Knowing airb&b, they probably already have an "extra lightbulbs" charge baked in to the cost somewhere..
E: that, or the owner will catch you on spycam and not only charge you but get you blacklisted, too..
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Replace your airb&bs spy cams with regular objects to get free surveillance equipment.
The real LPT is always in the comments
Oops, I unplugged the router. Only noticed when I was leaving.
This is the way. I really do love @[email protected]'s suggestion, but you'd have to find them first, this is far less time and effort consuming lol
This is a thing I like to do. But then people I'm staying with bitch about not having WiFi. I'd rather have no wifi and not be spied on 24/7.
I accidentally held down this little button on the back of the router for 10 seconds, then I accidentally logged in and changed the SSID and password. 🤷
Also your routers shitty default firmware doesn’t support a vpn client, so I accidentally flashed it with OpenWRT.
2/5 stars: Roku TV stopped working.
Also someone stopped by to drop off a letter for you. Said you are being served by the MPAA. Whatever that means lol. Would not recommend.
You should be OK, unlikely they will bother watching a camera over a few burned out bulbs.
unlikely they will bother watching a camera over a few burned out bulbs
Lol, have you ever met a ~~leech~~ landlord?
I'm not convinced that they aren't using the cameras without reason to to begin with, let alone having an excuse to use them. There's some freaks out there
This might be the funniest SLPT I've ever seen.
Well yeah, because its not shitty. Only for the AirB&B owner, but the landlord class can suck my ass.
You are right, it is shitty for the airbnb owner. Which is great! Sometimes you gotta bring some shitty to those bastards. Being shitty is not always a bad thing.
That's not why it's funny.
It's funny because it's an actually realistic shitty thing you can do.
I never stay in Airbnbs because I am vehemently against them as a concept because of what it does to local housing prices and availability. Sometimes, however I get dragged into trips where I'm not planning the lodging, and this was one of those times.
The last time I stayed in one I packed a charger for my phone (I usually don't pack my good chargers on trips, and usually pack the slower USB type A to USB C chargers I have because when traveling, not a lot of places have integrated USB C everywhere). I plugged my phone and realized my phone was getting crazy hot from it, and not charging well. I thought, that's weird, it's a Samsung charger. I looked at it a bit closer, and it was actually some shitty Chinese charger in the shape of a Samsung charger. No idea where I inherited it from, but I swapped the brick with a random brick that was connected to the host's camera system. I hope it fried that shit. Fuck AirBNB.
that was connected to the host's camera system.
Yikes, cameras in an airbnb? No thank you.
Technically they were at least officially for the outside and the doorbell. Whether that host has some hidden inside, who's to say, but yeah, I didn't exactly feel bad about it.
How funny would it be to switch out every working bulb with a non working one
This is more like an unethical life pro tip.
No one on Lemmy uses AirBnB.
I'm sorry, but you can't beat AirBNB/VRBO when you're a larger group of people for a longer stay.
That being said, my eyes have been opened recently about the damage this does to communities, and it's definitely a consideration now.
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Why not? I do very frequently, though recently hotels are becoming the better deals again.
Flying internationally with some broken bulbs in my luggage is a shit way to save money though, but that's the community we're in anyway.
I use airbnb and like it. But I'm european and we have basic common sense.
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They sell perfectly acceptable flicker free LED light bulbs at the dollar tree now. This totally isn't worth the time and effort.
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this isnt even shitty, except light bulbs dotn really burn out anymore
They still burn out pretty regularly for me, probably at the same rate as non-leds.
what are you doing with them 😂
Probably buy them from manufacturers that are still part of lightbulb conspiracy 🙃
They still burn out pretty regularly for me
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Make sure your fixtures are ventilated. Prolonged heat degrades the capacitor until the power supply dies. The LEDs themselves are generally fine.
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There was a cap plague a few years ago and cheap bulbs got the worst of it.
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Until recently, super bright versions (150w-200w equivalent) only came from off-brands because none of the name brands wanted to put their name on something unreliable.
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If still have regular problems with the LED bulbs, buy them from the dollar store. They probably won't last any longer, but if they're gonna die on you anyway, the cheap ass ones from there still provide the same light as the better known models.
As others have mentioned, there's something wrong with your setup. Your entire home should probably only be going through 1-2 replacements per year, vs replacing nearly all of them every year (as was the case with 1000-hour incandescents)
Not like they used too, but still do. Built a new home, and in less than 2 years, several of the cheap contractor grade bulbs have burned out.
yeah I do start to wonder if this "contractor grade" stuff means shit tier. Also arent contractors generally trying to cut every possible corner to maximize profit on their bid?
It's the civilian equivalent of "military grade".
Yes.
It is the absolute cheapest grade. Usually, they try to hide that fact, but these bulbs literally say contractor-serialnumber lol.
They might. Usually it's the transformer, though. And even the LEDs will degrade over time.
yeah but it takes such a long time
Air Bed & Bulbs
Dubiously "pro" in my opinion; you stand to gain so very little at the cost of packing glass bulbs in your bag. At least if you can't swap the lights out for some reason, you can just throw them away at the hotel and confuse the staff. I'd rather not risk shards in my luggage.
Haven't used a glass bulb in at least half a decade.
Even specialty bulbs are plastic LED mostly
I'm more concerned about the ones I'm potentially coming home with
Fair but also... You'd be trading downwards if they were incandescent
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