Youtube comments of Keri Szafir (@KeritechElectronics).

  1. There's a huge difference between genuine, fact-based criticism and smearing the company by lying. You nailed it.
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  2. Back in 2000s when I studied chemistry, one of our faculty's departments had a Bruker NMR spectrometer that used both liquid nitrogen and liquid helium for cooling its superconducting magnet. It was a beast that had stairs and a catwalk to access the specimen insertion area. I wonder how the future developments in superconductors will affect scientific gear like this.
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  3. Rare metals are what's gonna break it; same as for the ITER. I love how you nailed the considerations - I'd add one more: every energy conversion is partially effective and the more of them we have in the chain, the more energy will have to be put in in order to get the same amount of useful kinetic energy of a moving vehicle. I'd say that it's time to focus on using less energy to do the work.
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  4. This is the best material on the Chernobyl plant I've ever seen! Great job. Staying tuned for more.
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  5. It all starts with "no user serviceable parts inside". The manufacturers treats anyone other than their authorized service centers as regular users incapable of repairing their stuff. You're totally right about this going way beyond Apple (or Lenovo, for that matter).
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  6. You're going full-on CuriousMarc here! What a magnificent system and video. And the comparison with the AGC DSKY is on spot here. Same thought crossed my mind. Speaking of the DSKY... just look at all these electroluminescent displays - another feature these systems had in common.
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  7. If Włatcy Móch was still made, this issue would deserve an episode of its own.
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  8. Whoa. I still can't stop marveling at the fact that they used typical M42 lenses for Zenit cameras and a mirror assembly. Mighty friggin' clever! A thing of beauty and a joy for ever. I've got a vidicon camera in my collection (Unitra Polkolor TP-K162), but the tube seems to be dead. I'll have to take a closer look at it. It uses C-mount CCTV lenses. Next step? Soyuz comms!
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  9.  @rossmanngroup  badass mofo! I love that. Keri on.
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  10. Absolutely fascinating! I hope the war ends soon and work can be restarted. You're taking on an extremely challenging task, proper respect to you - I've considered you an equivalent of CuriousMarc on our side of the Iron Curtain, and it shows. The opportunity to talk with the original engineers and listen to their stories is priceless - go for it while you can, it's a race against the clock now. I'm glad you do it. Nice ferrite core shenanigans, haha!
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  11. "Only a woman would choose nano" If I knew this way back when in 2012, I'd start transitioning much earlier! :D Religious wars suck. I didn't care about the whole Vim vs Emacs debacle and used nano, still do! Distro? I used Fedora (that was the workplace policy back then), I use Debian on my personal systems, I also sometimes use Mint and recommend it to regular users. Rock on, fellow nerd! :)
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  12. Jaffa, kree!
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  13. 297 of Soviet style blinkenlights! A painstakingly thorough restoration of an amazingly well built panel. I'm so impressed that you can Keri on making videos in war torn Ukraine, despite all the adversity. Hats off!
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  14. I\m a big fan of his channel. And again, I hope I learned something... Bye for now.
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  15. I bet MJ has long forgotten (or never learned) that for us self-employed people and small entrepreneurs, any damage means not only significant financial cost, but also waste of time for repairs, paperwork etc., often having to close down temporarily. Of course, all this means loss of income because of having to deal with bullshit that draws us away from doing business. So... no thank you, but fuck you to that privileged richsplainer. I'm with you, Louis.
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  16. Ha. Found a WTF moment around 2:45: when explaining the AM principle of operation, they confused the AF amplifier with the modulator.
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  17. At Book Art Museum, we had printing presses, type casting machines and all sorts of other antique equipment put on pallets (purpose built out of thick plywood - these things are indestructible) for that very purpose. Moving them was just a matter of using a pallet truck.
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  18. 2:30 there it is, the Garden of Eden Creation Kit... LOL Thing of beauty, joy for ever.
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  19. Holy shit, this broke my heart. Might not be the Therac-25 level, but still, major fuckuppery. Never imagined these self-cleaning litterboxes even existed... I'm way too low tech, maybe for the better.
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  20. It's a pandemic of anti-intellectualism that has been going on at least since 2000s. I suspect the core of the problem is that mass media, especially the internet, have trained people into processing lots of information in a short time. This encourages assuming the information is correct and believing right away rather than questioning and looking for answers in reliable sources. Also, the access to publishing and broadcasting has become so widespread that anyone can spout nonsense out of their mouth at no cost and no gatekeeping to navigate in order to even get out there, and this is even more pronounced with recommendation algorithms which favor controversy over accuracy and reliability.
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  21. Wonderful social commentary on today's businesses, worker exploitation, AT&T and being a millennial. I absolutely adore it.
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  22. That's a very interesting laptop! Some of the Soviet assembly techniques are the same as in the Lell PSR drum machine I restored; it's all pretty elegant though. I would never expect a Japanese display in a Soviet device though. Oh, and I saw a screenshot of Block Out! i liked this game when I was a kid in the early '90s with a PC XT/AT at home.
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  23. Ending in a board room, you say? All these endings I've seen were defenestrations of those who had different opinions.
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  24. ...while being too big to fail.
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  25. The overgrowth is immense. Looking at the comparison really reminds me of The Upside Down in Stranger Things... only nothing is supernatural here. It's just a few decades without maintenance, nature reclaiming what was built by civilization.
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  26. Ah, the things of beauty! The mirror galvanometer is just so damn lovely. Using photoresistors for limit indication is just brilliant - the only thing is that the alarm condition will never go off if a lightbulb blows, haha! But then checklists and other operating procedures were probably in place to make sure everything was in a good working order.
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  27. Very well said! Looks like the economy will have to shift to more automation and mechanization. Robots don't get sick. But then massive unemployment will become a thing. Also, someone has to build and program those robots in the first place. It's been talked about over and over, and over again. Meh. By the way, the whole pandemic thing strangely reminds me of the New Plague from the Fallout universe.
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  28.  @1yaz  I'd rather have the real thing, unless we're talking REALLY weird stuff - not your regular leather, rubber etc. :)
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  29. Watched the Falcon Heavy, Antares and Atlas; booster landing on USSF44 was perfect! I wouldn't even think that would even succeed. Saw the partial solar eclipse too.
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  30.  @Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too  true. I've seen this kind of discussion in the free & open source software context. Proprietary software apologists defended theirs using the security-by-obscurity arguments. I have to say that if you can't monitor what's going on with your device while it's being serviced, you can never be sure that the data will stay intact and secret.
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  31. Louis Cartman, eh? Goddammit!
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  32. Kinda. Keeping technology open will help develop it - standing on the shoulders of giants rather than reinventing the wheel because someone wanted to monopolize it.
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  33.  @chriswhite3692  indeed!
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  34. Nice news on the SSH updates. While there's no problem if both client and server run a modern version of openssh, it could be confusing to connect from modern to legacy system (e.g. an OpenWrt router which hasn't been sysupgraded for years), but all can be done with some knowledge and google-fu. Hey, nice to see the creator shoutout! Who knows, maybe I'll end up there someday :D
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  35. We really need that "no user serviceable parts inside" bullshit to stop. Love your commitment to sharing knowledge instead of hoarding and gatekeeping :)
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  36. Nice restoration, well worth the effort! The beautiful simplicity in engineering :).
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  37. That's a nice kit, kinda reminds me the "Construction" knockoff of a Meccano made in the GDR. I had a lot of fun playing with my brother's :). 3R12 batteries, becoming rare nowadays. Back in the '90s and beyond they were ubiquitous. Using a mains transformer's bobbin with some added L-bracket, you could even make a Ruhmkorff's inductor! :)
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  38.  @PURENT  green indeed, and totally environmentally friendly! Good for his health too.
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  39. Clinton for president... oh wait.
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  40. It's meowgic!
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  41.  @faultboy  a muskrat, not so elongated!
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  42. An interesting and sad story... and a warning to others as well. I can feel that, being passionate about chemistry in my teens and electronic engineering later on, highly intelligent (though it probably has deteriorated over time) and on the autism spectrum. Maybe I didn't have as much internal drive or supportive environment, but I surely had my chemical lab back when I was 13 or so, haha :)
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  43. Q&M (Questions & Meows) with Mr Clinton again! Quality cat content. You never fail me.
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  44. Environmental, economic, health, science, education,.. It's all connected.
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  45. Hey :) Thank you for highlighting that bullshit. Why did Apple even do that? Anyway, I learned the thing you were talking about the hard way. I had one repair where I ordered a fridge thermostat based on the device's number, and when the part arrived, it didn't match the connections. Meeeeeh.
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  46. What an inspiring video! I definitely learned a lot, and surely will in the future. It's a great pity to see Gilles pass away.
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  47. Great news! I'm European and interested in R2R on our side of the pond, but I watch Louis Rossmann and his battles. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but hopefully it's gonna be a big win in the long run. Loved the episode :)
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  48. Here for the Purresident of the Feline Republic :) I once fell victim to those opt-out shenanigans here in Poland in late 2000s, and reported that crap to a consumer & competition protection office. Looks like it was a big affair back then, with media coverage and the shady company being sued into oblivion.
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  49. As cool as rapid discombobulation of an electrolytic capacitor :)
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  50. "How do you turn off Australia?" Gotta ask Dave Jones when he goes live :) Nice repair job! You may make it look as if it was an easy thing, but it's not... unless someone reaches that level of skill where a mere look at the board and possibly a few measurements are enough to diagnose the problem correctly.
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  51. Absolutely loved this one and your positive, dedicated attitude. I can see a way for me in it all. Leading them by example, by getting shit done and by walking the walk instead of just talking the talk.
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  52. Interesting clock, lovely VFD. I'd replace electrolytics and TACT switches if needed. Otherwise, it's built pretty much like the Lell PSR, pretty much in the middle or upper regions of Soviet everyday electronics build quality. All clean and not too shabby.
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  53. Joy for ever!
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  54.  @cericat  true. 3 years of running my channel, 1.36K subs, not enough public watch hours per year to even be eligible.
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  55. Back before GFCI / RCD was made mandatory here in Poland, we used fuses or circuit breakers as a sole disconnection device in case of ground fault. This means it would take a low impedance path, literally a metallic contact between live wire and a grounded part (enclosure etc.) to blow a fuse or trip a breaker, while a high impedance would pass current and you'd never know something was wrong. Grounding would pull the potential down to safe levels, so you wouldn't get zapped, unless your wiring failed open, especially in case of combined neutral and ground (TN-C) which is prohibited here since late '90s, with an exception for grandfathered wiring (there's a lot of this unfortunately) and utility wiring of minimum 10mm² Cu or 16mm² Al.
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  56. The closest to CuriousMarc on our side of the former Iron Curtain!
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  57. What a beautiful, magnificent piece of architecture. Definitely worth restoring. And you can feel pretty safe on every floor too. 4:25 at first I thought it was a jukebox :) 6:10 cool poster for the space/SF nerds. 7:57 whooooooooa! Just look at all of them records sitting there, collecting dust. So many of them! 18:39 damn impressive safe indeed, and lovely too. Tons of steel. I wonder how it ended up there. Poor hawk... 26:32 Superior Life Insurance Company? That sounds pretty SLICk. 27:21 hope it's not asbestos - better to leave it undisturbed. And all the way to the top... some real cool stuff up there.
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  58. Nerds gonna nerf (and turds gonna terf)! BTW you really need an automated "customer alert" announcement system... speaking in the Black Mesa announcer voice. Or maybe GLaDOS? You decide :)
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  59.  @MrJBA79  ha! That's placing the bar impossibly low.
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  60. Ha, I'll keep that in mind and put my face mask on :)
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  61. Then you took an arrow to the knee, right? :)
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  62. "Establishing battlefield control... Stand by. [...] Battle control online."
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  63. A perfect example of where having lots of money and marketing skills but no spine could take you. The guy who re-invented trains, Space Invaders and (I could argue that) Dyna-Soar or Energia-Buran, and had no qualms about claiming old ideas as his own. Lots of charisma disguised as intelligence, all masking the rotten inside held up by the structures of power he built. A visionary indeed... regurgitating the visions decades old and not yet forgotten. He could talk a scorpion into giving away its sting, and then sell the sting back to said scorpion. It only show how his success relied on the stupidity of all the people he could peddle "his inventions" to. But then, I'm mighty impressed by how his engineers achieved largely recoverable rockets and boosters. This IS the way for the future of spaceflight, lest we drown in a sea of space debris naivety any further missions. I also like the flight suit design on Dragon missions. Pretty sleek.
