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

  1.  @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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  2. 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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  3.  @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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6.  @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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  7. I didn't like Apple before starting to watch Louis's videos. Now I despise Apple hardware.
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10.  @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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  11.  @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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Yeah, owning somebody this bad is practically slavery!
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20.  @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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  21.  @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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25.  @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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  26.  @TheFanatic340  Exactly.
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  27.  @RedRacconKing  I guess that should be called comical tip.
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  28. ​ @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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  29. That's probably the method the landlord used...
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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33.  @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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  34. 4 hours before the ambulance showed??!? Wow.
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  35.  @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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  36.  @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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  37.  @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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  38.  @SenileOtaku  The whole iPhone is coming from China, as is nearly every other smartphone, too.
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  39. @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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  40.  @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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. Loved the chapter marks in this video!
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  48. 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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  49. I guess that's better than Apple but I think amd-linux is the future.
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  50.  @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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