Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. If your own framework computer suffers from this issue, it would be cool to make a video where you implement the workaround for that hardware. You could also demontrate much cleaner implementation of the jumper wires than the one shown in the official documentation.
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  2. Yeah, when somebody says "nice scenery", I'm expecting something more like this: https://youtu.be/Mj21G69DnDs But then again, I'm from Finland so perhaps I'm a bit spoiled.
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  3. Yeah, I can tell for sure that if YouTube can actually successfully force ads for me, I'm definitely going to react negatively to the advertisers buying that ad space. Forcing ads on me is going to make me avoid you. uBlock Origin has worked just fine this far. I hope it will continue to work in future, too.
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  4. Technically that worker was correct. The way to fix that is to fix the legislation that prevents reusing stuff from the e-waste collection stack.
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  5. TL;DR: Louis is not afraid that he's breaking the law, he's afraid that he only has 4 official stamps on a paper that actually needs 5 official stamps from city byrochracy.
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  6. 3:00 The fun part is that even if you don't rent the "turn the real wheels more" feature, you still get to pay for all the extra ball joints needed for the feature. That said, according to sources I've seen, the S-class Mercedes does have 4 wheel steering always but the rear wheel rotation angle is limited by the computer unless you pay extra. I fully agree that when you purchase hardware, you should be able to use the all of that hardware. I'm not particulary green but even I think building things that have hardware features disabled is just too wasteful.
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  7. I think the Google's war on ad blockers is not actually about YouTube but web ads in general. YouTube is just the tool they use to force your hand because they know pretty much everybody use YouTube (in fact, I think YouTube has greater user count than the Google Chrome web browser).
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  8. Some companies already follow GDPR only for EU citizens. If you are a citizen of the USA, your data will be hold hostage and sold to 3rd parties whenever the service provider feels like it.
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  9. I would accept locked bootloaders if the software is included in the warranty, too. No more crap about "software is provided as-is" – if the customer cannot swap the software, the hardware manufacturer should be forced to fix all software issues by customer protection laws, or provide full refund no questions asked.
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  10. Louis starts by apologizing poor audio quality while still having better audio quality than 99.99% of all youtubers.
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  11. 18:41 (Reworded to make this shorter:) - Why are you putting so much effort on these videos teaching other people to do your job? - I want to be part of the change I want to see in the world. If I complain because I cannot find information, who am I to withold the information that I have. Respect. And I agree 100%.
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  12. I'm actually surprised that Apple doesn't solder the battery, too.
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  13. It seems very interesting that all these "clerical mistakes" have so closely similar sums. Makes you wonder if this amount goes just below some legal limit where it often goes under the radar, which would suggest this has been intentional.
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  14.  @winebartender6653  Yes, but the point of a video would be to show how quick the job is to complete if you have proper equipment and use proper wires.
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  15.  @alexusman  That's true, but it would definitely be newsworthy incident. Imagine Apple pretending to be green but closing down all repair services after fixing this bill. Their PR people are genius but that would require proper miracles to be turned positive.
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  16. And if you don't subscribe for the feature, you're still paying BMW for developing the required parts, service hierarchy and software that allows disabling the feature for you. Hopefully you're happy with your bang-for-the-buck for choosing the purchase a BMW car. It would be literally cheaper for BMW to allow all these features as standard! They are not trying to be cost effective, they are just trying to extort maximum amount of money from you. Do you think their service network is designed to be cost effective?
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  17. Louis has great summary of the current state of affairs: 7:25 "This has permeated our culture to the point where the Taliban has more confidence in their ability to fix American devices than Americans do."
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  18. Sponsorblock now has "Hightlight" of the video set to the start of feeding Blackberry.
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  19. Except if you live in EU and YouTube wants to provide their service to EU, they cannot sell your profile information without explicit permission because of GDPR.
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  20. Yes, this is actually the exact same "problem" as with DRM. Both require that Alice can send a secret message to Bob without Eve getting access to it. And Bob and Eve are aliases for the same person!
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  21. I find it really interesting that the tape was good enough for this. It looked like it barely had enough stickiness to stay on the side of the platter and you only have one try while moving the platterns. If the tape fails mid-air, you data is gone forever. I'm also surprised to find that laminar airflow box was good enough for this job. How about more recent HDDs having e.g. 6 TB in a single 3.5" drive?
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  22. I agree. OEM should be able to specify "OEM recommended repair provider" but the owner of the device should be able to authorize any party they want to trust to repair their device.
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  23.  @wumi2419  If I understood correctly, the location for the battery cell factory was decided because of environmental regulations were less strict in the US. Yes, if you handle dangerous chemicals and there's a risk for a spill, the requirements for the plant are stricter in the EU. I consider that a good thing for the EU countries but it sure does increase costs.
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  24.  @ZeroB4NG  Copyright used to be 14 years in the USA with ability to register the work and get one time extension for another 14 years. This law was in effect 1790–1831. In 1831 the copyright time was changed to be 28 years for everybody. The law was again changed in 1909 to allow one time extension to another 28 years (making it total 56 years long for registered works). This was changed next time in 1976 to automatically grant period of 75 years or 50 years from the death of the author (whichever is longer). And it was again extended in 1998 (thanks, Disney!) to 120 years or 70 years from the death of the author (whichever is longer). The Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022 tries to shorten the copyright period back to 28 years with one time option to extend it to 56 years (for an extra fee, probably). I'm hoping it goes through but I'm expecting media companies to lobby it to halt. It's pretty clear that artists did create new works even with the year 1790 rules. All the extensions have been worse for the public but allowed companies to make more money.
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  25.  @rossmanngroup  I remember seeing a futuristic comic years ago where in first pane a person basically writes "Hi, how are you?" and AI generates a full page long email message which was then sent forward. In the last pane, receiver uses another AI that converted that full page of text back to "Hi, how are you?" I still feel regret I cannot find that comic but I think we've already reached the point where that comic describes reality!
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  26.  @wumi2419  Can you give out some examples of big manufacturers re-locating from EU to US because I don't know any? The manufacturing companies that leave EU are going for cheaper countries, not the US.
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  27. Great example of an old saying: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
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  28.  @eliahabib5111  I totally agree that the only way to do business internationally and avoid honoring GDPR is to ask every customer "Are you a citizen of any member country of the European Union?" and if the customer answers yes, deny access if you don't want to honor GDPR. I personally think it would be better idea to just comply with GDPR but some companies disagree here.
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  29. It's sad that you have to have 1.7M subscribers and publicly complain about them to change their behavior, but I guess it's better late than never.
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  30. They cannot hide the schematics as a trade secret because schematics can be figured out from example device. Creating schematics from the example device just requires lots of labour but is not hard and therefore there is no secret of any kind. I expect some kind of DRM + DMCA to allow serializing every part without the need to release all the software needed to whitelist the new serial numbers.
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  31. Lesson of the story: always take and store the receipt whenever you're even close to New York.
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  32.  @BladeOfLight16  The problem is that the original problem that the government bureaucracy was supposed to solve has been forgotten long time ago and nobody knows if the current practices has anything to do with the original problem that was trying to be solved.
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  33.  @r3beatty  I fully agree. I feel like in representative government every vote for a bill should start with a multiple choice questionnaire and if you don't get at least 60% correct, you cannot vote at all (or you automatically vote "I don't know" or "I didn't understand the question" or absent if that makes you happier). You MUST demonstrate understanding of the subject matter before you can decide about it.
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  34. To Apple's credit, it seems that Apple only wants your wallet but you can keep your private live.
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  35. Something like that should definitely be counted as design mistake and fixed/replaced by the factory if not documented in the user documentation. However, if the manufacturer documented the usable temperature range and maximum allowed change speed for the temperature and you exceeded either of those, it's your fault. If you look at the actual requirements for temperature, air humidity etc. very rare consumer devices are actually usable here in Finland where winters can get really cold. Basically you're on our own during winter time if you have to carry your devices with you during the winter.
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  36. Here in Finland building code requires every 3rd brick space to be empty for the bottom row. It's because there should be around 1 inch empty space behind the brick wall before other parts of the wall and this empty space is supposed to be open upwards. This is required because rain water will wet the bricks, the capilary effect will move the water through the whole brick and you have to make it possible for bricks to dry up after the rain unless you want mold and other nasty stuff. Usually houses that look like made of bricks are in fact made of wood and simply have outer layer made out of brick walls. The structure should have (from the outside) bricks, empty space, waterproof wind stopping panels, wooden wall structure with insulation, water wapor proof lining and interior wall.
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  37.  @bertram-raven  Why do you think that non-European company providing service for non-European customers should have any legislative pressure from GDPR? Yes, if the company is European or if it provides services for European citizens, then they must follow GDPR.
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  38. As a software engineer I think the only possible way forward is to make the required information available to all parties without limitations. If I were to decide, purchasing any hardware product would allow getting the schematics for free for that specific product. The information available in the schematics is already available to the owner of the hardware simply by scanning and probing the hardware so it's not like it's a trade secret and the manufacturer already has the data available in machine readable format because they were able to design and build the hardware so publishing it wouldn't cause extra cost to the manufacturer. Similarly, the firmware and all the required tools to flash the firmware should be freely available to hardware owners but the actual source code used to build the firmware could be kept secret as is usual with proprietary software. Again, the firmware can be extracted from the hardware so this wouldn't enforce manufacturers to disclose any secrets. In practice, it would be easier to publish the above mentioned data to public as whole instead of trying to publish it to hardware customers only. As for the spare parts, that's much harder part of the problem to enforce via legislation because of patents. Patents allow the patent owner to prevent the spare parts to be sold even if the spare parts could be manufactured by 3rd party suppliers. Maybe require that patented technology licensing must be included in the physical chips and specify in legislation that the 3rd party manufacturers are allowed to build copies of the chips as long as they pay the same amount of licensing fees as the OEM did? An alternative way would be to specify that licensing is tied to some specific part in the hardware (CPU, motherboard, case?) and replacing parts with spare parts do not require new license and 3rd party manufacturers are free to manufacture the spare parts without any license.
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  39.  @bignades1  You can already refuel any broken car at every fuel station. Maybe Tesla should fix the supercharger stalls if a broken car battery could cause problems there?
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  40.  @myopinion69420  I think the North Pole would be a good default for any uninitialized location in software. That should be as close as human readable null address you can get.
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  41. It's only the iPhone department which has any issues with USB-C. The MacBook department has already gone fully USB-C long time ago.
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  42. 13:00 Have you checked if your soldering station has some kind of battery for NVRAM storage and the battery has just gone bad? (Similar to BIOS battery in PCs.)
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  43. I think Louis should just get that shirt to a local tailor, explain what parts are now stretched and explain what the imporant features of the cloth originally were (e.g. did it have elastic stretch to soem specific directions only). Then the tailor should be able to create as many shirts are you need. You could even have both short sleeved and long sleeved versions perfectly working for your body.
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  44. I read the new terms not as "chargeback from your account" but "chargeback from your future earnings". You did mention this interpretation, too, but the money that's already on your bank account is yours to keep. These terms make any future income from YouTube even more random. And I have to agree with the problematic AI policies/decisions. I've been fighting with Google custom support after they randomly disabled account of a minor for no reason. I think I've been communicating with a real person instead of AI via email about the issue but either the customer support has their hands tied behind their back, or their abilities are close to AI because they haven't been able to fix the problem in two weeks after sending emails back and forth the whole time. And obviously you cannot call Google if you have issues with their system – you should feel lucky if you can email a person!
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  45.  @motinuppi  Yes, you're right that raising the minimum bar for different products will increase the prices. However, in long run that will result in better services and products because the bottom of the barrel competition is removed and now even the cheapest services and products are getting pretty good. That said, I really miss times when I could get unlimited mobile data connection for 5 EUR/month. Nowadays I have to pay 10–15 EUR/month and the difference is not just inflation.
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  46. Pretty clever response indeed! As a person living in the Europe, I would have totally missed the "cloth or something" reference. It also fits the response especially when the question is so inaccurate. (For example, do you have oily fingerprint marks, or a can of Pepsi all over the keyboard? "Cleaning" those two cases require quite different tools and amount of work.)
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  47.  @egg5474  Yeah, it could be like 100 page PDF file full of A2 pages. If only we had some devices that can handle PDF files... oh, we do have those things called "computers" and that Interweb thing to transfer the files. (And I know PDF is not the best format for such data but even that would be much better than the current situation.)
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  48. I'm still daily driving XZ2 Compact but Sony unsurprisingly failed to provide software support for it. It turned out to have even worse software support than the XZ1 Compact. Sadly, XZ2 Compact is the last compact Android phone ever built. After that, Samsung S10e is the least huge phone of all Android phones.
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  49. It seems to me that the real root cause is that banks evaluate the buildings according to rent asking price even if nobody actually rents anything. Rents cannot be lowered because banks would then terminate loans because the buildings are no longer worth the remaining loan, according to bank's logic. If banks valued unrented space as zero or negative value as they should, there wouldn't be so many unrented spaces available with insane asking prices. I totally agree that this should not be fixed by going back to work, even if that would worked by some miracle.
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  50. Great interview! And I have to say that System76 is now even better company in my books!
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  51.  @rossmanngroup  Oh, that explains the timing. It was obvious from the video that you both were sitting in the same chair using the same hardware so I was wondering how you can time the questions and answers correctly without a LOT of extra work.
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  52. I think every video about data recovery should include "Make sure your backups are working". That's valuable message if the recovery was successful and especially when recovery was not successful, like in this video.
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  53.  @reav3rtm  Sometimes executing manual SQL statements is actually needed on production database for administrative purposes but that shouldn't cause issues like this. Especially for money related data like this, where every change to the primary data should be logged in multiple places.
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  54. The rice is actually okay for removing moisture - it's a cheap alternative to silica gel. You're not supposed to even touch the outside of the device with rice, it's only supposed to reduce RH% of the air. If your device got actual liquid on the motherboard and the motherboard was connected to power, rice will not fix it.
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  55.  @Scyth3934  I don't know about all the legislation. I live in Finland and here we have "SER collection sites" where "SER" is short for rougly "electric and electronic waste" in Finnish. The legislation assumes that everybody understands that if the device is possible to repair, it shouldn't be brought to SER location. But once it has been bring to such place, it should be assumed potentially unsafe to try to fix because of unknown history and as such, it cannot be released to public anymore. It would be cool if SER locations had two stacks: one for "stuff I no longer need but it was working when I brought it here" and "stuff that's known broken and e.g. is not safe to connect to grid". Here in Finland, the SER locations are only supposed to deal with the latter category but in reality most people are bringing stuff in the former category! I would expect the legislation is equally broken in many other countries and states.
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  56.  @DEMENTO01  It only takes one idiot taking stuff from the e-waste bin and the setting his house on fire to get very restricting legislation to be initialized. Similar to how speed limits for cars were introduced, too.
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  57. I didn't like Apple before starting to watch Louis's videos. Now I despise Apple hardware.
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  58. DMCA is problematic because it was introduced to protect DRM which is a mathematical impossibility. So the only way to "fix" DRM is to raise legal barriers (read: DMCA) against specific use of mathematics (in practice, reverse engineering any given DRM implementation and sharing information about the results). If you were to fix DMCA you would break DRM as a side-effect and big media companies will push back very strongly against that. Not because DRM makes sense but it allows inflating media company profits. I'm afraid that public at large should be first educated how DRM is only working if your own devices work against you – by taking features away that would otherwise be available in your devices. And DMCA is about making removing those limitations illegal. Make no mistake, I strongly believe that DMCA should be taken down and everybody should be educated enough to understand that DRM is similar to perpetual motion machines. Neither does exist but some people still like to pretend so to extract money from other people. And the parts about DMCA which make some sense (e.g. ability to make YouTube possible) should be applied as real fixes to copyright legislation.
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  59. You would assume that the board design software includes automated checks for stuff like this, right? This must be fully intentional.
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  60.  @marcusa.rivera6377  If the employees are the thief, a system that can be deactivated/activated by the employees is not going to fix the issue.
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  61.  @Cheepchipsable  Car stereos are nowadays fully custom units that fit only one selected car model. No car comes with ISO 7736 DIN or Double DIN slots. In addition, even if the thief got unit from identical model to your car, you would still need to reprogram the radio using the ODB-2 port because nowadays everything is connected digitally gateway unit in your car and reprogramming that unit requires special tools preventing normal users from swapping radio of the car they own. Of course, all this makes fixing/replacing your own radio unit in your own car much more expensive, too. And customers accept this because they do not understand this while they make the purchase decision to buy the radio with the car. If they did research before the purchase decision, the might push back. If only 0.01% of the customers mind about things like this, car manufacturers tell you to either accept their style or go away.