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  64. That's Holy Shit for Hollywood... Potentially disruptive indeed. I could see that Netflix is gonna go big on that, and there's a threat to us youtubers too. Deepfake deluge imminent unless things get heavily regulated.
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  65. Reminds me of how I went to a customer to fix a two or three decades old cooker and she told me she called some other repair guys who bullshitted her by saying that the appliance is too far gone and can't be repaired. I bet they didn't even take the panel off, because when I did, it was all just a matter of replacing a piece of wire and a spade connector. Bam, half an hour total and it's working again. The customer was very happy as the cooker had non-typical dimensions (by today's standards) and she'd have to discombobulate her whole kitchen to replace it.
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  66.  @notbot2648  or running a YouTube channel about vintage tech, haha!
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  67. Two-way telephone television? If only that! It took over 20 years to get here, and they certainly didn't even imagine the internet era and how it would change our lives... for the better and worse. Great film.
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  68. It's so cool! @CuriousMarc grade stuff :) Photomultipliers are still used in all kinds of analytic gear that use infrared, visible and ultraviolet light, mostly spectrometers, though CCD sensors are also used there.
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  69. It's the engineers who do all the fantastic job... and then Elon takes credit for all that. Meh.
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  70.  @humbughumbughumbug  that may be cynical, but it's true.
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  71. A mighty interesting overview! I wonder if, and how, these developments contributed to the space program.
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  72. They did it in 1700s / 1800s with the Maillardet automaton, haha!
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  73. Ha. My mom had a Thomson CRT TV from early 2000s where the user manual contained all the schematics. It's not as forgotten as you might think. And even if there were no schematics in user manuals, they could sometimes be found in books, or a service manual was to be found somewhere. Plus those devices were way easier to reverse-engineer compared to modern electronics that runs on tiny SMT components on multi-layer boards.
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  74. "Change my mind" meme comes to my mind. Change my mind!
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  75.  @JoshuaTootell  So, if your half-life is 32 years, there would be something like 0.4 of the initial mass left :)
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  76. Absolutely fascinating video! Who knows, maybe some of the tubes shown were the 2A3's and 300B's that reach astronomical prices on audiophile markets today? To see all those people working on the machines... Makes me appreciate their work even more - given that a lot of them was constantly exposed to heat, hazardous materials (barium etc.) or asbestos, which wasn't known for its carcinogenic properties yet. I bet OSHA would have the place shut down for good if those were the modern times. Modern plants like JJ, Svetlana and probably some others operate at much smaller scales now, given that they vastly limited the range of tubes they offer. Anyway, I'd love to make vacuum tubes on a lab scale, but getting my hands on the materials and equipment is near impossible...3
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  77. Sure it is an argument for R2R. Make it possible to repair the tractors, let people learn it, and the problem of lack of staff will soon be solved.
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  78. Maine a.k.a. /dev/null... Keeping your records is indeed a good way to do it, gets your ass covered. It's definitely on those bureaucrats now. To think a mistake on their part can fuck up someone else's life or business, and they won't face the consequences... Meh. Thanks a million for your honesty, appreciating what was done right. I'd love to buy that hot air station, but that ain't gonna happen on my teeny tiny Polish income :/ Tough luck.
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  79. Thanks for the debunk. I've seen the original video and it was just... too many things happening behind the scenes.
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  80. I hope you watched it, and learned something. Even if the only thing you've learned is that your guesstimates were correct :D
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  81. "Be excellent to each other" shall be the whole of the code of conduct.
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  82. Damn cool tech he's got there! Beautiful gear, learning to use it would take years, and getting a grip on how to maintain it - even longer. The saddest thing is that most people who worked with old technology are either retired or have died, documentation is scarce, so the knowledge and skill transfer just gets broken. Tech support from the manufacturer? Forget about it. Younger folks (like me with Monotype hot metal typesetting technology) have to learn the stuff the hard way, but at the end of the day it's very satisfying.
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  83. Fascinating!
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  84. LOVED the Matrix reference! Nice computer, and I liked that version of Tetris.
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  85. Because they interpret it very selectively: freedom to be an oligarch when you're rich and freedom to be a slave if that's not the case.
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  86. Unless they get on your bench when you're soldering these tiny SMD components! :D
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  87. Oh my, I don't know squat about fashion history, garment construction or sewing, so I'm absolutely impressed - despite all the time and effort that went into making this blouse, the effect is simply breathtaking! <3
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  88. "Get women" hmm, as if women were a resource to be acquired! Criiiiiiiiiiiinge. As for qualifications - they're a remnant of a bygone era of industrial capitalism. They have become meaningless through '90s or 2000s, Dating has always been a mystery to me. It seems to me that too many people try to approach it like job hunting, like they seek out someone on dating portals, while the potential "employer" (ie someone you try to date) has little time and numerous candidates, that's why the decision to reject or become interested is just a matter of seconds. No time for insight and consideration here - because that costs energy, which is limited. It's through a sheer coincidence that I found my queerfriend... and recently, they found another one, we live in a triad, love each other, have some disagreement and a lot of nerdy stuff that makes life more fun.
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  89. I'm Polish and typically drink 2...3l a day, no bottled water as it's way too expensive compared to tap water which is really tasty and rich in minerals in most Polish large cities. Water used to be chlorinated but that was replaced with ozone treatment at some point between the '90s and 2010s, and usually comes from underground wells (it used to come from rivers and lakes when industry created massive demand on it, but as economy shifted, water use dropped). Not sure how it's like nowadays, but when I ditched bottled water in 2013, there was some mythbusting and debunking to be done about tap vs bottled. My advice here is: check tap water quality in your place and drink it if it's clean enough; sometimes it's not possible (e.g. getting water from a well, no decent purification in the waterworks, or emergency situations like flood) and you'll have to drink bottled water, but generally it's an exception rather than the rule.
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  90. Aw c'mon, old HP scopes, generators, power supplies, frequency counters and other test equipment were the top league :)
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  91. Sometimes putting your hand in the Vise of Knowledge too :)
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  92. "Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated." --The Zen of Python "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Douglas Adams
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  93. And again, I hope someone will learn something.
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  94.  @michaelnorth3666  yeah. I could bet my ass it's the same in guitar electronics. Amps, effect pedals... Level-headed zero BS makers are in the minority, while arrogant ego-driven types like Mike Fuller (who left the industry, taking his business down) or Randall Smith are sadly the norm. It's no longer about who makes a better one - it's about who shouts louder or can drive the manufacturing cost lower, and quality will always suffer here. The makers who care and stick to their guns will be outpriced and pushed out of business, sadly. That's what happened to Fran.
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  95. Occam's razor says that out of multiple possible explanations you choose the simplest one with least assumptions. Looks like the article got it wrong.
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  96. Short, but good quality meowcontent :)
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  97. We could build it using Alteran technology - it just takes some naquadah and delmac crystals. Oh well.
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  98. Hey :) I'm all for severe and unavoidable penalties for the corporations, but make them financial - like a penalty equal to 10...25% of the company's yearly revenue. Even more so if we're talking about tax fraud :) Putting someone - even a CEO, COO etc. - behind the bars won't stop that Amazon, Apple or Facebook or whatever other giant we're talking about from doing their abusive practices - it'll just put one person in jail, and the corporation will hire someone else. Generally I think jail as a penalty is waaaaaaay overused both in the US and here in Europe; its original purpose was to isolate the perpetrator from the society to ensure that both the actual and potential victims stay safe. It makes a whole damn lot of sense in case of e.g. murdereres, rapists, thieves, bandits etc. but not for economic criminals, where reparative justice (fines, cease&desist etc.) is the way to go and jail time should be ordered for repetitive offenses only.
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  99. Indeed, and it's basically the equivalent of a modern "asdf". Back in the day, when you made a typesetting mistake, it would be easier and faster to cast the slug, throw it into the melting pot and re-type the phrase, so Linotype operators just marked their mistakes with a nonsensical bunch of characters.
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  100.  @Splarkszter  ha! For me, it only compares to seeing Usagi Electric and CuriousMarc together.
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  101. Holy shit, that's meowsome - a real deal Hep Cat!
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  102. Oh, I remember these from early 2000s! Still back in the days of us having a 56k modem, before switching over to a local ISP. It was probably THE only publically visible way of interacting with the webmaster. Ah, the innocent days of everything running on a kludgy hack... well, today's kludgy hacks are just hidden deep down in some libs.
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  103. Excellent video, thanks for explaining the reactor's construction! :)
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  104. Ha! I didn't expect it, but I learned something new.
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  105. Mr Clinton for the PotUS! He'll say "MEEEEOW!" to all that kinds of shitty proposals.
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  106. "I Worked For Coco Chanel, She's A Fraud" "We Worked For Coco Chanel, She's A Sociopath" "I Interviewed Coco Chanel, She's A Fuckin' Nazi"
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  107. So sorry to hear about Erica's experience. Rapists should be hung by their private parts. Ugh! I'm all for dumpster diving and other kinds of scavenging, as well as social media groups for sharing giveaway info.
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  108. The whole tradwife thing has this stifling Handmaid's Tale vibe - so much it's a no-brainer to fight against this shit.
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  109. This is by far the most unhinged tech I saw in my life - takes away any effort it takes to OSINT someone and link the dots, doxxes someone you're looking at almost in real time, with no legal safeguards to who and how is allowed to use it (think Robocop but it's not just for law enforcement - released to the public, with all the fascists and bigots running around, out there to harass or assault anyone they don't like? fuck no!). It will cost lives if unregulated.
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  110. 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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  111. Cool! I've never used fuser despite running into these "device or resource busy" messages from time to time, sometimes checked that with lsof. At least I've got one more way to figure out what's going on. Thanks! <3
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  112. Chinesium is better, LOL (just kidding!)
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  113.  @0MoTheG  unless you're a chick yourself. Then it's absolutely great for getting others.
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  114. Making Colin Furze green with envy, haha!
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  115. I type a lot but all my schematics, designs and engineering notes are pen and paper. I couldn't live without a notebook.
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  116. Critical thinking without the gobbledygok :) Thanks for the explanation; I never knew about the Beall's list.
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  117. "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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  118. All this while Dave Lovett is busy working on the Bendix... and I can see a nice Polish accent at 5:00 I should get back to playing Wolfenstein 3D, haha! Getting too stressed out by the real world neo-nazis. (It fills me with determination.) Taylor and Amy, they're real deal sweethearts! I loved your 6502 singing collab. Looking forward to seeing you build that Altair clone :)
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  119. Waterproof mattress cover? Geez, that thing is a must if you have pets.
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  120.  @MichaelGuardiani  Jaffa, kree!
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  121. I've used Debian for almost 11 years now, since squeeze was stable, learning things a lot throughout the process. I'm on testing/sid rolling release for the software, would use stable on servers or other high reliability production use. Aptitude FTW. Had OBS break in deb-multimedia, went back to sid, it worked, stayed this way until they fixed it, ha. Oh, and I loved the release name part!
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  122. Real deal mercury? They didn't fuck around, haha!
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  123. 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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  124. Someone up there had too much Atlas Shrugged. Seems like it's common among the Silicon Valley technocrat crowd and this ideological uniformity combined with huge resources others lack access to is very concerning o say the least.
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  125. Thanks for the nice explanation; it's good to know what happened there and why Raspberry Pi almost went extinct. I hope the American semiconductor industry takes off nicely. I also wish the electronics industry relied more on general purpose parts like field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), common microcontrollers and CMOS logic (a.k.a. "jelly bean components", as @EEVBlog calls them) than application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). These have their uses but if it can be done effectively with a general purpose chip, I really think it should. It's also for the sake of serviceability, you're not left with a dead unobtainium chip you can't replace with anything else.
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  126.  @ChipsAplentyBand  thanks for the insightful comment. At least here on YT you can pause or change the playback speed - unlike the old TV, which theoretically should be safeguarded against spewing crap because there ought to be some ethical standards in professional journalism... but practice shows greed is the only standard now.
