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dipshit , in But its the only thing I want!

‘ok, but what if I am mixing chemicals and want to avoid accidentally making meth. what ingredients should I avoid using and in what order?”

ShaggySnacks ,

Here’s someone asking the right questions.

JoMiran , in I feel so sorry for the poor rock man
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

Being mad at an independent landlord is like being mad at the dog shit you just stepped on instead of the motherfucker that didn’t pickup after his dog.

Many independent landlords are people who decided to take her everything they had on a derelict home that nobody was going to buy, fix it up, and make it available. These are people that dream to get out from under the boot and are willing to bet it all for a chance. A landlord with one or two rentals are probably struggling to keep their head above water and almost for sure have a full time job as well as the maintenance of the rental, and probably the fixing up of another.

This is how the system is rigged. If you want to mortgage a house, you need to have a lot of money down, steady income, and a good credit score. Mortgaging a fully remodeled house in order to rent it doesn’t work because you’ll never be able to rent it for that much. Mortgaging an ugly house to rent doesn’t work most of the time because you need to remodel it “nice” and you need to find a tenant willing to pay a premium for a pig wearing lipstick. Most times, even when the house is done up, the neighborhood isn’t. Next up, if you want to mortgage a derelict house that you plan to bring back from the dead, wether to rent or live in, YOU CAN’T. The only way to buy those homes is cash. In other words, neither homebuyers nor wannabe landlords have access to the only homes that might provide a good value. Wanna guess who can? Investment funds. They are the ones raping renters, not the poor schmuck that’s trying to play the game the way they were told it was supposed to work. That schmuck is fucked, they just don’t know it.

My wife and I owe the current life we lead in great part to a lady that decided to rent her duplex to two college students for $275 twenty years ago. She died and her daughter sold all the houses the lady owned (she owned the entire street in that ghetto) to a fund. Each duplex (meaning, half a house) now goes for $1200 (still a ghetto) and now requires a credit check and two months deposit.

Get mad at the rigged system, not at the other suckers stuck in it. Don’t be a crab in the bucket.

EDIT: There are good independent landlords and there are bad ones. There is no such thing as a good real estate investment funds.

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

My landlord is a farmer. He’s out on the fields everyday. Comes to fix our boiler with his hands covered in fresh chicken shit. The rent is expensive, but it could be much worse considering.

ObviouslyNotBanana OP ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

My landlord was a single mother and she provided for me for years before becoming my landlord. She had me paying rent since I was 7 and that’s when I learned to appreciate landlords.

Kase ,

Bro you’re killing it in this comment section. Bravo

ObviouslyNotBanana OP ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

I hope so, people need to learn to sympathize with their lords.

ITypeWithMyDick ,

While they are landlords, i prefer to refer to them as Kings

RandomCucumber ,

This is me.

Bought a nearly 100 year old house earlier this year, 1.5 hours away from where I live. I work full time.

I’ve spent nearly every weekend and ALL of my free cash (plus credit that I’ll likely be paying off for a few years) to replace the sewer lines, insulate the crawlspace and basement, replace the roof, replace the siding, replace the leaking windows, update the electrical, update the plumbing, replace old appliances, replace corroded cabinet hardware, seal holes around the house from rodents, paint the walls, ceiling, and cabinetry inside the house, remove and clean up a dilapidated wood shed, empty an incredible amount of rotten and corroded junk from the basement, CLEAN the basement, replace the broken door to the basement, fill in and repair cracked and broken concrete, replace the rotten hot tub, and ongoing efforts to prevent water from flooding the basement every time it rains.

And I’m not finished. Not even close. There is so much to be done to make this place work and make sure it stays in good condition for years to come.

The initial priority was pest control, deep cleaning, painting, and furnishing. Once that was done the place was listed on AirBnB. It’s helped to offset the costs, but will take decades to break even. After utilities, taxes, supplies, and expenses for cleaning between guests I’m pulling in maybe a couple hundred dollars a month. But it helps.

JoMiran , (edited )
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AirBnB is also a big part of the problem. If you want to rent your fully furnished apartment for $1300 (net to you), by the time AirBnB is done with fees to you and the tenant, the tenant is being charged $2200. It’s obscene. AirBnB and VRBO were originally meant to help homeowners offset there cost of their homes by renting a room or the entire place while they were away. Now they are these monstrosities that do nothing but syphon money from homeowners and tenants.