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  62. Exactly this! Everybody makes mistakes every now and then. The adult behavior is take take responsibility for your own mistakes and try to make better work in future.
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  63. Whenever you access automated phone service, you can try pressing zero or hash button repeadly after the start of the call. I think many systems have a bypass that's officially designed for accessibility purposes for people that cannot navigate the menu system. In case the bypass works, it will transfer you faster to a human.
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  64. Yeah, owning somebody this bad is practically slavery!
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  65. 4:30 This very same mindset still exists with mechanical locks and locksmiths in general. I hope the situation gets better there, too. LPL is doing great job educating people about how crappy most mechanical locks (and some of the electronic locks, too) are but the locksmiths do not seem to be getting on board, at least yet.
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  66. 6:50 "If you have trouble finding an employee for your business in a city with 8.5 million people, [you might be paying too little for the job]." True that.
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  67. Is the system equally stupid as the system here in Finland? Here the respective government entity ("Museovirasto") may declare your building historical out of blue and suddenly its maintenance gets much more expensive because any changes that are visible to outside require permits. I would understand that if the government paid for the upkeep of that outdoor museum. In practice, this causes houses that are not yet declared historical to be intentionally modified to destroy the historical value before those houses are declared historical. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the original intent of the legislation!
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  68. Yeah, sometimes we need Louis to fix brains or the society. Some things are more important than someone's Macbook Pro.
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  69. This is the way you should do it. If you're not happy with the audio quality, offering to donate a better mic gets a long way to fix the problem. Complaining about something and asking other people to spend more money to fix the issue is just lame.
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  70.  @marceldiezasch6192  The actual problem is that most modern devices have internal battery and when you get liquid on the electrical parts, electrolysis will be going until you disconnect the battery. You have maybe 2-5 seconds until at least some permanent damage occurs. Good luck with that iPhone – do you know how easy it's to disconnect the battery with that? If you can disconnect the power within 2-5 seconds after getting the liquid on the motherboard, rinse the motherboard with isopropyl alcohol and let it fully dry (with or without rice) changes are pretty high it will be okay.
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  71.  @Erowens98  Do you think that a company would be in danger if they explicitly asked the customer if they are a EU citizen and the customer later gains EU citizenship without telling about it to said company? I would assume that the court would decide that the company had no reasonable way to know about the changed status. If the customer contacts the company and tells about the status, then the company would be forced to comply (by removing all data about the user if they do not want to comply with GDPR).
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  72. The important point to understand about TPM, T1 and T2 chips is that those are supposed to be able to securely store secrets. It should be always possible to replace the chip and store the required secrets to make it work again. The problems with inabilitity to swap chips to repair the hardware are caused by inabilitity to create full backup of the system, including the data you (or your programs) stored to TPM, T1 or T2 chips, even when you own the device and have all the credentials to access all the data. The fact that Apple doesn't want to fix the backup problem points that they prefer to sell you new hardware instead of allowing to repair the existing hardware. Pretending that this is caused by security requirements is just a lie.
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  73. Probably an engineer from the same school that put BMW 3 series Comfort module (the part that controls starting the engine) in the same data line with keyless door handle electronics. When the keyless handle electronics fail, the engine cannot be started and the car diagnostics stop answering questions. For another educational video, see https://youtu.be/B7gggowzPSE
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  74. The problem with full disk encryption is that to actually make it safe, the secret needed to decrypt it during the boot requires the user to enter the secret key. Otherwise you can pretend that storing the actual secret key on the DRM chip (typically called "TPM") is actually safe. And companies do not want to go with "user enters the password after every boot" because their users always forget the password.
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  75.  @Thatonedude917  It appears to me that Louis would be willing to do this even if the end result were that NY will have to pay $30 million and it would cause total cost $50k for Louis personally without any monetary compensation. He would do that on princible for trying to fix the root problem.
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  76.  @TheFanatic340  Exactly.
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  77.  @RedRacconKing  I guess that should be called comical tip.
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  78. ​ @unnecessaryapostrophe4047  Obviously the USA has amazing scenery, too. An example of nice scenery was just easier for me to find from Finland because I'm familiar what to look for.
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  79. That's probably the method the landlord used...
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  80. The temperature matters a lot. As Paul said, he runs those hot and that makes the tip lifetime a lot smaller. Running them hot allows you to work faster, though so it's a tradeoff and you have to adjust according to your hourly pay. If you do it as a hobby, keeping the temperature as low as possible will increase lifetime of your equipment.
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  81. 7:25 I think the thing we (as a society) need is repairing things and if the repairs are done as a service, the repair work should have some kind of warranty. I'm okay with short warranty but maybe set the minimum to one week. That should be enough to figure out if the repair work was completed even half-successfully and even that kind of warranty would put some pressure to the repair technician to decide if the failure is repairable at all. Way too often the customer is expected to make the decision about repairability with zero knowledge of the details.
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  82. If the documentation/guide is interesting, it'll be much more enjoyable to read. And "I'm a fucked capacitor" is definitely funnier/more interesting than "a capacitor with a type 2 fault".
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  83.  @bazwillrun  The way people did it in the old days without AC system in the car at all: blast the heater core at full power. If you keep the cabin temperature really high, the relative humidity of the air will be lower inside the car than outside the car. Is it comfortable? No. Is it slow to remove moisture from the windows? Hell yes. Can you drive a car without AC ever working? Of course you can.
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  84. 4 hours before the ambulance showed??!? Wow.
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  85.  @baaadmofo  I agree that non-direct data has some value, too, but if you were allowed to attach it to personal details such as email address, name, postal address or credit info, it would be a lot more valuable still. However, that's not allowed within EU but it's legal in the US for all I know. As a result, non-EU users are more valuable to big services as a method of payment.
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  86.  @egg5474  It's no surprise that commercial companies are going to keep schematics secret if they get to decide. After all, they get the monopoly for (not) repairing things and can sell more products. It's a surprise that lawmakers understand the issue so poorly that they don't even begin to do something about it. I guess decades of lobbying is the cause; it's much more enjoyable to accept free meals and listen to praise of the current situation than hearing about the problems from some poor guy.
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  87.  @Splarkszter  It's better to measure how much of your mothly salary is left after paying taxes, health insurance and 1000 sq ft (~100 m²) apartment (rent or mortgage payment). Here in Finland, 100k per year (before taxes) would leave you with ~3500 EUR/month for food, utility bills, car(s) and entertainment. You would be considered pretty rich here for that kind of salary. Of course, it helps a lot that public health system is good enough that need to spend on health insurance is really low.
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  88.  @SenileOtaku  The whole iPhone is coming from China, as is nearly every other smartphone, too.
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  89. @GH0STST4RSCR34M Whoever thinks that referring to correct room as "Room #9 on the 10th floor" is simpler than room 109 or 1009 should get their head examined.
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  90.  @ts757arse  "Reasonable lifetime" is also highly debatable thing. At least here in Finland where the consumer protection laws are pretty good the lifetime argument often turns out very surprising. The rulings do not match the actual expected lifetimes of things at all – I assume they use a couple of dices to decide the expected lifetime for each case here. If I could decide, all manufacturers would need to clearly define expected lifetime of their products and if they fail to support at least security updates for the whole lifetime, you can return the product for full refund during the announced lifetime. That would get two things: no more unsupported IoT crap and consumers with clear understanding if the crap they're buying can actually be used for the lifetime they need.
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  91. That mercedes does have limited rear-axle-steering by default but you can upgrade to improved version where the movement range is not limited by the software. So it's basically crippleware.
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  92. Everything dealing with any refrigerants is very heavily regulated at least here in EU. You are not allowed to modify anything in those by law without a proper certification. However, the certification is not manufacturer awarded but result of field specific education.
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  93. I have to say that I wouldn't be patient enough to go back-and-forth for a year with random customer service reps to get schematics. I had to go back-and-forth for a month with Google to recover data of the account of our child and that was painful enough for me.
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  94. Circular polarizer causes 2 EV lower exposure so you need quite a bit light for noise free image. It does remove the reflections, though.
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  95. 18:43 Service charges from your bank for one month: $95 !??!? And I thought my bank was greedy (for a Finnish bank) when they ask for 3.20 EUR per month.
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  96. Wow! A teacher not willing to help the students that have trouble learning something should be the only reason needed to fire that person. I understand that sometimes teachers fail to notice that somebody needs special support but if extra help is requested, it should be provided.
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  97. Loved the chapter marks in this video!
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  98. OEM batteries typically have about 75% profit margin. And that's without DRM setup to force you to purchase their overpriced offerings.
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  99. I guess that's better than Apple but I think amd-linux is the future.
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  100.  @michaelhoffmann510  I think color-proofing can be done pretty well nowadays using colord but once your creative guys ask for Adobe Suite, it's time to go with Windows or Mac OS because that's all that Adobe supports.
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  101.  @samjordan8800  I'm afraid that the only way to fix this is to introduce a law to require companies to clearly disclose all the optional features that do not work even if you purchase the item. This applies to cars and game consoles. And the disclose must be clear as in "Warning: contains asbestos", not some small text at the corner of some user's manual.
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  102. I don't know about the local legislation for this employee but here in Finland, the law requires loyalty to the employer and that limits what negative things you can say as an employee about the company even if those things were publicly known and true facts. It's a really twisted part of old legislation that hasn't been invalidated for some reason - maybe some richer companies have lobbied against changing that. That said, the spirit of Tesla behavior is obvious very bad. I'm only saying that it might be okay if you only consider the letter of the laws and contracts.
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  103. TL;DR: Apple laptop has such a poor design that if you use aftermarket charger, it may start randomly blowing chips inside the computer. The only thing that will not blow is the fuse. Because think different!
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  104. Big systems (cloud or otherwise) have backups which contain a copy of the deleted file in some deep froze tape archive somewhere. The only way to actually remove the file for real requires it is marked as deleted for so long that it doesn't get included in new backups and every existing backup must bitrot or the backup storage needs to be recycled as storage for a newer backup. All we can have with big systems is the latter case delete.
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  105.  @erkinalp  I'm thinking that the actual boot is CPU getting power and the secret key must be entered before the OS can be loaded. If you consider "boot" as starting the OS, then you're right and the secret must be entered before every boot.
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  106. The only thing that should have been explicitly mentioned in this video from the start is that when you set minimum future bar for the newly hired employee, you must clearly communicate the minimum bar requirement and explain from the start that they will not continue working there if they fail to exceed the minimum bar before given deadline. It's also important to tell that mistakes are allowed but overall performance must exceed given minimum bar or there will not be a common future. I think the hurt feelings are often caused by having such minimum bar kept hidden from the employee who will receive the bad news only during the deadline. If they were not aware of the minimum bar, they will obviously feel cheated when they get sacked, no matter how obvious that minimum bar should have been. However, if they still feel like being cheated when told about the minimum bar from the start and still staying the in company without being able to meet the bar, that's surely their own fault. At very least they should have spent all their freetime looking for new job because they should have understood that they cannot meet the minimum bar.
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  107.  @drumguy1384  It wouldn't be that bad IF manufacturers had publicly available documentation about the expected voltages and waveforms on all lines. With info like that, it would be easy to find out the problematic circuit. Even better would be a system that could monitor such errors automatically and report the results using dedicated data and power lines. However, modern engineering cannot create such things, it seems.
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  108. I think world would be a much better place if people were direct and honest. Of course, you should still be polite, too. And everybody of us should learn to say no politely whenever it's needed. That is, if somebody has a discussion with you and asks you for a date, you should take it as a compliment. It's perfectly okay to answer "That's a nice offer but I prefer not to do that."
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  109.  @enrymion9681  The point of disregarding the CompTIA certification is to send clear signal that getting such certification is waste of your money and time. If I've understood correctly, getting CompTIA certification costs minimum of $300 even if you already know all the information in the exam and if companies commonly disregarded that paper, obviously you can find better ways to spend money. TL;DR: getting CompTIA certification should be considered to be zero value, not negative or positive.
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  110. The problem is that EV cars do not (yet?) use standard cells so that you can replace all cells in a battery pack with totally new cells and give full warranty for the work.
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  111. I absolutely agree! The correct way for Tesla to deal with the video would have been to post a reply that they have fixed the software and car should not longer execute the same errors. They could have also used it as an opportunity to advertise their product by saying that the update will be automatically installed to all cars free of charge or visiting the carage.
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  112.  @rossmanngroup  When we had our house built, we specifically had a rule not to smoke within the house are even during the foundation building and obviously never since. In addition, the "sound proofing" material they put under the floor looks like stolen from a dumpster bin. That stuff is supposed to look pristine.
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  113. There's an old joke about Windows device driver system. It goes like this: "Masochist: a windows driver developer with a smile" There's a reason printing is so broken especially on Windows.
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  114.  @ZuraSix  A well working defroster (or dehumidifier) will use compressor to dry the air that's getting blown on the window.
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  115.  Jimmy S  At least higher end VAG cars used to have pretty nice factory radios and up to around 2003 those cars had DIN standard layout, too. The only protection for those radios was the pin code entry. Later models have fully custom layout and frontends not following any standards so there's no sense to steal those.
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  116.  @markus1351  I think the real accessibility bypass is typically hidden. The bypass that is listed as a menu option is different thing.
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  117. If Apple were honest, they would say that "If you go to third party service, you will get crappier display with ghost touch because Apple doesn't allow selling the required spare parts to those companies. Only an Apple authorized repair center using Apple defined repair rates and Apple defined company rules is allowed to acquire the original spare parts. If that means that your data cannot be recovered, tough." The real issue is not selling spare parts at all (regardless of profit on those parts!). The 3rd party service could implement proper fix with lower rates than Apple if they had the parts. Tesla seems to be currently the only car manufacturer with the same business plan.
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  118.  @eberronbruce1328  Even if the ambulance had been forced to come from e.g. State Island, the 4 hour wait time means its average speed for the trip has been less than 10 mph. If that's the max ambulances can go in the city, there's a lot to improve in the city planning.
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  119. I agree. However, this might give enough incentive to sell the software for a reasonable price to 3rd party instead of letting it to be released as open source, pocket the money to the executives as bonuses or some other nonsense and then file for bankruptcy.
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  120. I agree. If you're ready to quit, you can lose nothing if you go to the boss and say that you'll quit if this doesn't stop now. If they don't agree to change behavior, just keep cool and say "Okay, I quit" and go away. If the company actually changes course you don't need to find a new job and all the future customers of that shop are going to benefit, too!
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  121.  @wumi2419  I'd assume there are multiple reasons. I remember reading about very strict existing regulations in Germany but I'm sure multi-billion dollar plants are not decided by single reason.
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  122.  @the_expidition427  Yeah, they can sure hide the schematics but they cannot say it's a trade secret. If the new legislation forces them to share all information, then they are forced to shared schematics, too.
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  123. It seems that "lobbying" is giving money or resources for the promise to do something and "bribery" is giving money or resources in exchange for doing something immediately . Somehow requiring only the promise instead of instant action makes it legal.
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  124. Pro tip to bystanders: if you didn't understand this joke, you have to watch movie called Life of Brian.
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  125.  @nerdstrangler4804  You use hot air to prevent warping the board. Different materials expand at different rates when you heat them and if you use powerful soldering iron with a cold board, the changes are higher that something gets damaged because of rapid thermal expansion. Heating with hot air prevents hard temperature gradients and reduces risk of damage due thermal expansion differences.
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  126.  @MPnoir  That's numerically better null value but I don't think that would appear logically null similar to North Pole to non-programmers.
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  127.  @error262  Bullshit. Tesla is refusing to sell parts. Repairing Teslas would be easier if Tesla provided information but unless they sell the parts nobody can repair those cars except Tesla. See this, for example: https://youtu.be/aLQFZkc0KiM
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  128.  @error262  It's actually very accurate to compare Tesla to Apple, because Apple, too, is not willing to sell parts to you. You have to buy all parts via service centers which will refuse to sell just the part and instead you have to buy their service too. And for some parts, even service center cannot get a single part from Apple but replace huge parts of the system. Not to speak about getting individual chips which you would need if you're able to solder and see a single broken part on the motherboard, forget that officially.
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  129.  @johntetreault  Yeah, you could argue that you agree to whatever is said on the 11th page of the license text when you click "AGREE" button. However, GDPR explicitly says that each use case must be individually agreed on and the agreement must be explicit (for example, multiple thing cannot have checkboxes already filled and you just click "I agree" button to complete the form). Naturally there are a lot of companies that do not follow the GDPR to the letter but they are risking the penalties if they do so. (GDRP sets the fines to 20 million EUR or 4% of the firm's worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever is higher for a given company).
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  130. Your videos are both funny and informative. That keeps the viewer happy and they will not notice that they're learning new stuff until it's already too late!
