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.
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
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.
I never stay in Airbnbs because I am vehemently against them as a concept because of what it does to local housing prices and availability. Sometimes, however I get dragged into trips where I'm not planning the lodging, and this was one of those times.
The last time I stayed in one I packed a charger for my phone (I usually don't pack my good chargers on trips, and usually pack the slower USB type A to USB C chargers I have because when traveling, not a lot of places have integrated USB C everywhere). I plugged my phone and realized my phone was getting crazy hot from it, and not charging well. I thought, that's weird, it's a Samsung charger. I looked at it a bit closer, and it was actually some shitty Chinese charger in the shape of a Samsung charger. No idea where I inherited it from, but I swapped the brick with a random brick that was connected to the host's camera system. I hope it fried that shit. Fuck AirBNB.
Technically they were at least officially for the outside and the doorbell. Whether that host has some hidden inside, who's to say, but yeah, I didn't exactly feel bad about it.
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.
You are getting down votes because you left out how turning homes into profit generators is what's destroying communities. The only people that like airbnb are those that make all their decisions based on cost.
No, I'm getting downvotes because lemmy users just don't like AirBnB.
"Turning homes into profit generators" is hyperbole. Homes and the right to occupy them have value. Whether you live in it yourself, rent it to a long term tenant, or rent it to short term tenants, you're harvesting that value.
So you're just pulling stuff out of your ass? Most people on Lemmy seem middle aged. It definitely seems to skew fairly old compared to other social media. Even if it doesn't, it feels really weird to just label Lemmy users as not having life experience. Weirder to say people without life experience are the vast majority of AirBnB users. And like... Wtf is this about Lemmy users believing they'd have a mansion if not for AirBnB??
Yes of course I'm just pulling stuff out of my ass.
That said, I will cite the comments under this post as evidence in support of my assertions. People with little life experience tend to seek reductive explanations for problems like "property is expensive because of AirBnB".
Make sure your fixtures are ventilated. Prolonged heat degrades the capacitor until the power supply dies. The LEDs themselves are generally fine.
There was a cap plague a few years ago and cheap bulbs got the worst of it.
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.
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.
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)
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?
Dubiously "pro" in my opinion; you stand to gain so very little at the cost of packing glass bulbs in your bag. At least if you can't swap the lights out for some reason, you can just throw them away at the hotel and confuse the staff. I'd rather not risk shards in my luggage.
Knowing airb&b, they probably already have an "extra lightbulbs" charge baked in to the cost somewhere..
E: that, or the owner will catch you on spycam and not only charge you but get you blacklisted, too..
Replace your airb&bs spy cams with regular objects to get free surveillance equipment.
The real LPT is always in the comments
Oops, I unplugged the router. Only noticed when I was leaving.
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 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 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.
You should be OK, unlikely they will bother watching a camera over a few burned out bulbs.
Lol, have you ever met a
leechlandlord?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
This might be the funniest SLPT I've ever seen.
Well yeah, because its not shitty. Only for the AirB&B owner, but the landlord class can suck my ass.
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 never stay in Airbnbs because I am vehemently against them as a concept because of what it does to local housing prices and availability. Sometimes, however I get dragged into trips where I'm not planning the lodging, and this was one of those times.
The last time I stayed in one I packed a charger for my phone (I usually don't pack my good chargers on trips, and usually pack the slower USB type A to USB C chargers I have because when traveling, not a lot of places have integrated USB C everywhere). I plugged my phone and realized my phone was getting crazy hot from it, and not charging well. I thought, that's weird, it's a Samsung charger. I looked at it a bit closer, and it was actually some shitty Chinese charger in the shape of a Samsung charger. No idea where I inherited it from, but I swapped the brick with a random brick that was connected to the host's camera system. I hope it fried that shit. Fuck AirBNB.
Yikes, cameras in an airbnb? No thank you.
Technically they were at least officially for the outside and the doorbell. Whether that host has some hidden inside, who's to say, but yeah, I didn't exactly feel bad about it.