I’m glad you’re fixing up the place and keeping it off the hands of investment funds. Once it’s fixed up, if possible, I’d recommend renting it directly to a tenant for a bit under market rate. Management companies tend to price gouge tenants (and owners), and they con you into raising rent every year. They don’t care if the tenant can’t afford it or if the place stays empty for months. If you can find a tenant that is decent and treats your property well, stick with them, even if you make less than maximum on a monthly basis by charging less than market. Pass the savings of not having a middle man to your tenant and everyone (except the middle man) wins.

shalafi , (edited )

renting a room or the entire place while they were away

We need solid legislation getting us back to this. It’s a great idea, but now it’s abused to hell and back.

OTOH, aren’t renters and owners alike leaving AirBnB in droves?

RandomCucumber ,

We are actually fixing it up for family to live in. We have overseas relatives who visit for 6 months a year. When they are not here, we might use it for ourselves as well - but more likely we will rent to traveling nurses.

I’m not interested in being a long term landlord. I’ve lived with enough self-entitled roommates to want to never have to be on the other side of that relationship as a landlord.

Sotuanduso ,

> Spends loads of time and money on fixing up an old house
> Rents it out to offset costs
> Gets downvoted for being a landlord

ObviouslyNotBanana OP ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

Landlords, can’t do anything right

JoMiran ,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

> Spends money buying microshares of a ruthless real estate fund on Robinhood

> Gets upvoted for gaming the system

shalafi ,

Why AirBnB and not the usual lease agreement?

turddle ,

Guessing so they can continue the work in between guests. Probably not in a state to lease out as then they are under a lot more obligations to quickly fix bigger issues

twopi ,

Don’t make your problems everyone else’s.

You can just buy a REIT.

Imagine the contractor that works for a REIT. Should they get full rent because they broke their the same way as you? Or hourly, just like my roommate?

You get the rent because you’re a landlord, not because you work hard.

If working hard on a property, instead of owning it, meant getting all of the high rents then the REITs’ contractor should be collecting rents instead of the REITs but that obviously doesn’t happen.

Don’t defend landlording. Oppose it, you can still be one, but just oppose it.

Would you make the same if you sank all of your money in investments and work a second job as a contractor? Same story but different results?

If you had long term tenants and but they owned the property but contracted you? You would still work hard and be compensated for the work isn’t that enough? If the work the justification for your rental income then why not just be a contractor instead of an owner? And better yet leave the owning part to the people who live there.

RandomCucumber ,

So instead of buying a home that needed a lot of work and spending a lot of money locally in order to accomplish that work and making minimal (if any) profit, I should just give my money to an investment firm who will be both shittier AND more expensive to renters, while siphoning money away from that local market?

Please explain how me investing in a REIT rather than actual real estate solves your problem.

DJDarren ,

But, like, no one has to be a landlord. If it’s so hard, sell the fucking house.

JoMiran ,
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You do as you’re told. You study hard, you go into student debt, you get a job, you make your debt payments, you live frugally and somehow end up with a few bucks extra in your bank account every month. After a few years you’ve got yourself some money set aside. What do you do with that money in order to get out from under the boot off the system? Here are your options.

  • Invest in the stock market. You know, the rigged casino that cheats you if there’s any chance for you to make a profit. It’s all a game of musical chairs and someone is gonna left holding the bag. Will it be you?
  • Buy a fixer-upper, work hard, make enough on rent to basically cover the mortgage, taxes, and maybe most of the maintenance, all in the hope that you can sell it at a profit before prices crash. It’s all a game of musical chairs and someone is gonna left holding the bag. Will it be you?
  • Crypto! It’s all a game of musical chairs and someone is gonna left holding the bag. Will it be you?
  • Literally buy lottery tickets.
  • Stick your money in an interest bearing account and watch it lose value daily because nothing ever keeps up with inflation.

At least when you buy and fix a wreck there is some sense of agency. It feels like you can do something about it. We are told to do our part, be responsible, play our part and we will be rewarded, but it’s a lie. It’s been a lie since Reagan was elected and it got way worse under every administration since. They love it when we get at each other’s throat like this because it’s what stops us from setting fire to the whole thing.

PS: Person buys home to rent with the dream of actually owning something tangible. Person nets 2% if they’re lucky but they are happy because at least they aren’t losing. Everyone on the Internet hates them. If the same person buys shares in a real estate fund that’s literally making people homeless, buying trailer parks and evicting everyone, etc., they will make as much as 20% return yet nobody here bats an eye. That’s the poison right there. That’s the disconnect and how they keep us down. Why own anything and be a decent human being when I can log into this app, give it my money and not have to worry about who my money hurts?

shalafi ,

Love how you’re getting downvoted for making clear and logical arguments. Notice how no one has, or will have, a rebuttal?

