Yeah putting the heated seats in a touch screen control in the ioniqs seemed like such an obvious miss for a company that is committed to physical buttons.

I'm on a wait list for the 6 now, any other annoyances you have noticed with your 5? This is more money than I have ever spent on a car so I am a bit gun shy about it

man and here I am having spent my entire career learning how to update complicated systems without breaking them and this whole time it turns out I could have done that and just told my boss that its not my fault its broken...

What a world.

But all the expert builders here on slashdot have been telling me for over a year that its technically infeasible to convert an office building to apartments.

If a house wasn't an investment, why would you buy instead of rent?

The Fair housing act looses a lot of its teeth when the building is owner occupied (even if the unit is separate from the one the owner lives in). That may not be the case here but it is a lot more complicated than it seems on its face

Possibly for both of them... The argument is that side loading will spur innovation that the app stores are stifling. There should be significant evidence of this in the Android eco system. If there isn't a thriving side loading market there, why do we think there will be on iOS?

Im sure a ton of people will chime in with their favorite side load app but an app used by slashdot geek doesn't make a thriving economic ecosystem. If its not used by the general public then its not going to have the kind of economic impact that the administration is clamoring for

Netflix should charge Telco/ISP for their subs to access their content.

And with that, we have re-invented cable TV.

Ive only gone one summer and I have solar so I have to compare power draw, I don't have an easy bill comparison to look at but I saved a decent amount this year on AC alone vs window units and the house is far more comfortable than it ever was with the window units in.

the thing is a prompt is a bad idea. That means that while you might not see a preview of what someone is sending you that you still get your phone use interrupted by a prompt.

Having a "temporarily open" setting makes a lot of sense for something like this and it should have been in there from the beginning.

yeah but sometimes I am talking to someone who isn't a contact and I want them to drop me a picture they took or some other bit of data and so I turn on the feature and then I have to remember to turn it off.

Having this time limited was an obvious feature they should have include years ago and the use case for having your phone setup as a constant publicly available drop box is kind of not a thing.

I don't care for why they did it, but it should have been a feature from day one.

Im sure the invisible hand will take care of all these empty buildings being talked about. You know, the ones from the article that you ignore in your comment. It's nothing to worry about at all. They will be maintained as safe and habitable even as they fail to cover their own debt service.

If demand had everything to do with prices then prices would be plummeting right now but instead they are basically the same as they were before the pandemic when those buildings were full.

Im a landlord. If I can't get my place rented out at the rate I want then I have to lower my rate (hopefully not below my expenses but if so, that's on me)

I have a place that has 2 small 1br appartments next to each other. They make pretty good money rented separately. If they stopped renting for that I would have to lower the rent. If, even after lowering it, I can't rent the place because nobody wants a 1br anymore then I would need to look at combining them to make a larger apartment. Nobody wants to do that, it costs a ton and you get less total rent and lower the "value" of your building on paper...

But if the place can't be rented as 2 1br then you make nothing.... and if 1br aren't renting the value of your building has already fallen. Nobody else wants to pay to switch places with you. Bite the bullet, do what needs to be done to get cash flow back and go from there. Plus enjoy the accumulated tax credits while you are trying to figure it out.

its not cheap at all, but I can't imagine the cost of letting an asset that large fall into disrepair and eventually have to demolish it are any better. One is hard short term, the other is hard long term.... folks love pushing off the bad until later.

plus the tax credits you build up don't entirely suck.

They have new hyper heat system heat pumps that work a lot lower than the old ones. Given what has been happening with the price of gas I wish I had shelled out the extra for that when I installed mine.

Odd, I had no trouble crossing to go to Montreal back in May. Have they changed anything?