misinformation is more likely to spread without correction

This hasn’t been my experience on Lemmy at all. Misinformation here is usually called out in the first comment, which is counter to what I’ve seen on Reddit, Facebook, twitter, etc. where people are more interested in making funny quips than actually engaging with the topic.

Linux is not that hard. These days it’s easier than Windows in some ways.

Fair enough! I suppose I had a more surface-level interpretation of the post than you, just seeing how much more appealing the area looked without all the big roads. I can see how you could think the post is misleading.

Isn’t part of the point of the post that the freeways are ugly? Just because it’s rich people thinking it’s ugly doesn’t make it untrue.

Touching on the burnout section of the article, it’s not quite as cool as the PSP but I’ve been playing a lot on my Switch 2 as a form of digital detox as well. I put limits on all the addictive apps on my phone, and downright uninstalled most of them, so when I’m itching for dopamine my phone can’t give me it’s nice to turn to a game console. The switch 2 also doesn’t have notifications or egregious game updates. Currently playing through factorio and having a blast just kinda … ignoring the state of the world.

As the number of cars goes up the right begins to look more and more like the left. While both can exist it is not propaganda to compare the two in this way.

It being foreign to you is literally an anecdote too you fucking idiot lmfaoooo

You said it was foreign to you… So I provided an example of it happening…

Last year my job refused to give me an inflation adjustment, then they laid me off 6 months later because they didn’t have as much growth as they projected.

If the concept of someone staying in the same rental for a while and having their rent increase over time is that foreign to you then I don’t think you should be commenting on this topic.

You can be if you stay in the same place and the rent keeps increasing.

Banks will not give you the loan if you do not make enough such that your repayments would be less than 35% of your income. But you could very well already be paying more than 35% of your income as rent. Trust me bro not everyone is renting because they feel like it. One of my friends saved a $100k deposit but didn’t have the income to get a big enough loan for a house. These people aren’t just stupid. Buying isn’t an option for them.

Yes, it’s in favour of buying in the past. If you missed your window you’re fucked though. That’s why I bought, because I recognised the sliding window and knew if I didn’t buy now I’d be locked out of buying forever and instead get stuck renting forever. I don’t think anyone is against buying, just often unable to.

Yes I’ve applied. I bought a place last year so it’s very fresh. Banks being math-based is exactly the point. They won’t bend the rules for you. Plus the expense is mostly set in stone once you buy, whereas with renting you can rent an affordable place and have it increase year-on-year every year following, taking it from within that 35% to above it.

Banks don’t give loans like that to people who aren’t high earners already.

People could happily spend 50%+ of their income on their mortgage but banks will not give them those loans because they are seen as high risk, whereas people can rent at 50%+ of their income because there’s less risk for the landlord (their only real risk is having to find a new tenant).

Congrats, you’re in the minority.

Agreed 👍

I assume it’s people making (hopefully consensual) POV videos.

Land of the free lmao

Yeah I think it went pretty well. Would like to have a job at some point in the future as I recently bought a house only to be made redundant 4 months later.