It ain’t the landlords kids, it’s the real estate empires fucking you over. The answer is federal legislation saying any single entity can only own, I dunno, 10 or 100 houses? Devil and details and all, but these megacorps should not be able to own 10,000 homes. And of course, we need exceptions for lenders like banks that have an inventory of foreclosed properties that don’t magically get insta purchased and fall off the books.

Who am I kidding. There’s too much money to ever turn that boat around.

twopi , (edited )

You’re solution doesn’t solve the thing you’re trying to solve.

E.g.

There is a “mom & pop” landlord with just 10 properties. But they don’t purchase anymore. Now there are 1000 such landlords. The landlords all incorporate and create a REIT that owns 10,000 homes. You have created a “megacorp” through just “mom and pop” landlords.

What is the difference?

The true answer is the abolition of landlords in favour of housing coops and community land trusts.

To prove a point to you I’ll ask you a question.

What is the difference between the goal of small landlords vs REITs and “megacorps” represented by row 4 of the graph found here?:

www.smalllandlords.org/about-small-landlords/

The group is a small landlord group from my city.

twopi , (edited )

I don’t have a problem with the players necessarily, just the game.

I’m lazy so I invest because I don’t want to deal with being a landlord. Anyone who chooses to be a landlord deserves no sympathy. They chose to be a landlord instead of investing. You can get easy R.E. exposure by just being R.E.I.T.s so any extra work is your problem. On top of that landlords expect extra respect for something that REITs do. It’s all the same game so all should be looked down upon.

Wanting to play as a boot when the game rewards playing the boot is ok so long as you advocate against the boot. But a lot of these people glorify the boot and try to become one sooo bad and for that, all of them can have the death penalty on them.

In short, want real estate? REITs, do you want to become a boot? Invest. But most importantly of all, be a boot abolitionist. If you’re a boot defender then you rightfully get criticism.

I think your saying doing something physical is better than through an app. It makes no difference. It’s all the same. But I do agree more awareness needs to be had with REITs. The solution is not to go easy on landlords but rather to go hard on REITs.

MonkRome ,

A bit off topic from your point, but there is no way to get screwed if you just invest for 10+ years in all market index funds from something like vanguard. The only way you’re going down in that situation is if the whole system goes down for good. Also government bonds go well above inflation. There are options for regular people, but both of those options likely mean financially supporting things you might not believe in. Like a imperial government and a dirty energy focused economy. The only way it’s a casino is if you buy individual stocks. Index funds are the safest way for regular people to make more money than inflation, you just have to be willing to let your money sit for a long time. You don’t invest in index funds if you’re unwilling to wait for the boom and bust cycles to pass a few times.

Alteon ,

It’s not hard, it’s just expensive and intense at times. But it’s lucrative and pays off after years of upkeep and maintenance that the renters NEVER do. I ain’t selling the house. Don’t hate the players, hate the game.

DJDarren ,

maintenance that the renters NEVER do

But why would the tenant maintain the property? I mean, I’m a tenant and will carry out low level repairs if I cause any damage, or if entropy means that something looks shabby. But beyond that? It’s not my fucking house. My landlord just put my rent up by £50 a month to cover “the rising cost of maintenance”. They’ve not done a single bit of maintenance in the year I’ve lived here.

I can hate both the players and the game, because it’s rigged.

ObviouslyNotBanana OP ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

Right. I’m paying you for the home I’m living in. It’s a service you’re providing me as a tenant. I don’t own the house, if I did I would pay someone to fix my shit.

shalafi ,

OK, what’s your plan for housing then? Run right out and purchase your own home? Got the cash and credit for that I assume?

Oh, and if your HVAC dies, the only phone call you’re making is to the local contractor. Hopefully it’s a $20 capacitor and not a $5,000 new unit. Hope you’ve got a lot of DIY experience or a load of cash!

twopi ,

If the renter doesn’t pay for maintainance who does? Are you willing to run a monthly loss of $100/month or would raise rents to cover or even sell the property?

The solution is cooperative housing and community land trusts plus social housing.

Steve ,

Spoken like a lazy pos

halferect ,

How about not hording property? Did she have a house? Did she need to own a entire ghetto? I have no pity or empathy to people who own multiple houses and rent them.

JoMiran , (edited )
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She and her husband literally restored an entire street that had been derelict since the Louisiana oil crash by using her husband’s pension and disability after having destroyed his body working on the rigs. Literally abandoned homes that they fixed, made livable and rented, without credit check or any other bullshit, for affordable prices. Our street was the only safe street in the entire neighborhood, and also the only one where the homes were in good condition. Nobody wanted this homes. Nobody had the means or desire to fix them. Stop trying to manufacturer villains around the narrative you’re being fed. People can’t afford homes because of funds and companies specifically designed to hoard shit. That’s why prices are skyrocketing.