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  127. Oh, for cryin' out loud... Don't even get me there. Soviet quality was all over the place, depending on the application. Military, scientific, aerospace electronics, test gear and pro stuff? A thing of beauty, a joy for ever. Good grade hi-fi gear? Possibly. Everyday electronics? Super dodgyyyyyy, as DiodeGoneWild calls it. At least it can usually be fixed... As for the icky plasticky stuff, I've got two Iskra 111 calculators in my lab, one with partially broken enclosure, the other one's box was too far gone and I used it to cut out a part that was missing in the first one. Both calculators are beautifully built inside and I decided to restore them, gonna make a clear acrylic box for the other one to showcase the lovely guts. That's SLT as in Soviet Logic Technology - ten years after IBM Solid Logic Technology. "And here's the meh-anism" haha!
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  128.  @ChernobylFamily  and the Lell PSR drum synthesizer which was an incomplete product to begin with, the instructions manual had a chapter on MIDI interface which was never implemented in production units because of licensing costs.
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  129. Got the original vintage "Hounds of Love" record and oh boy, do I love it! I'm very much into '80s post-punk, gothic, industrial and other alternative music.
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  130. It's obvious that the Russian government hates anything not conforming to their ideology. Namely, all pro-democratic Western stuff, as it debunks the Duma's lies. Living in Poland and knowing the history of this part of the world, I'm not surprised at all, as the Soviet Union blocked Radio Free Europe for decades.
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  131. 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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  132. Very educational. A true gem!
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  133.  @honkleretta1050  I hope my amplifiers will last longer :)
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  134. Fran-tastic work on that one! Much appreciated.
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  135. Makes me ask a question: what was the initial mass? Happy birthday, Scott! :)
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  136. Doing stuff on a budget tighter than Ethel Granger's laces... I can totally relate!
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  137. 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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  138. There's often another thing at play with haters: ideology, bigotry and fanaticism. The one at 10:34 comes across as a regular transphobe to me, these kinds will surface more or less often depending on the current political issues, and given the massive culture war and wave of extreme right, they're pretty active now. They used to be more blatant in their words and actions, but that would be too easy to spot and deal with right away with automatic moderation, so they resort to allusions and dog-whistles.
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  139. Hey, greetings from another lab coat wearing nerd gal with Slavic origins :). Nice unit! I love how it's built, contrary to Allied computers, it's more mechanics than electronics, all so simple and reliable. Cool that you show synchros, as CuriousMarc just did a video on them :).
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  140. 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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  141. Playing synths, talking science. These things mix soooooooooo well!
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  142. Ingenious and interesting!
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  143. Thanks for the explanation! I'll be repairing one of these cash registers RealSoon, I'm looking for documentation, teardown & reverse engineering videos. It may not be as complex as IBM Selectric typewriters, but getting it to work and aligning it is gonna take a lot of effort. Sweet kitty :)
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  144.  @ChernobylFamily  Koko says meow too (Mewtwo?) and I'm trying to write it with him getting on my laptop :)
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  145. 8:32 9:23 that would be Wheatley right after core substitution, given power over the whole Aperture Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9RCg0P2_Y Holy. Bloody. Fuck. All the unused wares ending up at landfills... Just imagine sending them over to developing countries. That would boost their economies and kicked off massive progress, created demand for infrastructure (electricity, transportation, information technology). Massive global development. And what do Western companies do instead? Putting it all to waste.
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  146. Small reactors have one additional advantage of being close to the power consumers, as they can be deployed locally. This minimizes power transmission losses. So, greater energy effectiveness. Co-generation should be possible as well, so when replacing old coal plants, heating is also catered for.
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  147. That's a lot! Real deal old guard.
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  148. Nice little dosimeter and lovely kitty :) I never saw a GM tube so small.
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  149. Lovely and absolutely chaotic place. I once saw a video on that, not sure who it was (EEVBlog?). Another rabbit hole... 4:00 the note on replacing the SCR with a transistor doesn't hold water, it doesn't latch. 4:11 that was creative, made my day! 8:25 maybe make old school bomb duds out of them? A little Little Boy... They've been around only for 25 years? I thought that'd go well into the '70s :)
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  150.  @axmanemployees8409  hey, thanks for the answer! Nice to know that - and what a goldmine of lovely vintage electronics you have :). Perfect for the thermionic emission nerds like me.
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  151. Will those Big Apple mayors ever stop being fucked up, or is that a hopeless cause?
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  152. 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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  153. 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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  154. 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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  155. "Empty spaces where we used to talk" like Pink Floyd's song goes.
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  156. It's wonderful to see you three nerds again, on a different channel! Friendship is magic, or sufficiently advanced technology. Damn awesome manual. Fraaaaaaaaaaaan-tastic indeed! Makes me wonder how many successful careers it started. Modern technical writing seems to lack this old style strive to get the knowledge across to different kinds of audience. The realization that we come from various backgrounds, some of us know microelectronics and the inner workings of arithmetic machines while others can barely type, and still making a manual that helps everyone. While people know how to use the computers without having to learn extensively, there's a downside to this: they don't understand how the computers work on a fundamental level. Same with phones, cars etc. - they have become magic boxes that do their stuff, no questions asked. And when they do a thing that wasn't expected, frustration arises, with no knowledge about the root cause and optimal solution. Been using Debian for 12 years now... Time flies like a Saturn V back in the day! 14:30 well, that's indeed farfetched a tad. I guess the authors watched Star Trek just a bit too much, haha.
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  157. Fascinating - not just her, but all the equipment. It surely got hot in there given that most of the gear ran on vacuum tubes. I wish I could work on devices like these.
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  158.  @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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  159. 2024 and this song is still fuckin' spot on.
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  160. Nicely built, all conformally coated and while I'd say the LCD, slow reaction time and somewhat dodgy mechanical assembly may be the disadvantages of this dosimeter, all else is well thought out.
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  161. Smash the internet oligopoly - bring back the decentralization, independence and diversity of '90s/2000s!
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  162. "When this baby hits Mach 2, you're gonna see some serious shit." Iconic. 14:30 Home Alone 2 moment!
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  163. That's the furry wholesomeness we've all been waiting for :)
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  164. 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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  165. Where's that Black&Decker hydrator when you need one? Level 4, please!
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  166. Most of this equipment comes from the '60s...'80s, and the Comecon (Council of Mutual Economic Assistance) made sure the industries in different countries of the Eastern bloc got the gear they needed, if it couldn't be made domestically. So, apart from our own machines, we had Soviet, GDR, Czechoslovak or Hungarian stuff. If the Comecon couldn't cover the needs, then Western machines were imported.
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  167. An absolutely fascinating tour - thanks for sharing!
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  168. Erwin knows something about that :)
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  169.  @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88  oh yeah, miniaturization of equipment is definitely the way - given how massive the electronics alone used to be in the '60s or even '80s, compared to modern instruments. Computers used to fill entire rooms and eat hefty hundreds of kilowatts of power. Now you get more processing power from a handheld device. Even a modern digital sampling oscilloscope is teeny tiny compared to the old analog scopes from decades ago that had long cathode ray tubes, let alone the even older ones built entirely with vacuum tubes. Modern electronics packs tons of functionality in cubic centimeters of space. Other parts of scientific gear will have to follow - and they often do, with micro-fluidics and the like, that allow for testing extremely small samples.
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  170. Again, a fascinating look into the Soviet / COMECON computer tech! And a beautifully made piece of test equipment. I love these bitbanging switches. I've got a bunch of germanium DTL boards recovered from e-waste, with MLT resistors, mostly USSR made semiconductors and markings in Cyrillic. They may have been made for the early unified series computers, but I'm not sure. You might find them familiar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjyzd0HevTA
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  171. 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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  172. Welcome to the club then! Consider getting diagnosed if you feel like it.
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  173. Proper respect to Sony for providing the service info and parts :)
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  174. 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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  175. Wait - David Jones? I'd love to listen to the Amp Hour podcast with him... hahaha! 10/10 would reverse-engineer. An interesting device. The ball-like end on 0:58 remind me of a spark gap on a Wimshurst machine, might be there for attracting electrostatic charges. The spiky electrode on the opposite side might be for charging and repulsing the small round objects placed near the spoke crossings. If the latter is positively charged and the former is negative, the spiky electrode would positively charge the incoming dots and repulse them, then the negatively charged ball would attract them. All else would be any generator and control circuitry placed in the "Dreadco" box. Also, I'm not sure what the whole assembly is placed in: what's the gas and its pressure? How does it interact with the device? And what's hidden inside the copper tube?
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  176. Needs some cleanup and retrobrighting, 4:09 I see a big-ass paper in oil capacitor. I wonder why such an archaic and oversized component from the vacuum tube era is even there. 11:50 calling the manufacturer's technical support, haha! 12:04 lab assistant coming to help you. And 12:17 is "automatic medical systems engaged, caffeine adminstered". 14:10 yeah, no beauty, no joy. 15:00 inaccessible fuses, I know it may be a safeguard against unauthorized bypassing by the user, but c'mon - that's a BS in design and engineering...
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  177.  @ChernobylFamily  don't tell me it was heavy fuel, haha!
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  178. Oh my goodness, I needed to listen to it SO much! This explains a lot of things. I was a gifted kid, one of the best in my class (and I'm autistic as well) - dealing with violence and lack of support. I degraded over the years, finished my studies struggling, got a job in IT, got burned out. Meh. There's a "Gifted" trait in Fallout and it's pretty much it. You get +1 to all of your stats (strength, endurance etc.) but -10% to all of your skills, with lower skill points per level. Not having to work hard learning would slow your pace of learning in the long run...
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  179. "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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  180. Hey, where is GreatScott? We're discussing Wago vs wirenuts! (and I'm from Europe, the winner is clear :)) Okay, let's move on to that long wire loop and lamp switch-on delay problem... On a more serious note, I've mounted and repaired more than just a few of these fixtures. One had two strings of LEDs (warm and cold white) with a microcontroller that toggled between cold, neutral and warm white when power was turned off and on again. It had an interesting failure: a cold joint on one of the microcontroller's pins caused the LEDs to flicker or not turn on at all. Problem solved by removing all "excess" parts and hardwiring the thing to the desired color temperature. I prefer keeping things simple, reliable, elegant and beautiful. As always, I love your insights - and I've been missing you! And your lava lamp too :) "Boob light" LOL!
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  181. 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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  182. Trash metal getting old and rusted!
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  183. 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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  184. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" as Arthur C. Clarke nailed it.
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  185. 1:25 has OBS even started supporting pipewire video? Sure it can do screen capture, but I'm still stuck with V4L2 input devices, though I'd really venevit from PW on cams. And as for audio, PW is not yet supported out of the box, you need a plugin for that. Meh. BTW in order to get OBS and screen capture to work (at least in Debian), you need qml-module-org-kde-pipewire, without it it won't work even if you have xdg-desktop-portal running.
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  186. "Home is where you have your turntable and tube amp" :)
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  187. Watch Louis Rossmann for more videos pointing out different kinds of that IRL subscription bullshit in tech. And of course, there's the gaming world and utility software as a service, where you used to buy software on CDs not so long ago and you owned the physical media, could deploy it, were sure it was there. No mandatory internet connection, no software phoning home, no vendor killswitches. Get physical media, people. Make backups whenever you can. And, for crying out loud, we also need rental services for items we rarely use. Time to stop this subscription craziness by not subscribing to it and looking for alternatives.
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  188. 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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  189. 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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  190. Whoooooa! Fascinating instruments there. To think that the pre-War German instrument was mechanical and so simple in its construction...
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  191.  @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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  192. I'd still prefer bugs to Soylent Green.
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  193. Whoooooa! New kitteh!
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  194. Hot damn! Great quality on that case, I absolutely love it. To think that even these pesky little standoff buggers could be so hard to get... They're very common on our side of the pond.
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  195. The US government pulled that "keep it hush hush unless someone a few thousands kilometers away notices something is wrong" trick over 40 years before the Soviets. Way to go, America! Nah. Living in Poland, I probably don't have any of these particles, but then I'd get some from Chernobyl when I was a baby.
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  196. That's simply Fran-tastic!
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  197. Good that you're against slave owners. So am I.
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  198. 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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  199. That's right... if I were to choose between two evils, I'd take the neutral or chaotic instead of lawful.
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  200. "MEEEEEEEOW" means "I'm too democrat for yo' Texas cowboys' rubbish!"
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  201. This Week @ NASA without the gobbledygook! Nice short news.
