Depends on how frequently you’re accessing the data. If it’s infrequently used, then spin up/down can be beneficial. But yes, you raise a good point. Thank you. :)

You should look at power settings. HDDs can power down when not being read from or written to. It extends the time you wait when you need the data on them but can save on their lifetime / electric / heat.

By saying being a landlord is not a job and implying that everyone should get handed a house to live in - this post is saying renting should not be allowed / an option.

If there is no financial incentive to maintain the house, then there is no reason anyone would become a landlord / rent out their property.

Most people also fail to consider how expensive it can get to own a home, even if you’re renting it out. Rent covers unexpected costs of the home. For example, through no fault of anyone - a tree put its roots through your main sewer line and now the house has been filled with back up nastiness. In this situation - is the landlord / homeowner expected to come up with the money out of their own pocket when the rent is capped at the mortgage? Something like that can easily cost upwards of $20,000. Landlords just magically make money appear to cover the maintenance?

Renting is more like insurance. You pay a fixed rate while the landlord takes the risk of potentially having to put out a large sum of cash in a short period of time. Just because you didn’t get in an accident today doesn’t mean your insurance company didn’t pay out claims today. It’s a shared risk for all renters of the property instead of them being directly on the hook.

Add Mazda to this list please.

The developer of this plugin for HomeAssistant apparently didn’t have insurance and couldn’t risk the legal fight. This is the DMCA take down that Mazda issued for the reason that the code “provides functionality same as what is currently in Apple App Store and Google Play App Store”

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/10/2023-10-10-mazda.md

Additional Coverage: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/mazdas-dmca-takedown-kills-a-hobbyists-smart-car-api-tool/

Can you provide sources from this? I’m genuinely curious, the highest I’ve heard was $80,000 and it was a campus department with endowment funding.

Also, I wouldn’t count overtime as part of the salary. Having to work that much is going to put extra stress on you, make you irritable, wear you down, etc. and result in turnover.

Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, that driver of that truck is the one who is doing your bathroom/kitchen/whatever remodel and NEEDS that room to carry the supplies for that work?

You do realize that open carry doesn’t mean you can just walk around with a gun in your hand, right? The gun has to be on a sling or in a holster. Holding it in your hand in any way that looks like you immediately intend to use it is brandishing and results in a charge.

By their standards, it only needed to be no by 40%

That looks amazing! I’d be so excited to eat this but also terrified to eat it because it look like art.

I find myself more willing to comment/participate now. I’m not sure if it’s because I feel that I am getting in from the “beginning” or if it’s just because the community feels more “real”, but there is definitely a difference from Reddit.

I’m honestly waiting for sync to be ported. I loved the experience the developer created and want to support their migration to Lemmy. As much as I want a mobile app today, I’m willing to wait for one of my favorite devs to get their app ported over. :)

I opened sync to a blank page about 6 times before I had to uninstall it and I still find myself opening the folder it used to be in. I pause every time and sigh before I go find something else to do. I’m excited for the upcoming mobile apps for Lemmy and hope this can be a new home / refuge from the sadness that is now Reddit