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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…

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57 points

Replace your airb&bs spy cams with regular objects to get free surveillance equipment.

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9 points

The real LPT is always in the comments

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19 points

Oops, I unplugged the router. Only noticed when I was leaving.

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10 points

This is the way. I really do love @GluWu@lemm.ee’s suggestion, but you’d have to find them first, this is far less time and effort consuming lol

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8 points

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.

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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.

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You should be OK, unlikely they will bother watching a camera over a few burned out bulbs.

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4 points

unlikely they will bother watching a camera over a few burned out bulbs

Lol, have you ever met a leech landlord?

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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

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26 points

This might be the funniest SLPT I’ve ever seen.

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Well yeah, because its not shitty. Only for the AirB&B owner, but the landlord class can suck my ass.

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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.

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That’s not why it’s funny.

It’s funny because it’s an actually realistic shitty thing you can do.

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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.

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that was connected to the host’s camera system.

Yikes, cameras in an airbnb? No thank you.

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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.

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12 points

How funny would it be to switch out every working bulb with a non working one

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8 points

This is more like an unethical life pro tip.

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