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  202. Good thing that Elon hasn't taken Youtube over yet, cause he'd ban you for impersonation! Quantum effects, kinda not-so-exciting after you look closer, but hey - it's a quantum computer in everyone of us, right? :D Good news about nuclear fusion, seems like we're finally going somewhere. Wondering about that Chinese space station and how it will do. It's definitely the second space age now, not just the JWST and Artemis, and the Chinese replacing the USSR and still not giving a shit about where their rockets hit after re-entry. Plus SpaceX is a good competition for NASA. Some things are similar as in '60s/'70s, some are different, and both space ages certainly are interesting to watch. Self-driving cars, meh. It's a damn dangerous technology for its destructiveness if an accident happens, and unpredictability of other road users' behavior. Interesting discoveries in Berlin too. Chris Hadfield and Neil DeGrasse Tyson <3
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  203. 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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  204. Fuckin' bullies. Ganging up on those who are weaker...
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  205. 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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  206. 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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  207. Engine fail or not, Terran still made it through the max-Q. That's a mighty important proof of concept!
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  208. Interesting concept. Made me rethink a thing or two about energy use on grid-scale. I live in northern Poland, where the climate is marine temperate, so heating is more prevalent than cooling, but the idea seems pretty applicable here as well. Brownouts are already a thing, with an occassional blackout happening mostly because of damage to the grid in rural areas. The generation is almost exclusively coal-based, no nuclear plants, a few wind turbines in the countryside and pretty widespread on-grid solar panels on detached houses. Utility companies offer a few tariffs to domestic customers: flat rate, as well as peak and off-peak with different hours (most common is 1pm-3pm and 10pm-6am off-peak, mine has two more off-peak hours 1pm-4pm and 10pm-7am, a lower off-peak rate for a higher peak one). Off-peak consumption is ca. 75% (I run all major loads off-peak: storage water heater, induction hob, oven, washing machine and dishwasher). We decided to go off gas - it's one less thing to worry about and one less bill (and fixed cost) to pay.
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  209. Mighty cool! Never let previous experience drive you into a false sense of knowing it all. I learned a few things watching this, and could learn lots more working there :) Great theoretical intro, very useful :).
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  210. "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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  211. I've been running my teeny tiny channel for ca. two years, can't seem to take off as fast as I would, so I don't care about numbers that much. Many factors affect views, not all of them are in your control. There's law of diminishing returns at play here: at certain point the amount of work you put into making the videos stops getting views or subscribers. It's especially hard for small channels that don't get a large coverage area unless they put effort into promoting their videos on social media, or make it big somewhere (like, posting a project to Hackaday and getting featured there, video included). Youtube seems to localize content, ie promoting videos mainly in the creator's own country rather than worldwide, regardless of language. This vastly limits coverage. There's one more thing to cover here, important in my opinion: building communities, both between the creator and viewers, and among creators (collaborative projects etc.). It's especially important in niches, like vintage electronics afficionados etc. As for taking care of audio first... I learned this the hard way, haha! Fortunately, decent quality mics can be bought secondhand for a low price. Same with webcams. I run my channel on Behringer C1U mics, and Razer Kiyo, Kiyo Pro and Logitech Streamcam webcams. All second hand. My software of choice is OBS running under Debian GNU/Linux; after some configuration work, it's very reliable and consistent, and can be controlled remotely which is a useful feature for my kind of content (mainly doing stuff on my electronics workbench, with "talking head" intro and outro). Speaking of intros and outros... they can make a channel very recognizable and help building relations with viewers. Don't let routine eat you thouth - releasing a new intro is always a big surprise!
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  212. 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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  213. 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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  214. 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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  215. Hej, rodak! :)
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  216. The ultimate refinement of ethically questionable marketing. Lots of charisma and money to put on a big show, then scaling it up, business as usual. Masses will be captivated for their lack of critical thinking. It worked almost a century ago with a certain failed watercolor painter turned convicted criminal and then politician and dictator, and those televangelists keep on regurgitating this model. A good cautionary tale. "The healing hand held back by the deepened nail for the God that failed..." --Metallica
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  217. Hmmmm, what if a headcrab jumped into that pod while someone is using it? LOL
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  218. Cool and fun, cause all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Nice bike too!
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  219. Rapid unscheduled disassembly... isn't that what Elongated Muskrat is doing to the US government?
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  220. 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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  221. What a piece of crock. Even Blaire White is better.
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  222. 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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  223. "Elon and Bezos fighting after finding oil on Mars" LMAO! Wonderful video :)
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  224. 11:43 talk about enshittification... Everything is suffering from it nowadays, cyberspace and meatspace. The problem is in structures of power monopolies create and are created by, and benefit from.
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  225. Last time HP was okay was before Agilent branched off, LOL.
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  226. It's a pity that they didn't build a smaller unit that resembled a Dalek. You know you're in hot water when it knocks on your door with its usual "EX-TER-MI-NATE!" cry. Real deal terror!
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  227. 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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  228. The more lawful version of Mehdi, haha! Very educational. Here in Europe RCDs/GFCIs and protective earth wire are both mandatory, and they work combined exactly as shown in the last part.
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  229. Hate groups similar to fluids? Oh my! I'll stay away from DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide) then - it can be transphobic and on a mission to kill me! Hahaha, just kidding :)
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  230. Awwwww, always cool to see people of two channels nerd out together :)
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  231. Thank you for helping us help you help us all. --GLaDOS
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  232. The world's richest troll, meh.
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  233. Hey, I never realized the origins of Netflix, and I'm a fine example of economy-killin' millennial who knows almost all the stuff mentioned here apart PDAs or pagers (they weren't popular here in Poland except among businesspeople who could afford them), church keys and rolodexes. I have a Selectric typewriter, a Walkman and a Discman, and our old rotary phone we had when I was a kid. No landline though. Also, not mentioned here, a Commodore 64, a tabletop calculator (and a handheld with a vacuum fluorescent display too) and a slide rule. I learned lots and lots of stuff as a kid by reading encyclopedias. I was quite a bookworm. All too familiar with sine wave tones. I'm an electronics engineer after all - and I tinker a lot with vacuum tube tech, build amps and restore vintage equipment. I got to learn lots and lots of great '70s/'80s music through cassettes dubbed from CDs by my older brother (I still have his collection) - and he recorded my favorite Looney Tunes on VHS for me back when I was a kid in the '90s. Makes me want to make a "Top 30 Things Modern Electrical Engineers Don't Recognize" video, LOL. Analog oscilloscopes and meters would probably be some of those things - along with grid dip oscillators, single-function lab meters, resistance decade boxes, vacuum tube testers, curve tracers, electromechanical components, CMOS/TTL chips and other quaint old things.
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  234. So interesting to watch! That's one hell of a lot of fascinating and beautiful technology, all put to a very ugly purpose that's been there for millennia - because war... war never changes. Makes me want to play Wasteland 2 again.
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  235. Kudos for supporting Blackberry even though the manufacturer withdrew :D
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  236. Soooooo many oh-silly-scopes! I paused the video frequently to check out individual props, some things are familiar to me.
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  237. That's a rather good idea, foot-in-the-door style. Will show that vendor lock-in is not only unnecessary, but also detrimental as it takes more time to have the device serviced by the company than on premises by a qualified serviceperson. By the way, the companies don't necessarily know it all and want to provide the best service either. Sometimes they will try to lie their way out of responsibility. Remember Therac-25 and how the manufacturer handled the situation, i.e. rather than working on a proper bugfix ASAP as the bug did cost human lives, they first denied it, then advised to block a key as a temporary workaround, but how long did it last? Meh. Same old. By the way, I wonder how it's done in the military. I could bet my ass off that the multi-million super reliable gear that they use still needs maintenance, and repairs in case something breaks, and I can't really see sending it to Lockheed or Raytheon or whatnot for repairs.
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  238. Mr Clinton for President 2024!
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  239. If only the exposure was real - for example, being able to get in touch with people out there who can open the doors for you. But no, it ain't happening. It's even worse if you have low self esteem, sadly lots of things affect that: neurodivergence/disability, unattractive education, being a woman or belonging to any minorities, living in an economically unprivileged country... I started asking more for my work (vintage restorations and electronics repairs, tube amp building) only recently. Blade Runner blaster is so iconic! It made it to the original Fallout games as the .223 pistol, it was almost one-of-a-kind in Fallout 1, and it was clearly unparalleled.
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  240. The sight of Louis roasting the entitled part of Gen-X is just priceless. I love these rants! Also dealing with mental health issues and living on a budget tighter than Ethel Granger's laces - but doing my thing, just like you, and not taking any corporate gaslighting bullshit. Keri on resisting, Louis! And again, I definitely learned something. We can NEVER agree to be herded into the toxic false positivity when the world is clearly turning into shit and we're in it like fuckin' frogs in boiling water. Over 2M subs by now. That's something... more than EEVBlog and Big Clive combined!
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  241. Oh my, this was so fascinating to watch! These boots are sooooo beautiful.
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  242. Excellent words of wisdom <3 Being autistic (and probably ADHD too), I appreciate that.
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  243. Making a real deal SRB here! Artemis launch damaged the launchpad's elevator doors, so you also can have some sacrifices in the name of rocket science. Oh, and I like that Tesla poster.
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  244. Love your ranting over tech stuff. That's the old school Rossmann I came here for and still miss. My fav type of content on your channel... apart from Mr Clinton's remarkable meowing. You still have some Dave Jones vibes, you're a repairman after all. As for flux, Amtech does it for me... guess where I learned about it? Oh yeah. The real deal. "The flux must flow", to paraphrase Vladimir Harkonnen. Nice transitions mini-rant. I'm not in the wrong part of Texas, haha! Not even in the wrong part of Poland. Got my 'mones almost four years ago. Things are only gonna change for the better now that the fascist government is out the door, but that's gonna take until presidential elections here until something can truly go forward. That dumb prick with his head stuck up the archbishops' asses so deep you'd have to use the ISS robotic arm to pull it out will block anything that was considered progressive 40 years ago and now it's everyday stuff in the West, like making the contraceptive pill available again. Poly-ticks rant over. And again, I hope I learned something!
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  245. And again, I hope I learned something. Meow!
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  246. "Coolest warmest" haha, I love the pun! Looks like nice and well designed bulbs. I'm partial to Philips and Osram/Ledvance when it comes to buying LED bulbs.
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  247. Maximum Madness: Furry Road for sure. Taxi drivers here in Poland are often reckless as well. Thinking that the streets belong to them.
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  248. Definitely shows some potential. Not mentioned here are regenerative and counter-current braking (but still, a separate braking system is necessary for safety) and using rotational speed difference for turning - which would make the steering system unnecessary, if proven safe especially in wet and icy conditions. Changing a tire shouldn't be a problem if we stick with the current design of screw-on rims.
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  249. Love your hate of Twitter! I'm not going anywhere near it without a hazmat suit cause it's a radioactive cesspool.
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  250. Good thoughts, truth spoken. I tend to view the difference in terms of resources (time, talent, physical or mental ability, effort, cash, experience...) you have to invest in order to be qualified for the job. Some of these resources are equivalent and interchangeable, e.g. you may not have talent, but work your ass off to learn the thing and succeed at it.
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  251. And I thought he would be talking with the moustache man... one or another.
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  252. Just another kind of cat :)
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  253. "Guilty by association" is the word. French courts ain't got their shit together...or is it about punishing anyone who opposes being subject to invigilation, no matter how unauthorized and intrusive it is?
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  254. That's James Webb Space Flamethrower, haha!
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  255. First time I came across Hipsterbucks was in the Netherlands in 2014. They just weren't around here in Poland, except for a handful places in Warsaw and maybe some other big cities not including mine (I lived in Łódź, the third biggest city back then). Now? They're everywhere... I'm pretty worried about that spread, same thing as with grocery store chains in the '90s/2000s which pushed small independent shops out of business, or Uber increasingly undermining local taxi corporations. Gentrification business as usual... Looking at the prices in Poland, comparing dollar-to-dolar is not enough - if you compare it with purchasing power, you'll soon notice Starbucks will buck you over with prices, it's mighty expensive. That's why here it's mainly frequented by well-to-do people, upper middle class and above; popular locations are city centers and corporate office districts.
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  256. Thanks for the great explanation! It's so easy to forget that EVERYTHING in space is in motion and when considering the Orion's trajectory, we need to take the moon's orbit around the Earth into account too.
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  257. While any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, as Arthur C. Clarke famously stated... any bullshit claim sufficiently blown out of proportions by sly snake oil salesman type marketeers is also indistinguishable from magic.
