Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. They're trying to come up with one way for any fool to use. See that more and more. Makes it too tough for people with some savvy.
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  2. Companies who forswear such behavior should make it one of their selling points. We can't really go after these crooks, directly, but we can sure as hell avoid buying their products. You want to grasp for every penny, then you can lose every dollar!
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  3. How about they use that money to do some restitution to their customers instead of throwing it in the government rathole.
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  4. Acrobat "Pro" has screwed with my work flow for years.
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  5. Just got home with my MacBook Pro. sigh
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  6. Immunologists who part ways with Fauci and Big Pharma are censored and their careers destroyed.
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  7. I followed the link and was sent to a government propaganda site.
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  8. I was pretty happy with Acrobat Pro V9. Then they took away features I depended on, without warning. Why should I have to drop everything at work and spend HOURS re-training on software I already know, quite intimately? It's theft, and all these companies "updating" things that don't need updating deserve to go broke. If I were 20 years younger, I would learn everything I could about LINUX OS for my PCs. I'm close to retirement, and it's just easier to go with what my institution provides, and coast to the finish line, but it's infuriating to have someone reach into my tool belt, steal my best hammer, replace with a meat tenderizer, and have the gall to say "You're welcome!" I hope you young people stand against these "You will own nothing and be happy" criminals. Learn all you can about open source software. Software should be inexpensive and robust. What we have is expensive and unstable. They know how to do this right. They don't want to, because it's less profitable for them to treat their customers right.
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  9. It's less about complacency than the time already invested learning and mastering the software. Every time I have to move to something new, because they updated or my computer crashed, it pisses me off that the software is clunkier than 3 versions ago. They're stealing my time, and time is the most precious thing in life. I hate them. Life thieves. It's truly evil.
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  10. Spot on!
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  11. Fixing the equipment is a big part of why my brother-in-law rents out his land, rather than farming it, himself. He got out before things got too crazy. I personally think that between the government and the equipment manufacturers, we've strayed away from cars, trucks and tractors that last a long time and are straightforward to repair. It takes more and more specialized training (and re-training) to be certified to work on vehicles these days. All we think about is the fuel efficiency and always reducing the emissions, with no thought for the emissions created building entirely new vehicles, because the previous vehicles are designed to break down in 10 years or less. I'd be perfectly happy with my '93 pickup for life, if I could keep finding parts for it. Even a super-expensive repair is cheaper than buying one brand-new, and think of all the mining, refining and sheer energy that goes into building a new one. Same for phones and other electronic devices. I get that things keep getting faster, but if you're happy with the functionality of your Galaxy S3, you should be able to fix it and use it essentially forever. But that's not what these people - who all insist I'm polluting too much - want. They want to sell me a new one after a year. 3 years at most.
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  12. This is how "science" works in all bureaucracies. They don't really know what they're doing.
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  13. I've been using Amazon as a catalog to find better companies with better independent reviews. Then I go direct to the manufacturer with the best reputation. Almost all of them will ship direct to the customer. I did it because years ago, with their treatment of their own workers and politicization (Denying AW$ services to a platform they deemed politically incorrect). I also had my own mini-boycott against Chinese goods, because of how they treat their people and their predatory trade practices. I think countries like that should face steep tariffs, to offset their underhandedness and oppression at home. No embargoes. Just a middle path that increases the cost of being authoritarian cheats. As time has gone on, it's gotten harder and harder to tell just from the Amazon site where something is made, and the more they hide it, the more sure I am that it's from China, where, on top of everything else, I have no confidence as to the materials used or the quality of construction, expecting it to fall apart or wear out really fast. Amazon was a great idea and revolutionized commerce, but when it could be generous and open, it chose to be tight-fisted and opaque. It won't be going any where any time soon, but it'll do without most of my business.
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  14. I'm sure you've heard of the farmers needing Ukrainian hackers to un-lock their tractors so they could fix them when they broke down in the field?
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  15. Am I the only one who feels like the trend towards more accessible tech (for noobs) makes the tech less efficient for professionals? Not just Mac, but pretty much all software. Acrobat is a case in point.
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  16. Maybe they're all just holding on until the federal bailout or just the inflation that's going to make their dreams come true.
