Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "VICE" channel.

  1. Shredder? Who are you kidding they're not going to put that much effort into it. That box of letters went into a bin on the lobby floor and never went anywhere.
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  2. Eric Lundgren is a rich kid riding a bandwagon without any real knowledge of what he's doing or why. Some key points here; * Claims to be about reducing e-waste, went to jail for creating CDs that he admits he knows people are going to lose (e-waste). In fact the creation of restore CDs created so much e-waste that OEMs (including dell) stopped handing them out and switched to the download method that Eric Lundgren used to acquire the software in the first place * Just because you can download something for free, doesn't mean it can be distributed by a third party. The use of a different font wouldn't have changed anything in this case. The correct course of action would have been to provide a piece of paper with a URL on it to download the software. If he had done that instead he wouldn't have contributed further to e-waste or went to jail. * Giving people a restore disc (or access to it) doesn't magically upgrade your computer. The reason people lose their restore disc is because they are used so infrequently in the life of a PC, that by the time a person purchasing an already 2nd hand refurbished PC might need to use one the PC is going to be so outdated and unusable that the restore disc isn't going to help anyway. * The way a store disc actually works isn't the way Eric Lundgren described. What really it does is provide a purpose built temporary operating system (shell) for the express purpose of installing windows on your computer. There are no two ways about it, he absolutely violated Microsoft's IP. * He claims to be an environmental activist, but came out of jail talking about how much he missed avocados, a fruit that is well known to be amongst the worst possible for the environment and steeped in violence, death and exploitation. * He claims to be an environmentalist but has built a crazy luxurious house filled to the brim with environmentally unfriendly things. * He claims to be pro environment but drives around in a Tesla, a vehicle that ExxonMobile publicly congratulates on their website as helping their bottom line because of how much petrochemical products are inside it. * And he came out of jail, abandoned computers and has started doing the exact same thing for EV batteries. Those batteries are protected by IP, Telsa is super crazy about people dismantling them. Do not be surprised when Eric Lundgren ends up back in jail for what he's doing with batteries. This guy seriously needs to talk to a lawyer or something, get more understanding over the issues and the lines he can play inside of. And for pete sake, he needs to stop thinking environmentalism is going to make him a household name of a tech giant. It's not. Dude needs a reality check, and apparently prison didn't do it for him.
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  3. This is hilarious. It's just some guy who watched too much fast and the furious
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  4.  @Astral-Projector2389  Here's the thing mate, I'm not a nobody. Your logic though, that applies to you. Have a great day
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  5. Same is true for electric vehicles, white goods, consumer appliances. You can't even fix a toaster yourself anymore because they stick proprietary software on them. None of this junk lasts. Right to repair isn't far enough. Right to repair just means they'll recoup those profits by making products that break even easier so you have to purchase parts more often. Right to repair only works if it's combined with minimum manufacturing quality standards and increased statutory warranty.
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  6. This guy seems very lonely and traumatised. I hope he gets some help and makes some real friends.
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  7.  @from_him2you374  What kind of a ridiculous strawman response was that?
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  8. I love that he states he knows by law knowingly providing the tools/advice to commit suicide is an offence. Then does so multiple times in this clip. That's just shooting yourself in the foot
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  9. This isn't passion. Passion is something else. This is self medicating illness and becoming a self imposed slave in the process.
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