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  258.  @traolin5877  yeah, being a nerd who builds tube amps, I really need to say that it doesn't have to be all that expensive, if you know were to get your stuff.
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  259. 2:37 it's @Technology Connections doing @ElectroBOOM with great style! And you REALLY got to make a video about Nixies. I love that stuff :) Looks like the flicker effect is somewhat similar to what you have on a Jacobs ladder: the gas discharge (in case of JL it's high voltage in the air, here it's relatively low voltage in neon) starts in the point where the electrodes are closest to each other as the voltage reaches certain threshold voltage, then the arc (in fact, it's conductive plasma) travels outwards and then extinguishes. Since these electrodes are unstable and able to move, the electrostatic and maybe even a teeny tiny magnetic field (after all, it's wherever the current flows) may be at work here, causing attraction between electrodes countered by their elasticity, which will lead to mechanical vibration, change of distence between electrodes, discharge wandering across them, which is in result visible as flickering. [raises her crowbar, +20 damage against headcrabs] In the name of SCIENCE!
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  260. Thanks for the great overview :)
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  261. Cool! I was wondering if I could get myself an electronic typewriter and hack it to make an old school text terminal. Respect from a Polish fan BTW :D
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  262. Strange nerd, anarchist and proud. Thanks for your vidos.
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  263. Nice! Good news for a change, with all this bad luck besetting Artemis.
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  264. We already use fusion power with wireless energy transfer over infrared and visible light frequency range. And it's been the case for millions of years, before mammals were even a thing. What is there not to understand? :)
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  265. What a great hissy fit on your part! Good points.
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  266. That guy probably hasn't heard of the recently taken down KiwiFarms and who knows how many of its counterparts in the dark web. Hell, maybe even doxxing at all, and how it affects the lives of LGBTQ+ people or other vulnerable minorities. Fuck this privileged bullshit. And his Americentricism too, because here in some backwards country in the Middle Europe (yes, the one that was supposed to be nuked into oblivion back a few decades ago if things went south between 'murica and the USSR - scorched earth!) we've got a misgovernment that is actively seeking ways to invigilate people AND it was shown numerous times that the bloody cops did in fact spy on the political opposition. No UAE ties, sorry... Plus the whole thing about the war in Ukraine and online terrorist activities on Russian part. If that's not the valid reason to be concerned about, then what the fuck is it? Pffffffft. Off my soapbox and I hope someone learned something too.
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  267. Oh damn. I'm thinking about non-places and liminal spaces... again.
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  268. Very interesting. I never realized it's so clever. "No Nut November: Because there's a whole world beyond threaded fasteners!"
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  269. Another great take on heat pumps :) Here in European cities it's common to have cogeneration plants and steam networks, and a heat exchanger in the buildings for central heating. There's often also another exchanger for heating the warm water. Gas is ubiquitous, both for cooking and heating the water, and less common for space heating. I was thinking about using a heat pump for heating water while cooling the air inside the apartment during hot days, and taking heat from the outside when no cooling is needed. You really need to try Dave Jones' "haaaaaaaaai!" :)
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  270. It's not just NYC, it's the whole Western world. Property places are way up, concentrating the real estate in the hands of the few who can impose absurdly high rent and bullshit conditions. All this while homelessness is at historical high because people just can't afford renting, let alone owning. Revolution or otherwise, it absolutely has to stop.
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  271. Ahhhh... Scheißung, not Samson. Nah. Using Galaxy J7 2017 bought secondhand in 2020 and not gonna switch unless it breaks down SOOOOO bad I can't repair it anymore. It's a perfect example of Apple not being the sole major culprit here, again. The whole industry is cancerous. Meh. I hope the European Commission gets their asses together and mandates the battery replaceability.
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  272. Ha! Got a collection of vinyl records, cassettes, CD... and still keeping that physical copy of every Fallout game before 76. That's what matters. Right to repair is the right to own things! When you buy something, it's fucking yours! The manufacturer has NOTHING to do with it from now on. And the manufacturer should definitely not meddle with your ability to use the thing. Subscription is okay for services like beauty, entertainment etc. but hell no for physical wares, and especially not for high-value ones like cars etc. Fuck it. But hey, it's just extending the "cloud computing" idea to non-IT areas of life. EaaS - Everything as a Service!
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  273. Definitely a cool teardown! Some nice mechanical engineering there.
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  274. Dancing with tears in my eyes!
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  275. CuriousMarc will surely love this stuff! Both the scanner and the Soyuz clock. Thing of beauty, joy for ever.
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  276. So much audio gear, yay :)
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  277. "...none of that PID regulator rubbish!" Pretty much like the thermostat in clothes irons or fridges. And yes, that's duty cycle control :) To be honest... I'm in favor of touch controls on induction cooktops, especially the flat ones that drop into a hole in the tabletop, European style. These things work in a rough environment, it's not your clean lab or living room. There's just too much risk of the cooktop getting flooded with boiling water, or dirty with oil/fat/etc., which would invariably lead to ingress of water, whatever is dissolved in it including salt, as well as household chemicals, through the buttons and rotary encoder stem holes. That would kill the electronics inside way sooner than expected. Using special industrial or military grade controls that offer IP67 or better at improved protection against chemicals could be a solution, but that's an expensive one. Plus having any holes in the glass increases the risk of cracking or breaking in case something hits the glass (e.g. if you accidentally drop a pan).
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  278. Oh for crying out loud, yet another internet drama. Meh.
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  279. Fully agreed about patronage or donations. Fuck the YT monetization, both from the viewer's and creator's point of view. It's no use. I watch on my laptop using Firefox with Adblock Plus. Thanks for a lowdown on Newpipe. And fuck yeah this kind of PIRACY!!! lol By the way... by forcing ads, YT takes resources from viewers, both time and (unless you're on a wifi network) mobile data. Do they give a shit? Not at all.
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  280. So lovely to see you two together! <3 And that PC reeeeeeeeeeeally is in a state of utter discombobulation.
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  281. Loved the episode - explained plain and simple. I know I'm stating the obvious, but gotta keep saying that over and over again: safety regulations are written in blood. And these over-confident rich-ass guys are blatantly ignoring the over century long history of learning on tragic mistakes! Nice references too. Hanlon's razor? Elongated Muskrat? It's all there :)
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  282. Hey, I'm in the "286 first computer" club too :)
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  283. Lovecraft said that a hundred years ago. Still relevant.
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  284.  @fredashay  I know that story, it's a sad one...
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  285. Big kudos to Mark for exposing that esoteric bullshit, and the preamp was badly engineered from the very beginning. Tom Evans probably tried to hide it behind a veil of mystery, haha.
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  286. Lovely idea; I wish I was in the Big Apple (or the States for that matter) to come by, to get a grip on how to work with some higher end pro stuff, but I hope someone could also learn something from me.
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  287. Yaaaay, cat content :) I'm skeptical about ANYTHING big corporations throw at us - they've got their reasons (making as much cash as they can, churning out products made reasonably cheap and pushing some marketing spiel to sell them), and keeping the older product running is not one of them. Not sure if Wozniak, or even Jobs would subscribe to it, but hey - it's the late capitalism after all. I'm in the repair business long enough to know that even if spare parts ARE in fact available, they can be so expensive that buying them separately and putting a device together would cost you a few times more than buying the same device brand new with no discounts. Makes repairing stuff hard to afford... you never get the guarantee that when one part breaks down and you repair it, something else won't fail soon. Meeeeh, planned obsolescence.
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  288. Thanks for the story. The grant system is indeed a load of BS and it doesn't take living in Poland under Gowin as a minister of science & academia to figure that out.
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  289. Wait... no cats? Oh really? C'mon! Of course I don't trust corporations, even more than governments. The latter at least have to stick to the laws they lay out to some degree. Truth be told, I wouldn't go to Amazon or Macrohard either; "the cloud" may be alluring, but it's basically a bunch of servers owned by some company, with limited access for the user. Not too friendly when it comes to controlling what happens to your data. I'm more partial to on-premises / self-hosted systems than cloud.
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  290. Y'all better watch this before it gets taken down cause YT won't like it, people! Ha. So nice of you to share this - I've been a FLOSS user and supporter for well over a decade.
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  291. I got a total WTF in first 30 seconds, this doesn't even happen! You're so right about the antiquated education system, it was designed to make workers rather than intellectuals. So, treating kids as objects, or lumps of flesh.
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  292. "Steamy pile of dog shit" is such a nice way to say that!
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  293. Time to go to space. At least there are no people you can infect or get infected by. Truth be told, even if Omicron is not as virulent as Delta, it's vastly more contagious, and more resistant to vaccinations, hence the 3rd shot, but it doesn't provide full protection either. It's like contraception: no method is absolutely perfect, there's always some risk. I'll be pretty safe, as I mostly spend time in my lab and avoid crowds altogether. On the other hand, I'm really missing going to concerts. Mr Clinton's meowpinion on this one is priceless :)
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  294. Simply breathtaking! Thanks for the commentary.
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  295. Don't save that Ogg!
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  296. Bein a big fan of Fran Blanche, I know her point of view and experiences, got to agree with many of them as well as yours: 1. There's no cash in YT monetization. Plus it's all too whimsical - no clear rules as to how it works. 2. YT's recommendation algorithms as well as copyright infringement automated detection are making the place a disaster. Of course no transparency here either. 3. If you want to make cash creating videos, go for the patronage model (Patreon, Ko-Fi etc.) but the economic crisis has forced many people, myself included, to reduce or withdraw their pledges, so while it's pretty viable in good times, don't count on that when it's going bad. 4. Personal experience time: since my channel is less than 200 subscribers, I'll stick with making videos when I feel I need to do, got time and energy to do the editing etc. and I'm not considering any investments of the cash I don't have to have it all too perfect. I'll keep doing my thing, repairing and making stuff, but running a channel is an off-shot.
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  297. "Wasn't very bright" haha, that's a nice pun! 3:05 wait until you see an IEE (not IEEE - let alone SMIEEE!) Nimo tube... Hey, where's Fran? Again in the lab? She got me to love all those vintage display technologies, even if most of that stuff is out of my reach economically. Beautiful closeups here! :) Don't let incandescent segments (or bulbs in edge-lit and projection displays) go completely cold - use biasing resistors to pass a low current; shoot at a value where they're still dark, but when they light up, that'll reduce the thermal stress, prolonging the filament's lifetime. VFDs are going down - as far as I know, only Futaba or Noritake Itron make them, and with war in Ukraine, production there was halted. Sad news... I've never built a clock using any old display technology - apart from my MTZVFDCLK project (Multi-TimeZone Vacuum Fluorescent Display CLocK) that's not finished yet, and is more about telling time in a specified timezone than telling time per se. I intended it as a tool to check the local time of youtubers doing livestreams, because it can get confusing really fast if I need to calculate it myself. Knowing that someone is e.g. in Sydney, Philadelphia or Austin, I could just choose an option in some web interface or send a command by MQTT... and the clock would show me the time anywhere in the world. But I've used Nixies in a bunch of projects, from thermometers to a little art installation.
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  298.  @robinsparrow1618  ha, I haven't noticed.
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  299. I've got a home automation system that I'll develop further as soon as I got the budget for it, now it takes care of scheduling a storage water heater and monitoring the water temperature. But... 1. the server is self-hosted on premises, using free&open source software (Supla, but I'm considering Domoticz or Home Assistant), 2. there is a separate wireless network for automation, with no access to the internet 3. devices don't have self-updating software 4. devices have a manual override, so the automated operation is optional for convenience - if something fucks up (e.g. the server goes down), I can still use them 5. no automation for absolutely critical systems e.g. door lock or utility switching I'm not that stupid to have another HAL9000 or GLaDOS at home! Lessons learned.
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  300. Yes, I did learn something :) That even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day.
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  301. You Jim Browning'd them just fine!
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  302. Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooa! I don't think I've ever seen you so pissed off. Calling out BS where it calls for it. That's the 96% aqueous ethyl alcohol solution :)
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  303.  @theeltea  I'm just surprised they used a M42 instead of a smaller C mount, that's that.
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  304. Programmers know about greedy algorithms, but this one is just overzealous. Lawful where they find it convenient, not giving a shit about privacy laws on the other hand. Will be working toward becoming all self-hosted. Fuck the cloud.