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  17. It's because their side has to win in the public square every day. Long string of success. Dwindling trust is the consequence. I think the last 20 years is proof enough that the left-establishment media are actually right-establishment, pretending to be liberals. Protecting a supposed "left narrative" that has very little "left" in it. What happened to free speech? Yes. It's a threat to every establishment. And since when is a giant cradle-to-grave bureaucracy a thing of the left? These are old-fashioned reactionaries in liberal masks, dragging us back, step by step, to serfdom. "Own nothing and be happy" is the rallying cry of the worst sort of despots.
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  18. I have a low opinion of Apple and Jon Stewart.
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  19. Ad-supported works when there're only a handful of networks. They'll have to destroy the Internet, because they can't control it.
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  20. I think looking to politicians who are informed by big-company lobbyists and the donor class, is a waste of time. In the long run, the more they drag their feet on common-sense right-to-repair principles, the more the marketplace will punish companies like Apple, and open the door to thousands if not millions of small competitors. There's a "new normal" on its way that those who are pushing "new normal" the hardest are going to regret. The more they "win" now, the less likely it is that they will dominate the market in 10 or 20 years. The politicians won't pull their heads out of their asses until it's too late to "repair" the financials of the companies that own them, now.
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  21.  @Channel-gz9hm  Pennsylvania does inspections. It also has the worst junkers on the road in any state I've visited. Colorado started emissions testing a few years ago. It's mainly just a waste of time and a cash grab.
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  22. This has a lot to do with why liberals assume the average person is stupid, helpless and dishonest. That's why they're OK with all kinds of government programs and why they go along with authoritarian measures, like COVID lock-downs. Sadly, that assumption about your fellow humans results in your fellow humans being stupid, helpless and dishonest.
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  23. Won't buy another Samsung.
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  24. So you're saying our "elites" are nincompoops.
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  25. Just one more example of the fecklessness in regulation-writing and -enforcement. You were better off before they gave a small number of people the ability to lord it over everybody else. The regulators typically end up doing the bidding of the worst people. You THINK they're protecting you, but all you achieved was putting a bureaucrat in charge, which means whoever's in charge of the bureaucrat can ride roughshod over everyone else. "Soak the rich" helps the rich. "Soak the corporations" helps the corporations.
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  26. FWIW, office and retail vacancies are hitting new record highs, so NYC is good at SOMEthing.
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  27. With Biden safely installed and establishment candidates returning to office in the Congress, certain facts are now OK to report, like the abysmally poor security on universal mail-in. My state's been using universal mail-in for a long time, and turned and stayed blue not long after. Makes one think. Amazon now making claims that it - and its Big-Tech brethren - did everything possible to suppress before, during and after the 2020 election, reveals the brazenness of the well-known hypocrisy. These people are only interested in power and control, and have not one ounce of self-awareness or ethics. The establishment is run by sociopaths.
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  28. Imagine a world where durable goods are actually durable, and companies survive on REPUTATION rather than hiding behind government agencies they capture.
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  29. Apple, Microsoft and the U.S. government like to say "We can't fix this, for YOUR security." Common theme amongst incompetents with too much power, who thirst for more.
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  30. Cars, phones, computers, ... I don't want an expletive-deleted update on my phone. Build it right. Sell it for a fair profit. Then fack off.
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  31. I think Big Everything have been overplaying their hand, for years, and their desperate efforts to cling to profits, artificially, will spell their downfall.
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  32. How do commercial mortgage-backed securities cause any of this? All you're demonstrating, here, is that mortgage-backed securities with exposure in NYC are probably a bad investment, unless you're getting in at rock-bottom. The big money'll be pouring in, eventually, but not until the bubble finally pops. It hasn't popped, yet. Rents and prices still haven't come down commensurate with actual value.
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  33. Their problem is they support the Democrat establishment, which is causing inflation, which has resulted in the prime rate jumping from near 0% to 8.25%. I'm not sure what the Fed rate is... checking... 5% to 5.25%. That's what they're charging banks. The banks are charging 8.25% to their biggest corporate customers. That's why Google's looking for pennies in the sofa. Their early success and continued operation depended on almost-free credit, to keep the ball rolling and hoping that the money eventually starts rolling in. I know my institution uses Google, much the same way my and other institutions used Microsoft. They basically undercut everyone with virtually cost-free software suites, to dominate the market, which they now do, but their margins are tiny, and they really aren't improving their product. Microsoft eventually had to give way to open-source operating systems in the commercial and big-institution sector, because the open source kept evolving and had more capability with fewer security holes. LINUX is more stable than Windows NT, which I think reached its peak in the late '90s and early 2000s, but nobody's running NT that I know of. Something similar will probably happen to Google, although ed. institutions will be slow to respond, at first. Right now, it's all the rage, though. I just think that when the venture capital dries up, Google/Alphabet is going to hit a wall, economically, and eventually fall behind, technologically, partly because it weeds out all the non-woke in its ranks.
