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.  @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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  26. Great example of an old saying: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. Lesson of the story: always take and store the receipt whenever you're even close to New York.
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  31.  @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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  32.  @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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  33. To Apple's credit, it seems that Apple only wants your wallet but you can keep your private live.
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36.  @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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  37. 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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  38.  @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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  39.  @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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46.  @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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. Great interview! And I have to say that System76 is now even better company in my books!
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  50.  @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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