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  305. As if algorithm-driven economy and society wasn't bad enough, there's algorithm-driven science too.
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  306. Seriously... fuck this shit. While newspaper or other media, or utility/service subscriptions are okay, scamming people out of money over the stuff they bought is unhinged; I've watched enough Louis Rossmann to know what this world has come to and I'm furious. As a hardware hacker, I'll be more than happy to mod stuff removing the corporate ransomware. Most of the time I just run on old things, they were far more reliable than the disposable modern crap we're swimming in.
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  307. Nice one, SpaceX! Doing away with the excessively multi-layer construction, miniaturizing some features (connections, cooling system), reducing the pressure is the way to go; hope it's all tested and true :) I'm looking forward to Artemis 3 and beyond, not just landing on the moon but also establishing a research base there. I'm looking forward to developing truly reusable spacecraft, like NASA partially achieved it with with the shuttles. I'm looking forward to new discoveries from JWST, deploying the new space station to replace the ISS, and launching the Carl Sagan Observatory. And most of all, although it's more of a fantasy than reality, I'm looking forward to China and America breaking the ice and joining forces in the space exploration, because they could do lots of good stuff together in the name of science and progress; if not, then at least I wish China implemented some safety procedures rather than letting their rockets, boosters etc. hit the ground in unpredictable locations.
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  308. Fuck yeah! As a trans woman, I'm totaly with Meredith on that one. It's about scapegoating, it's about using children as human shields or even weaponizing them for the cause of puritanical and authoritarian poly-ticks and it's about maintaining a herd of humanoid sheep who will go and bleat wherever their overlords will tell them, no questions asked, no critical thought and no scientific inquiry. Fuck that. BTW Louis, I love how you (and Big Clive as well) parody those Karens!
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  309. ​ @jongeers1954  loveliness! I have a Selectric III, still gotta fix it.
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  310. Ha! That's probably the best April Fools video I watched today :D
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  311. Probably good for backbone network but not really viable for regular users, even institutions. Nice talk on wormholes, there's a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation going on about advanced physics. The world needs more knowledgeable people like you to debunk the bullshit. As for vaccines, a shot will be better as it's a more direct way of putting substances in a body, with no unwanted conversion or losses in metabolic processes before it even gets to the bloodstream. Electro-waste is a particularly big problem nowadays, with short-lived devices manufactured in mass quantities. The numbers-driven corporate capitalism went from making fewer more expensive good quality and easy to service products, boasting quality and features as a competitive edge, to producing masses of cheap devices off-shore, minimizing production costs and therefore quality too, not caring about the serviceability (which is being discouraged by not providing documentation or spare parts, or making them so expensive that repair is not economically viable compared to getting a new one) or recycling of a spent product. This is a growing concern for Li-Ion or Li-polymer battery powered equipment, where lithium from batteries doesn't end up recycled. And this WILL especially be a concern for electric cars. I'm an electrical device hoarder, but I use them for projects rather than throwing them away. Your phone is so nice, keep it, and retro tech freaks like me will preserve the infrastructure or make interfaces to keep it going :) Always enjoynig your videos!
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  312. Hey, long time no see! I've been missing you. Congrats on 100K subs :) Are you keeping up with the Commodore? If so, I'll show you my overhauled power supply - that thing ain't failing you with a killer jolt of 12 volts on the 5VDC line! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ywvj78lhbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhiXJeBMYtU
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  313. Very well said. All truth, no BS.
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  314. Just be excellent to each other, people. And if you can't be excellent, then at least be decent.
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  315. Neko Atsume, Rossmann edition - with an Oreo appearance. Was expecting Mr Clinton's meowpinions, got disappointed. Thumbs down and unsub. Ha ha, just kitten you right meow! Always appreciating your cat content.
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  316. "Cave Johnson, we're done here."
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  317.  @dasichsyndrom1  that was a joke, haha. Fat chance.
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  318. This video made me imagine Wigner's friend there in the lab... either petting or mourning that kitty. And I really gotta watch out when opening the fridge - thanks for the heads up about seemingly innocent dairy produce! Big thanks for debunking quack "medicine".
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  319. Someone's platform just ran away.
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  320. Mighty interesting! The Łucznik works used to be much larger, making not only weapons, but also bicycles (including the "PWU typ XX wz.35" military bike from the interbellum and WWII times) and sewing machines. I see the "Fire in the hole!" treated VERY literally here :)
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  321. Fallout 2 Modoc vibes... That one exploded like a blood sausage.
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  322. Nicely refurbished! A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. Devices requiring Windows to set up or run... meh. Good thing it worked under Linux later on. Speaking of beauty, your hair is so lovely! I've been missing you.
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  323. MI5 should send 007 after him.
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  324. Ha. Here in Europe they're indeed fast... just a teeny weeny bit faster than a stovetop kettle on an induction (not ceramic) hob, but the difference may be seconds rather than minutes and the stovetop kettle is small, very reliable and IMO handier, that's why I use it.
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  325.  @MrTubeuser12  and Brave New World, for its consumerism and people not caring about reading books. Who would need Fahrenheit 451 when no one wants to read?
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  326. I'm very much on the Fallout team, especially looking at all those USA-China shenanigans. People at Interplay in '97 were some sort of friggin' prophets, they even foresaw a pandemic originating in China. My big bag of bottlecaps is on this one...
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  327.  @coryburns4309  we already live in a cyberpunk-ish dystopia, sans the aesthetics.
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  328. KDE Plasma user for a good bunch of years now, previously LXDE, Xfce and Cinnamon. Also a pretty early adopter of Wayland, and an early adopter of Pipewire. Oh my goodness, it's just so awesome, being able to route your audio streams however you want - it does wonders without having to go through the hassle of setting up JACK and resolving any application incompatibilities because some were JACK only, others were ALSA or Pulseaudio only. "Modern Windows is an exercise in removing your choices" - true... It's so frustrating whenever I have to use one. Fortunately, I stick with Debian on most of my machines. Any thoughts on the 6.12 kernel? No more PREEMPT_RT flavor since it became standard, and I wonder if it will bring any revolutionary change for the better or worse.
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  329. Nice to see some elegant recreation and explanation. I always wondered how this thing worked. BTW, since the LED has a threshold voltage, it could use some biasing to reduce signal distortion at low levels. Hey, you got an awesome tee! Earns you the vacuum tube witch seal of approval. Oh, and the icons on the TC30 box look like something you'd find at Aperture :)
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  330. As if the homeless people were mainly thieves, muggers, murderers, rapists, whatnot. I'd rather say they're on the receiving end of violence and crime way more often than the giving one. So, the NYC administration is trying to solve the problem by getting rid of those who are most vulnerable. Classism and oppression of the weakest, as always. Meh. Oh, I didn't know that you're two years younger than me! Now what was that thing about "millennials killing the economy" again? ;)
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  331. Pathetic as fuck. Makes me wonder if there'll be an exodus, if not counting a bunch of creators I know who branched out to Odysee etc. already.
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  332. That's what security cameras are for! :D
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  333. Now that he mentions that wretched hive of scum and villainy, he should be afraid of someone aiming a blaster at him under the table... Oh well.
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  334. That's a full minute of advertising on a less than 10 minute video! LOL There's no way of going commercial on YT unless you hit a motherlode of desired content and your videos go viral right away, or you're ready to invest a big buck and go full pro LTT style. And don't count on ad revenue. Patreon may not be perfect, they take their share, but it's still way better and more profitable than YT monetization.
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  335. Definitely open it to public, it's very interesting. Who knows, maybe even use the slide as a rollercoaster of sorts? Have the unique Extremely Exhilarating Emergency Evacuation Experience!
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  336. Agreed. it's too good to be true when backed by a company with a proven track record of sabotaging any R2R probably ever since Steve Wozniak left it.
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  337. An interesting and legendary gun I learned about for the first time when I played Fallout 2 in '99. Nice to see the actual prototype!
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  338. Taking things you bought away from you without your consent and/or knowledge? There's a word for that and we all know what it is.
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  339. New York is like war. It never changes.
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  340. The elevator was broken when it was designed, haha!
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  341. Greetings, Professor Hossenfelder. Shall we play a game?
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  342. Got an old Bosch made in the 2000s, thinking of adding an ESP8266 controller for remote control and sensing via Home Assistant... Automation is nice but it needs to be optional, not necessary; must be fail-safe; should be resistant to any manufacturer's whims or factors outside owner's control; should use well documented non-proprietary protocols.
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  343. Don't even get me started, please... Same thing happened in the 2019 parliament and 2020 presidential elections in Poland, making lawlessness and injustice win again. I see material fatigue all over, people getting complacent or having a genuine lack of hope for changing anything through voting. It's one thing if all parties' electorates have an equal turnout, but when one of them is more disciplined than the others, it means victory for them because the others have surrendered. That's why all of us, especially the opposition voters, really have to believe how important it is to move our asses and cast those ballots. Pet Mr Clinton from me! :)
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  344. That was a lot of fun! Ray looks like a pretty bright guy. Not the kind to be perplexed when he can't find an OBD port, haha.
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  345. Reminds me of one Bakfiets en Meer (the blog of Henry, founder of WorkCycles) posts about preventing bike theft with a "rust-like" spray paint :) But seriously... I really hate bike thieves, just like I hate abusive drivers. Just how fucked up does one have to be? And the police not giving a flying fuck is probably a thing everywhere, because down here in Poland I had two mountain bikes stolen and of course they were notified and stuff, but the investigation was canceled. On the upside, fun story time: I once had my Sorte Jernhest cargo trike stolen and dumped somewhere in the street. I used my old ID (censored my personal details with a marker) as a spokecard, and that's how the cops managed to reach me and I got it back. After I moved out to a different city, I ride it a lot more :)
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  346. That was a quick one! No Mr Clinton's opinion though. The "official ink only" policies are so bullshit and they're never gonna work because someone will always find a way to circumvent these. It's an arms race, same as with piracy/DRM, malware vs antimalware etc.
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  347. Old CIA interrogation techniques still alive and kicking, I guess.
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  348. Simply beautiful!
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  349. Not gonna get any work done there? Mr Clinton don't care!
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  350. That's gonna be @CuriousMarc's next big project, haha! What an interesting craft. I never even thought they existed.
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  351. As always, poly = many, ticks = bloodsucking creatures. Following one's herd uncritically, or going in a direction opposite to the other herd, is the bane of any duopoly based politics. Same here in Poland with two major parties - (not really) Civic Platform and Law(lessness) and (in)Justice. Sure as hell there are minor parties as well, some of them didn't even get to the parliament, and I'm in favor of some of them contrary to the big two (but I agree with a few ideas by either of these), but nah. If the majority is right, let's eat shit. Billions of flies can't be wrong!
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  352. Thank you soooooooooo fuckin' much for this video! That's just so true. I'm in the repair thing too, mainly audio stuff and vintage restorations as this is what I specialize in, but an occassional laptop or phone also happens. And I fully agree about the complexity and precision, all the equipment needed to even get started fixing modern electronics. Can't even imagine doing a component-level repair on modern SMT devices without a microscope, precise soldering irons, all that stuff, and it's expensive as hell and not often found at hackerspaces (the idea I totally endorse, it's a great way to get started or access some more advanced technologies you can't afford, don't have room for or won't use all that much). Plus access to information and fast changing technology do their thing too. Way back when a single model - one of not that many - was manufactured for a few years, maybe even decades. There were literal fuckin' BOOKS with schematics and descriptions of radios, TVs, audio gear etc. Even without schematics available, someone could reverse-engineer it and share the info with the local tinkerer or professional community, and it served them well as long as the unit was around and there was a need to fix it. Now? Each year a new model, out of production after a year or two. Complex as fuck, and all documentation is locked down tighter than Ethel Granger's laces. We just have to rely on certain design patterns to get the idea what could go wrong.
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  353. That's a square wave with 33% duty cycle - only pneumatic rather than electrical! I've never ever heard about central pneumatic drive systems for clocks. Real deal steampunk tech. That's genius - though I wonder how it scales with area and length of the network, and how it remains failsafe in case a pipe gets burst somewhere. Electrical systems have that problem solved by relaying or amplification, with no limitation of the covered area, and if a branch goes out, it doesn't affect the whole system.