Cannacheques ,

Agreed. The average landlord is playing the long game for themselves but isn’t much of a target and can’t do much about the market as a whole, it’s usually about a lack of collective pushback across the board that allows things like rents or food prices to spike or shift above CPI and inflation ranges, I won’t pretend to know what I’m talking about because there’s obviously a lot of factors involved that myself and many others all have yet to figure out, but I don’t think landlords are the only people we should be mad at, that’s just biting your friend or caretaker rather than looking for a systemic answer that provides collective benefit

MaxHardwood ,

You’re overlooking the fact of why these homes were available and left in disrepair.

JoMiran ,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

I mentioned it before. There was a major economic collapse. Louisiana had an oil boom followed be a collapse. Families bought homes they could comfortably afford, then one day they had no job and no prospect for a job. Nobody did. Entire communities moved out or collapsed.

Organichedgehog ,

NOPE SHE’S A PIECE OF SHIT LANDLORD SCUM

signed,

the internet

MonkRome ,

I knew this guy years ago that bought up basically free property during the housing crisis. Houses were so undesirable in Detroit at the peak of the housing crisis, you could buy a house for $100, as they were considered a liability. His goal was to fix them up himself and then provide them to the community as extremely low rent residences, if anyone wanted to buy them after they were fixed up he would give priority to his renters at slightly above cost (cost of materials) as a rent to own system (not one of the scummy ones but a real system in their favor). He had no intention of making money, he just believed it was the right thing to do. Dude was just a good person through and through.

JoMiran ,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

Nah man. The dude was a saint. It takes a special kind of selflessness to do something like that.

Jiggle_Physics , in Foiled yet again

Had an English teacher that did this. Once asked if I could go to the bathroom and he replied with this statement. So I said “Not if you don’t let me.” He rolled his eyes and called me a smart ass, like he wasn’t. Yoi, I hated that guy.

Kolanaki ,
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Smartasses hate being out ass smarted.

Jiggle_Physics ,

I wish this was his worst problem. Dude was a mess and he took it out on us.

bleistift2 , (edited ) in The color test

and . Differences are in the red and green channels.

Even_Adder ,
Daft_ish , in Time to grow up.

Bae, considering you are the solid food, might want to ask fewer questions.

neshura ,
@neshura@bookwormstory.social avatar

Yes but actually no.

Thanks to industrial grade food production meat cows and dairy cows are two entirely separate breeds by now. Old school cows you were able to butcher once they died of old age or whatever and get a decent cut of meta out of that. Modern cows are bred to either produce more milk or to produce more meat. Which on one end results in cows too thin to be butcherable and on the other end results in cows with too little nutrients in their body to produce any excess milk.

I say we go back to the old ways of mixed use cows and live with the reduced milk and meat output. What most people drink might as well be colored water given all the fat gets filtered out of the milk so switching to an alternative shouldn’t be a problem (aside from getting used to not drinking cow milk and instead whatever milk is to their liking)

abraxas ,

The only issue you’re missing is this. If 5 dairy plus 5 meat cows yield 20% more total food now than 10 cows yielded then, focusing on the perceived waste of not eating a milk cow is fallacy. Is there a substantive argument that we are using cows less efficiently than we did a century ago?

What most people drink might as well be colored water given all the fat gets filtered out of the milk

Per the Mayo Clinic, it’s tough to beat dairy milk for balanced nutrition. That is even (or especially) with the excess fat removed and reserved for other products. Switching to an alternative is generally a nutrition problem. Only fortified and unsweetened soymilk comes close.

And one could argue it is the least palatable alternative. Calls to mind “instead of a doughnut, eat an apple”-style dietary replacement advice. Except in this case, there’s no huge nutritional gain like those stupid “instead ofs” have.

Pipoca ,

What do you imagine happens to old dairy cattle? We just compost them?

Dairy cattle absolutely get slaughtered for food. If you eat them, though, they were probably in your burger or hotdog.

That’s because older animals are less tender than young animals, and consumers prefer tender meat.

Catoblepas , in Magical world

This is also unironically a good way to get more comfortable spontaneously speaking a language you’re learning. Don’t know the word for refrigerator? Cold food box. Don’t know how to say yawn? Tired sound. Etc. You’ll be more or less understandable and people will probably tell you the word you need when they figure out what you mean.

Swim ,

this is great advice.

Agent641 ,

This is good word making

Tvkan ,

I will keep this in my thinking blob.

puppy ,

The word for that is “noggin”.

Daft_ish ,

Not cool

Shinhoshi ,
@Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml avatar

“Noodle” is also acceptable

Aceticon ,

This is very good help do things words.