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  131.  @johanmetreus1268  I agree. I think the least worst solution would be something that's sometimes called "declared value copyright system". The idea is to grant gratis copyright similar to copyright we currently have for 5 years only. After that all works fall in public domain immediately. You can extend your copyright indefinitely by declaring it's monetary value and paying 1% (exact figure to be decided) of its value as yearly fee in exchange for the public not having the works in public domain and using legislation to protect your intellectual property. If anybody pays the sum of declared value to you, the work immediately falls to public domain. This would have following results: (1) If your work has no monetary value for you, you won't register it for a fee and we have more public domain content. (2) If you register the work, you have strong incentive to declare true value of the work. If you overinflate the declared value, you have to pay overinflated yearly fee to keep your copyright. If you undervalue the declared value, you pay lower yearly fee and the public can free your work for less than it's worth. (3) Nobody can force you to lose access to the work because it's not forced sell but forced release to public domain. Once you get the monetary compensation that you've decided (the declared value for the work) you should be happy with the compensation and the whole public can then freely enjoy your work. (4) Disney could keep Mickey Mouse behind the bars but they couldn't do that without paying compensation to the society. Mickey Mouse would get free once Mickey wouldn't make enough money every year. (5) If you encounter any piece of work that you know is older than 5 years and it hasn't been registered, you can be sure it's public domain. I'm pretty sure everybody would agree that having more public domain content would be better for everybody. The current system results in huge amount of abandoned work with zero financial value to be unusable for a century!
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  132. 14:30 Wow! The things are even more insane than I expected. It seems that the real issue is that banks are valuing property on asking price, not on the actually paid rent. And the asking price is considered income even if nobody actually rents the place!?!? That's the root cause that needs to be fixed. Once banks consider unrented place as zero income, there's immediately real incentive for owners to rent the place at whatever price they can find anybody that's going to pay for it.
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  133.  @DarthVader-ou2vv  Their super expensive phones with nice camera should be avoided like plague. They failed to provide any software support for it.
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  134. The Framework laptop is actually the first laptop that I would be happy to get with my own money. They just need to have a plan to allow getting improved motherboards in the future. I'm currently using PC where the case is from year 2009, motherboard is 2012, latest SSD is from 2020 etc. Laptops do not allow doing this. Until the Framework laptop, which could actually do this! The Framework laptop only needs a plan of a design where they can now sell you motherboard with integrated graphics but they have a plan where the same space is possible to contain replacement motherboard with Ryzen + dedicated GPU without replacing the case, keyboard display and all storage plus replaceable connectors. And sell all the parts with sensible margins so that I can sell my motherboard with integrated graphics to somebody else instead of trashing it, when I get an improved part! I'm running my 3rd motherboard and 2nd PSU inside my PC case. I see no problem doing that with a laptop when it has equally good design as Framework laptops.
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  135.  @goosedeathable  I agree. I would assume it would make sense to rent the space for cheap for short contracts. You'd have to accept pretty low rent compared to normal situation but things are not normal right now.
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  136. If you ever get Right to Repair in the US, hopefully you can get the manufacturers to publish the schematics, too. The current state where you have to hunt for schematics from less or more illegal sources is really fucked up.
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  137. 100 dollars should get you a pretty good smartphone, not a keyfob.
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  138.  @raylopez99  I see Louis making records public as an ultimate steelman argument – let's assume for a moment that the opposing party is correct and then follow logic forward (check the records) and deduce that the opposing party is indeed incorrect no matter how detailed things are inspected. The only question is if it's worth the time needed or would it be better to spend his time otherwise?
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  139. If you can keep pointing out the dirty tricks in the system long enough, you'll eventually win. I don't see any shortcuts which don't including doing dirty tricks, so you should continue doing the thing you're currently doing.
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  140. I'm still using Epson PX720WD and this is definitely the best printer I've ever had. It's far from perfect but I can run it with high quality 3rd party dye inks with easily refillable cartdridges (just pull a silicon plug and add correct ink from a bottle whenever the cartridge is about to go empty) and it will newer clog and will print great photos with 6 inks. The only bad thing is that dye inks are not water proof and fade pretty rapidly in UV exposure. And the inks soak into the paper so you have to use high quality paper for sharp prints. Of course, Epson figured this bug in the system and their more recent printers have built-in DRM which prevents using 3rd party inks. If this printer ever fails, I don't know which printer to get next. (Historically, if you wanted a high quality inkjet with refillable cartridges, you had to use Epson because Epson printers use one permanent really high quality printhead. Many other inkjet manufacturers put printhead in the cartdridge and as a result, have to use lower quality printhead to avoid making cartdridges even more expensive than they already are. Of course, Epson cartdridges being literally just a plastic container for the ink, the prices should be much lower but Epson obviously wants high profit because they sold the printer for very little profit.)
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  141.  @ZeDestructor00  I totally agree that XCover 6 pro is too big for my taste but the whole point of that device is that you don't need silicon case to guard the too-fragile-to-use OEM surface. But then again, all modern phones are too big for my taste. The last phone that I considered acceptable was Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact which is about 10 mm narrower and 20 mm shorter than most "small" modern phones.
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  142. How about if you can find multiple dates where they did the same thing for multiple other companies? At some point it must be considered systematic and responsibility must be taken.
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  143. I think Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) should be introduced everywhere. Then it still actually makes sense to work for $7 per hour instead of spending all your time in the basement of your parents.
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  144. My theory is that they designed the building based on this old animation: https://youtu.be/vsotCuGVi6k?t=2472
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  145. Me neither but I've seen other people do it before I had time to stop them. As such, I agree that microusb is too complex to use for average people. The connector is too little for some people to see clearly the difference between the right way and wrong way so they just try to force it. And microusb connector is too weak to deal with incorrect forcing. As for the miniusb, that should have never used for anything. A connector where the host part of the connector is designed to only last 1000 connections should not be used for anything. Ever.
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  146.  @rossmanngroup  I think you should pay yourself $1 per year just to have a line in the books for your salary and have that spelled out in the wire transfer message like "Full year 2021 salary+bonuses to Louis Rossmann, CEO". When that line is totally missing, some people start accusing that you're secretly paying yourself lots of money.
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  147.  @BladeOfLight16  It's indeed a hard problem to solve how to effectively run a government. I live in Finland and even though things appear pretty good overall (Finland is statistically the happiest country in the world) the spending on goverment byreocracy is really high. According to one recent estimate, the total money spent on byreocracy is actually slightly above the money spent on education. And you have to remember that education is free for all citizens in Finland, including university studies and post-grad studies!
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  148.  @BladeOfLight16  The hard part is to actually implement the change you are suggesting. Unless you're talking about civil war or similar quick path, you have to implement the change within the rules of current legislation and that's the hard part because the current legislation has built-in balance heavily tilted towards continuing the current state as-is.
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  149. Fortunately, most well made motherboard nowadays have two BIOS images. The image B is only updated once image A has already been booted. There's no way to brick the BIOS unless the actual hardware fails.
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  150. I think that the correct answer to "how fixable is it" is "it's not fixable because you cannot get parts". And if Apple starts to serial number and digitally sign all the important parts, you cannot swap those even if parts were available unless you can get a copy of the pirated signing software from somewhere.
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  151. I totally agree that box in perfect condition helps resale value a lot. However, I know perfectly well that you send only the broken part or device to repairs and nothing else. The only exception is DOA returns where you have been promised to be send full unboxed replacement and for that you have to typically return everything. Some manufacturers even allow you to keep everything else from the original product except the broken part for DOA return (e.g. Bose allows you to remove earpads, highly expensive detachable wire etc etc if your headphones are DOA).
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  152.  @rossmanngroup  I think even more exact comparision would have been highly skilled veterinary surgeon doing a brain surgery on human. Yes, he has the education, skill and ability but no information about the specific model. Hell, let's say he's the best veterinary brain surgeon in the world and it still doesn't sound the like surgeon you would like to be digging your brain.
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  153.  @zaprodk  Yeah, I'd like to have DPA 4488 for videocalls from home, but the price is too high when only the other people would benefit from it.
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  154. Do you think some wireless mic in the same price class is going to sound better? If you listen what he's saying, you'll notice that this is about best compromise for given amount of money.
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  155.  @numbah12time  In case "420 meme" is not familiar, see this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
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  156. 41:00 Your phone skills are awesome! You could be pushing smoke from ears because of all the anger and still the other party will hear only "thank you, and have a nice day" in the phone call.
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  157. What do you mean, "next step"? VAG (VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda) has been doing this since around 1994 where they have OBDII connector and the publicly documented API has the bare minimum required by the law (only the data required to check emission/pollution control stuff needs to work). All the real data and configuration is done using the same connector with a proprietary protocol and the special device to support that protocol costs about $3500. The idea is that the dealerships will get this but nobody else, which allows dealerships to keep prices high thanks to service monopoly. Luckily, company called RossTech reverse engineered the protocol and later another company called OBDeleven re-did the work and the required tools are no longer insanely expensive. VAG cars since around 2010 require interfacing with this proprietary protocol to tell the ECU that the oil has been changed so using this protocol is not optional.
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  158. Also make sure that the law requires accessing data with a standard protocol through an OBD II port. VAG has been doing over 20 years tricks where they comply with the law and all the data is accessible through ODB II port but the protocol is secret and officially the only tool that can access the data is manufacturer's own diagnostic tool. This is no different from Apple using parts with embedded serial codes and changing the motherboard to allow new replacement part requires proprieatry tool.
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  159. I would say this speech was an example what feminism should look like – way too often people that claim to be feminists actually want something else but treating men and women equal.
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  160. If Oreo could speak, he would have said "Can I have a cookie?"
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  161. Disabling the whole product is obviously illegal but you can still sell e.g. computers with trial version of virus protection software. The big question which may require new legislation is how you should disclose the information about such a features. I would prefer explicit "Warning: this feature requires subscription" stickers all over the interior for every part that is not included in the base price of the car. That is, allow having subscription only features but make it totally obvious to the consumer what they're getting.
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  162.  @Daimo83  Yeah, but S9 has curved screen and I hate those even more than the notch. I really don't understand the idea of having glossy screen with convex shape because that practically guarantees extra glare over the screen content.
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  163.  @buixote  I used to use FM receiver around 5 years ago but nowadays I just listen everything streamed over TCP/IP. At least here in Finland you can get unlimited data for under $10 per month so streaming everything is a no-brainer.
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  164. Many politicians are like human version of ChatGPT. They emit random output to try to simulate understanding whenever they don't understand the facts and aren't willing to say "I don't know".
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  165.  @kirsten007  The problem with Youtube ads is that they are too cheap. Make them way more expensive and you don't need to spam the viewers and as a result, the viewers are more likely to accept the ads.
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  166. 0:50 I assume question 6 is a control question checking if the responder lies. If you select something else but "2" you don't want to say the truth or you want to lie.
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  167. I guess Autodesk is arguing that the license is for lifetime of the copy of the software or lifetime of the computer. If you cannot run the software to transfer the license, it's already dead and lifetime warranty has expired. It makes sense to their lawyers but is highly probably bad for reputation. And if Autodesk actually believes their year 2013 software was so good that paying for the more recent upgrades are not worth it so they need to extract money from the new licenses for the old copy, they should stop and figure what to do for the next 10 years to provide value to their customers. I think they should make the year 2013 software free for all and maybe show a nagware screen during startup telling that "This software is deprecated but can still be used for free, but no support of any kind is available anymore."
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  168. It seems more and more that both Tesla and Apple still haven't decided it they are selling or leasing their products. The advertisements and price suggests that they sell the product, the behavior seems like they think it's a lease.
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  169. The only potential problem I can see is that the inner diameter of the brass fitting is smaller than the original nozzle and if the circulation pump is not high enough quality, the extra backpressure from the smaller opening could cause it to fail sooner. Hopefully that can be officially replaced without replacing the whole battery!
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  170. Is this basically an another cable-gate? It that cable had 2 mm extra slack, you could have huge amount of dust and it wouldn't been pushed into the cable because the cable could still easily go around the dust.
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  171.  @marcogenovesi8570  I fully agree. I do software for living and it seems that minority of all the programmers seem to have professional pride for the code quality... especially many younger programmers that have selected the job because it's said to pay well. Majority of the programmers apply whatever half-assed fix they can come up with and consider it done. It's a small wonder we don't have even more security vulnerabilities; and we sure have a lot!
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  172.  @apmgold  If I've have understood correctly, the problem is that there are no safe places to ride with e-bike. An average car driver will not notice your e-bike so driving in the middle of cars is dangerous. And there's no sidewalks or bicycle ways anywhere. Compare this to Europe where there's often dedicated (narrow) lane for bicycles.
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  173. The problem is, you don't own the software even if you purchase the hardware. You're only licensed to use it and using the software may require using special parts that are not publicly available. You also cannot modify the software because that's part of the license. And the software says NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND in capital letters. If this bothers you, I suggest looking towards Open Source and e.g. LineageOS.
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  174. The audio quality of that integrated mic is surprisingly good. The video is pretty noisy but otherwise okay. The automatic exposure goes slightly on the hot side but I think it's better than underexposure.
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  175. Interesting, Louis looks somewhat pale and speaks only about technical parts with zero politics in this video.
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  176. 55:00 Do you coat the problematic parts after fixing this stuff?
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  177. Service facility should definitely have spart part for all wear parts. That includes brake pads, calibers, brake disks, tire sensors, suspension joints and wiper blades at the very minimum. Having 2 sets of each should still cost less than $10000. Compared to the worth of the rest of the center that's peanuts.
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  178. I hope you end up owning that whole building with your new shop!
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  179. Good point about password managers and cars. As everybody should already know, if the attacker has access to the hardware, it's no longer your hardware and any data running on said system has already leaked. As a result, you should never ever have unlocked password database in your car when you're not in it. And typing your master password on the car touchscreen every time you get into the car would get really tedious fast. And nope, your car is full of your fingerprints so adding "biometric authentication" using fingerprint reader cannot fix this issue. And if the car thief already has access to your car, you shouldn't assume that software can prevent the attacker from accessing the RAM and getting all your passwords if your password manager is running in RAM with the vault open.
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  180. 5:58 I think this is the most important part of this video. If you pay for repairs for the device that was built in China are you really suprised that spare parts were built in China too? If you don't like stuff made in China, why did you by the device in the first place and why on Earth are you trying to get it fixed when it broke?
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  181. And note that the tool will be released as open source if it sells total of 350 pieces.
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  182. Thank you! Now I finally understand the insane prices local companies are asking for OS installs.
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  183.  @chrism6952  Apple didn't write CUPS. It was written for POSIX compatible UNIXes in 1997–1999 and Apple adopted the project as the foundation of the printing system in MacOS X in 2002. Because CUPS had Apache 2.0 license, Apple had no option but to keep using it. Since then, Apple has made improvements to it and those improvements have been published according to Apache license. If CUPS were Apple project from the start, you could be sure that it wouldn't be open source.
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  184.  @katrinabryce  Nothing is compatible with GPL 2 except licenses that allow transmutating the other license into GPL 2. This is by design because GNU ideology is that all software should be distributed with GPL 2 or GPL 3. And note that plain old GPL 2 license is not compatible with GPL 3 either!
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  185.  @katrinabryce  Yes, because BSD/MIT license is free enough to allow adding extra restrictions to make it GPL.
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  186. It does sound that you should have left 1–2 years earlier. Good luck with the new location!
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  187. About brakes: first thing you need to figure out is where they rub. With hydraulic disc brakes if it rubs only one specific part of the wheel rotation, it's usually bent disc. Unlike car or motorcycle discs, bikes have really flimsy discs that get curved if you look at them badly. They can get bent by the heat alone (see also: "warped brakes" in case of a car). The fix is similar to trying the wheel: get something that barely rubs the disc, rotate the wheel and force the disc into true using any tool you think is okay for the job. In my experience, a high quality wrench is good: you just adjust the wrench narrow enough to just fit the disc and then twist the wrench towards the direction that rubs less. Be careful though, those discs are pretty flimsy. And just like wheel truing, keep doing that until you're happy with the results; you can never ever get it perfectly true, only nearly so. Be sure to degrease the disc after you're done with it.
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  188. I was expecting getting the kid do all the soldering. I assume he will not have hot air station so I'm okay with him not doing all that stuff on hardware that still has hopes getting fixed. In addition, it seems like the kid didn't understand what the "hot air thing" was supposed to do. It also seems that the kid couldn't figure out how to bring the microscope lower when he had trouble reaching the ocular. Other than that, very nice teaching and I didn't hear any cursing!
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  189. And honestly Louis, after seeing two other people doing the stuff you do with the same equipment, you hands are pretty fine! Your hands seemed stable compared to the rest.
