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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • I find the “… sell for so little” part to be the bull shit part. I’m currently renting a house. My landlord, that owns multiple properties across the city, recently offered all of their tenants the opportunity to buy their houses. The records are public, they bought the house a little after Covid and did some fixing up. They are asking for nearly 3x what they paid for it.

    Now they actually did a good job compared to some horror shows I have seen, but not 3x the cost as good. I’m not opposed to people making a small profit off of a property, that amount is just pure greed. At current interest rates buying the house would make my monthly housing costs (mortgage, taxes, insurance, PMI, etc.) more than rent currently. They could have literally thrown out a price that would have resulted in my monthly housing costs exactly match rent and still made a ludicrous profit, but fuck that apparently.

    What baffles me about individual homeowners who are happy their home has appreciated so much and would be upset if the value suddenly dropped is how short sighted it seems. Taxes exist (as they should). If the cost of homes keeps outpacing the rise in wages at some point it doesn’t matter how valuable the home is, they won’t be able to afford the taxes.

    But what the fuck do I know, I’m just some pleb surf that doesn’t think something like housing should be viewed as an investment vehicle.




  • That’s nice. I wish a security token was also an option, but it doesn’t appear they have any intention of implementing that. I don’t like the idea of using biometrics for anything specifically because of law enforcement and how there I can be compelled to provide biometric data. A security dongle is almost the same, but with the “advantage” that a little bit of security through obscurity can be implemented since they not only have to know a token is required, but also which one.

    Technically that’s also a disadvantage in that a security token can be lost vs biometric, but that’s the risk profile I would personally prefer.




  • Are either of those accessible from the GUI in a fresh default install? I know exactly where in Windows to find that control panel (granted they make it more convoluted to get to in every successive version), but I don’t know how I would do it with just what the OS provides in either Mint or Kubuntu (the two distros I have the most familiarity with).

    I have only been rocking Linux as a daily driver for a year or two now though, so it could just be a gap in my knowledge.