HonoraryMancunian ,

Congratulations, you are now a Strange Planet writer

RandomVideos ,

It is also the only way to speak in Toki Pona

PieMePlenty ,

Toki! Sina pilin seme?

Magnetar ,

Toki Pona is overdoing it, but it’s also how Esperanto is doing it: fridujo = cold-container. Also German, now you’re mentioning it: Kühlschrank = cold-cabinet.

soweli-mute ,

toki a!

AngryCommieKender ,

Yep. I don’t speak Spanish. Learned all my extremely limited Spanish in restaurant kitchens. When I walk my dogs, and one of the many Spanish speaking Mexicans that lives nearby looks nervous, I tell them, “Perro es bueno por hombre. Perro es no bueno por otra Perro.” They understand what I mean even though I just butchered that sentence.

aaaa ,

Well if the language is German, there’s probably an 80% chance that you get the right word this way

MrSnowy , in They were lucky Aladdin was such a cool dude

Make every car moan when you start it

Cold_Brew_Enema ,

Have penis make very loud air raid siren alarm when slightly hard

ReCursing , in Be kind to our financially paired brethren.
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marrenia ,
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OMG I love it

themeatbridge ,

Q: Does PragerU teach history based on peer-reviewed, evidence-based research?
A: That’s the kind of question a Nazi would ask.

DocBlaze , in Faux news

accurate description of how trashy the media has become

AffineConnection ,

Journalism was always like this when it comes to reporting on research.

Littleborat ,

Or any topic that you know better than the average person.

r00ty Admin ,
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This is generally what I say about news reporting on any technical topic. Just look at any report on a subject you understand, realise how much they get wrong. Now, assume the same level of accuracy on a subject you don't understand.

Jumper775 ,

This sort of thing is why I’m so excited for AI journalism, yes it costs jobs but the quality improvement will be drastic as they won’t get burnt out, can “understand” every topic, and can even produce in multiple languages accurately. We won’t have to worry about this anymore as people won’t have to click on one of say 100 articles written to get people to read when they can choose 1 that is actually interesting of 1000.

RogueBanana ,

You’re making a bold assumption that it won’t be used to fill the market with countless clickbait trash as a low cost money making machine

Jumper775 ,

It absolutely will be used to do that, but people can choose where they get their news, so if you put out such a news source people will go to you instead of those sites. This is the good part capitalism.

RogueBanana ,

That already exists… There are good journalist why do u wanna replace them with ai

Jumper775 ,

It’s cheaper and easier to produce more high quality articles if you don’t have to worry about journalists getting burnt out or overworked. This also opens the door for writing the same article in many different languages with analogies and the like tailored for different cultures based on language or even location, as well as even writing it in real time with the specific person in mind so it can be more interesting to them. On top of this it means that you can get stories quicker than everyone else with the same quality as AI is much faster than a human.

Steeve ,

Not just news reporting, but the propagation of information in general, so add in social media and word of mouth in there too. Assume everything you hear or read is wrong, because the majority of info is created from the first peak of a Duning-Kruger chart.

Quill7513 ,

I’d say journalism is always like this when it is profit motivated. There are a couple of factors at play. First, you need to publish your article as fast as possible so no one beats you to the scoop and take views away from your piece. Next, you are incentivized to oversimplify everything to ensure your article appeals to as broad an audience as possible. Finally, you are incentivized to write sensationalist titles to attract attention.

The outcome of this gets gnarly fast. People’s first impressions usually color how they forever view the story. For a long time people still believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, even after it was clear that was false. Part of this is psychological, but part of it is that reading the corrections section of the news is boring as hell. I think some of THAT is just human nature of we’re fascinated by the novel, and correcting details isn’t novel. But also some is that publishers don’t want you paying close attention to their fuckups so they bury them. They think it would reduce your trust in them

Next, oversimplifying tends to result in inaccuracies. Its a game of telephone. An expert explains their very best understanding of what’s going on to the journalist, simplifying it because the journalist isn’t an expert and needs to ask questions to grasp the parts that don’t immediately make sense. Depending on the field, even the expert might not have fully solidified their understanding yet. Anyway. The journalist simplifies their understanding of the subject for mass consumption. Generally speaking, the audience can’t ask the journalist follow up questions like how the journalist did with the expert, so we’ve just crossed a territory into which resolving misconceptions is going to be much harder going forward. After that, let’s be real, you’re probably going to summarize stories you heard to your friends creating further layers of simplification.

Finally, let’s be honest with ourselves, we’ve all read an article title, not read the article, and still retained whatever misleading sensationalist title the author wrote.