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  34. @The Pigeon King We are definitely a car culture and a gun culture. So many don't want to or can't afford to live close to where they work. They find "the perfect place" and would rather drive extra every day, than live close in a neighborhood they don't like or can't afford. For many decades, the $$$ spent on the daily commute was very affordable and well worth the price. And people use the "down time" as a relaxing time spent alone, without having to deal with anyone right before or right after work. I've never been big on the commute, myself, but many a time I have walked home from work and immediately hopped in the pickup and headed up the canyon to the woods, which is almost the same thing! While I'm suspicious of all the Great Reset types out there, I am pleased to see us shifting more towards remote work where possible. It's very green. It has its problems, too, but nothing's perfect. It's a little ridiculous to drive to a job where you sit in front of a computer all/most of the day.
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  35. They write the "lease agreement" into the actual purchase agreement, in essence. We need a consumer revolt against all the vendors of Durable Goods trying to make it a subscription rather than a purchase. It won't be easy, but it needs to be done.
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  36. Tax assessment is BOUND to be lagging the true drop in value. Sounds like residential is doing better than commercial, I mean less bad.
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  37. I'd be happier with a car built using 1960s tech.
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  38. Yes, people sound stupid talking to their pets, sometimes.
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  39. FB finds you offensive to one of its rich buddies.
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  40. It's going to backfire on SONY. They're attacking their best customers.
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  41. Maybe this is why corporate has a near-monopoly on tech projects that talented independents with a fraction of the backing could do better, in small, tight-knit collaboration. But the people you need for the effort are not necessarily good with people.
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  42. 90% of good science is the same way: Didn't work. Lesson learned. The key is honesty, especially self-honesty.
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  43. I had a black cat for 13 years. Moved all over the Rocky-Mountain West with that cat. Strangest thing. He bonded more to me than to the place he was in, which is unusual in cats. A lesson in the non-force principle.
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  44. The latest (and last) Mac I bought has never been updated. Never had problems, other than that it asks me to update every single fuckin' day. It's worked better, with fewer issues than the previous one that I dutifully updated. About 4 or 5 years ago, I noticed that software "updates" usually meant the software worked less well, deprived me of more and more keyboard shortcuts, and generally made me less efficient at work. They're building this stuff, now, for people who use smartphones, not for professionals who use computers. Adobe is the absolute worst in this regard. Acrobat Pro was a real mainstay for me, until the mandatory upgrade to Pro DC, which is almost useless.
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  45. I think answer isn't electric cars, although some will like that option. I think long commutes every day into the city every day are more the issue than what kind of car you drive. There are other ways to fix that, that are more fundamental/foundational, like making cities more livable and affordable.
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  46. There is an issue with serving up the content forever for a one-time purchase. But they shouldn't SAY "purchase" if they don't MEAN "own it forever."
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  47. My SG3 was a great phone. But when the charging port wears out, you're screwed. All these environmentalists giving you planned-obsolescence products. It's total fuckin' hypocrisy. I went to get a new phone, and my SG3 lasted 9 years. I looked at those folding-screen phones and it looked like an obvious weak point in the design. But it's just another way to sell you something new in a year or two, near as I can tell. Back when we were "bad" about the environment, they built things that would last forever. Now they only build stuff that'll go into a trash dump in a year.
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  48.  @metaphoricdirigible1499  History is full of "The right thing happened for the wrong reason" situations.
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  49. Customers need to just say "No!" to purchasing these products. I don't see it happening any time, soon. I'm sick of the "subscriber" model, which creates an income stream from something that SHOULD be a simple purchase of product, with all the ownership rights that traditionally accrue.
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  50. We'd be a lot smarter if we didn't believe it when the government tells us it's protecting us.
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