10-mln-rogers-shaw-2023-08-30/

tax high value properties and use money to help less privileged

seeing that issue spans across several games I didn't want to post to appdb. I've re-jigged mynsetup to use lutris and forced wine version to be below 8.x and all is good. However my intent was not to find how to run those games, but what's wrong? with 8.x Wine.

Right, thats where the line has been drawn. Lets not overwhelm penal system with privileged white jackasses, lets keep it for underprivileged to prevent them from getting ahead.

Sorry, but depending on location prices bounced back and surpassed pre-crisis levels within few years in US. Same issue that many already highlighted - folks lost their houses during crisis to the ones who can afford it but they still need place to live. Population grows and so are the real estate prices. Investment firms are busy buying up properties and oh boy will they go wild this time, now that this turned into a very targeted industry. So those prices going down only means some people will lose their homes, others their jobs and corporate investors will gain big time. Selected few with sufficient financial cushion will weather it out and the cycle will repeat itself... because nobody builds housing to keep up with the pace of population growth. With a caveat: some rural areas are still underappreciated and if housing is what you seek - go rural, mind you job selection might be limites if any... so gotta be financially independent... oh guess what? Another pass for the average folk. So yeah... new construction is the only way out of it. Bursting the bubble will hurt folks below median a lot more than status quo. (mind you escalation of institutional investors activity would be as tragic as bursting the bubble).

it's not POL. It's System Wine. Lutris has the same problem with system Wine (and some of it's own Wine versions). All I'm trying to do is figure out the source and report upstream

My games are using separate prefixes. My NWN install did not use lutris or POL as for some reason both POL and lutris refused to properly install it.

I was more looking into whether others observed similar issues with Wine 8.12 specifically so that it can be raised in Wine's bugzilla