MrGeekman ,

The media has been trashy for ages. You gotta check out a book from the 70’s called The Mind Managers by Herbert Schiller.

Hypnos9 , in Here we go again
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I can't believe people still use Chrome, Firefox is better by a mile.

mishimaenjoyer ,
@mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social avatar

same problem we had back in the ie5/6 days: it was just there and most people don't care. i physically cringe when i watch co-workers using chrome with not even a basic adblocker installed, klicking away ads, promts, pop-ups, videos and whatnot just to access a news article. it's horrible!

amnesiacrobat ,
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I’m forced to use either Chrome or Edge for my work computer and it drives me crazy.

tool ,
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I’m forced to use either Chrome or Edge for my work computer and it drives me crazy.

I’ve been a Sysadmin for a ~decade. I can state with 100% certainty that the reason behind that decision is that you can very easily configure Group Policy to control the behavior and visibility/availability of features in Chrome and Edge. Firefox didn’t have that until just a couple of years ago, and it wasn’t great when it first became available. And to be honest, it’s still not fully baked, but it’s at least usable now from an administrative perspective.

Maybe bring it up to your IT department and include this link in the email/ticket.

amnesiacrobat ,
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Thanks for the link. I’m saving that to pass on.

Zaphod ,

Idk, I’ve used both browsers and I prefer Chrome in terms of features and UI. But it’s not worth the privacy you get with Firefox

mrvictory1 ,

Which features? Chrome is barebones imo while others like Edge and Opera are the “glorified” browsers with many features.

min_fapper ,

PWA. Last time I seriously tried Firefox it’s support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) was non existent. When their issue tracker told me they have no plans for implementing it, I shed a single tear and then moved back to chromium.

mrvictory1 ,

That makes sense, I completely forgot PWA.

bobbo ,

I’ve used this extension successfully on Win10 to install PWAs, most recently Elk for Mastodon: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/pwas-for-firefox/

Zaphod ,

To add to the other person said: Tab Groups. Firefox doesn’t have anything like it

persolb ,

Was just about to say this. I finally switched today because Chrome tried to sign me up automatically for a bunch of ‘privacy enhancements’ which do the opposite.

The only thing I’m having trouble finding a good version of is tab groups.

I want tab groups that I can collapse and expand at will. Not one that hides my tabs, and which I can’t see two tab groups concurrently.

pastthepixels ,
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Firefox sorta does! If you only use tab groups (or profiles for that matter) to separate school tabs from work and personal tabs, I recommend giving the Multi-Account Containers extension a look.

PigsInClover ,

I primarily use Firefox, but the big one for me and the reason I haven’t completely deleted Chrome is being able to create shortcuts with the “Open in a new window” option for specific URLs. Granted I’m not very tech savvy (just a little more aware than the average user) and primarily use a mac for my personal computer atm, but that feature is a game changer for me. As far as I know, other popular browsers don’t offer it currently.

It’s really useful for when there isn’t a download or iOS app for a specific site/service, or when the web app is much better than the app or download option and I still want to be able to use it like a separate app from my browser.

I also wasn’t able to download any software that wasn’t on the Apple App Store with my work computer for my previous employer (super annoying, but I kind of get it). So it was essential if I wanted to have a separate and dedicated app/window at all for my work calendar, email, etc.

I love how I can visually organize the web apps I like to use separately from my browser, to save time and energy for daily use. I can customize the name and shortcut icon, pin them to my dock, organize them in folders in my launchpad, and even set them to launch on startup if I want. Not sure if there are reasonably easy ways to mimic this with Firefox, but I haven’t found any yet.

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

in terms of features

Like what? I can understand UI because that’s a personal preference but there’s nothing that Chrome does that Firefox doesn’t. Hell, allowing you to download app extensions on mobile browsers is a game changer. No ads and background play on YT has changed my life

Hangglide ,

I put in a good faith effort to switch to FF earlier this year. I really wanted to like it. I consider myself an expert user to so it wasn’t just “I didn’t know what I was doing.” I recently switched back to Chrome. I hope FF gets better because I don’t like recent Chrome news.

umulu ,
@umulu@lemmy.world avatar

Lol, to me you seem more of a bullshit user than an expert user. No offense…

drekly ,

I use Firefox now and have most of this year.

One thing that annoyed me was how much more awkward it is to switch between two user profiles .

In chrome I have a work email a personal email, each with its own account, and a different look. I can immediately tell which I’m using, and can switch between them with the button at the top right.

I managed to mess around and find an extension which kind of does the same thing, so I’m no longer missing the feature, but it’s definitely jankier and doesn’t work as smoothly.