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  190. Samsung S10e + LineageOS is still a solid option. However, apps that require mandatory SafetyNet support will not work.
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  191. There was one major problem with this video: I cannot press like more than once.
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  192. I really hope that Apple decides to go with full lease model only with its products when right to repair is real. Then we can see which kind of sheeps the Apple users are.
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  193. 8:15 Police should hire that Bike Batman to teach his methods to police.
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  194. Your audio and video quality are hugely better than previously!
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  195. If they truly had a wonderful product, you can purchase it as long as you consider it one-time-use product. Do not expect any resale value, do not expect any problems to ever be fixed, do not expect the UI to stay same even if you like it.
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  196. I agree that the probability of screen cracking without dropping the phone or keeping it in your back pocket while you sit on a sofa is roughly 0.0001%. And I've had a lot of phones that get very hot when run hard but none of those have ever cracked the screen.
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  197. The system for setting a lien is totally borken when you can set a lien without declaring reason for it or a way to fix incorrectly set lien.
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  198. Some say that RMS started the whole open source GNU software movement after losing mind with broken printer drivers. It seems that we have since received a lot of great open source software but printer drivers still suck no matter the OS.
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  199. Here's an idea for a video: make an 1 hour video about how fast you usually fix things. No need to explain what you're doing, just show your skills.
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  200. Apple could offer limited lifetime warranty. But they are $3trillion company exactly because they don't. It makes more profit to be evil.
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  201. I agree. The screenplay has ingenious writing. You can never guess what the NY side will do in next episode!
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  202.  @Gkid8  Yeah, you never know how bad databases they might use. The PostgreSQL database I maintain for work could be easily run one a single PC and it has about 1.5 billion rows of data.
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  203. 12:50 I think the problem is that majority of customers do not understand what they need. The whole idea of capitalism depends on market competing on similar products. However, when the customer base doesn't understand technology, they cannot actually estimate the value of each product accurately. As a result, majority of the customers guess that all tech products are the same (to them they are, because they don't understand the differences between products) and then the price sticker is the only thing that matters. The more high-tech your product is, the smaller minority of possible customer base will understand your product. And educating your potential customer base is really really hard. Some marketing departments seem to think that you simply need more ads but that's obviously not true. And Apple fans seem to guess that not having any visible screws means high-end so that's where Apple has focus. It's basically result of evolutionary process to match an average customer's nearly non-existant understanding of tech products. If they cannot understand the differences in software or hardware (for the electronics), they will evaluate the product on level they can understand. Because all screens are basically rectangles and average customer has surpringly poor eyesight, you simply need good enough display and there's no competition there. Next thing is the design around the screen and that's where Apple puts most of it effort and it seems to work fine for them money-wise. And the situation is only made worse by too-long-to-read EULAs that majority happily clicks though to be able to enter their credit card details.
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  204. The "think about the children" argument should be considered logically similar to using children as human shields in war. It's not a real logical argument but its intent is to make the viewpoint emotionally attached – it's a marketing strategy.
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  205. How recently you mean? I think last one was published in 2021. But yes, major vulnerability seems be found every couple of years so I'm expecting new one to be found this year or next year. It's not like the drivers are so high quality it would give any hope otherwise.
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  206. I think the problem with scalpers is caused by manufacturer selling the products for too cheap. If they truly cannot increase their production speed, they should increase the prices so high that scalpers cannot make any profit anymore. Start with some insanely high price and constantly decrease the price until somebody purchases the product. Keep slowly decreasing the price until another customer accepts the deal. This both maximizes the profit for the manufacturer (who now has more resources to build more products and reduce shortage) and kill scalpers in the process. If everybody (including the scalpers) knows that the next product will be slightly cheaper than the one that the scalper purchased, there will be zero incentive for the scalper to purchase any products. This same method would work nicely for concert tickets or any other item or product that is expected to be sold by scalpers.
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  207. I maintain my old car myself and I'd say switching to electric car wouldn't be that different. Some things to consider: (1) There's no available information on the cars because manufacturers declare everything as trade secret. As such, diagnosing stuff is hard. This is actually not much worse than ICE cars because for example my year 1999 VW Passat doesn't have publicly available information from the manufacturer either and I have to dig for information in various non-official sources and 3rd party paper manuals. This is same as not having the schematics for Apple products that Louis is talking about. I don't need source code for the ECU but I would need official spec for e.g. diagnostic channel 10 subchannel 2: what values are in the spec and what sensor does measure this channel. Note that in case of VAG (VW, Audi, etc) even the channel handshake is secret so obviously that should be publicly specified, too. Having secret handshakes that are not about security (the protocol is just proprietary even if it uses standard voltages and standard voltages but it doesn't have any secret keys or anything like that!) are just about making things harder unless you pay extra random for the manufacturer to get the official tool to read the diagnostic channels. The official tool costs about $4000 and 3rd party cell phone hardware + software license to do the same thing costs $70. The 3rd party hardware and software has been created only through reverse engineering because even they couldn't get the required information so you're basically paying the 3rd party for the reverse engineering work, not because the software does something special. (2) At least here in Finland, all electrical work is so heavily restricted that any work on the circuits exceeding 50 V are not allowed even if you know what you're doing, unless you're officially licensed to work as an electrician by the government. In practice the license is so hard to acquire that even if you know 100% of the information / already have all the skills needed it still requires minimum of 1 year of supervised work experience on the field to get license for yourself. So hobbyists cannot fix electric cars here unless the legislation is fixed. The point (1) is not that different from the current situation with ICE cars so that wouldn't affect my ability to maintain my own car. It's the same as Louis having to source Apple schematics from shady sources so it just makes things harder in practice but not impossible. The point (2) is a new problem where legislation that's originally created to improve safety in housing wiring is now affecting my ability maintain my own car. And unless right-to-repair is first made reality, there's no real incentive to even start to fix point (2). It's a variant of chicken and egg problem and in this case it doesn't make sense to fix legislation unless we have clear way to actually have the parts needed for the repairs in the future. And if we had right-to-repair that would already allow licensed electricity technicians to start providing services for car high voltage work without manufacturer license.
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  208. That's one great offer for sure! If I weren't living on wrong continent, I'd check that out, too.
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  209. I think that planned obsolescence as an intentional process is nonsense, too. Manufacturers just optimize to minimize their responsibility and if the device lasts the warranty period, it's no longer the responsibility of the manufacturer. Ask for warranty periods where it starts to make sense for the manufacturer to repair things to honor the warranty and things will get better automatically. If it's cheaper for the manufacturer to replace your whole device in case of warranty instead of repairing it, they will give zero effort to make the device easier to repair. This is result of most devices being good enough to last the warranty period so having the replace a single device in case of rare incident, it's cheaper overall to just give a full new device in case of even a minor failure. And as a bonus, most people actually like to have fully new device in case they hit any warranted failure. For example, Bose is known to give you full new device in original factory package in case of any error in their products. They can sell their products with extra premium because their customers can trust that in case of problems, they will get a totally new replacement no questions asked. Of course, that requires that the warranty is really strict about what's covered and what's not or everybody is going to receive new devices which would get too expensive for the manufacturer to continue. If you accept e.g. a smartphone that has one year warranty for the hardware and software support is EOL'd 18–24 months after the release, you're part of the problem! That said, the fact that manufacturers are allowed to hide the tools needed to do repairs is the biggest issue with right-to-repair. But it has nothing to do with planned obsolescence.
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  210. 7:15 I think clerical errors are going to happen in future, too. You cannot avoid that. However, you could have a sensible system where you cannot have lien or warranty set on you or your business without you being immediately aware of it. And when you're aware of it, you can object the clerical error. As such, this whole thing is not the result of one clerical error but systematic failure of the system as a whole. You just were unlucky to be the one that suffered from this one error. I've been watching a lot of videos by Mentour Pilot and aviation industry doesn't even pretend that the employees never make mistakes, no matter how much training they have. Extra training can only reduce failure rate, not eliminate it. Instead, the whole system is designed on the basis that errors happen but those errors can be catched before people start to suffer. Of course, if you're unlucky enough to have 3, 4 or 5 independent failures occurring simultaneously, things can still go sour. But with a good system design, you can at least avoid single point of failure. It's clear that that the system had single point of failure where single clerical error can mess up your life for 7 years until you finally accidentally noticed it!
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  211. I think was an important video and worth watching. The important part is not sitting in a chair thinking a lot about the possibilities you missed in the past. Everyone misses all kinds of opportunities in life and the important part is to just get up from that chair and start doing the best you can do with the resources you currently have. The more experience you have, the less you miss the opportunities but hindsight is 20/20, always.
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  212. The trademark thing could be about the fact that Honda is not publishing these files. However, if that was the sole problem Honda has, they could simply require relabeling the files to say e.g. "Cup holder compatible with Honda Civic 2017" instead of requiring takedown of the whole file.
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  213. To only make 10 pieces of these equipment means you would need to spend a month for each. Even I could build those things faster.
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  214. When we got our whole house built, all the work was paid after the given work was already finished. In all phases. If a contractor asks for 35% of money before starting the work, DO NOT PAY THE MONEY! Oh, and I was able to visit the construction site weekly to personally inspect the work and we still had professional non-dependant 3rd party inspector checking the results before paying anything. And we still accidentally got 2 photos from another construction site from the 3rd party inspector due pure mistake. And this is in Finland where all money is paid as electronic wire transfers. I have seen a paper check last time around 25 years ago.
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  215. We would need standardized cells and BMS systems that can tell which cells are bad so that individual cells can be replaced as needed. The sad fact is that most battery packs need balanced cells becasue BMS system cannot really balance cells and cannot cope with cells that are not identical enough.
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  216. I fully agree with your reasoning: this doesn't prevent stealing but it might prevent resale of those stolen items. And that may keep the prices of the items on sale higher. And of course, the most expensive part of most power tools these days is the battery. The rest of the tool is often cheap and the only wear part inside the battery is the cells so if you have a bad battery from existing tool, swapping the cells from a new battery even if the rest of the tool is worthless will still give you a battery worth $50-$100 which can be sold by the thief. And if they put the DRM stuff inside the tool and keep the batteries standard, that will be even easier for the thief.
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  217. It should be converted to law automatically after passing the vote, unless explicitly vetoed with a rationale within 14 days from the vote – that would be the baseline for a working democratic system.
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  218.  @ZeroB4NG  It's definitely true that polite declinal is an art form of its own.
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  219. 19:15 Around this time, I would have read the part of the draft that says that "'Tool' includes software or other mechanism [...] required to bring the product back to fully functional condition" and then ask how this wording would fail to provide the software he was asking? The only issue I can potentially see is that "fully functional condition" might allow having the product in factory sold state but before software activation. It might have been better to say something like "fully functional condition available for all of its marketed purposes". I think that would cover re-registering the repaired items to online service if that's needed to use it for its marketed purpose. (Example case: Tesla blocking supercharging if car is repaired by 3rd party service provider. In this case, it wouldn't be enough to have all the software to make the car's computers happy locally because you have to make the car connect to global network, too.) I agree that this seems like bullshit argument and the real agenda is hidden but it seems to match with the interest of John Deere.
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  220. This is a good example of crippleware - software feature that is designed just to disable features that would otherwise work just fine. Old shareware software used to do this kind of crap. Make no mistake, this is just alternative pricing scheme. They want to have lower sticker price but don't want actually sell you the whole car for that price. But instead of saying it directly they start talking about "remote control service". Just decide if you're selling or renting. Sadly, it seems that the only way to make car manufacturers behave is to make a law that prevents "selling" stuff that's actually rental deal with heavy initial payment without declaring that as a rental deal from the start.
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  221.  @mindaugasstankus5943  The only real test you can do is to charge and discharge each cell individually. You cannot do complete testing as a complete pack.
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  222. Make no mistake. BMW is making the cars for as cheap as possible and then they try to use crippleware to extract maximum amount of money from the exact same car from every customer. And that crippleware is possible only because they have the monopoly on the software running on said car.
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  223.  @Cheepchipsable  I would say that surprisingly lot of what Elon promises actually materializes but no on the time periods he speaks about. I think some call it "Elon time" and it seems that Elon time goes about 7x the real world speed. If Elon says something is coming in two years, expect to see it around 14 years instead. But changes are pretty good that it will come!
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  224. I'm willing to pay YouTube Premium if it costs the same for the whole family as Netflix. Currently, YouTube is asking more at least here where I live.
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  225. 8:30 The only thing I could think of that could actually affect the structural integrity is the self-tapping screws. If you remove and reinstall those many times without paying any attention to try to match the previous threads, those screws will have a lot less holding power and if you drop the device after that it might get damaged more.
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  226.  @perwestermark8920  I agree that car manufacturers currently work this way. They get ECU or ECM or ABS unit from Bosch and cannot fix issues in it by itself even if they wanted. However, if legislation is changed to require schematics, Bosch no longer can sell parts to US if they want to keep schematics secret. Obviously, Bosch is not going to forfeit the whole US market so they will release the schematics. But they will not do this only due customer pressure, only for legal changes.
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  227. The job is not really for you if asking for salary is causing you not to get the job. If that really makes a difference, the potential employer is only willing to employ you if you're willing to work for free or really cheap.
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  228.  @GareWorks  I agree. For those that do not know, Philips head screwdrivers are numbered per size of the head. The most common size you see nearly everywhere is 2 or "PH2". The number 1 is smaller, then 0, then 00, then 000. It seems that engineers at Philips were not aware about negative numbers so they used this kind of scheme.
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  229. In the covid statistics a case means a single human with positive test result for COVID-19 using some of the approved tests. Nothing more, nothing less.
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  230. 23:30 I'm looking forward for the future where lobbyists are afraid to speak to Louis because they're afraid that Louis is going to publish the truth. Just record every phone call and all the discussions if that's allowed in your local legislation to be able to publish the actual facts. It would be fun if some lobbyist tries to argue that it's not their voice in the discussion when they get caught. I live in Finland and here it would be 100% legal to record every phone call you make and record every discussion you take apart without disclosing the information about recording the discussion to the opposing party. The legislation is very clear here in Finland: if you're member of the discussion, you're allowed to secretly record it. However, that doesn't cover video or photos here, so that would be have to be audio only.
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  231.  @rossmanngroup  Internet would be much better off with low cost paid content. Like $0.001 per page view or per minute. However, in practice we have such a lousy payment systems that the overhead per transaction is in ballpark of $0.10 when handled by the credit card companies. To make practical overhead lower than 50%, you have to round anything less than 200 pages or minutes to zero. The correct way to fix this is to reduce overhead per transaction to $0.0005 or less and suddenly non-ad-revenue systems start to make a lot of sense. However, I have no idea how to do that in practice. Any proof-of-work based blockchain is going to be way too expensive to use, any credit card company interaction in the system is going to make it way to expensive. Even proof of stake Ethereum has transaction costs in $0.35 per transction class which is about 700x more expensive than we would actually need for acceptable minimum efficiency solution. In reality you would want to have much less overhead than "only" 700x better than Ethereum or 200x better than credit card companies. For single site solutions such as YouTube there could be acceptable solutions but a single offer of $10/month no matter if you actually watch 5 minutes or 100 hours doesn't cut it. And even then it wouldn't cut for the internet at large.
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  232.  @leifclaesson2470  In case somebody missed #rakenews in Finland, here's a quick recap: https://youtu.be/SrMVii3I-Lg
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  233.  @egonzalez4294  Yes, like they say "the summer is short and light on snow" in Finland.
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  234. Honestly, Samsung TVs make quite a good monitors when you disable the CE dimming via the factory menu and just use HDMI2 named as "PC" to disable all "image improvements" (Samsung has weird idea that menus do not allow disabling latency-inducing features but there's a hidden feature that HDMI2 input called as "PC" disables all extra processing and you get much lower latency and see the actual signal sent to the TV as any well behaving monitor should work). Of course, that requires that you have an AV (pre)amplifier with all the HDMI inputs you want, but you would want that in any case if you value high quality audio. I agree that the "smart tv" features are not that great. On the plus side, Samsung monitors boot to last used input really fast so you never need to access the TV menus after setting it up as long as you only ever use the HDMI2 input for the reasons explained above. You can always get something like latest gen Chromecast to replace the "smart" integrated into the TV.
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  235. I still have my fully working PS2 connected to our home theater. However, I mostly play Fallout 4 on PS4 Pro attached to the same system.
