The house part is a Canada thing. In America it's literally cheaper to pay a mortgage than rent the same house.

People buy single family homes to rent out and it's cash flow positive the first year. And that isn't even counting the equity and appreciation.

And single family homes are the worst case. Multi-units and apartments have even higher rent to value ratios.

Renting is a scam on people who fucked their own credit and self employed people who usually can't get loans without a few years of business profits on their tax returns. Anyone with a stable job and not shit credit can get a home loan with almost no down payment.

I'm glad these fags didn't get their way with the internet in its early days

Dude you see people spamming fucking nostr with bots and it's got like 15 active users.

The playlist view farming is completely automatable and it's free ad revenue.

It was fun to see online but not when you see people you know IRL get sucked into a scam 1 by 1 and you have to watch them get rugged in slo mo while refusing to listen to your warnings.

But have you actually cancelled your claude sub?

GrapheneOS is holding me hostage so I'm still gonna go with it but I'm thinking of buying an open box 10 on eBay for much cheaper.

Its probably perfectly fine performance wise but they charge flagship price for a shitty mid range chip and every aspect of the hardware is below flagship quality and missing any sort of features that every other phone company puts in their flagship. It's genuinely average and completely unremarkable hardware with an ugly as shit camera bump. They've kept the same ugly ass design for 5 years and every generation theres nothing new. It's a slightly better dogshit chip and thats it.

I'm not even someone who cares about performance. I bought low end hardware for my pc and I am content with it. I know the chip is all I need, but I want the phone to last years. My current phone is a oneplus 8. It's a flagship chip from 2020 and it's still perfectly smooth today. I doubt these Google chips will have the same longevity and if the hardware won't hold up, what's the point of 7 years of security updates? I get they want to use their own chips and are improving every year, but they need to actually charge accordingly. It needs to be at least $200 cheaper than the other flagships. On another note I hate when they only offer the bigger screen with the pro version. None of the pro features on any phone actually matter. I just want the big screen. They really charging $900 for the base model and if you want more screen you need to jump all the way to $1300. For comparison you can get the current Samsung for $800, a bigger screen on the plus for $900, and even the ultra is $1100. Apple is the same with $800 and $1200 for the pro max.

How the fuck is Google charging more than apple and Samsung for a far worse phone? I have no clue who tf is paying full price for these things. I can only assume that their MSRP price is just an FU price and their main business is selling heavily discounted through carriers. I can't imagine anyone but the reddit retards actually paying their advertised MSRP. I know ATT was offering me their last year pro XL phone for free to switch over.

The software part was a double entendre. Normies buy it for pixel OS, but I really just wanna run grapheneos.

Are you running base openwrt? That shits straight up unusable unless you only ever use it through an AI agent.

My African tribal chief would never rug me!

Common advise is for average people. We need the outliers to stick to their guts and create greatness, but no one wants to give advise with 1% chance of success (lower depending on recipient IQ). Arrogance is a net negative for most people. It only pays off if you actually do know better than everyone.