I don't really buy the damage to communities thing.

Accommodation for tourists will always compete with accommodation for residents. If tourists aren't staying in apartments then you need less apartments and more hotels. If tourists aren't staying in hotels then you have more apartments.

There's not really any data that suggests that short stay accommodation is causing social problems like increasing the cost of living in communities generally.

Of course there are exceptions - holiday destinations with limited accommodation supply, inadequate regulations around short stay accommodation et cetera, but those are the exception rather than the norm.

Here in Western Australia short stay accommodation has to be approved by the local government. If you're approved you get a license number and without that AirBnB et al won't list you.

Because most people on lemmy have very little life experience, can't afford to travel, and believe AirBnB is the reason they don't live in a mansion.

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.

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

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

unlikely they will bother watching a camera over a few burned out bulbs

Lol, have you ever met a ~~leech~~ landlord?

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'm more concerned about the ones I'm potentially coming home with

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?

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)

what are you doing with them 😂

They still burn out pretty regularly for me

1. Make sure your fixtures are ventilated. Prolonged heat degrades the capacitor until the power supply dies. The LEDs themselves are generally fine.

2. There was a cap plague a few years ago and cheap bulbs got the worst of it.

3. 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.

4. 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.

yeah but it takes such a long time