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  236. Really, the only way for Tesla FSD to avoid hitting this or other deers is to correctly identify it as a deer and assume its suicidal in practice. Those animals do not understand what a car is, especially in darkness. I guess they think that a car is just a big animal that's going nearby so the best strategy is to try to stay silent. And when the car gets close enough, they try to start running assuming the car is an unknown predator trying to catch them. Unfortunately, unless the car is moving at speeds close to actual predators in nature, the run speed of the deer is not going to be enough to avoid the car bumber. If Teslas had IR cameras they could just assume that any warm target moving near the road in darkness is a deer. And only assume otherwise when AI can identify it as human or other non-deer animal. If you haven't seen an actual deer in darkness on a road, you just cannot understand how suicidal they can be. A fully grown moose would be another another story. They have so little real predators in nature that they don't mind about the cars either - they just assume that if the car tries to attack they can deal with the issue at that time and otherwise they can proceed with their original plan, wherever they were planning to do. A moose is actually easier for AI because once the AI can figure the movement vector of the moose it can pretty accurately calculate where the moose is going. Deers are the ones that have practically random movement and are really hard even for experienced human drivers.
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  237. And then there are the reindeers, which seem to be mixture of a deer and a moose for behavior: pretty random but not afraid of cars: https://youtu.be/YohPuALmMuA
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  238. They only need to put 30% margin on the spare parts. I think most people would be happy to purchase original replacement parts from the factory with 30% margin. All you need is ability to purchase any part, not just complete motherboards with already soldered chips, flash and memory.
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  239. The screenplay they wrote for the NY is genious. You can never guess what's going to happen next!
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  240. Forbes has a great article called "Four Reasons To Stop Panicking Over Inflation!" by John T. Harvey about how inflation is actually about redistributing income. However, that articles doesn't mention the issue that inflation can make some services not viable at all, like the situation Louis explain in this video.
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  241. 3:12 Black cat in the video is always a good test how good your camera exposure is. This seems fine!
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  242. I don't feel bad for watching this even though I already had subscribed!
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  243. I think they should have a temperature sensor in the body and turn off the system if the sensor in the battery doesn't measure close enough to the one inside the camera body. This would help both with OEM battery failing in use and with 3rd party batteries. But in the end, I have zero trust that this issue is about security or safety but maximizing profits.
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  244. I think it's more like totally misunderstanding that end-to-end-encryption even exists. This politician obviously still thinks that Signal sends the message to server owned by Signal and then the server sends the message to the receiver. I think that in best case we'll see requirement that all centralized systems are required to scan data for viruses and child porn. Then Signal can implement a server sniffer algorithm that always says "this appears to be encrypted binary data" and never raise a flag without lying about anything.
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  245. I think signing NDA is okay if the NDA contract clearly definines the secrets – for example, if it says that any material delivered in a ZIP package requiring password "NDA" to unzip are covered, I'd be happy to sign such contract. If the wording is unclear and covers potentially anything, never ever sign such crap. In addition, the NDA should explicitly say that if the same information is available from other sources (public or not), sharing such information is not covered/limited by the NDA contract. Also 7 year expiry date is bullshit unless they pay monetary compensation for such a long limitation. And I would really want to see NDA explicitly say that you're allowed to publicly disclose the type of information received which is covered by the NDA. For example, even after signing the NDA, you should be able to publicly say that you've received full schematics or that you haven't received full schematics. It's especially bad if the NDA covers disclosing information about missing data.
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  246. Here in Finland thieves may still get dragged to court but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort for the society. The law enforcement task force is so heavy that getting one thief to court requires countless hours of work and then the thief may get 300 EUR fine and maybe a couple of weeks of community service in best case. At least here in Finland the thief doesn't need to pay to court fees and policy salary even when found guilty. So the thief could stole 2000 EUR worth or property and maybe is able to sell half of it and spend the money. Half the property is returned to the owners, and maybe 3000 EUR worth of salary is spent by society on police, public prosecutor, judge, legal counsel and countless of other people wasting hours no the thing. In total the thief caused direct damage of 1000 EUR to owners that lost property that couldn't be recovered and 3000 EUR to legal force making total of 4000 EUR lost for the society. The thief gets a slap on the wrists and a bit of community service which sure as hell is not going to prevent him or her being a thief in the future. So society would save approximately 2000 EUR for this kind of case *just by doing nothing*. Only when thieves get too arrogant to cause so much collateral damage that it's worth the effort for the society police should even try. A simple way to fix this would be to send bill for all the work done by the legal machinery. Then it would really hurt and the more you hide and kick back before finding quilty, the more expensive it would get for you. The nice part of court cases here in Finland is that if you're found not-guilty, you can usually collect 100% of the expenses (but no profit!) spent on the case by you. But society gets nothing.
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  247. 1:00 This is the most important part. Especially for any government employees such as generals there's no need to create new legislation because you can simply tell the employees to work using different tools. And once you explain why you want alternative tools, your employees should be taking the hint and stop using TikTok for their personal devices, too. If you have so stupid employees that they cannot take a hint, it's time to educate them more, not create new legislation.
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  248. I'd guess that the firmware in the printer is stupid enough to always pump the cartridges when the printer is powered on. This is not safe with inkjet printers if the cardridge is empty because you could suck air into the print head. As customer typically want water insoluble prints, once you get air into the print head, any existing remains of ink in the print head dry up and clog the print head. As the ink is not soluble after drying, there's no way to salvage the print head after this. Now, the decision to always pump the cartridges during the power up is equally stupid stuff to Epson, who does the same thing. But in case of Epson, their firmware is not insane enough to also disable scanner part in case printing cannot be done because low empty cartridge. The solution I have? Use Epson inkjet printer with 3rd party refillable cartridges that automatically report half-full to the printer, water soluable ink and there's no problem. You can safely run the cartridge to empty because the ink is soluable. The water soluable ink from 3rd party has a sensible pricing as a bonus and still outputs original quality prints. There are two con-sides though: the ink is water soluable so you must not get any prints wet because the ink will flow again. And water soluable inks are not equally strong against fading because of UV light. So you must periodically re-print the stuff you want to keep in UV light with bright colors. Not a problem for me because my archival format is digital and paper prints are for temporary use only.
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  249. 5:03 I think the least bad option is to tell the customer that the screen replacement costs $80 including the parts and labor but if they want to get the FaceID to work again, they need to pay for $25 extra work because you have to transfer a soldered chip from old screen to new screen because Apple made this part of the repair work harder with the latest iPhone. That way the customer gets to decide if the think FaceID is worth $25 for them.
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  250. 1:15 DRM sucks, news at eleven.
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  251. According to a story, Picasso was sitting in a Paris café when an admirer approached and asked if he would do a quick sketch on a paper napkin. Picasso politely agreed, swiftly executed the work, and handed back the napkin but not before asking for a rather significant amount of money. The admirer was shocked: “How can you ask for so much? It took you a minute to draw this!” “No”, Picasso replied. “It took me 40 years.” This is very similar to bringing an electronic device "that does not work" and you quickly fix it due luckily seeing the identical problem previously and spent 10 hours to debug the issue then. Just to be clear, I 100% agree with this video. I sometimes may prefer that I can opt to pay just for the work and may end up with a broken device but that's a totally separate service from fixing a problem. If I'm paying for just the work, I own the device and the problem and I'm fine with that. For normal people, understanding that part is too hard.
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  252. The reason alcohol method failed to find the short was because the short only get to 50–60 °C and you would need minimum of 83 °C to make the alcohol boil.
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  253. 8:00 Imagine that you have old enough car that the original manufacturer doesn't want to sell spare parts anymore. Would you trash totally working car simply because you cannot get the spare parts from the original manufacturer? And note that voting with your wallet e.g. 10-12 years after the manufacturing date is pretty hard without a working crystal ball. I'm still using year 1999 VW Passat that I'm fixing by myself and once I found a 3rd party manufacturer that created stronger front suspension ball joints than the original car had, I no longer need to replace those parts every second year like the original spare parts. I definitely do not want to be limited to original parts, no matter if I repair the thing by myself or I pay somebody else to do the job. And I want to add that the fact that I can keep that car rolling doesn't mean that I would recommend anybody else to try that thinking that VW Passat is somehow special. It's not and VW has done lots of crappy stuff with proprietary computer stuff which would require special device by VW to execute repairs. One reason I'm using such an old car is that this old technology has been reverse engineered well enough so that I can actually get 3rd party information for this thing.
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  254. I think instead of "dislike" Youtube should have two buttons: "I disagree" and "This video was so low quality that I wish I hadn't wasted my time with it" (obviously shorter label because that would be insanely long button). There's no need for a button "I hate this content creator". I think it would be more healthy for the content creators, too, because the button is no longer about hate but simple feedback. I push the "like" button if I consider the video valuable on the platform. If I think that having the video on Youtube is better than not having it, I click like. That also means that I'll click the like button on videos where I disagree with the opinions in the video but the video explains the views of the content creator and the difference is more like opinion – I think it's great that different views can be publicly shown and can co-exist on Youtube. I only dislike stuff that shows no effort, are spam or contain obvious lies. All these deserve a dislike in current implementation.
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  255. It seems that Ford is trying to do the same as Ferrari is doing with some of their cars. Purchasing some of those Ferrari cars requires you to sign a contract that specifies how the car can be used, how you can publicly display or speak about it, and if and when you can sell it to another owner. If you don't sign the contract, you are not allowed to purchase/lease/rent (whatever you think the contract forces you to do) the car. This all is totally okay in my books because you have to sign the contract before you can even purchase the car. If, on the other hand, marketing makes you think that you're purchasing a car that you actually own, and then get these extra restrictions it is not fair trade anymore.
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  256. As an EU citizen, I have to say that biggest problem with EU is that the process for any change is so damn slow. When you combine that fact with poorly written ideas like the one referenced in this video, you'll see results that take years and years to push through and the final result is worth nothing if it ever passes. Typically it will take years until somebody with enough importance says that this is badly written and will not pass. So in the end, the worst bits do not get through but that crap fills the system with stuff that makes passing anything important even slower.
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  257. Here's the talk about what the software in trains actually did: 37C3 - Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains https://youtu.be/XrlrbfGZo2k?si=BOtGIp58zbUyHS5M Warning: if you write software yourself (like I do), watching this will increase your blood pressure to dangerous levels if you don't have flexible enough morale. The Newag that authored the software for trains should be sued for a big amount of money. The amount of intentional breakage they programmed into the firmware is definitely not a mistake but intentional malice to extort the customers to only use your OEM service.
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  258.  @codegeek98  The 4 wheel steering is about making it easier to get the car to turn on parking slots. Mercedes EQS is pretty big car.
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  259.  @Jet-ij9zc  I'd argue that single molecule of water is already wet because wetting is ability to soak into other materials and water is pretty good at that.
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  260. 13:19 "Oreo has been in a meating for a while..." :D
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  261. 6:00 LOL
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  262. Looking at the transcript alone is enough to figure out that Louis is not happy. The [ __ ] appears pretty often. And I fully agree Louis on actual content.
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  263. Public Schools are not the problem, the problem is that adults are not taking the responsibility for the misbehaving kids. Both the parents and the general public. At least here in Finland, even if there's no question about bullying / the attacking party, it's officially impossible to get the bullying kid to change the school if the situation cannot be improved with both kids being in the same school. The only "solution" that's officially available is that the kid that's getting bullied changes school. So this "solution" makes sure that the kid that's the target is going to lose all his or her remaining friends in the school and best luck in the next school. Obviously, many times this solution may be worse than just suffering the current situation. Also, here in Finland, the problem is not that teachers are not well-educated (*minimum* bar for a teacher in Finland is Master's degree, it's not legal to have a permanent position in school without proper education) but the fact that Finland is so byrocratic that teachers and the principal cannot do anything better within the legal restrictions.
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  264. The only reasonable explanation for no applicants for the charity work that pays $65 per hour without reporting duties is this: They saw $65/h, removed NY loss factor and expected to actually get $6.5 an hour and assumed it's not worth their time.
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  265. That said, my commute for this job would have been about 5900 km (one way) so it wouldn't have been worth my time.
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  266. Great video! And I don't feel it was woke stuff at all.
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  267. The real lesson to learn is to never follow any Tesla cars too close because those cars will randomly apply full brakes. In fact, not following any cars too closely would prevent most crashes in general.
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  268.  @aprildolly6664  Partially yes, but you still lose all semantic information compared to original source code. Schematics reverse engineered by probing the hardware can show all details there's in the original design. Decompiling and reverse engineering software binary files can only reveal the interpretation of the compiler but you can never reveal the original source code (e.g. logical variable names, function names, comments) unless the distributor of the software leaves the debugging information intact (which is not normally done because it leaks details and increases file size of the executable files). Basically you can reverse engineer that memory block at 0x6234a512 is looped over by the counter value at 0x6321512 times, but you have to make lots of guesses to figure out what is the meaning of the contents of the memory at 0x6234a512 or what is the semantics of 0x6321512. Is it random number generator, license code checker or logo icon rendering code? Decompiling cannot tell the difference.
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  269. The ability to fluently read is indeed the most important skill to learn. If reading as an act itself feels like a chore, you can never easily learn anything that requires reading. Learning new stuff is basically about how fast you can input new data into your brain. And even though videos and audio recordings allow you to input some data even if you cannot read, those methods have lower bandwidth for most tasks. (There are exceptions, obviously. For example, for music studies having audio recordings is much better than text books.)
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  270. It sounds to me that the thing Louis and his employees really needs is somewhere to place with a nice climate and friendly people plus a fast working post office.
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  271. Respect!
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  272. You would assume that such automatic board layout software supports constraints like "avoid putting different voltage pins near each other"... intentionally disabled by Apple.
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  273. I can proudly say that I've never owned a smartphone that couldn't run an alternative OS. I used to run Cyanogenmod and nowadays the closest alternative is LineageOS. However, I'm fully aware that I belong to small minority because I cannot get any new smartphones immediately when they come available because manufacturers don't seem to care. And I would never get an Apple iOS device because you cannot replace the OS and cannot even install a web browser of your choice on the default OS.
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  274. I'm wondering if Hakko even has a sensor for auto turn-off. It seems that the button might just touch the holder just right.
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  275. Chris Flynn already documented following in this discussion: "If you look at the 400+ $1558 Warrants they were all incorporated in 12/2011 and the 400+ $1567 warrants were 11/2011. Eight for $1573.21 were 10/2011, three for $1542.89 were 02/2012 so a few stragglers. Nothing similar happened in Aug 2014/15/17/18 as best I could see." So it seems that it has happened multiple times and every time the warrant has been close to $1560 but not exactly that.
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  276. Make no mistake, the Samsung behavior is about market segmentation, not about technology.
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  277. If this were a twist in the plot of some TV series, people would be complaining in chat about how unrealistic it would be.
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  278. See Louis's response to the pinned message above. Legally he could do that but he doesn't want to because he thinks doing that would lower him to practically the same behavior that many political "non-profit" trusts are doing. Gotta respect the moral high ground here!
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  279. I'm totally fine with anybody saying their mind about things. However, the thing that I find really troubling is that when you ask that average anti-vaxxer about "Why do you belive that way? Could you provide a reference (e.g. a link) to source you consider reputable" they instantly start to attack you with ad hominems and other crap like "Research the thing yourself, man!!!" If you're an anti-vaxxer because you consider some specific real statistic more important than the rest of us, I can respect that. However, If you're anti-vaxxer because your friend Bill told you that "the vaccination actually inserts 5G radio inside your head" and you refuse to take in any real facts, I don't know if I should laugh at you or consider you mentally ill.
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  280. And I agree on voting with your wallet instead of ideology. It really doesn't matter if some green product is actually green – if it's expensive, that money goes to somebody and that individual may use that money to travel around the world in jets. Or anything else that's non-green. If you get something that's not expensive (e.g. fix Tesla battery instead of replacing whole battery because of a single nozzle) there's a very high probability that it's better overall. That said, we need suitable taxes on mining and oil drilling to adjust the costs of non-renevable material so show in the price tag.
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  281. Great video as usual! As a side note, could you tell the mic you used in this video? The sound was surprisingly good and that didn't seem to be a DPA headset mic that you usually have.
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  282.  @rossmanngroup  Searching for warrants and liens seems like a easy thing to automate for any service that monitors your credit rating. If they don't already offer this service, maybe they neither are aware of this problem in the system?
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  283. The Tesla FSD is fully self driving only in sense it's better than really bad human drivers. I know human drivers that would have more collisions than even the current state of Tesla FSD. That said, firing a person for publicly displaying result is a bad move. Unless that person was working under signed NDA which would have made that breach of contract.
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  284. I think the most important part of this video starts at 19:28 – the price increase is not going to undo when (not if) Trump finally cancels the tariffs.
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  285. As a bonus, Steve appreciates cats, too. He even named his repair shop according to his cat.
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  286. I use hard-tail on trails and it seems I would use the same bike for the streets of NYC.
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  287. 1:43 Oreo is like "Oh damn, now he has totally lost it! I'm outta here."
