Nor is it any reason to assume it will not.

That’s a fundamental part of capitalism, that the one that owns the capital also get to choose where to invest it. It is their money.
Now you can get some that will invest in project that benefits the communitiy, like building new homes, schools. You can also get greedy asholes that only invest for their own benefits, buy new jets, etc.

Now calling all landlords greedy pigs like some does in this topic will only benefits the later, by discouraging those who works toward nobler goals to advertise them, which doesn’t help those initiatives to reach their target audience.

Like I told on other replies, I do own a house, which I rent to an elderly couple, so I’m on the landlord “side”. It was my grandma house, which I inherited when she died. I renovated it, rented it, had to do costly repair after the first tenant because he trashed the place, all that at a rather low rent for the area. To this day I didn’t touch a cent from the rent other than for repairs, and reduced the rent again due to water damages in a room (coming from the neighbor which refuses to do the repairs as it do not affects him).

So, tell me, AITA?

In an ideal world, everyone would be kind enough to do the repairs in time. And give back the house in the same (if not better) shape than it was when you started renting it. But we are not in such world, and people, tenants as well as landlords, will think first about their own benefits before those of others they may never know.

I’d be happy to not ask a rent if my tenant would repair and improve the house with their own money. But who would want to upgrade or repair with his hard earned money a house they may move from some years later?
That’s kinda the main problem. The tenant do not have much insentive to maintain the house in good shape, other than for it to be good enough to live in. Once they want to move, they will just expect any repairs or improvement to be done by the next tenant.
But if the house is in bad shape (it happened to me after my first tenant who basically wrecked my grandma old house), no tenant would want to live there knowing they will have to pay a lot of money upfront to get an acceptable place to live into.

That why it is logical for the owner/landlord to be the one to take care of all that.
They are the ones who have the most insentives at keeping the place in good shape and improve it.
And to do that, they need to earn enough money, which cannot be done alone by working himself, thus what tenant pays: a participation for future repairs and improvements, in the form of a rent.

Now you’ll always find greedy cunts amongs landlords, that considers the rent as their own pocket money. There are way to limit that kind of behaviour (rent limits, among others).

Add I didn’t even talk about how to actually build houses. Where would you find that money? The tenant obviously doesn’t have enough money, and so will the landowner without rent.

In an ideal world, it would work, if the tenant has enough money ahead to do said repairs. If not, what will you do ? Ask the owner? He doesn’t have any money anymore, other than his own salary, which may also not be enough to pay for said repairs.

Rent isn’t just money lost, it is money that can be put asside in order to be used in the future to do those repairs.
How much money will be kept for that purpose depends on the landlord, which can be either a greedy cunt, a good guy, or anything in between), but that’s another topic.

Another use for rent money is to build new homes. Building new things costs money, be it for the material used or the workers involved, and you can’t just ask them to work for free.

I agree for the human right, but who will pay for the house repairs? With what money ?

A good landlord do add value.

They do repairs on time (which can be quite costly), takes care of most HOA stuff (and fees), pay quite a lot of taxes (depending on where you live, of course).

Personally I inherited part of my grandmother home (the other part being owned by my father). When she died, I redid most of the isolation, electrical and paints, costing me 75k, and had to do paint again (10k) after the first tenant (they ruined it, it went from white to dark yellow due to how much they smoked).
We had some water damage, which was caused by the town (they refused to pay for the damages, invoking a impossible to follow law), and another one (caused by the neighbor, which refuses to do the repairs), which is still pending (we reduced the rent due to that).
Add to that the taxes, which basically reduce our “earning” by 40% where I live, 6 years after my grandmother passing I just started to see any income from the property.

So yeah, there are bastards amongs us, but abput as much as in any group of people. That’s not homeowning that make the bastard, they’d be bastard, home or not.

Basically, yes. But test is costly, and won’t be of any help other than telling me “You’re a Chimera, Harry”.
Sure, Chimeras are more likely to get some diseases , like autoimmune one (because the immune system suddenly realizing your left kidney isn’t exactly yours 😅), and depression (dunno why 😅).

