Comments by "Keri Szafir" (@KeritechElectronics) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. Fetishization of safety and security? Fine, but only between consenting adults. If that's not the case, it's fucking Alpha Bravo Uniform Sierra Echo. That happens when things are designed by politicians, lawyers and accountants instead of the designers and engineers. Make products safer by better engineering and actually caring about reliability, serviceability, all that stuff, for crying out loud! Today's a very special day when you can't be sure what is April Fools joke and what is real. Poe's law, ya know.
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  2. "And remember: If you can't love yourself, then how the hell are you gonna love somebody else?" --RuPaul Props to you for not micromanaging your stuff. It's so fuckin' toxic. I'd say that if you feel you have to micromanage someone, it might be a sign that they're not a good employee; if you feel you have to micromanage almost everyone, then it might be a problem with your management and the company or division will become so toxic everyone will want to leave. As for the piracy thing, it happens, and it's important to think about harms and benefits. Is this software (OCCT here) someone's livelihood, or just another big company product? To what extent does the developer's income depend on one license more or less? Are there technically and economically viable alternatives, preferably free and open source? Ha. Anyway, using pirated software publically (on videos etc.) is a Back 10 years ago, when I worked at a tech support hotline/helpdesk in a telco/software company, we used non-licensed TeamViewer with the company not really giving a shit for a few months until they bought proper licenses. Nah.
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  3. Damn, this one is spot on! That the problem is with today's technical culture rather than a bunch of companies. What if we, the users, are deliberately dumbed down? By assuming that we couldn't do even the simplest of repairs and not including info on them in the manuals, the manufacturers force us to use their service departments and dictate the terms of use of these devices. Got an older model that was perfectly suitable for you to use and something just broke down? Go to manufacturer's service where you'll just be told that this product is no longer supported and you gotta buy a new one... And so the landfills grow, resources deplete, people become poorer, CEOs become richer.
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  4. You worked on a Pultec or LA-2a? Geeeeeez, I wish I was there. Tube stuff, vintage studio gear and audio in general is totally my thing!
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  5.  @honkleretta1050  I hope my amplifiers will last longer :)
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  6. Industry: "You're not permitted to open your device" Me: "I'm a hacker, not a luser - and a free woman. I do whatever I see fit with MY OWN stuff! So, would you please kindly fuck off, for crying out loud?" (channeling my inner Jack O'Neill, I guess) Just because 99% people don't know how to repair the thing (and thus they shouldn't stick their fingers in it before they learn a few things), it doesn't mean the remaining one percent should be blocked from repairing their gear. But I guess it stems from the litigation & cover-your-ass culture the States have so much of.
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  7. 10 hours and 2k likes. Clearly shows what kind of content is most popular here. -What do you think of "The Engineer's Guide to Cats"? What about "The Cat's Guide to Engineering"? -MEEEEEEEOW!"
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  8. Will those Big Apple mayors ever stop being fucked up, or is that a hopeless cause?
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  9. Yes indeed. Pulling a knife out by an inch while it's been ten inches deep. Propaganda value? Priceless. CATS! How meowsome! I haven't seen these on your channel for such a long time.
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  10. This is by far the meowsomest video this year! It surely takes a lot to be the PotUS, doesn't it? :)
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  11. Oh for crying out loud. Internet connected doorbells with cameras? Now I've seen everything! :D I'd never get one, this coming from someone who normally is in favor of home automation as long as it's self-hosted, based on open source software (and preferably hardware) and non-essential i.e. possible to bypass for manual operation.
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  12. "Empty spaces where we used to talk" like Pink Floyd's song goes.
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  13.  @blank.e5plus  well, any tube equipment for that matter - amplifiers etc. Know your stuff before you open one. Otherwise you're in for a shock therapy.
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  14. Smash the internet oligopoly - bring back the decentralization, independence and diversity of '90s/2000s!
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  15. That's the furry wholesomeness we've all been waiting for :)
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  16. You're damn right on Samsung wanting to keep people buying new ones. That's how the industry works, manufacturers have grown so big and far away from customers and their needs that they just won't care about them - all they care about is their own and shareholders' profit, maximizing income and minimizing expenditure. In other words, make as many cheap enough products as they can, screw the long life and repairability because it hurts their sales. Hotel room? I thought you were a test subject at Aperture Science, haha.