How funny would it be to switch out every working bulb with a non working one
This is more like an unethical life pro tip.
No one on Lemmy uses AirBnB.
I'm sorry, but you can't beat AirBNB/VRBO when you're a larger group of people for a longer stay.
That being said, my eyes have been opened recently about the damage this does to communities, and it's definitely a consideration now.
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.
You are getting down votes because you left out how turning homes into profit generators is what's destroying communities. The only people that like airbnb are those that make all their decisions based on cost.
No, I'm getting downvotes because lemmy users just don't like AirBnB.
"Turning homes into profit generators" is hyperbole. Homes and the right to occupy them have value. Whether you live in it yourself, rent it to a long term tenant, or rent it to short term tenants, you're harvesting that value.
Yep its just supply and demand then you got me.
That's not what I said at all.
Why not? I do very frequently, though recently hotels are becoming the better deals again.
Flying internationally with some broken bulbs in my luggage is a shit way to save money though, but that's the community we're in anyway.
Why do you say that?
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.
So you're just pulling stuff out of your ass? Most people on Lemmy seem middle aged. It definitely seems to skew fairly old compared to other social media. Even if it doesn't, it feels really weird to just label Lemmy users as not having life experience. Weirder to say people without life experience are the vast majority of AirBnB users. And like... Wtf is this about Lemmy users believing they'd have a mansion if not for AirBnB??
You probably just stumbled on the permabanned edgy reddit troll, who thinks he found a new home here.
Yes of course I'm just pulling stuff out of my ass.
That said, I will cite the comments under this post as evidence in support of my assertions. People with little life experience tend to seek reductive explanations for problems like "property is expensive because of AirBnB".
Reductive explanations like saying people on Lemmy have little life experience?
But I'm rubber and your glue!
They sell perfectly acceptable flicker free LED light bulbs at the dollar tree now. This totally isn't worth the time and effort.
This is legit the third time I've read about dollar tree today on lemmy
this isnt even shitty, except light bulbs dotn really burn out anymore
They still burn out pretty regularly for me, probably at the same rate as non-leds.
what are you doing with them 😂
Probably buy them from manufacturers that are still part of lightbulb conspiracy 🙃
Obligatory Technology Connections video...
Was there a fire station in California that had a light bulb from like 1906 that stayed on for like 100 years? This might explain a lot.
There still is, likely, but it's not because it was great more of never being turned off, it probably won't ever turn again.
It's still there, yep.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
Probably pulling a Mr. hands
The safe word is Enumclaw
Make sure your fixtures are ventilated. Prolonged heat degrades the capacitor until the power supply dies. The LEDs themselves are generally fine.
There was a cap plague a few years ago and cheap bulbs got the worst of it.
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.
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.
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)
Not like they used too, but still do. Built a new home, and in less than 2 years, several of the cheap contractor grade bulbs have burned out.
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?
Yes.
It's the civilian equivalent of "military grade".
It is the absolute cheapest grade. Usually, they try to hide that fact, but these bulbs literally say contractor-serialnumber lol.
They might. Usually it's the transformer, though. And even the LEDs will degrade over time.
yeah but it takes such a long time
Air Bed & Bulbs
Dubiously "pro" in my opinion; you stand to gain so very little at the cost of packing glass bulbs in your bag. At least if you can't swap the lights out for some reason, you can just throw them away at the hotel and confuse the staff. I'd rather not risk shards in my luggage.
Haven't used a glass bulb in at least half a decade.
Even specialty bulbs are plastic LED mostly
I'm more concerned about the ones I'm potentially coming home with
Fair but also... You'd be trading downwards if they were incandescent
Some LED bulbs have glass globes, though they are mostly plastic, especially the cheap ones.
Terrible Person Pro Tip
No no, do that in hotels, because they overcharge so goddamn bad.
Both. Both of them deserve it.
It’s less funny when you take into account that LED light bulbs last longer and can be more expensive.
Also, bravo OP, this takes some ingenuity to think of, Ross from friends would be jealous.