Well I’ll be got-damned, looks like Search Party is a feature native to the Ring Neighbors platform and separate from the whole Flock partnership. https://www.cnet.com/home/security/what-does-rings-search-party-ai-pet-tracking-do-to-your-privacy-i-got-the-details/

Specifically, this feature appears opt-out, so if someone does have a Ring camera, good idea to take a spin through the settings. Or, the easiest remediation was my original suggestion, chuck it in the bin (or responsibly dispose of it, if you can).

FWIW, Ring announced they were canceling their partnership with Flock a few days ago following the Superbowl ad where they were universally dragged. https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-and-flock-cancel-partnership/

Do I think Ring is still running some sort of analytics on video feeds? Probably. Should you put anything from Amazon directly in the trash? Absolutely.

Silver lining I guess is that public pressure still works at least a little when companies try to go straight dystopian.

Did you muck with Logseq at all? That’s my preferred note taking app and it checks a lot of your boxes, the biggest miss probably being the Electron app part. That said, I’ve never noticed any slow downs.

But this is great to have options and a larger ecosystem. I’ll have to check it out.

What about cases where the move is only temporary? Should people sell every time and hope there is a place to live when they return?

In the private lender case, do you see that as different from someone who starts their own company and manages the property themselves while the renter pays them directly?

The earning equity piece isn’t necessarily incorrect, what the owner is losing is potentially the opportunity to move at all. This assumes they can afford a mortgage + whatever it costs to live somewhere else.

The economists’ answer is that renting exists for the people in this situation. You may be moving to another country for a year or two. Are you going to buy a new house every time you move? Renting gives flexibility in that regard.

Likewise for refugees, putting them up in a rental is a more efficient solution than building new housing for each family.

That said, the model provides an inherently exploitative market and needs some kind of overlay to function efficiently, which in most US cities it doesn’t at all.

You can plus this up into a vodka cream sauce fairly easily. Throw some garlic in with that onion once it’s starting to look translucent. Cook the tomato paste for a bit until it starts taking on some color then add like 1.5 tbl of vodka and let it cook a bit to lose some of the alcohol flavor.

Throw in some butter and Parmesan cheese at the end if you have it. Also can incorporate different meats if they’re cheap that week and scales up real well.

Look up Brian Lagerstrom vodka pasta on YouTube or Piped for the recipe I’m referring to. He also gives options for shelf stable replacements so you can stock up.