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  288.  @shawnjoseph4009  Linus Tech Tips just made video called "I Spent a THOUSAND Dollars on HDMI Cables.. for Science" about this (cannot link here because of Youtube filtering). Basically get the cable that's about 2x the cheapest ebay crap you can find and changes are high that the cable is perfect. Or get a cable analyzer but those cost like $10K so maybe not. TL;DR: any spec compliant cable will result in perfect signal transmission. Obviously broken cables are crap, of course, but getting gold plated shielding or some other Monster Cables nonsense will make zero difference.
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  289.  @Bri-bn5kt  The problem with blocking EU visitors is that you cannot geoblock but you have to ask each visitor if they are an EU citizen (maybe just living in the USA!) and if they are an EU citizen and you don't want to follow GPDR, you have boot them from your your server. The GDPR legislation affects you if an EU citizen uses your service no matter where on Earth that said citizen is using your service. Most business think it's better strategy to be compliant with GDPR – it doesn't ask for a lot, honestly. Basically you cannot collect any personally identifiable information without a proper legal reason. Collecting personally identifiable information to increase your analytics and marketing is not a legal reason. It would be easier for you to behave that way but that's not a strict requirement. And GDPR is about if that's not strictly required, you shall not collect personally identifiable information. It's okay to collect truly anonymous statistics but it's not okay to start building user profiles unless they have created an user account and given the consent for collecting data. And the user account is a practical requirement, not a specific requirement because all users must be given option to withdraw their consent on any given moment and to do that you must have some kind of user accounts so that you know which user account has withdrawn their consent. The user account may or may not have user visible login and password. The UK legislation about blindly banning cookies is another story. The EU GDPR doesn't prevent using cookies. You can use cookies just fine if they are needed for e.g. keeping track of user sessions (e.g. to avoid CSRF attack) or user set preferences (e.g. content language). However, the very same cookies (literally the same data on the cookie and the same cookie name) is illegal if you track users to extract information about what they seem to like most.
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  290.  @Bri-bn5kt  As an EU citizen I agree that we should allow adults to do stupid things if they wish to do. However, the problem with internet is that you (as a site owner) cannot know if the visitor is a minor in reality. And starting to blindly collect a profile and trying to push ads according to that profile when the visitor is actually a minor would be a totally different thing. And I do think that the society and government should not allow minor/children to do any stupid things they can think of. Plus it seems that having to disclose your identity to provide a proof that you're an adult to have full internet experience would have been even worse idea. So GDPR is the least bad option currently available.
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  291. Looking forward for Season 3 of NY Real Estate, starring Louis Rossmann.
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  292. I've heard this explanation many times earlier. I somewhat agree on software only features where extra cost is basically license fee. For example, once you talk about features that require hardware (e.g. heated seats in BWM) and the software is used to intentionally break the hardware without subscription, you're basically breaking the hardware that you pretended to sold to the customer. If you don't want to sell stuff to the customers and want to rent/lease instead, you should openly disclose the fact before the customer decides to take the deal. I think devices including hardware that's disabled by software should get extra environmental tax. Building hardware that's then disabled from the owner of said hardware is pretty far from sustainable design.
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  293.  @TheAkashicTraveller  Unfortunately, in countries that enforce EULA shrinkwrap agreements, the software can do pretty much any restrictions it wants and as long as those are listed in the EULA, they are totally fine legally. I'm not saying that's good but the legislation in those countries allows it and the correct way to fix this mess is to start with giving less power to companies via patents and EULAs.
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  294.  @dnyalslg  If you try to fix any cars you'll find that *every car manufacturer is lacking attention to detail*. Maybe Koenigsegg might be an exception but even their cheapest models are a bit above my budget.
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  295.  @menotu000  Absolutely. And the legislation could define that the tools needed to execute repairs (e.g. replace battery) must be made available to 3rd parties. If such a tool is implemented as software, then you must make the software available.
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  296. We carry the elements of success under our hats 1 per cent Luck. 2 per cent Inspiration. 97 per cent Perspiration.
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  297. I'm using Linux and I use both regular hyphen-minus (-) and en-dash (–) and I have configured my keyboard to emit the en-dash when I press AltGr and "-". I use Finnish keyboard layout with ISO TKL physical keyboard so I can also write letters such as åäö and some more rare stuff such as µ or × or ß. And I can use my compose key to write letters such as éèȩęëẽêēě without using a character picker for any that stuff. To re-configure my keyboard, all I need is one line in .xsessionrc: xmodmap -e "keycode 61 = minus underscore minus underscore endash hyphen endash" It completely redefines what keycode 61 does when combined with various modifier keys. I have no idea how you could do the same thing on Windows.
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  298. I guess it might be about cultural differences but the way you communicate would be considered just fine here in Finland. I'm just disappointed that one human (CT Wilson) can block the process in Maryland. That said, I agree that it's still okay to apologize because if the other party fails to understand your communication, there's still something to improve. You can honestly apologize your failure to communicate in style that allows the opponent to understand you even if everything you said was true. The bottom line is that when people feel attacked (even with true facts) they start to get defensive even if they were wrong. The hard part is to get the other party to understand that they are wrong without getting them feel attacked.
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  299. 21:27 Poor Oreo getting scared away...
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  300. After you have watched Louis, you can try this slightly more accurate explanation: https://youtu.be/X4EUwTwZ110
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  301. I guess a good starting point would be to only compare prices to existing leases that are actually paid monthly, not to the insane asking prices. That would require making all lease contracts public but I think that would be a good thing, too. You could enforce that easily just by declaring that any rent doesn't need to be paid at all until the rent contract has been published via official method. Of course, you would first have to agree to measure the rented area according to real physics instead of real estate physics where square foot or square meter doesn't actually match anything real.
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  302. Increasing hours just makes things worse. Here in Finland, children are usually in the school for 6 hours a day and 5 days a week. And for those 6 hours, they get 15 minute break every hour so it's really 6 x 45 minutes per day from monday to friday. With 2.5 month holiday for the summer and 1 week holiday for the autumn, 2 week for the xmas, and 1 week holiday for the spring. Homework needs maybe 15-30 minutes per day and that's all. And Finland used to have really good results in the PISA tests around year 2005. The curriculum details have since changed a bit and results are a bit worse but the length of education or the amount of homework hasn't been changed. I'm not sure if the worse behavior is caused by minor curriculum changes or the use of smartphones in classrooms –in addition, one big change in Finland since 2005 has been integrating special education into normal classrooms without extra resources for the teacher of the normal classroom. I would guess this might be the real cause for worse results in recent years. It was done on the basis that it would improve understanding between "normal" people and "special" people but schools assumed it was cost minimization technique and just reduced staff instead of having one normal teacher and one special ed teacher per class. In practice, the normal teachers were expected to do everything they used to do and, in addition, do all the stuff the special ed teachers did previously. The minimum education for teachers in Finland is Master's degree from university, which obviously helps, too. And Finland doesn't have any private schools in practice and parents don't get to choose the school children go because all the schools follow the same curriculum with similar requirements for teachers.
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  303. 22:22 Your cat thinks you're getting too aggressive :D
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  304. Great video!
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  305. And it also works as heat spreader with the hot air station which prevents heating just a single point on the board.
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  306.  @barms9768  If you get some no-clean reflow flux it should be just fine over long periods of time without cleaning up.
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  307. 10:46 The proof that cats have no idea what human speech means.
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  308.  @mrfrenzy.  If a non-locksmith asked how to pick a lock, would you tell him or her how to do it? Many locksmiths seem to be okay with sharing information to other locksmiths but zero information to non-professionals.
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  309.  @mrfrenzy.  Makes sense! It's a shame that locksport community is the only real source of information about mechanical locks.
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  310. ... and the manufacturer (being in monopoly position for the repairs) tells you that replacing that flat tire costs about half the price of the new car. And the customer service worker gets a raise if they can successfully sell you a new car instead of repairing that flat tire. And I'm not even joking. Apple is pricing technically easy repairs sky high because they have monopoly for the required parts so there's no competition.
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  311. 21:20 "Can you hear that, he's purring" while pushing the microphone to the side of the cat and audio sounds like 8 cylinder combustion engine :D
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  312. 14 hours in phone calls!?! I consider myself pretty stubborn to set things straight but that would have been too much even for me.
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  313. I think your communication style is just fine. You could try following Chris Voss style by "starting with no" and then continue as you usually do. See this Google talk for an example: https://youtu.be/guZa7mQV1l0
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  314. Audi is a VW with slightly improved sound proofing and slightly higher interior quality + more sporty looking shape. Plus 50% extra cost.
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  315. 5:40 The reason that Pixel phones have the best support for alternate operating systems is that Google is the only manufacturer that actually follows GPL and publishes the corresponding source for the kernel they use.
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  316. If Apple actually wanted Longevity by Design, they would have underfill for every chip and the PCB would have conformal coating. And none of the connectors would put data line next to high voltage lines. If they wanted longetivity, they wouldn't always go for design over functionality. Apple is currently doing none of that so it's obvious their idea of Longevity by Design is to improve longetivity of their money making profits. And functional design doesn't need to look ugly. Good looking functional design is hard to create but not impossible.
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  317. I partially agree the John Deere line with emission controls. Diesel engines do emit sooth particles and NOx emissions without special tweaks. I'd argue that sooth particles do not matter a bit on rural areas because it's only carbon and is not a problem in small amounts per area. As such, DPF can safely be bypassed. NOx emissions are problematic no matter where it's emitted around the globe so I agree that deleting NOx emission controls is a bad thing in all cases. However, that doesn't mean that engine control unit couldn't clear the error codes from the user interface. The most important NOx emission control system is EGR and the system can figure out in maybe 10 seconds if it doesn't work while the engine is running. So allow do clearing the codes but maybe reduce the engine power when EGR system has failed. That would allow completing the workday with the tractor but would put some incentive to actually fix the EGR. (Usually this requires replacing the EGR valve and I think a competent farmer could do that in 15 minutes unless John Deere has even worse design than VW car diesel engines which I assume is unlikely.) As for the software, the problem is not the required software but the protocol between the computer and the tractor. Again, speaking with experience with VW car software, there VW has a secret protocol handshake which is required until you can speak to all controllers. Other than that, the interface follows publicly available standards with different settings channels (basically memory addresses to software engineer) and values for those channels (basically memory values to software engineer). If these protocol handshakes and channels were publicly documented, there would be no need for the OEM software. Basically the required info is along the lines: "Engine Control Unit has identifier 01, the subchannel 13 is the turbo boost, unit is absolute mbar as integer". If you want to monitor real time turbo boost, you connect to the CAN BUS (the standard part of this whole system), do the SECRET handshake, connect to unit 01 and select channel 13 and read the value. If it says e.g. 1325 you know that the current boost pressure is 325 mbar above the atmosphere or about 4.7 psi boost pressure for US readers. Reading through all channels would allow creating a backup of the current configuration and if the owner then messes something up while tuning the control unit, all values could just be restored from backup. For VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat (all manufactured by VAG), you can use software called VCDS by Rosstech where the founder of Rosstech reverse engineered the secret handshake and created business by selling MUCH cheaper software than VAG to do every thing that the OEM programming unit can do, too. And the VCDS has superior user interface compared to official unit. As such, Rosstech is doing much better work than VAG. However, if the protocol (including the secret handshake) were public then we would see much more software developers creating tools to program VAG cars. Currently we have the official VAG tools and Rosstech VCDS, but I think company called OBDeleven has also completed the reverse engineering part to create their own tools. In the end, the secret part of the protocol DOES NOT prevent 3rd party developers from creating software, it only raises the bar to do so and increases costs for all customers. I think John Deere should be totally okay with setup where user must unlock their tractor by requesting serial number specific unlock code to remove all secret handshakes and control unit locks. John Deere could require user to accept that warranty is void if the unlock is completed. Some Android manufacturers already do this. For example, to unlock any Sony smartphone, just follow the official instructions at https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/get-started/unlock-bootloader/ - there's absolute no reason why tractors or cars couldn't work the same.
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  318.  @aaronanderson6958  I have to agree that this was too fast spaced for non-experts in the audience. It was easy to follow for me but I do software design for living and mechanical design as a hobby. I've communicated with many enough layman people about technical details that I know when information overload is a high risk. As for the actual content she said I have nothing to complain. I would have liked to have a point about schematics being documentation, not trade secrets or source code but that would have required even faster speech to fit in the tiny time slot she was given.
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  319. ​ @rossmanngroup  A well made house should not have too high humidity without any extra stuff. You should try to keep relative humidity below 63% at all times because that's the minimum value where mold and other nasty stuff can live. Going above that for a day is not a bad thing but even a week above 63% is potentially unhealthy. Going below 30% for long periods is bad for wooden floors (and acoustic instruments) and may cause sore throat for humans. The foundations are probably missing something important if the house has humidity over 63% without a clear reason.
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  320. The big problem in this case is that lawyers get so high percentage of the settlement that they opt to not fight for more. Apple should be paying at least 10% of the Apple Care costs back to customers and I'm pretty sure the total would be quite different from $95 million.
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  321. Some say that you can measure intelligence with the ability to predict future.
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  322. If you're doing these videos without a script, you surely should be doing some TED talks with a script. I've seen worse TED talks in my life and those have pretty high minimum bar.
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  323. Volt also has liquid cooling for the batteries but for some reason Tesla doesn't seem to be able to make the batteries leak free. And I would bet not all Volts are leak-free after 10 years either, it could be that your unit is just the lucky accident that happens to still work as designed.
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  324. Genius bar: "write it down, write it down!"
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  325. I once had weird noise from front right disk brake of our car and the cause was bent corner of vibration dampener touching the disk. That definitely didn't cause any reduced brake power but was easy to fix once identified. Sometimes weird noise is just a nuisance and nothing to worry about. Also, if you're not sure if you can trust your brakes, try driving e.g. 20 mph on a safe place and floor the brake pedal rapidly. If you cannot make your tires squeek on asphalt and the car to stop rapidly, get it repaired now, no matter what marketing says after seeing your video. However, I cannot understand how a professional mechanic would think it's okay to diagnose brakes from a video. It's not like if you misdiagnose the problem, the entertainment audio maybe stops working but instead the car ends up into a tree.
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  326. See also: https://usbkill.com/
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  327. 26:40 Asking for social security number for verification is a stupid thing that happens all around the world. It happens here in Finland, too! The social security number is supposed to be identification data, similar to register plates in your car. Would you consider it okay that somebody is verified as the owner of the car if they know the register plate? Why would you consider same type of information to verify identity of a human??
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  328. 7:25 One important thing to notice is that the problematic motherboard is on their first generation motherboards. The Framework publicly acknowledged the issue, provided workaround for the owners of the problematic motherboard and fixed the issue in following models seems pretty okay to me. If they wanted to go extra mile, giving an extra discount for the upgrade from first gen motherboard to newer generation motherboard would be nice way to handle the issue: they have design that allows replacing individual parts and the problem is only related to the motherboard. Long time ago when DVD drivers were still important thing to have in a computer, my Pioneer drive had firmware problem and when I reported it, they replied that they will not fix the issue but their newer DVD drive will have improved firmware and it will not suffer from the same issue. They then recommended me to purchase their next gen drive to fix the firmware issue which they could have fixed simply releasing new firmware image and updater software. That was definitely not okay. I have avoided any Pioneer products since then because it's obvious they won't do even the minimum effort to support their hardware.
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  329. It baffles my mind that practically all cars use CAN-BUS (naming differs depending on brand, though) where a single twisted pair data wiring is shared by all devices and the wiring must have exactly two working terminating resistors to avoid having too much noise in the signaling. It's basically similar to "thin etherned" that was deprecated for computer networks around year 1999 for the exactly same issues: a single misbehaving device will take down the whole network and makes even debugging the issue really hard because all signaling is bad.
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  330. @Music:Zerg If that's the actual reason, I'd call that as simple corruption. I hope things are not that bad yet.
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  331. I'd actually be okay with rental model for software and phones if the pricing were sensible. However, I don't accept the idea that you pay full price and then keep paying rent. It would be the same as paying full price for your house and still paying rent to somebody! Instead, you normally pay maybe 1/200th of the full value of the house per month for rent. With similar logic, renting iPhone should cost about $7 per month.
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  332. How about adding a link from video description to Atten 862 in the store?
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  333.  @johanmetreus1268  I totally agree. I think the same problem is here in Finland when we try to fix our local copyright laws, too. I'm not sure how the international treaties can be fixed relative to local laws but it shouldn't be possible. For sure it will be a really slow progress. And I think patent law is in similar state.
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  334.  @stephenhunter70  Not hearing the keyboard could simply mean that somebody got correct microphones for that department. If you use headset mic with a directional mic and a gate the keyboard shouldn't be heard while the gate is closed. Or it could be that he's actually not using the computer at all. We cannot know for sure so more data is needed.
