alexandrerond

I have legal holiday rentals on two properties in Spain, but they are managed by an specialized company:

* The regional administration handed out licenses without problems until a year ago, even when everyone was complaining already about these rentals. It was just paperwork + fee to get the license. They did for years and now they wonder why there are so many flats: they allowed it.

* The main issue these rentals cause to the neighbors is people partying, being noisy, inconsiderate. Rentals have rules against these behaviors yet they happen frequently. I wish we or the police had tools to legally kick people out in the middle of the night for this behavior.

* Apart from legal rentals, which are being limited now, there are a lot of illegal rentals. They are only starting to crack down on them. AirBNB and others have not complied with the law and this should not come as surprise. They have actively enabled illegal businesses for years. People go to jail for that and they should shut them down.

* There is no affordable housing in the city-center. Rental flats make it worse but in many places the issue will not be fixed if they disappeared. The causes are deeper and a nice flat is not going to become "cheap" to rent in any case.

* Holiday rentals are a bit more profitable that long-term rentals, but not crazy unless you are doing it at scale and they come with their own problems. Many are switching now to "seasonal" rentals, which are rentals for a period less than a year and the tenants need to go then. They forgot to handle these in the new regulations. Long-term rental is problematic because you can't use your flat when you need it. i.e. if you have a flat that you come to spend your own holidays. So people in that situation have limited alternatives.

* I am personally not against switching to long term rentals, but the current situation wrt. licenses etc. puts me in a "wait and see" mode. My flat is legal, so they might make it more profitable by cracking down on illegal ones. Once I put a long-term rental I cannot ever go back to vacation rental either. There is little incentive to switch right now, but I will of course do it if I'm legally required to do so. For all the talk, they haven't taken that step, which is a testament to how politicians can say one thing and then do close to nothing in the end.

Or... you know... Don't use small displays with 4k resolution and tiny fonts.

Please explain why a website is the better solution for your project than existing technologies, and please no projects that exist solely for the purpose of reaching a browser-based audience, enabling webapps and so on!

I look forward to seeing your replies!

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Repeat excercise with the Internet, the punch hole card, the steam machine, the landline telephone etc etc.

Even if some tech eventually fails, that doesn't mean it was pointless.

I'm an average Joe and I understand what you explained and thank you for it.

The author prefers his amazing art to stay unused and gets mad at unauthorized distribution by a tiny media site in Spain. Also gets a kick of sueing people. I respect this.

But also, no need to be lile this.

I run some machines on Hetzner with 10x disks sw-RAIDed in a very hands off fashion. From time to time I look how they're doing.

Usually a few disks have blown up, or are erroring or have smart errors. I then need to open 1 ticket per disk to get it fixed. They get replaced with really old disks (25k+ hours) which suffer same failures soon after.

At one point support complained that I was making too many requests to change their broken disks as if it was my fault that 20% were screwed.

Then they treat you like an idiot as much as they can. They ask you to provide disk slots numbering for disks which are impossible to get/know for a customer because they cannot read the serial number labels on the chassis and generally assume customer's fault to not know where they plugged something.

Sometimes machines do not restart after changing the disks and they don't realize so have to follow up again.

Network isolation doesn't exist so any weird network behavior from the machines towards then LAN gets you blocked.

If something is wrong you have to beg for some console access that they need to enable on demand only to find they plugged something wrong.

But they're cheap so...

As Europeans it is hard to grasp that some places may attempt positive discrimination based on race and many comments go in this direction.

But one of the things that most surprised me from visiting the US is the huge racial diversity, way more that we can enjoy in most of Europe, which is really a blessing for the US.

I invite Europeans to picture the scenario of a society where large groups of population are routinely discriminated, abused, put in disadvantage based on the color of their skin, or their names, or the places where they live. It is just normal that institutions have positive discrimination policies.

Oh wait, you don't have to do picture it since we actually do just that. It's just our "racial minorities" are even smaller and unable to form critical mass to cause change, something women and LGTB+ collectives more or less managed. See how immigrants are treated, particularly if they are not white enough.

Totally.

There's distance between:

"people think I'm stupid because I'm not scared to show that I don't know about something"

and some of the examples which are more along the lines of

"people think I'm stupid because I act as a self-entitled genius who provides little context or reasoning behind choices and expect everyone to line up behind with no question"

What is the Apple store employee supposed to do to not make someone feel stupid when they ask for the smallest box? What are the chances they're not a clueless customer in need of help and have solid reasons behind?

The boss raises an eyebrow when someome proposes to skip half of the test suite? Means a lack of trust.

The insurance dealer does his job and tries to get a higher premium? Not surprised.

There's quite a bit of narcissism here: "They though I'm stupid but I'm not", " I was right in the end". It's actually arguing how everyone else is dumber in the end.

A more sincere approach would have been to explain how he realized how stupid he actually was and how not being defensive about it helped. But perhaps the author knows better after all.

It's confusing until you use parentheses.

Lol the battery of my Pixel 5 without Google (Graphene OS) already lasts more than 48 hours.

I was so excited to read this because I thought Yubico had finally launched implantable NFC yubikeys that we could carry under the skin.

Too bad it's just a fingerpirnt sensor.