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  17. Don't even get me started... I guess that the Snail Mail Transport Protocol is fucked up literally everywhere. Still waiting for that little package from Fran, that got returned to her because there was some fuckup I-don't-give-a-rat's-ass where in the delivery chain. Meeeeeeeh. How can one rely on ANYTHING in this world?
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  18. Welcome to the club then! Consider getting diagnosed if you feel like it.
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  19. Proper respect to Sony for providing the service info and parts :)
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  20. Nice repair :). Give my best to Bogumił. Oh well, the sticker should say "Do not touch, kurwa!" to be more in line with Polish grammar. "Look, mum! No cats!"
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  21. "Rossmann Repair Group is made of sheeple! It's made of sheeple!" Just kidding ofc! My YT start hardware wise: some Sony 1080p camera I bought secondhand, then it got lost. Moved on to my Galaxy J7 phone for recording. Not too good, moved to Logitech C920 + Streamcam, configured OBS, got myself a mike, another mike, planning to get another camera, blah blah. All that on a budget tighter than Ethel Granger's laces. Learned the basics of editing and got inspired by Dave Jones to keep it simple and low key, not overdo it, otherwise I wouldn't get shit done. No fancy schmancy toys or expensive-ass proprietary software here, just OBS + Shotcut on a PC with Debian as the main OS, all free and open source. Can do, will do. Got tons of impostor syndrome and mental health issues, but trying to get the fuckin' shit done nevertheless. Working through my perfectionism. Love your South Park voice.
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  22. Great to hear these words! Making a change one state at a time. We're getting there. Keep up the good work, I really appreciate you for that.
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  23. Trash metal getting old and rusted!
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  24. Hey, it's a problem not specific to Vice, I fear - it's about the honesty and reliability of modern journalism in general. Not to sound like an old geezer ranting about stuff, but... back in the day, there were ethical standards, well, apart from tabloids. Truth be told... science is not what it was either. I may have liked Vice for an occassional article on social justice issues I read, but hell. Telling lies and not correcting them? Goodbye and good riddance.
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  25. "Home is where you have your turntable and tube amp" :)
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  26. Ha. Dave of EEVBlog would probably find a scope in that garbage! :) Back when I was in Amsterdam, the streets in the fucking city centre were equally littered in the evenings.
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  27. Her comes Louis the Bovine Excrement Disintegrator, tearing the bullshit to shreds as you go. Teamed up with Thor, haha! As always, great deal of valid skepticism and critical thinking here.
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  28.  @rossmanngroup  that's enough entropy to feed a RNG. Google have a wall of lava lamps, you can do that with fish... with a certain number of them, the behavior becomes unpredictable enough :D
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  29. Whoooooa! New kitteh!
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  30. Good that you're against slave owners. So am I.
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  31. Fuck their babbling. I'm gonna run on vintage Thinkpads as long as I can. Using a W520 everyday, running Debian. They're goddamn good machines. Loved the rant. Pet Mr Clinton for me!
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  32. "MEEEEEEEOW" means "I'm too democrat for yo' Texas cowboys' rubbish!"
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  33. Oh, sexy opinions here! I wonder who still remembers Left Handed Mike :) I'm with you. Seems like a total overkill from an economic point of view, unless you're running a porn studio or something like that. What's next? Employing fluffers? (yes, getting ideas from Big Clive livestreams...) Back in my time, when I felt too horny and just had to, I did go to a toilet for a few minutes longer than usual, but not pushing the boundary too far. Am I getting old too? Midlife crisis? Are Gen-Alpha and maybe even Gen-Z people gonna tell me "OK, millennial..."? BTW these pods look like something taken straight out of the 2001 Space Odyssey. May be interesting if you have sex-in-space fetish, minus the zero gravity experience (which I'm quite curious about TBH).
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  34. Fuckin' bullies. Ganging up on those who are weaker...
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  35. Agreed. I guess that the only reason manufacturers don't provide info/parts (or do it, but at a price so high it makes repair uneconomical) is to boost the sales of new products without caring about the environmental impact and the product's life cycle after it leaves the factory or store. A somewhat similar phenomenon is "this year's model" i.e. moral obsolescence, the thing still works but is no longer trendy/attractive to use for people who give a shit about such things. Keeping up with the Joneses, meh. I guess that if the manufacturers were legally required to take their damaged/spent wares in for recycling or refurbishing, they might have an incentive to prolong the product's life by enabling repairs like it used to be done a few decasdes ago, but such legislation would hit the small manufacturing businesses disproportionately.