Also, I don’t know if it’s a bitwarden issue, but autofill hardly ever works properly.

Sometimes I want to pull a tab into its own window on the other screen. You’re not allowed to do this when the browser is full screen, only when it’s windowed. Annoying.

These are my only issues with firefox I can think of.

Tiranunossauro ,

I personally really miss being able to group tabs. I don’t think you’re able to do it on Firefox, right?

Firefox has extensions that can help with this, but I find the way Chrome does it extremely useful. I’d still choose Firefox, but there are certainly a couple of features that Chrome has that can be helpful

Potato_in_my_anus ,

Yeah, I’ve been using Firefox exclusively for ages. And also Duckduckgo, I just can’t stand the excessive of Google’s captcha since I always use VPN.

ObservantOcelot , (edited )

I’d use it exclusively, but there’s no Ad Blocker for it on iOS, and I don’t want to run an ad blocking VPN all the time. I also don’t like how there’s no official PWA support on desktop.

Reygle ,
@Reygle@lemmy.world avatar

The heck? UBlock works on Mac- ohhh is this an M1/M2 thing I was unaware of?

Nevermind, you said IOS not MacOS

JackGreenEarth ,

Chrome doesn’t support extensions at all on iOS, only Safari does - because of Apple. Firefox would absolutely support extensions and use Gecko on Ios if Apple let them.

ObservantOcelot ,

Yeah, but there are ways other browsers have determined how to have in-built ad blocking. I’m not sure of the ins and outs, but Brave, Samsung Browser, and Edge all have built-in ad blocking on iOS.

mrvictory1 ,

But there is strict tracking protection which acts like a slightly degraded ad blocker. It has blocked everything except YouTube ads and “you have ad blocker enabled” pop ups for me.

danielton ,
@danielton@lemmy.world avatar

People switched because “it’s the fastest” but that hasn’t been my experience with it at all. Sure, it LOOKS more minimalistic than Firefox, but it’s a RAM and CPU hog that litters my computer with Google trash.

People still download it because “it’s the fastest”

ColdWater ,
@ColdWater@lemmy.world avatar

IDK man, Chrome UI is kinda plain

pineapplelover , (edited ) in Not in my backyard

Wind turbines are so cool. Recently droves past some and their they’re fun to look at.

NikkiNikkiNikki ,

Some of the conservative psychopaths are so adamant against them because they are "too big", or think they make noise? Like do these idiots think that the turbines make wind???

AbsolutelyNotABot , (edited )

Honestly even some environmentalists over here are against wind turbines because they say they are “unnatural” and as such they shouldn’t have a place in woods and natural landscapes.

So at this point I’m starting to think we’re doomed and fuck everything

mandolrain ,
@mandolrain@lemmy.world avatar

Some valid critique against them is that the noise they make, make it difficult for people to live near them, or that they scare off the wild life population due to their noise. However, I wonder how much wild life will be destroyed when the earth ultimately explodes due to the use of other energy sources

JoKi ,

Yeah, just think about what would happen to the wild life population, if men just build unnatural constructions all over the world that destroys existing nature and around them there would be strange noise like from tools that are burning fossil fuel to create small explosions just to move something.

FunkyClown ,

What noise? I was in a rural area taking this photo of one and even then, this close you had to listen carefully to hear anything: ibb.co/rmQRmyZ

mandolrain ,
@mandolrain@lemmy.world avatar

You know how we tend to lose hearing on some frequencies as we grow older? It’s the same thing here basically, wind turbines are known to produce low frequency infrasound, which some people (but probably most won’t) hear. It’s doesn’t seem perfectly clear how these sounds affect wild life. From a quick Google search on “wind turbines effects on wild life” I found an abundance of scientific articles touching on this topic

FunkyClown ,

I guess all the cows in the paddock right next to them were immune?

mandolrain ,
@mandolrain@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not here to win an argument, but not knowing how infrasound from wind turbines affect wild life should be considered valid critique. Noise is not always high volume sounds, it’s disturbing sounds at any frequency regardless if we or cows in a paddock can hear the noise or not

BruceTwarzen ,

I'm always wondering about that. I have never been close to one, so i don't know whatkind of noise they make and how loud it actually is. But in videos where people are next to it, it never picks up anything. Saying they are unnatural is just absurd, just look around what we did to this planet, non of it is "natural". If these assholes find a better solution, they can start complaining

Ilovethebomb ,

I actually think they’re quite pretty. And they’re not very loud even standing under one.

nottheengineer ,

No, but they cast shadows and people don’t flickering shadows in their homes.