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  335.  @brianwest2775  I agree. Let's apply Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity/incompetence".
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  336. Software patents are also used to prevent progress, not to patent great inventions.
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  337. The fact that the state-of-art communication with government is still a fax machine in year 2023 baffles me.
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  338. You're doing great work, Louis, and I agree with the message of this video! The only thing anybody could say about your videos is that you didn't specifically recommend that if you contact these politicians, keep the communication to the facts instead of throwing threats or lies. When you have strong opinions based on facts, it definitely falls under freedom of speech and I definitely hope people are not thinking about getting rid of freedom of speech.
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  339. 10:00 "Rossmann fruit repair group" would be a fun name for authorized Apple repair shop.
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  340. You're 100% right that people only vote truthworthy by their wallets. Everything else is just lip service.
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  341.  @Fatty420  I would say that all you need is full warranty for the lifetime of the product for all software that comes preinstalled. That would take care of computers, smartphones, cars, tractors, etc. If the manufacturer wants to avoid covering for warranty, they would have to separate the hardware from the software and provide end users with means to install alternative software. (Of course, law should be written in a way that prevents manufacturer from having hardcoded RSA public key in the firmware that refuses to run software not signed by the respective secret key. Maybe just declare any cryptography in the firmware as the software that needs to be covered by warranty?)
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  342.  @schroedingershat7912  Even though I would like to see all software come with source code, I can accept closed source software. However, closed source software inside hardware is just too bad concept and manufacturers should be made to take full responsibility if they want to go that route. When you force full separation of hardware and software, you cannot cripple the hardware that much anymore.
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  343.  @acctsys  If you have already manufactured the part and created all the software, why would you want to sell that product as a crippled product? You could either sell it with all the features on the same price, or stop selling the inferior product and raise the price. However, that wouldn't require you to increase the price to previous premium product, just so that you can still keep the overall profit you want.
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  344.  @jmodified  I think you could make even more money by selling more of the better product (the product with nothing disabled) with slightly above base model price – price aware customers would look at the list of included "options" and would accept higher sticker price better. We're not seeing Apple selling software crippled iPhones and they do seem to be making a lot of profit!
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  345. That schematics manual should have been included with the original unit, with full parts listings without any hidden data. That's the kind of stuff that could explain the $25K sticker price a lot better.
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  346. 23:30 It only took hours of phone calls to find one competent individual!
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  347. This whole story seems like a real world version of this fragment of old Asterix animation: https://youtu.be/vsotCuGVi6k?t=2471
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  348. The problem is that companies pretended to sold perpetual licenses when it was never their intent in reality. It seems that many companies have become less fraudalent and switched to more transparent "subscription model only" style of licensing where the total cost of ownership gets insanely expensive really fast. But at least those companies are no longer lying about the licensing terms. I would recommend using open source software for all purposes instead but I understand that not all software is available as open source software, so sometimes you have to make a compromise.
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  349.  @Px4164  I think EQS has 4 wheel steering always but the feature doubles the amount of steering of rear wheels on subscription. Still, that's obviously crippleware as in "pay us to remove this restriction that we added by writing more software".
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  350. If you used solder with lead, your fix will probably last forever.
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  351. I already wrote earlier that VAG does the same thing with VNT turbo parts. They do not sell the turbo vacuum controller alone but just a part of $1500 turbo kit. Of course, the vacuum controller is the part that fails 99% of the time. Luckily there're 3rd party manufacturers that are willing to sell compatible controller for $35.
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  352.  @zuzanazuscinova5209  About 13% of all workers make 50000–100000 per year and only about 2% make 100000 € or more per year. That means that majority of all people earn less than 50000 € per year. (These numbers are the yearly salary where you still have to pay your income tax. However, these numbers are not directly comparable to e.g. US system because in Finland, the employer has mandatory taxes before the money even gets to the employee.) In practice, if the employee sees 50000 € before taxes, the employer has actually paid about 67000 € to make it possible (because yearly mandatory employer costs are about 17000 € for this salary). And your tax rate is about 25% if you yearly income is 50000 € so you get about 37500 € tax free when employer had to have 67000 € to make it possible.
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  353. VAG (VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat) cars have turbo with vacuum controller where the vacuum controller is not officially sold alone by VAG but only as a kit with the whole turbo. Fortunately 3rd parties make working clones so you can get replacement part for $30 instead of paying $1500 for the new turbo kit. Tesla needs something similar.
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  354. Does BMW still use regular high beams instead of "matrix lights" that have projector technique to selectively mask only the incoming car out and have high beams still enabled for all the other directions?
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  355. I think the only remotely reasonable explanation for this situation would have been if the wording for the item made it possible to think that the seller was official Nikon retailer. In that case, the trademark legislation here in Europe basically requires you to defend your trademark (this case Nikon Europe being forced to defend their trademark). And if eBay is allowing this kind of power for rights other than trademark, then this doesn't make any sense at all.
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  356. The problem with DMCA is that you have to have digital "lock". It doesn't need to be secure. It just needs to be "lock" and it will be illegal to circumvent it for any purpose as long as the "lock" guards intellectual property such as copyrighted music or video. The the manufacturer made an actual lock (that is, something that's not easy to circumvent) they wouldn't need extra protection from the legislation so the whole point of DMCA is to intentionally use bad locks and then use legislation instead of technology to kill the competition. This has been known problematic for software for a long time and and it seems that this company is trying to extend the problems into hardware, too. The correct way to fix this is to (1) get rid of DMCA and (2) sue this company to bankruptcy.
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  357. I was actually able to contact Google user support when they incorrectly disabled the user account of a child. It "only" took 1 month worth of email and explaining the issue to about 10 different Google support people in two languages (Pro tip: do not bother using whatever local UI language you see, always use English only). After a lot of email the case was finally transferred to somebody that had some clue about their systems and it only took a day after that. I write software for living and it would have took me less than 5 minutes to fix similar issue in the system I'm maintaining as part of my work.
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  358.  @AnalogSins  Did you watch the video? Librewolf was mentioned by Louis himself. Chromium is also 100% open source and doesn't leak your data to Google even though majority of the code is nowadays written by Google.
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  359. What happened to the ending of this video?
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  360. 4:00 Wow. The system is really broken when the city fines the wrong people by design.
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  361. 27:30 I think it would have been nice to show one of those tiny but really important parts under the microscope with a finger or a ballpen tip next to it to make it obvious how small parts we're actually talking here. I remember looking at smartphone motherboard in person after seeing it just on a video and I was really surprised how tiny those resistors actually are.
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  362. Maybe you should run a Raspberry Pi controlling the printer and make it show up to Windows as network IPP printer only? That way windows couldn't overwrite its settings randomly.
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  363. The automatic highbeam feature was introduced as an option called "Autronic Eye" in year 1952 Oldsmobile. BMW customer base seems to accept that the feature is so high-end tech that it requires a subscription to be available in a BMW car.
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  364. I fully believe that Tesla isn't using that lousy 1D radar in any of their cars. 1D radar cannot differentiate traffic signs from bridges or fully stopped cars. In the old days, Tesla crashed with fully stopped firetruck exactly because they tried to use the 1D radar. I think future is either fully camera based or some kind of AESA radar, but those things are hugely expensive right now and even lidar would a budget version compared to those. And even lidar is too expensive to put in all cars.
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  365. 1:30 "easily-removable back will mean thsoe handsets will lose their water resistance unless a well-thought-out design is undertaken." Heaven forbit if manufacturers could actually have competitive edge with well-thought-out design!
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  366.  @masskiller9206  That's why you go with aftermarket cartridges with Epsons. The cardridges I have automatically reset the ink counter back to full when it goes under 50%. The only issues this causes is that the ink display on the screen is not accurate so I have to monitor the ink levels manually. There's an actually sensible reason to refuse to print if any color is empty: that's because the default inks are pigment based and the print head will get clogged if print head is moved out of its resting position multiple time without enough ink in the holes in the print head. And the way the print head is built, the printer will need to apply some suction to it every now and then during the printing. If you use water soluable dye inks, you don't need to be afraid about print head getting clogged but the prints are not waterproof. The default Epson ink is so waterproof that I haven't found any solvent that's able to restore badly clogged print head. With water soluable dye inks, in worst case I've had to push maybe half a cardridge worth of ink through to get perfect test patterns. If you want waterproof prints, you should use laser or sublimation printer, not an inkjet. I'm still wondering why nobody makes a printer that has both laser and inkjet hardware. Most of the cost of the modern printer is the mechanical parts that are shared with both technologies and after that the most expensive part is the print head. So if you're willing to pay for high quality inkjet, including the extra parts for laser printing shouldn't increase the costs that much.
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  367.  @theairaccumulator7144  You can still desolder and move the chip from old battery to new battery, though. It just makes repairs move expensive, not impossible.
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  368.  @theairaccumulator7144  Yes, batteries can be unsoldered as long as they have wires attached. If the battery doesn't have leads, then you would need to do spot welding instead to avoid overheating the battery.
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  369. Those covid cases were reported per week. So that's 0.91 new hospitalised covid cases per 100,000 people per week vs 3.5 homicides per 100,000 people per year. 0.91 cases per week would be about 47 new covid cases per 100,000 per year for vaccinated people. And for non-vaccinated it was 9.9 per week or 516 cases per year. As you see, the numbers clearly show that anti-vaxxers are a big problem even though vaccination cannot prevent all cases either. It's all about probabilities. To improve your changes, you should avoid being overweight, use mask and be vaccinated. That doesn't guarantee that you cannot get the worst covid effects but it improves your changes for survival. The problem is that most people are really really bad at math and fail to understand all probabilities other than exactly 0%, 50% or 100%.
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  370. My theory is that they put a warrant on you because they couldn't contact you via the PO box. /s
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  371. ​ @JM-yx1lm  You do realize that all Android devices run Linux, right? Linux is the operating system kernel, Android runs its graphical user interface on top of that open source kernel and the whole combination is called "Android". You'll also find Linux inside pretty much any internet router, WLAN access point, smart fridge and most TV sets. In addition, some people run it in Raspberry Pi and other low power devices. And then some, like me, run it on their desktop computers.
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  372. This requires EU GDPR -like mandatory regulation which would say something along the lines "cancelling a subscription must be at least equally easy to starting the subscription". That way you're allowed to make starting the subscription as easy as you want, but you have to make cancelling equally easy or easier.
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  373. As a Finn, I could understand tipping culture if the expected tip for simply doing average work were $0 and extra tip would be paid if you feel the employee has done better than average for the job. If average or below average worker is honstly expecting to see more than $0 tip, the system is seriously borken.
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  374. I think there should be pretty low limit on non-profit employee salaries, including the director. How about max limit of $100K per year per person? If it's non-profit worth having, you can surely find some volunteer that believes in the intent of the organization who can accept living standards that you can do with mere $100K salary. If you truly want to pay more for the employees, just drop the non-profit part from the organization and have fun.
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  375. I don't think you should sell your company, but contacting a lot of people from that list (and maybe from other dates, too, some claimed following in this discussion: "If you look at the 400+ $1558 Warrants they were all incorporated in 12/2011 and the 400+ $1567 warrants were 11/2011. Eight for $1573.21 were 10/2011, three for $1542.89 were 02/2012 so a few stragglers. Nothing similar happened in Aug 2014/15/17/18 as best I could see.") would make a lot of sense. If you can contact those people and even 20% of them are still in business you should look for class action. If you have contact information for many enough people with the documentation about the issue, finding a lawyer that will take the case on contingency shouldn't not be impossible. Especially with your subscriber count, just declaring that you're looking for such a lawyer might be enough. I think the important details to get from each affected party are: (1) Were you aware of this? (2) Do you think it might have affected your finances? (3) Do you have evidence that it would have affected your finances? If banks have denied loans without specifying the cause, it may be too hard to show damages in court. However, if you find enough evidence for banks denying financing because of liens or warrants, that would be the smoking gun you're looking for.
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  376. Unauthorized parts maybe have higher quality than the original parts. For example, when I used to purchase OEM ball joints for my car, I had to replace those ball joints every 2–3 years because the OEM part was not strong enough for the weight of the car. I then upgraded to truly high quality aftermarket part I haven't needed to replace the same part in a decade! Even thinking that OEM got every part perfect before they started to sell the product is insane.
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  377. Why on earth there isn't some kind of lever mechanism that can raise the stencil off the chip at the end of reballing? It seems that the changes of getting the stencil off without damaging balls is pretty low when you have to raise so small item by hand.
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  378.  @TheArchaos  Unless you're buying cars for ideological purposes (and you really shouldn't – if you want to improve world pollution status you use bicycle and mass traffic) you should consider total cost of ownership per mile or kilometer. That means, you should take sum of the purchase price, battery swap / maintenance and fuel / electricity and check the cost per mile/km. EV doesn't use lots of energy per mile/km but when you compute the price of battery lifetime per mile/km it suddenly is the most important cost in the long run. Electricity is way too cheap overall to really matter compared to battery costs over the lifetime of the car. I drive an old direct injection diesel which I maintain myself and no EV car comes close to total cost per km when you consider all of the above. If you don't maintain and repair your cars by yourself, then the local carage pricing could make a difference to total costs, though.
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  379. The technologically hardest part of recreating Twitter would be scaling while growing up. It doesn't make sense to start competition with enough hardware to handle equally lot traffic as Twitter. However, creating an architecture that nicely scales to big amounts of traffic is hard. And probably the people with best knowledge to effectively scale service like Twitter are already employed by Twitter. If you don't mind higher cost of running the service, sure that's easy. But if I've understood correctly, even Twitter seems to have problems scaling with low enough cost.
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  380. The record Louis was talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Pink See also: https://youtu.be/cyYQM7BWgDE
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  381. I think keyboard is really important part of any computer and I hate all laptop keyboards with passion. I prefer mechanical keyboard with full key travel (~ 4 mm) and tactile feedback. In practice, that means Cherry MX Brown or better switches. And I find it insane to have keypad on laptop computer. Just give me proper cursor keys + insert, home, pgup, del, end and pagedown in regular 3x2 arrangement. Basically I'm asking for laptop with ISO TKL keyboard layout. I'm hoping Framework 16 inch laptops will support such thing in the future. As for the laptop mouse replacements, I prefer trackpad with physical buttons. Tap-to-click has never been great for me and I don't even like the Apple push the trackpad physically downwards implementation. I much prefer having 3 physical buttons below the trackpad that I use with thumb.
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  382.  @craig9365  If you have a consumers protection law that is not actually enforced, you don't have a consumers protection law. Simple as that.
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  383. 10:10 I vote with my wallet by purchasing e.g. older smartphones instead of getting new ones. However, I don't know if that really helps to change things because when I use something second hand, the original buyer still gets some money back from his or her purchase. If nobody paid for any second hand smartphones, we might have products with longer lifespans.
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  384. Pro tip: whenever the web site captures Ctrl+F, you can instead do Ctrl+L Ctrl+F which first moves the focus to the address bar and then Ctrl+F activates the browser native search.
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  385.  @herrschaftg35  UBI allows lesser earning people to have a reason to go to work. Never underestimate how much it matters that everybody stays sane.
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  386.  @herrschaftg35  I guess the total additional cost of UBI really depends on the existing benefit system. Here in Finland you can already get many different benefits even if you don't work already. I think the unemployment benefit + housing benefit already total around 800-1000 EUR/month. However, if you get even a low pay job, you'll totally lose the unemployment benefit immediately and it's better to stay at home instead of accepting such a job. With full UBI accepting any job would always increase your total income over continuing as unemployed. In countries where existing benefits are much worse, sure, changing directly to full UBI is too hard to step to take in many cases. As for actually implementing UBI, at least here in Finland, the politics has been too complex problem to solve this far. Some people seem to understand UBI as a replacement for unemployment benefit only and when they then assume that all those people still need the housing benefit plus random additional benefits, the system immediately gets too expensive. The whole point of UBI is that it should replace all existing benefits systems so if existing benefit systems have total budget of X EUR per year, that's the budget you can use for full UBI. Also note that here in Finland we have heavy progression in the income tax, too. In practice people with high income will fully pay the UBI back in form of income tax so it doesn't actually increase the costs for those people. The tax receipt would just show higher total income and higher tax and the actual usable income would be about the same as today.
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  387. 21:00 Also, if he's using the laptop ONLY for Youtube, how on earth did he notice that all USB 3 ports are randomly failing? Also, random USB failures could be caused by poor quality cable or the USB 3 client hardware, too.
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  388.  @DaftFader  If room 1742 is not in the 17th floor of the building, somebody has done some really weird room numbering.