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  354. Fuckin' unhinged. When are those companies gonna learn... Repeat after me, corporations: When someone buys your product, it's THEIRS, not yours. They decide what to do with it and where to take it when it breaks down. Stop trying to barge in and make that decision for themselves in a most fucked up way possible, by silencing the people who fix the gear and show others how to do it. And it's been demonstrated time and time again that Youtube is way too uncritical about the claims they get. Claim comes in, it's automatically acted upon, not even reviewed by a living human being, let alone one who, unlike me, knows the ins and outs of DMCA and copyright law. Regarding PCB layouts, are they protected if they're not reproducible? I mean, if someone reverse-engineers the board and posts the results verbatim as gerber files or a design in some EDA software, it's a clear case. When someone draws a rough sketch of the traces on some part of the board but not even the intricate details of the layout (power / GND / internal signal planes, trace distances for controlled impedance, lengths for delay matching etc.), I wouldn't even consider it reproducible enough to violate copyright or patent laws. Mend It Mark is dang good at his work, well worth checking out!
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  355. Good rant here. Freedom and safety, not the hidden power (disguised as safety) over freedom.
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  356. You can talk the talk, but can you wok the wok? I'm far from being a purist round-bottomed elitist gatekeeper type here, got two flat-bottomed woks (not fat-bottomed girls... they''ll be riding today, so look out for those beauties, oh yeah...) which work perfectly well on a regular induction cooktop, provided the field and bottom are size-matched and not offset.
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  357. You're a Friggin' Fantastic Teacher. Not being a mathematician I may not understand the algorithm, but it's definitely important here in electronic engineering, instrumental chemical analysis, computer science and way too many others to count them.
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  358. Fusion made big news, it's definitely a scientific progress, but since the energy put into the process of running those lasers was far higher than what was gained from fusion, there's a loooooooooong way for engineering to create a process that actually generates energy. Oh, and Helion may be on to something too, as Practical Engineering showed. Go, Artemis! All this scrubbing, but when Orion was out there, it went splendidly. Waiting for 2 and especially 3. I'm hooked. The only question is: will the new Soylent Green be made of spirulina, or is it still the classic recipe?
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  359. Now this is taking WTF to next level. Good thing that people are starting to see the light.
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  360. Always a joy to see your videos! rsync for the next, I think.
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  361. How long will people keep using the word "hacker" for the shady types who invade privacy, destroy data or make it inaccessible? Gets on my nerves every time, me being a person who holds the hacker culture in high regard. I tend to treat the manufacturer's service as a black box where you never know what happens inside. Unless there's some effective regulation preventing the staff from doing malicious stuff, how can you trust it? It's a bare assertion fallacy at best. With small repair shops you either trust the people because you know them and can be sure that the equipment is in the right hands, or you can at least try to see them working, or ask them about progress, etc. Keep up the good work and don't eat Oreo, please :)
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  362. Rant on point! Loved it. But please, for the love of Mr Clinton, Oreo and Blackberry, don't call that scum a pussy. It's offensive to cats.
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  363. LOL, your mad ranting made my day. So hilarious. Would play Nina Hagen right now, but my amp is on the bench, so no hi-fi for me...
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  364. Ha! Makes me wish I knew it 10 years ago.
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  365. Water? No problem if you have the Aperture Science handheld portal device.
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  366. Millennial foobar2000 and deadbeef user here, though now I mainly listen to music on vinyl records and an occasional CD. Never really got into Advertify. Fuck their woo.
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  367. Simple is better than complex, complex is better than complicated. And it looks like Helion are scrapping away all the historical leftovers from the well-known power generation technologies: multiple power conversions. Helion might be getting somewhere, at least compared to the recent achievement at LLNL... We'll see. Just don't let Elon Musk lay his hands on the company, haha! Good to know that the electrical design of the reactor is basically a coil gun, with electromagnets sequentially switched to accelerate the plasma towards the middle. The capacitors themselves are interesting too - I wonder about their parameters and constructoin. Way different than anything I've seen in my electronic engineering work
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  368. Or, like psychologists would say, internal vs external locus of control.
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  369. So, your shop is going south? Hope it's only literally - keep up the great work!
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  370. I'm pretty skeptical on that too. Quantum computing may be a very bright prospect, but it ain't going anywhere without working technology that doesn't cost millions. 14:14 they checked, the kitty is alive and well, although a bit pissed at Erwin.
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  371. Hey, thanks for the rant. I'm Polish and mighty appreciating this. Plus the bureaucratic bullshit WILL lock the small repair shops like mine out of business for the sheer reason of regulatory compliance overheads. Fuck that.
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  372. Raleigh? Oh damn, I've repaired a few of their bikes when I freelanced as a bike mechanic... Mostly '60s/'70s vintage stuff. Things of beauty and joy forever, unless a part broke and it was virtually irreplaceable with European equivalents because all the threads were non-standard. Meh. Replaceable battery packs on e-bikes were a no-brainer for me until now. Oh was I surprised!
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  373. Damn it, please get yourselves one of them new Pingpongotron2000 machines! :D Oreo cameo <3
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  374. Robocop did, in that 2010s remake.
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  375. Not the way to do it ESPECIALLY from an authorized repair shop! Ugh.
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  376. Remember the Brandolini's principle: the amount of energy required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.
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  377. Damn awesome news! Fingers crossed - we're getting there :)
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  378. The sight of Oreo coming out of the closet is priceless :)
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  379. That's absurd. How is it possible that they didn't noticed any failure when they were testing the product? Oh, wait... did I mention testing?
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  380. Oh for crying out loud. It's going down, time to go to Mastodon. Nice robot!
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  381. Warcraft 2 ogre sounds... hahaha! But an annoyed sheep was way better. Now, who played this game back in the '90s? :) Daaaaaamn, this thing is so badly burnt I'd give up right away. And those bugs! Was that a louse, or what? Will you start wearing a hazmat suit for repairs like these?
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  382. I have to thank you for being a real deal leader, someone who sets a shining example of an electronics entrepreneur. As for the "don't share information", well... it might have worked a few decades ago, in the pre-Internet era. It was way easier to keep things to yourself, with hackers few and far in between. Now the hacker community is much better connected and it's no use hiding stuff because someone else will find it out anyway and share it, so why bother? Dave Jones once said that if you want to get anywhere with electronics as a product, forget about patents and make things open source. I'm with him on that one, at least as long as the design we're talking about isn't super niche and meant for very specialized market. But then, the pro electronics also should be repairable, only the pool of servicepeople would be smaller because of the gear's complexity.
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  383. This video just popped up after I watched the last one... What a gorgeous outfit! It would be so even without the wings. I've loved the gothic / alternative fashions for 18 years now. Coming up with an idea of making the wings animatronic using Bowden cables or something similar, with drive on the back and wheels in the joints to make the wings expand or retract.
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  384. As anyone who played D&D knows, there's lawful evil, neutral evil and chaotic evil... An ongoing behind-the-scene practice of the former led to the latter, which in turn exposed the former.
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  385. Physical strength is overrated - go for intelligence and charisma!
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  386. Drumpf probably meant nuclear warheads, but you never know what goes on in Mr Covfefe's mind.
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  387. Internet of shit, everything-as-a-service, and planned obsolescence after a few years. Where the fuck is our world, society and civilization headed? Seeing this I really don't want humanity to expand to other planets. We really need to learn to clean up our own mess before we go anywhere else! By the way, now that you mentioned water heaters and temperature controls... that's precisely why I installed a home automation system on a LOCAL instance, self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi with a small UPS in case of a power outage. Plus I design my systems so that even when the connection / server is down, you still have a possibility of controlling them locally. Maybe I'm paranoid about the internet of shit thing, having observed the thing for like 10 years, but I strongly believe that it's us owners who must be in charge of our gear. In order for that to happen, we must know how the things work and how to troubleshoot them... which is becoming harder and harder these days, and that's why I fully support the right to repair.
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  388. People will not be willing to take on the responsibility of giving birth to kids and bringing them up if they don't have guaranteed economic and social safety. Unstable job and housing market, commodity prices flying through the roof (and into space), mediocre healthcare and social services - that's definitely NOT an environment where you'd want to have kids. The "no babies, we'll die out" spiel is peddled by the same people who are opposed to migration, despite the fact that it would replenish the population and boost the economy. Why is that? It's about white supremacy - not just the blatant KKK or neo-nazi militia kind, but the insidious undercurrent in our society, disguised by weasel words and dog whistles.
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  389. Lovely flowcharts indeed. Thing of beauty, joy for ever.
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  390. Fascinating stuff indeed!
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  391. ...can you or anyone you choose maintain it, and repair it if it gets broken, provided the person doing maintenance/repair has non-proprietary equipment and reasonable skill which can be learned from sources other than training or paywalled materials from the manufacturer / provider?
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  392. An adverlasting arms race, eh? Same as with malware. Youtube made me try Ublock Origin and i'm way happier now. Cory Doctorow is right on the money with his talk on the "internet enshittification", it's been going on for decades, no matter what major platform we're talking. If there's business in it, it'll rot. You would be surprised how many people stick with Internet Destroyer! Especially older people or corporate drones where they won't let you install Chrome or Firefox for whatever bullshit reason the executives come up in the moment.
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  393. We may need tsunami to get Sue Nabi under control.
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  394. "You gained 1 Strength."
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  395. Louis, the master of reverse psychology :)
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  396. "German, you are go for going where no man got to go before"
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  397. A nice intro into the history of aerospace tech. Great video, I'll be coming for more. That's +1 to your fleet of subs!
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  398. Good moaning 'murica, if you have to rely on emotional messaging to get your point across because you apparently have a point other than the real deal objective fact checking and reporting... sucks to be you.
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  399. A rare example of Pop!OS on a Macbook.
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  400. Doing some real fuckin' SCIENCE! :)
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  401. Now, what does Mr Clinton think about it? -MEEEEEEOWWWW! Why would the 'murican manufacturer disallow selling your car off for a year? Maybe because the market is unstable, there are shortages and very likely speculation. Other than that, I can't really find a reason. Of course it's bullshit. Agree with you on these super useless vehicles. Why do so many people have to drive those overgrown beasts, especially in cities, where space is limited and accidents likely? Ugh!
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  402. The calendar might tell you otherwise, but we're still in 1984.
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  403. Oh for crying out loud, this is plain toxic '70s radfem shit. I'm a proud feminist, I do have a grudge against most white cis straight men, but this one takes it way too far! It's just fuckin' violent. And I wonder about the page's name too, this with the post gives off a strong TERF vibe. Equating XX chromosome with womanhood, which is exclusionary towards trans women, men and non-binary people, despite stating in the description that they "are a welcoming subreddit and support the rights of all genders". Meh.
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  404. A nice presidential chair for Mr Clinton indeed! Meow.
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  405. That's FuckYouTube for ya! Worse still, I can't watch on Firefox even with ABP disabled! This place has gone to shit. Watch the figures fall...
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  406. I like Samsung phones, got a Galaxy J7 and a rugged-ish case for it, ain't gonna change if I don't have to. But the company's customer support, business attitude? It sets the new standards for bullshit. Meh. I also distrust any gimmicks and novelty items like foldable phones or tablet laptops (pointing a finger at Lenovo X201t despite being a classic Thinkpad fan). If it's for me, it's gotta be built to last.
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  407. Hahaha! Looks like they either tried to pull an April Fools joke on you, or they really consider you a dumbass. Pet that Berry!
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  408. Riding a bike through wormholes, huh? A real puddle jumper! You ride fast as a motorcycle. Good advice about driving patterns.
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  409. Another stuff of legends, I learned about it from Fallout 2 (where it shot 10mm ammo, meh), and then saw it a lot on Stargate SG-1.
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  410. 0:46 haha! How can the imperial units be "freedom units" ever since the revolutionary war - based on the length of some monarch's foot?! Niiiiiiice lab, so much cool and mighty expensive gear there. And interesting lens too. I wouldn't expect the car industry to go down to femtonewton range, but science - oh yeah. Particle research, all that stuff - with lots of hypotheses still untested just because instruments precise enough haven't been made yet.
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  411. Again, I love your insight on R2R. How stupid are these naysayers! Even if they lack the skill or equipment to repair the device themselves, they could still go to any local repair shop that does repairs for that kind of equipment (mobile, laptops, household appliances etc.) and have it fixed rather than get rejected because the service personnel doesn't have access to schematics or parts. Just how hard to grasp is this, people? "Oh, for crying out loud..." --Jack O'Neill
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  412. It's really a real reel to reel, a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. I once had one in my hands back in my campus radio days, but unfortunately didn't do any service work on it. I agree that Kudelski sticked to elegant simplicity with superb quality materials and parts - that's what I strive for as well. City of Lost Children? Oh, I love that movie!
