I have actually travelled quite a bit, and I always prefer hotels both because they're cheap and because they're not as damaging to local communities. Hotels usually include breakfast, and for relatively cheap you can also eat and have dinner there. Even when taking into account the price of the food and restaurants, they mostly still end up being cheaper.

Holiday rentals open in residential areas that are not built to handle big number of tourists.

Tourists will fill up residential areas even if there are no hotels/apartments in them. Cities themselves are not made to cope with that amount of tourists.

Residents don't want to share buildings with tourists because they are laud and destroy the property.

This is an issue, but the main issue with rentals is that they drive up the prices and push people away to suburbs.

What the size of business has to do with anything? A local Rolex store will have as many employees as local fridge magnet store.

Rolex is not a local company, and will take most of that money away from the local economy. Small shops can be owned by locals, so most of the money spent there stays in the local economy.

Poor tourists only generate a lot of low paying jobs because you need a lot of them to make any real money. Cities are trying to bring more rich tourists to maintain the level of revenue and instead of creating low paying jobs serving poor tourists grow other sectors of economy.

I'm pretty sure Rolex pays its employees the same as any other company. Probably close to minimum wage. Rolex doesn't care about creating high paying jobs.

No tourist city I've ever lived in has ever worried about rich tourists. In fact, most people want them gone first.

1mo ago

Another Spanish city is clamping down on holiday rentals

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black0ut @pawb.social 1mo ago

Hotels aren't more expensive than rentals. Hotels generate jobs, which rentals don't. That's why hotels are preferred. Hotels also don't drive up house prices, because they're purpose built.

Rich tourists don't generate more revenue for locals than poorer tourists. In fact, poorer tourists might generate more money for locals because they're more likely to shop in small businesses.

Either way, the biggest part of the income does not go to locals, but big corporations and owners.

Tourism also kills other businesses and sources of income, making a city even more dependent in more tourism. It makes everything more expensive too, so the cost of life increases, driving out locals.

1mo ago

Another Spanish city is clamping down on holiday rentals

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black0ut @pawb.social 1mo ago

It is a strong source of income, for who?

Certainly not the citizens. Mostly property owners that don't even live in the city.

1mo ago

Internet shutdown in Iran is now the longest in world history

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black0ut @pawb.social 1mo ago

I2P traffic isn't that difficult to detect or block, mainly because bootstrapping a node requires connecting to known reseed servers. They can block those reseed servers and your node would never be able to connect to the network.

1mo ago

[OC] Ring ding ding daa baa Baa aramba baa bom baa barooumba

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black0ut @pawb.social 1mo ago

Most annoying ~~creature~~ OS in the world

1mo ago

What the Hell is this Bull shit ?

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black0ut @pawb.social 1mo ago

GiB weren't invented by drive manufacturers (although they definitely benefit from it, and are incredibly scummy about it). It was invented by the SI people. GiB make sense, because the prefix "Giga" means 10⁶, while in binary it meant 2²⁰. It was a mess before, and GiB just standardized it in a way that is easy to understand and consistent with other units.

I do think we should force drive manufacturers to express their drive capacity in binary format, tho.

1mo ago

What the Hell is this Bull shit ?

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black0ut @pawb.social 1mo ago

All software has always interpreted it in binary as far as I know. There never was a good standard, and the most common way to differentiate in my experience was using KB as metric (decimal, SI) and K as binary. It's easy to confuse with the already convoluted standard of KB being a kilobyte and Kb being a kilobit.

The reason for the added "i" is that in every other system, kilo means 1000. Someone at the SI realized that it didn't make any sense to have it mean something different in software so they invented the Ki prefix (instead of K) to mean 1024. That is now the standard, and it's part of the SI (coloquially metric). As a consequence of this, you can technically use the Ki prefix with any other SI unit, so you can also use the KiM (kibimeter), which is 1024 meters. Idk why you'd use it, but it's funny that the option exists.

1mo ago

How do you setup swap when installing Linux if the system has SSD?

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black0ut @pawb.social 1mo ago

It will work fine, the issue is drive degradation. Especially if you don't have a lot of ram, swap will be used a lot. SSDs degrade with writes, so swapping on them reduces their life. This is especially noticeable on old or cheap SSDs, which tend to degrade faster. One example is those 8GB RAM macs with soldered 256GB SSDs, which due to cheap and small SSDs and low RAM were breaking really quickly.

If your SSDs have a lot if space, they are relatively new and you have a lot of RAM (32 GB is perfectly fine), you won't have much issue. If you're worried about it, you can always check drive health with smartctl

1mo ago

What the Hell is this Bull shit ?

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black0ut @pawb.social 1mo ago

There are (mainly) 3 reasons for that:

TB vs TiB: Computers don't count drive space in metric units, they count it in powers of 2. This means that, for you, 1 TB is 1000 GB, while for a computer, 1 TiB is 1024 GiB. Drive manufactirers take advantage of this, and only count space in metric (TB). So when you plug the drive into your computer, and it converts to GiB, you end up with 1 TB = 931.3 GiB. Windows hasn't helped this confusion, I remember it doing something weird like counting in GiB and displaying it as GB.
Reserved space: Many OSes reserve some space on their drives for special stuff. This is especially the case with Linux and ext4, where it by default reserves a percentage of the drive to root. This is to optimize distribution of files around the disk, which limits fragmentation. The system slowly frees more of this space as you fill up the disk, and at the end it should leave you with 100% of the space.
Formatting: Empty drive space isn't the same as usable drive space. In order to use a drive you need to format it, which doesn't just blank it. Formatting a drive adds a filesystem to it, which is what allows you to write files and folders to it. This filesystem takes up some space, and reserves more space for inodes and, in some cases, a filesystem journal. Some filesystems have even more features that also take up some space.