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  389.  @DaftFader  That kind of design reminds me of this old Asterix animation: https://youtu.be/vsotCuGVi6k?t=2472
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  390.  @perwestermark8920  EU could have written that "minimum data transfer rate using USB-C connector must be 40 Gbps (USB-4 certified cable), or the maximum the device supports using any connection method if the device maximum data rate is less than 40 Gbps". That would force Apple to make all data transfers slower to make USB-C connector slow.
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  391. Louis must be pretty unlucky to have buffer underflows for audio. I use crappy USB webcam as my microphone and I can record audio without parts missing with 2 ms buffering. For output 2-3 ms buffering seems to be enough for motherboard integrated audio, too.
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  392. 6:10 This is where GDPR would help but that's only an EU thing so far. That said, GDPR is far from perfect and the mandatory pre-emptive paper trail it requires in practice causes extra expenses to all companies because of extra bureaucracy even if you never mishandle any personal data. Also the rules for what's personal information in GDPR are unclear which also causes a lot of problems. Some interpretations of the wording suggest that anything that can be matched to a person in the future using additional data collected in the future is considered part of personal information today! So to correctly identify personal information today, you have to have a working crystal ball to know if future improvements in AI systems allow detecting somebody based on word order or timestamp or whatever information you might have today. This would be obviously insane but the legislation has been written so poorly that this is arguable position considering the letter of the law.
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  393. Because law says that "warranty void if removed" stickers are not legal, the manufacturer should figure out other methods to make sure a malicious customer cannot force them to pay. For example, add hardware fuses that limit the current to the design spec so that if somebody flashes custom firmware that increases the current limits, the fuse will blow. The same thing with thermals and voltage limits. That way it doesn't matter if it's hardware issue or driver problem that the temperature, voltage or current is getting too high, the device automatically shuts down. They could also create the circuits in a way that prevents flashing the card if any of the fuses have triggered so that the firmware always contains the code that was being run at the moment a fuse blows. Now, if the customer starts to desolder fuses before asking for warranty, then you can clearly say that the customer has already modified the hardware too much after they have removed the original safety components that are there to prevent damage to the hardware. And in case the original problem was a fuse blowing too soon, replacing the blown fuse and sending the product back would be a simple fix. Of course, before doing that the manufacturer should verify that the fuse is not blown for a real defect.
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  394.  @BTD3Fan  I agree. Overclocking (that is increasing clock or reducing latencies without increasing voltage or temperature) will not damage computer parts. However, if you do overclocking the way most people do and increase the voltage way above the spec, the extra heat and electrical energy may cause permanent damage for sure. However, if you increase the voltage and run the system with the spec clock, it may get damaged just the same. The problem is not overclocking but overvolting.
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  395.  @ts757arse  I'm also using things I own a lot longer than people usually do. The computer I'm using has most parts from 2009 or 2012. I've only replaced SSD and HDDs. My car is year 1999 model that I maintain by myself and I've bought my last new phone around 2009. The problem with Apple devices is that they never ever promise any support at all. Try looking on their documentation or web pages. Show me EOL dates for any products! Many iPads and iPhones are supported as long as they have enough RAM to run the latest OS but you cannot find the RAM the new devices include either.
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  396. It appears that Apple is too stupid to figure out that if the form is filled on all pages but a field is empty, it means there's no data. They want literal "n/a". The big question is do they want "N/A" or literally "n/a" as spelled on the first page?
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  397. According to my experience, one month is actually pretty short time for pushing such string changes through the localization process. Youtube interface is available in many languages and if they just delay the UI changes until every translator has translated those strings one month has easily passed. Or they just forgot to update those strings.
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  398. 1:50 Example case where things are really bad in car industry in case of a Volkswagen TDI diesel engines. Take about 20 year old VW Passat and try to get VNT turbo vacuum actuator for it from Volkswagen. The part is literally technically identical to parts that were used during 1980s to adjust the spark timing in gasoline engines using a vacuum control except that the bolt holes are in a bit different location and the spring inside the part may have different strength. However, VW will not sell you the part separately but you have to purchase whole turbo assembly instead, to which they have bolted the required actuator already. The official reason for selling this as a package is that the actuator has been pre-adjusted on the factory. The adjustment is done by rotating a single bolt and the correct adjustment is done by applying predefined vacuum and measure that the actuator moves the correct amount (I think it was something like it must move 11 mm with 700 mbar vacuum, the correct amount if officially a trade secret.) I can handle such adjustment myself so I got aftermarket vacuum actuator (costing about 18 EUR) instead of the official package with turbo and actuator (costing about 1700 EUR). Now imagine that they had some kind of patent to prevent 3rd parties from manufacturing the needed actuator (which is literally based on nearly 50 years old technology). So obviously, the service that the manufacturer provides is not the best one even if it actually costs less than replacing the whole device (a car in this case).
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  399. TL;DR: that chip is added to increase costs of 3rd party repair to make Apple official "repair" (let's be honest here, part swapping) more competitive.
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  400. I hope she has full backups done because with that history, the changes are pretty high that all data on that thing is going to be lost on some accident.
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  401. That's a good film. If you haven't already seen it there's no reason to wait anymore.
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  402. ASUS is truly one of a kind. I tried to query spec of their display (ASUS VG27AQ1A). This is the actual customer support exchange: Me: "Is the 250 cd/m2 (or 250 nits) (1) the amount of light for constant light output or (2) the maximum brightness of a single strobe? With a 1 ms strobe required for 1 ms MPRT requires running backlight for only 1/16th of the time for 60 fps display. If strobe doesn't have higher maximum brightness, the visible amount of light with 1 ms strobes is only 1/16 * 250 nits = 15.6 nits. I hope that this display is not THAT dim with 1 ms MPRT. How bright it actually is? (e.g. average light output over 1 second period in nits when 1 ms MPRT is active.)" ASUS: "Because this question is very deep about the core of the technology and average consumer won't ask for so deep information, our HQ need more information about why you need this information and what you will use it for?" So I'm asking about inaccurate specs and instead of replying the data they ask "why do you need to know that?" I tried to explain that I need the info because I'm considering purchasing the display but if the display is too dim, I cannot use it so I need to know the spec before purchasing the monitor. Never got a response to my question.
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  403. You just have to create new account every day and your watch history will be limited to a day. If you cannot bother to do that, you're not serious about the privacy or you consider YouTube more important than your privacy.
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  404. Every time the chain hops over rear wheel gear on high torque (especially the smallest cogs) on Derailleur gears, it's time for a new chain. The chain has too much wear. Go with highest quality chain and you'll be happy. I'm told KMC would be the best option. Shimano and SRAM are okay, too. Some claim that you have to swap the cassette, too, but unless it looks bad, I wouldn't bother.
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  405. That's only mandatory extra year in sense that you no longer can drop out of school after your 16th birthday like previously. The new system in Finland still has 9 year mandatory elementary school and you have to select some education after that (high school, trade school or "10th grade" which is basically repeating the 9th year with extra support – usually only people that cannot be accepted to any high school or trade school go there). Nowadays one can decide to drop out of all education after your 18th birthday.
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  406.  @lovesrc4296  You've seen LTT videos, right? It doesn't seem that Linus has been e.g. very careful with his words about Apple stuff or NVIDIA making stunts with their drivers.
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  407. 9:50 As an EU citizen, I'm pretty ready to declare EU decision making as clusterfuck, too. It's all politics and any logic has very little to do with any decision making. Still, it seems that EU decision making is in slightly less problematic state than the respective USA variants. I think EU should rule that proprietary patented ports are not allowed on mobile devices. If you have a new port that you want to use *that doesn't require licensing for 3rd party manufacturers or part manufacturers*, I think the EU legislation should allow using that. Apple Lightning port is not such a port and pretending that it's used because it's "better" is just a lie.
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  408. 3:25 The important part to understand about GPL is that it requires that the receiver of the source code (that is, buyer of the devices with the GPL'd code running on the chips) is given full copy of the all source code covered by GPL. They can ask for a small fee to cover the data transmission costs (this clause was originally meant to allow billing for the cost of diskettes or a CD-R and it cannot be used to make profit). With modern internet, the cost should be at max the data transmission costs of AWS or Google data centers. As an example, the max cost from AWS to any internet client is 0.09 USD per gigabyte. Full copy of Linux kernel source (covered by GPL) is about 0.3 gigabytes so John Deere could bill about 0.03 USD per copy of their modified version of the Linux kernel. If they have any other GPL'd software running, owners of the devices manufactured by John Deere can request respective source code. And the source code must match the code that John Deere distributes with their devices. The only problematic part could be that if their firmware validates digital signatures for the kernel binary, you cannot swap the modified kernel in place even if you had the full source code. This is called Tivoization and GPL version 3 or greater has terms that prevent this. Linux kernel is distributed with GPL version 2 license that doesn't prevent this loophole for manufacturers that want to make it extra painfull for their customers. However, even with devices with built-in Tivoization you must give the respective source code to anybody who is running the device manufactured by you with the binary version of the GPL'd source code. Note that it doesn't matter if the GPL'd source code was modified or used as verbatim; the manufacturer of the device is required to give out the source code if requested.
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  409. My work monitor is 60 Hz LG 43" 4K. The only bad thing about it is BGR panel. Unfortunately, nobody seems to sell big 4K monitors with IPS RGB panels. I definitely recommend getting something like this. I'd take ~100 dpi 4K display over small HDPI display every time. Definitely do not get a TV with high latency and/or VA panel because lack of 4:4:4 signal support or gamma ramp going all over the place will drive you crazy.
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  410. 12:30 It seems that this bike owner thinks he has way better luck than the previous biker!
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  411. Louis did make a video about that call already.
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  412.  @Roadent1241  Here's a link: https://youtu.be/Cea-883z6G8?t=210
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  413. There's additional call in https://youtu.be/PP3Hp2qUQdA
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  414. I would argue this is the result of too free capitalism. When companies grow big enough (e.g. Samsung and Apple) and there's no legislation to prevent it, they will order the parts for their devices with a contract that prevents the OEM from selling similar parts to anybody else. And because that's good for their (Apple and Samsung) business, they will keep doing that despite the fact that it's more expensive to the society and the environment. The fact that it's worse for the society should be big enough reason to prevent this kind of behavior and make the part of the contract that prevents selling the spare parts to 3rd parties null and void. This far the lobbyists of big corporations (e.g. Apple and Samsung) have won the battle. Right to repair movement is a big step towards fixing this and I hope they can win the war instead of some battles.
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  415. The video with solder paste application robot for motherboards can be found here: https://youtu.be/cnAFTMaS5R0?t=185
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  416.  @rossmanngroup  Maybe post a permanent ad to your web site for that job? There should be somebody willing to do that for that salary and live nearby to make it economically viable. I would guess the problem is that nobody out of the small amount of people living nearby hasn't yet seen your offer. Your channel "only" has 1.7 M subscribers globally so the total amount of people following you locally is small minority of the total population living in the area.
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  417. This is not too different from flat earth believers or anti-vaxxers that cling to any piece of "news" that supports their worldview. And news sites publishing whatever crap they think will attract clicks because reporters are nowadays rewarded for high clicks on their stories. That said, the messages possibly found from the firmware image like "Seat track motor unavailable due to excessive use" and "Wait 5 minutes to adjust seat track position again" suggest that this could be some kind of overheating protection. Like if somebody likes to spend time in the car driving the seat up and down continuously for whatever reason, the system will stop the seat moving motor for 5 minutes to prevent overheating. Sounds totally reasonable way to prevent the electric motor failure.
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  418. The NY bureaucracy seems to be implemented according to this old Asterix animation: https://youtu.be/vsotCuGVi6k?t=2472
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  419. 02:00 "I don't usually go on Twitter because it kills my brain cells"
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  420.  @joz534  I think as long as Apple offers you the option to get the old broken part it's okay. Even if the deal is "The replacement costs you $750 if we can keep the broken part which we'll try to recycle. If you want to have the broken part, the replacement will cost $850." Not many would take the $850 deal even if the broken part has $740 worth of hardware in theory. And to make it $740 worth for Apple only, they can use serial numbered chips and require Apple signed manifest for the parts used in the system to boot the system. However, if the new bill makes it illegal for even Apple to recycle the broken part, they can still opt to simply trash that $740 worth of still working hardware to avoid having to allow repairing their devices. Their own customers wouldn't see any difference in pricing.
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  421. I'm sad that the issues discussed in these videos are even an issue today. I would love to have legislation that guarantees customer rights that match the things that Louis would want to be true in this video. Unfortunately, government corruption (spelled "lobbying") is bad enough that we don't have any better legislation. And yes, I want a decent smartphone that has 3.5 mm plug and a battery I can easily replace. Again. We used to have this kind of things around Samsung S5 days. S5 was 8.1 mm thick smartphone with 3.5 mm headphone plug, replaceable battery and it was water proof! We should be able to have at least similar specs now, 10 years later!
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  422. 9:00 I think you shouldn't tip so much but offer the employees a job offer in your business if they're willing to learn. Giving them extra tip allows them to stay in a dead-end job. The faster they find a better job, the better.
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  423. The real problem here is that Samsung is using patents to do this. If they tried to use their trademarks or copyright, they couldn't prevent 3rd party parts which are clearly marked as 3rd party parts. However, overly broad patents being the catch-all for practically anything allows Samsung to prevent any competition for their parts. It doesn't matter if the 3rd party manufacturers are actually using the patented technology to manufacture the parts because too broad patents basically cover anything. And invalidating already granted patents is next to impossible in many countries thanks to judges not understanding the issue. This is about Samsung using nuclear weapons called patents against everybody else. The patent system was originally created to allow society to benefit from publishing inventions and in response the original inventor got limited time monopoly for their invention. However, currently it appears that patents are simply causing huge harm to society on all industries. The current patent system should be torn down but it's an international system similar to copyright system where the Berne Convention was supposed to be ongoing process to tweak the rules to balance the benefit to society vs benefit for the IP owner. However, in practice the Berne Convention is dead in water and we're locked in the rules from the 1980's which match really poorly with modern internet. In addition, patent system never even had anything close to Berne Convention so the rules have been broken always.
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  424. I think the Tesla line should have been "We couldn't save the baby, because there was a wrist sprain, so we need to recycle him. How about we look some new replacement babies here?"
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  425. The idea of Framework employing a single person to do the required hardware changes to 1st gen motherboard is really good. They could even have a system where you send them your current 1st gen motherboard, they inspect that it's a working one and then immediately send you a replacement 1st gen motherboard back. That is, they immediately swap your motherboard to one with the fix already applied and then put the motherboard you submitted into the pile of 1st gen motherboards to fix. That would allow fast response time for the fixes and a long enough queue for that worker to focus on repairing those motherboards full time.
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  426.  @jimbo-dev  Patents are supposed to cover manufacturing of patented ideas. In addition, the legislation specifically allows for making your own copy without a patent license or order building a custom part interfering the patent for your personal use without a patent license.
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  427. The only question is how much dust gets into your tools which you keep in the box while it's not running. I assume you don't want to be running the box 24/7. (And the dust in tools matters because even if the air is clean after 1 minute, it doesn't magically suck dust off the tools on the table and that dust might drop on the plattern if you are unlucky. That doesn't mean that you need full clean room but it makes you wonder how to keep the tools clean if you don't run the box 24/7.
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  428. I'm a bit of a Elon Musk fan for the stuff that he has already done. The way he has changed (via his business, not he personally!) launching stuff to space and EV car manufacturing is nothing short of miraculous. That doesn't mean that I trust that anything he says about future is even close to reality. It would be nice if stuff he speaks about today were actually true one day even if the time estimates he gives are off at least 7x (e.g. launching stuff to space being 100x cheaper per kilogram than SpaceX is doing now, or Tesla car batteries actually having warranty to 500000 km to really do something else but lip-service about the battery lifetime, or FSD actually being better than even average US driver which is pretty low bar already). However, I really don't understand why he bought Twitter. And never ever purchase anything running any software that doesn't "yet" work but you get a promise that if you buy it now, it "will be fixed" in the future. I write software for living and I know for a fact that management will not know if they're going to change their priorities next week. The software you're currently writing may not be published, ever.
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  429. If they can sell more full battery packs and the customer pays, why would Tesla do anything to fix the "problem"?
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  430. Stealing iPhones actually makes sense because that's the only way to get spare parts when Apple prevents getting chips from official sources. And I'm only half joking here.
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  431. If you want to print photos, you do need a ink jet printer but it should have at least 6 colors – and obviously you never ever pay for the OEM inks. Before getting an inkjet printer, figure out how to get refillable ink and high quality 3rd party ink for the printer. Or just accept whatever monopoly pricing your ink jet printer manufacturer wants to have. At that point, it probably is getting cheaper to order your photo copies from commercial printer which has even better quality printer than your 6–8 color home inkjet could do.
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