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  36. ALL salaries should be transparent - not just when posting job offers or negotiating the salary during the interview, but also throughout the employment. This would curtail the shady deals and salary discrimination, and make the job market competitive.
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  37. "Louis Rossmann's Tested"! I'm getting a good laugh about you talking about us getting a good laugh about you getting hurt. Nice to see you do some technical stuff on camera again - more of this content, please! Ranting about poly-ticks (poly being many, and ticks are bloodsucking creatures) is okay and often insightful, but hands-on engineering and hacking is better. I always pull after I crimp or connect the wire to a screw terminal. I sometimes - whenever possible - solder the crimped connection to improve reliability. I love your business insights! Especially when it's not just armchair ranting but an actual hands-on tech video. My best bet is buying at technical wholesalers and specialist stores, both brick-and-mortar and online. They usually have good quality stuff tried and tested by actual professionals... and their pricing is very decent compared to home improvement stores.
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  38. The fun of the craft indeed! Wisely spoken, and I can't agree more. It's about learning, learning and learning again, getting inspiration from others, honing your skills for years, drawing conclusions from your successes and mistakes, doing the next job better than the previous one. That's how I evolved from trying to resolder that 0.3mm raster flat cable connector on an old laptop mobo destroying the thing in the process, to actually succeeding at SMD rework. That's how I built better and better amps/preamps over time too. I definitely feel it's my calling, and you couldn't have said it better when it comes to the genuine joy and gratitude from a customer who now has a working device. Sometimes it's also facing real challenges and difficulty, and overcoming them... but at the end of the day, it's rewarding if you succeed. And if not, which happens, one can hope one learned something. :)
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  39. Seeing Big Clive here was absolutely splendid! I enjoy his videos a whole damn lot. And if someone calls you a pussy, just meow at them Mr Clinton style. An occassional hiss is good as well. By the way, I just don't understand people who want to keep their gear (Macbooks, cars, whatever) looking brand new through all the time they use them. Maybe it's for the resell value, but still... There's this thing called "beausage", or beauty from usage, where things that are being actively used get their marks, imperfections, scuffs etc. and that shows that it's put into a genuinely good use instead of being stashed somewhere through all that time, has been maintained, still works great and "has its own story to tell".
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  40. I read that very article and I totally agree about the considerations. My opinion is that whenever a tech company goes down or discontinues support for a certain product for any reason, they should provide and publish as much documentation as needed to maintain (or even better, mod/hack) their products. Got schematics? Publish those schematics! Got source code, default admin credentials, info on how to interface with the thing, calibrate it etc.? Publish that, period. Recently I watched a video (was it EEVBlog's one? not sure...) on how manufacturers such as Tektronix published bulletins that covered the inner workings of their devices, with elegantly explained theory of operation of different oscilloscope blocks etc. in the '70s, maybe even '80s. Then those bulletins went down because of cost cutting and keeping knowledge private. I'd absolutely love it if this practice came back, it may take different forms (YT videos, wikis etc.), but it'll certainly save a lot of reverse engineering effort that is very hard if not impossible with today's electronics.
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  41. Hej, rodak! :)
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  42. Hmmmm, what if a headcrab jumped into that pod while someone is using it? LOL
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  43. Cool and fun, cause all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Nice bike too!
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  44. You don't really like Betty Boop, do you? Hahaha. Nice to see post-apocalyptic NYC. Is it Fallout 5 yet?
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  45. Damn professional lobbyists with their FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) spoiling rational bills all over. I hope R2R succeeds despite the opposition. Fingers crossed! It's a great cause. Oreo certainly learned something, but doesn't want to tell you. If you asked Mr Clinton though, we all know the outcome: MEEEEEEEEOW!
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  46. Last time HP was okay was before Agilent branched off, LOL.
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  47. Fuck DMCA. | absolutely agree that consumers SHOULD be able to choose for themselves! Both for DYMO paper and for printer ink, software, laptop/phone parts, processors (yes, Lenovo), bike parts, whatnot.
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  48. Thank you for helping us help you help us all. --GLaDOS
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  49. The world's richest troll, meh.
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  50. Kudos for supporting Blackberry even though the manufacturer withdrew :D
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