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The argument would be, not saying I agree or disagree as I think it's more complex and nuanced than this, is that they are taking on the risk of maintaining and loaning a very expensive asset to somebody and hoping they'll look after it and pay that cost of borrowing it.

Is the implication here that if the landlords hadn't bought the property, the people renting would be able to buy it?

I'm not disagreeing with you but I'm curious on how the housing would be freely accessible if the landlord hadn't bought it... are you saying the renter would have otherwise purchased their home?

I believe you can run the monitor at 60% brightness and reduced volume on it's speakers when powering it from the 500... the separate power supply just allows you to put both of those things to max.

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

An astonishingly good story line that can only be really appreciated blind.

For those of you who remember TotalBiscuit, he rated this as one of his favourite games.

dice.camp

The only thing stopping me moving to Brave is the awful bookmark sync implementation... when I used it for a small period in the past it was keeping some I'd long deleted on other devices etc

I also would prefer it to implement bookmark separators (like both Vivaldi and FF do) but I can live without those if they sorted out the sync.

How is the management of them ? I see they shout about their app but can I just login using a proper keyboard on a computer to setup things like DHCP easily? How much is hidden behind a subscription service (the biggest frustration with my eero's currently)?

It cannot - more and more content is coming from AI so they are just "relearning" what one of the AI platforms has already produced... the endgame of that is convergence on nothing new being produced from AI

Not OP but for me just having it support macOS autocorrect in the browser would be great... I can literally load any other browser and my typed shortcuts (eg if it type @ @ (without the space in between) it gets auto replaced with my email address) just work... not Firefox though 🤷🏻‍♂️

I bought my iMac in March 2020... since then it's been powered down maybe half a dozen times (a couple of those were power cuts) and rebooted (outside of macOS updates) maybe ten times.

It just sits there reliably doing its thing and sucks little juice in power saving so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sentiment is fine, but it's still removing a choice (however misguided, in some people's views, that is) from the user

They still a thing? Not sure they're that common in the UK at least 🤷🏻‍♂️

You sort of didn't read my whole post and just looked at the last bit - I pay for excellent search results with Kagi, the fact it's also private (because I pay) is a bonus. However for local searches, I find Kagi is a bit US centric, so a simple !g bang operator gives me a private search through Google which still excels at these types of things... for anyway, who knows what Kagi has up their sleeves 🤷🏻‍♂️

A VPN with Google would still give me rubbish Google search results and marginal privacy against Google's algorithms (their fingerprinting likely knows it's me anyway), and I'd need to keep switching it on and off to make full use of my 1gb/s cable internet speed.

When it came down to it I realised I use search many many many mores times a day than I do Netflix so it became a no brainer for me to use Kagi... it's funny my wife (who laughs at me for paying for search) was looking for a particular recipe yesterday and she was bouncing around Google unable to find exactly what she wanted... I put it into Kagi and it was literally the first item returned. She still laughs at me 🤷🏻‍♂️

What I will say is Kagi is pretty useless for local searching though, eg looking for a local business, Google is still much better at that but you can Google through Kagi to help protect privacy.

Clunge

Another vote for Kagi here as well... except for searching for local businesses near where I live, I revert to Google for that, but I Google through Kagi so privacy is somewhat protected

But then you potentially lose fringe interest videos which the creator makes for fun, only expects a thousand views from people with similar fringe interests and isn't interested in being paid

Right so what browser should I use now??? 😡

And macOS autocorrect would be nice as well