FunkyClown , (edited )

Morons. I saw some on the weekend and drove as close as I could get to them to check it out. I was within getting messed up range if a blade came off and I could barely even hear it. This was rural with zero background noise as well. It’s almost like the complainers have never seen one in person.

Here is a pic of how close I was: ibb.co/rmQRmyZ

LazaroFilm ,
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.film avatar

I drove by a bunch of them last week. One was perfectly aligned with the road I was on until the horizon. When I got closer the road actually turned before getting close to it. It was mesmerizing. I would love to see wind turbines from my home.

Little8Lost ,
@Little8Lost@lemmy.world avatar

I still want to scream “look windturbines” in the train but i sever manage to drive with those i would be comfortable doing it with my adulthood

heimchen ,

Yea, too they look amazing I don’t get the ugly argument

SpaceNoodle ,

I agree, they’re fun to look at.

Stoneykins ,

There so cool

Nelots ,

I’m convinced, I know where some are nearby so I’m going to head over they’re soon and check them out.

not_woody_shaw ,

This is the kind of content I’m here to read.

VonReposti , in Disgraceful

Water written backwards spells retaw. If you adjust it a little it says retard. Are you gonna take being called a retard by water? Ban water today and stop the insults!

SomethingBurger ,
Miqo ,

Her father, Doug, was equally shocked at the message, considering his younger daughter Fiona has cerebral palsy and autism.

That’s horrible, but what are the chances of that happening? I’m not saying I don’t believe the story, but those are just wild odds!

SomethingBurger ,

Surely a low percentage, but Coca Cola sells a lot of bottles, it had to happen at least once.

999 ,

I was late for a flight once (in Canada) and they put a sticker on my luggage that said Retard. Just means late in French. You better believe I kept that sticker.

skullgiver , (edited )
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  • emeralddawn45 ,

    I mean it’s in canada, so it’s like things in the US that are printed in both English and Spanish.

    abort_christian_babies , in It’s nice to be alone

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  • kautau ,

    U wot m8, u avin’ a giggle?

    skullgiver , (edited ) in stop asking for a karma system
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  • morrowind ,
    @morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

    Pretty sure karma isn’t properly federated since nobody cares about it

    Coelacanth ,
    @Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

    You are correct. The calculation itself is bugged, and any time you delete a comment it resets to 0.

    hierophant_nihilant ,

    That’s what I fucking did. Reddit was shit not because of karma, but because of hivemind and owners. Lemmy is not protected from that either, but at least users potentially have more power here

    Imgonnatrythis ,

    You can, but there’s absolutely no reason to think the community population will ignore it, once it has its own value the karma whores will arise. People literally sell high karma accounts for real money. You can’t ignore the karma farmers when they are all around you and you can’t ignore the fact that it shapes real user behavior toward hive-mind dribble. Keep karma to the Gods, it is not for mortals to toy with.

    SatansMaggotyCumFart , in Twitter

    He looks high as giraffe pussy in that picture.

    Lost_My_Mind ,

    …ya know, I’m 40 years old, and up until this point in my life I’ve never once considered what a giraffe pussy looks like…and my brain isn’t capable of doing so. Maybe that’s a good thing.

    SpaceNoodle ,

    They got a zoo in your town?

    popekingjoe ,
    @popekingjoe@lemmy.world avatar

    I don’t think I like where this is going…

    SpaceNoodle ,

    … To the zoo?

    popekingjoe ,
    @popekingjoe@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeah it’s way too hot for a zoo trip. 🫠

    SpaceNoodle ,

    It’s giraffe pussy, why do you think that’s hot?

    popekingjoe ,
    @popekingjoe@lemmy.world avatar

    Any hole is a goal.

    Branch_Ranch ,

    You’re gunna need a ladder!

    EurekaStockade ,

    They kick you out if you get too close to the animals genitals :(

    SpaceNoodle ,

    Binoculars, buddy.

    QuantumSparkles ,

    It got bad enough they had to put up signs

    PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
    @PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Ask and you shall receive:

    NSFW, but not pornographicClick here for a non-sexualized video of the birth of a baby giraffe. It’s pretty high!

    idiomaddict ,

    Did she prolapse or is the baby just wearing the amniotic sac? Jesus, birthing hooves seems unpleasant

    AlligatorBlizzard ,

    I’m not going to watch the video, are giraffe babies born with fairy fingers like horses?

    idiomaddict ,

    I’m very grossed out after looking it up, but I can’t tell and I don’t want to watch it again, tbh.

    thermal_shock ,

    black lips to match the tongue

    Banichan ,
    @Banichan@dormi.zone avatar

    Joe Rogan, is that you?

    itsgroundhogdayagain ,

    The bottom eyelids are a dead giveaway

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