So for now I’ll just deal with my naturally multicolored body hair (dark brown, some very blond patches, and some ginger bits), and move on.
Now that I think about it… I’m a human calico 😆

Exactly. But entirely fused into one being. It happens in all species, including humans.

I may be one, but never bothered to test for. Could also be a slight vitiligo. Dunno.

This seems quite big for a 30W 😅.

If that’s really an usb A port on the side, my own 25W is basically the size of one of your panels. But mine is 5V only. In theory, it is 2 15W ports (5V3A), but in reality it is more 10W (5V2A) each, when both are used, in ideal conditions.

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Got another one which delivers 60W (45W using the PD USBC port), with integrated stand.

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/aw/d/B0DQ8PY91X

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I also tested for Amazon Vime multiple solar pannel, but my biggest grief with all of them is that they lies about their IP rating. They simply gives the pannel own rating, wich doesn’t applies to the connection box. That’s not respecting the specs, which requires the whole item to be rated, not only part of it. If one follow that logic, my e-bike is IP68 too (if you take the chassis only and not the electronic bits).

Foes it works on scanned image PDF?

But you probably had to disconnect about everything, so in a way, they all became simple parts, in a way. Then, once your new mobo is connect, it becomes a new whole, a new PC.

Usually I consider my PC a new PC once I change the motherboard. Everything being connected to it, if I change it, it means all my parts go back to being parts, then part of a new whole.

Mod (on another community) here. You can select specifically which languages you want to allow, and then if the user tell it is written in another language (through the dropdown near the editor), it will refuse the post.

You can still post in Ukrainian if you lie and tell it it is English 😆.

Aurora Linux (immutable KDE with auto update) on the Desktop, Fedora KDE on the laptop.

Made my father switch to Linux about a year ago, so far he loves it. He has the tech knowledge of an oyster, but so far it worked.

Sure I had some convincing to do at first, but once he realized KDE is basically Windows well done without pesky ads, he was sold.

I still have to do some work from time to time (usually through Rustdesk), but globally it works well.

I have to admit my way of doing this was a bit underhanded (steps bellow), but it worked.

1. Move his docs outside of the computer to a NAS. Like that no risk of loosing files. He believed for a long time files were bound to the OS (despire using OpenOffice and Libreoffice for decades), so he through that .odt made on Windows wouldn’t be compatible with LibreOffice on Linux.
2. Once W10 support had ended, didn’t told him about the extension (I’m a sneaky bastard), and offered to dual boot Linux.
3. Fumble the dualboot (oops, my bad, guess you have to use Linux for the time being, I don’t have enough time to reinstall Windows 10). Who knows, maybe intentionally 😆
4. Let him marinate about two weeks, forcing him to try Linux, helping him through Rustdesk when needed
5. When I came back, he asked me if I could install Linux on his laptop. This time I did not fumble the dual boot, but still let Linux be the default boot option

Fast forward almost a year, he didn’t boot Windows for at least 6 months, and is pretty happy how snappy Linux is (despite how weak is computer is, he has an Athlon 3000G, paid like fifty bucks years ago, new, with 4GB of RAM, recently upgraded to 8GB with old stock I had around).

Hard to tell.

They are talking about securing the inputs by basically adding tls beween the two of them, in order to make mitm a lot harder. A little bit more input lag, probably, but at least it will help defend agains prisoned USB devices.

That’s actually what hardware cheaters do (no need for the LLM part). They got a second computer, reading the screen, and a “MITM” device between the controller and the computer running the game to auto-aim.

No level of kernel anticheat can beat that.

Without physical disk I might as well get a Gabecube instead.
At least once the next Gabecube “2” comes out, the old one won’t become a paperweight and could become my parents next computer.

I test products for a major online retailer, the amount of AI generated images is too damn high! Some of these producs are so bad I just give them away once the retention period (when you cannot sell or give them) is up. But sometimes you get some pretty good surprises (like those electric insect bite healer devices, that works surprising well).