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

  1. Google is evil.
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  2. Two theories on updates: The reason we grow old and die is because critters who didn't were out-competed by "updated" critters. That's the contrary view. My more conventional view is similar to Rossman's. If your software was any good to start with, why does it need updating every week? I think it's more about stealing all your data during the "update." I feel the same way about Congress. If the laws they passed LAST session were worth a damn, why do they need to change everything THIS session? I'd be much happier if they simplified everything, butted out of most things, and met for a couple months in the winter to rubber-stamp last year's plan, which was pretty good. But "good" legislating means scrapping the "bad" legislation of yesterday, which is to say, there's no such thing as good legislation.
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  3. Wake me up when EU does anything good for the common people that offends the established order on high.
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  4.  @rasmysamy2145  Not confusing, but conflating. At least in my eyes-glazed-over case.
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  5.  @rasmysamy2145  Heh. There should be a MILLION Rossman's out there fixing stuff, with full privileges. That's just a better way of doing things. Manufacturers and repair shops oughta be best buddies.
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  6. I've been doing Internet since the early '90s, and it's been over 10 years since "software updates" were actually an upgrade.
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  7. You're not buying a product any more. You're providing a lazy software company a lifetime annuity. My gut tells me that virtually all updates are a rip-off. I want to know why I was sold unstable software to begin with. I don't want to be forced to create an income STREAM for the products I buy. I want the price to be the price, and I expect software to reliably perform its original functions in perpetuity. We're paying way to much for all durable goods. It wastes our money and, because they're not truly durable, there's massive overproduction, resource extraction, and pollution.
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  8. My faith in Congress to do the right thing is zero. I just want to see Apple go broke because of its grasping business model. Formidable woman. Not one wasted syllable.
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  9. When I was a kid, "waterproof" and "water resistant" were two different things. "Water resistant" came with how deep of water you could submerge it in. "Water proof" was a lower standard than "water resistant."
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  10. And we thought we cured Democrats of their slavery addiction.
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  11. You can tell Amazon is cut-throat by the urgency of its left-wing virtue signaling.
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  12. Amazon clearly doesn't want your business or the business of anyone who hears of this. What I do is use Amazon like a catalog to find products, and then I go direct to the manufacturer's website. 90% of the time the manufacturer has direct sales online. This bit of extra research also maximizes my chances of finding an American company who makes the product.
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  13. Despicable behavior.
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  14. I think it's fine if a company wants to black-box everything. If the product's super-durable and you get decent trade-in for the "busted" one, that can work. I'd just rather it be the way it is, now, with guys like Louis Rossman pointing out how it's not good for customers, and for customers to vote with their wallets, so that Apple suffers for their closed-fisted business model. I'm not planning on any future apple products.
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  15.  @360recaps  The customer places themselves in a position of trust with a contract with Amazon. Amazon then revokes the contract because it doesn't like somebody's politics. This has happened, before, with more high-profile people (like anybody MAGA). The so-called left have been waging economic war on the right, and now the right is finally starting to realize the left doesn't act in good faith, and will stoop to anything to push its agenda. ESG is what it's all about, and ESG = Democrat Talking Points Democrats deciding if you're progressive enough to have access to credit is pretty evil. Censoring speech is pretty evil and undemocratic. These people are at war with anyone who disagrees with them. "You're a racist." "Why? Because I'm against open borders?" "You're an ADMITTED racist. You just proved it. Good luck getting a loan. Buy some lanterns. Buy a generator, too." "I can't buy anything, because PayPal closed my account." "Yes. PayPal's on our side. Good people." If this keeps up, the parallel economy will become a thing and the lefties will go broke in the long run.
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  16. Yes. The supposed elites think they're better than us, but compared to us, their skill set is pathetic, by and large. Farmers can put a hand to just about anything they set their mind to.
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  17.  @ihavenoson3384  Let me help you. In the current context, "axioms" are the set of beliefs that people hold to be self-evident and exist without proof. The point about mathematicians being good programmers isn't about "proving" anything. It's about seeing the logical holes and potential blow-ups in the code. It's about understanding EXACTLY what you're telling the computer to do. Programmers/mathematicians alike are still prone to misinterpretations of what a program is actually doing or its reliability as a predictive tool, because the program only knows the "axioms" that the programmers gave it. Einstein had a quote that I'm going to butcher: "Inasmuch as we are certain, the model does not reflect reality. Inasmuch as the model reflects reality, we are not certain." The math and the programs are 100% internally consistent. Whether they bear any relation to the real world is something that is always up for debate.
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  18. You'd think environmentalists would deliver the take-down of these planned-obsolescence designs and strategies. Unfortunately, they're all too busy making sure they've got the latest phone to bury their heads and minds in.
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  19. Amazon is trash. I stopped spending any money on Amazon once and for all when AWS pulled the rug out from under Parler. It was a total dick move. If you can't find what country a product on Amazon is from, you can BET it's from China. I use Amazon like a big catalog. When I find a product/company on Amazon, I go direct to them, with a big FU to Amazon. Screw Jeff Bezos and whatever assholes are behind him in line.
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  20.  @PershingOfficial  It's one thing to be tolerant. It's another to admit that the Demokkkrats have run NYC into the ground.
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  21. These people aren't stupid, so the conclusion is they are malign.
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  22. Yes. It's adorable. You see it all the time. If you don't understand the scale, a "$5,000 drop" seems like a huge amount, especially if they just show that part of the graph in isolation. But when you take a step back and see the entire graph, it just looks like a little wiggle. They do the same thing in climate "science," to exaggerate short-term up-ticks. They did the same thing with radiation when that was the thing The Eye was focused on. You couldn't even use granite to build a nuclear power plant because granite's more radioactive than the level some technocrat, with the advice of an activist, decided the standard would be, but they didn't put up any warning signs when you went fishing in the pristine waters of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, which is smack dab on top of the Idaho Batholith, which is basically granite (quartz diorite, potayto-potahto).
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  23. Yes. You could easily achieve the same thing - or better - by running an exhaust fan in the back, and an open vent/window in the front, or vice-versa. Should be simple to rig up something to warm up the incoming fresh air, although New York air is anything but fresh.
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  24. They're going too far. I despise software and hardware makers who aren't content with just selling their products. I'm moving to open source.
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  25. Yes. It's time for all of us to get off this malign platform.
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  26. BUT BE SURE TO RECYCLE TO SAVE THE PLANET, YOU RACIST BIGOT! The people telling us to do without and to recycle produce non-durable durable goods, to make more money.
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  27. If you have no bread, eat CAKE!
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  28.  @torbjornbaldgrim7670  Dammit, man. You made this comment before I blurted it out. I should've read the comments, first and just dropped you a "like."
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