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  413. Looks like a TV schematic, but at least it's there. Could hang on my wall if I ever need vim, but it'll take something big to make me switch over from nano.
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  414. Politics, meh. Or poly-ticks, poly being many, and ticks are blood-sucking creatures. To anyone shaping others' lives by the means of poly-ticks: Let us engineers inform you about engineering related stuff and please, please, PLEASE for crying out loud, just listen to people who know their thing!
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  415. BMW going down the line of test gear manufacturers (Rigol, Keysight etc.) where you buy the same hardware regardless it's a $500 entry level scope or $10K pro stuff, only the former has certain features disabled or available for a limited time as a teaser/demo. Remember that epic 2010s Rigol DS1052E to DS1102E upgrade hack EEVBlog made a video on? Same hardware, it's all in the software... Hack the fuck out of that shit, people. I'm getting the impression that Louis said "actually" in this video more than Teal'c said "indeed" in a whole season of Stargate SG-1, and that is something.
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  416. So, John Deere don't know their own documents, and yet they FUD the legislators. How cute.
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  417. Oh damn, what a fuckin' amateur. Lockpicking Lawyer would open the lock in two seconds and do it again to see if it was not a fluke, and he'd be in way faster. Quality lolcontent! Bet you could just gun them down with a Ma Deuce down there in Texas.
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  418. Holy bloody hell, this is beyond fucked up. You're dead on correct that punishing the attacked will give bandits more courage, and make honest people live in more fear.
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  419. You must be a fuckin' superhero to actually be able to go through that mindless babbling and still keep your sanity. My hat is off to you.
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  420. Classic! I learned a bit or two from this.
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  421. That's "Automatic Zone Triggered Electromechanical Computer" for ya! A magnificent and beautiful machine, its control systems and wiring itself clearly having more in common with old electromechanical phone exchange switches than with modern computers. That's just loveliness. 16:05 the schematic uses non-typical symbols for switches and contacts; it's pretty much like the diagrams for graphical programming of PLCs (programmable logic controllers) in industrial automation. Now, try beating Jeri Ellsworth at a pinball game! :)
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  422. No justice, no peace, never trust the police! That's why I won't install any government-mandated app. Especially since what I stand for goes against the official politics of this backwards country right next to Germany.
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  423. @ajb16384 indeed!
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  424. Oh yeah!
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  425. Building the storage out on the Z axis is excellent advice. I'd add using typically unused surfaces like the undersides of shelves or slanted ceilings to store stuff. Type nerd here too! My fav is Gill Sans, I love Lato, Baskerville, Poltawski, Centaur, Bodoni, Kabel, Univers, Bahnschrift... and also did some work for the Brygada 1918 restoration and digitization project. It's a 1928 Polish typeface designed for the tenth independence anniversary; it was rediscovered in our matrix storage during my time at the Book Art Museum, and we went for making a digital version for the century of independence. I cast the type from the old matrices for making proof prints, which then were a base for designing a font.
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  426. Watching this on Youtube is so ironic it made me laugh! Jokes aside, a nicely done material opening the eyes of the masses to the prospect of a global network which was then pretty new (apart from academic, military and industrial settings - ARPANET and all that), and unheard of in many places.
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  427. Just a passive aggressive business model: if a manufacturer is made to make things possible to repair, they'll make parts so expensive that repairing is not economically viable. And they have an excuse (in other words, a public relations gag) just in case anyone is criticizing their practices. Same old. Nice captioning, I like it. Oreo too :)
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  428. On a verge of bad journalism or bad PC building? Either way - please, don't jump, for crying out loud!
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  429. Calling Egon Spengler!
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  430. Cool! Things are moving forward, I see. I can't understand why anyone should associate R2R with redlining or racism. That's just literal fuckin' bullshit! I realize that when it comes to poly-ticks, people tend to lose their shit (and reason too), but it's such a gross non-sequitur that it makes my skin crawl.
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  431. Cars? Meh. Cats? Hell yeah!
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  432. Cool! Since I use OBS on Debian testing/sid for recording my videos, it's gonna be a great update. I'm having some problems with websocket 4.9 on Linux, not firewall related (tested the network already), hopefully I'll get rid of this on the update.
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  433. A presidential chair is a presidential chair! Respect is due.
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  434. WTF?! An instant fire and explosion hazard - looks hella scary! "The only ones qualified", as if they were talking about inverse qualification. No one else would do such a shitty job. Thanks for sharing.
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  435. I sometimes use Losedows for running software that won't do well under Wine, be it utiliy or gaming. Oher than that, I'm all GNU. Been using Debian on a bunch of machines since 2012.
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  436. Everytime I hear grandiose claims by Emperor Pal-o-putin and Darth Elon, two nifty rules of thumb come to my mind: "What can be asserted without evidence, can also be dismissed without evidence" (Hitchen's razor) "The amount of energy to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it" (Brandolini's law) The problem is, the far right has been laying the groundwork for this takeover since the 2000s by spreading distrust of science, medicine and art. It accelerated in the late 2010s with social media recommendation algorithms becoming the new oh-so-wonderful tool for creating information bubbles and radicalization pipelines, delivering the content people want rather than accurate and reliable information. Social media influencers became another cult of personality, pretty much like the traditional TV celebrities, but with a lower entry barrier. Defunding education and overstimulating people's minds with social media brought erosion of critical thinking that would let people laugh those clowns off rather than voting them in... and here we are.
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  437. -What do you think of Donald Trump? -MEEEEEEEOW! Brilliant! <3
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  438. Sad but very possible.
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  439.  @kevincozens6837  ...solving a few CAPTCHAs along the way, and consenting to cookies to be able to use the website at all.
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  440. "...lways, I hope you learned something! Bye for now." Oh yeah, I love the old-school paper books - and I never ever used the e-book thing (unless we're talking PDF on my laptop). No one is gonna take my access away but they take up space, are heavy to carry if dealing with lots of them... that's the only drawback but I accept it. People have been doing this for decades and no one gave a shit. Same for music, movies and games. Only the physical copy, possibly with backups in case the original gets destroyed. If digital, keep it on the devices you have full control over (I've been a GNU/Linux advocate for 12 years now...), never trust "The Cloud", own things and make them butthurt! Speaking of which, I like your new merch.
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  441. Sooooooooo nice to hear that MIRI is going again :) Social media influence on poly-ticks (a.k.a. mulktiple blood-sucking creatures) and vice versa is nothing new - it's always been there.
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  442. Thanks for the reports, I'll gladly check them out! Both space and other sciences.
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  443.  @Outworlder  now it's 2024, where's that Mr Fusion, for cryin' out loud? Shoulda been here in 2015 already!
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  444. Gotta check @EEVBlog for any info on that one! Haha, just kidding.
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  445. Yeah, the deepfake shitshow. Know about that old Soviet photo with Lenin speaking and Trotsky literally taken out of the picture when he became inconvenient for the regime? Now it's easier than ever before to pull that kind of shenanigans... Think about 1984. We already have a MASSIVE problem with people not practicing critical thinking. Putting AI-generated content on top of that will make things exponentially worse.
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  446. Don't light yourself on fire - Big Clive got a strike for doing that to his beard, meh.
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  447. Your coffee comments made my day! And damn right on freedom of speech. I wonder if Dave will make a follow-up video. And yes, there's something really fishy going on about your other channel. Ha. Ain't that the truth. Just don't let anyone who's got Mr Clinton's ear to hear that.
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  448. Düpfäkes! Ha.
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  449. I've come to talk with you again, haha :) Of course it's got nothing to do with the fact that it's electric. That's just one technology among many others. The problem is with today's business, design, engineering, manufacturing and marketing culture. Indoctrinating people with safety while not giving a flying fanspin about it, they only care about the short-term profit by maximizing sales, and other than that, nothing else. That's TRWTF here. Fair point about not buying new stuff. As a 35 year old (post-)punker and free spirit who would sure as hell ride a vintage motorcycle (if I could afford that, but has a fleet of Dutch pedal-powered beauties including a cargo trike), I buy only secondhand, and would stick to my guns even if I was not broke as shit. Paywalling slow speeds? Oh c'mon, for crying out loud. It's a damn safety feature, why should ANYONE limit it?
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  450. LOL. Why don't they add a separate option for showing the number of dislikes? Mr Clinton is all too happy. No need to meow today!
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  451. Damn right, it's so true. Toxic perfectionism is the thing to do away with.
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  452. Berry rolled for initiative and got the highest score while Clinton patiently (or... catiently?) sits there waiting for reelection and protecting his reputation by not letting anyone bribe him. And Oreo is just too sweet for all the petty poly-ticks (poly being many, and ticks are bloodsucking creatures). Yes, I learned a lot! :D
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  453. Self-hate, sounds very familiar to many folks with gender dysphoria. At some point you just can't live with it anymore and it's the turning point where you take the risk, despite all the adversity, hatred and difficulties you're gonna face as an out or even perceived trans person, you come out to yourself and then to others, start transitioning. I know the pain very well. Not only that... I felt like shit many times in my life, faced with the choice between calling it a life and changing something I went for the latter. Nota bene: only a part of trans people experience dysphoria; there are different kinds and intensities of it too - which made me hold myself back from transitioning for almost fifteen years since I realized just because I kept telling myself that my case is "not serious enough" because I didn't really hate what I was born with since my childhood. Times change, for the better IMO.
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  454. This, and also it's about how we experience music. When you buy an album, you buy not only a certain set of songs on physical media (and handling the media is a ritual of sorts, it requires your attention and intent), but also the visual art that comes with the album, from cover art to sleeve, booklet, insert. Playing music on Spotify is devoid of that, unless you take extra steps to look the cover art up - still, it's not the same thing as holding it in your hands while listening, but I'm a bit old school in that regard.
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  455. -What do you think about Donald Trump? -MEEEEEEOW!
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  456. A similar tool is used when building bike wheels - it's used for screwing the spoke nipples on. It has a depth limiter pin screwed into the tool that can be adjusted to a desired depth, to keep all spokes initially at the same length. Then you tension them with a slotted spoke wrench. Loved that sturdy metal junction box. A thing of beauty, a joy for ever. That'd make an awesome enclosure for an electronics project!
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  457. "Hello and welcome to Mr Clinton's lab! In this episode we're going to have an interview with a German TV station. So... let's get started!"
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  458. Amazing! Geeking out more than I expected.
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  459. Hi there, you've got a big fuckin' thank you for these words! I fully agree that getting into repairs is relatively easy if you're willing to work hard learning the stuff, and while I'm not doing repairs on kitchen tables anymore (unless I'm working on a customer's device at their place, which happens with household appliances) and I've set up a nice electronics lab, Keritech is not yet officially a business and won't be until it's profitable enough. Pet Oreo big time from me! :)
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  460. I'm so glad that you made it! It's a huge success, one of the many to come. Keep that up and inspire countless people, like you did up till now <3
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  461. A house is not a home without a cat :D On a more serious note, everyone of us needs some rest and downtime. Have a pleasant stay, you deserve it!
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  462. I would play Tic-Tac-Toe with GPT3.... or Global Thermonuclear War! As with those strange games, the only winning move is not to play.
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  463. Capitalism is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play. But it'll be around as long as people will see no alternatives to go for. I'm on the disgruntled "screw this!" crowd, but still doing my thing in my lab and hanging out with other hackers.
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  464. Suck'em dry economics and rampant landlordosis - glad you're calling BS on that. Same in Poland and it was a thing back then as well. Good luck on running your business in a new place! 0:55 1.3M for something that can only be torn down and built anew? They gotta be shitting us.
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  465. I've got a Philips N4420 reel-to-reel recorder and a bunch of Miniwatt vacuum tubes, and had some 2-channel scope. I liked the way they designed electronics back in the '60s...'80s. And cassettes or CDs? Hell, that's how my love for music started. Using a TV to browse the net would be a good idea, it gained some traction with smart TVs but people who were used to do it on PCs or laptops will be reluctant to switch over. "Too big to succeed" may be the case here. A corporate giant moving by sheer inertia, crashing into things. Meh.
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  466. Another one of those scientologists?
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  467. WTF? That's some insane and unintended social engineering pwnage... Should have never ever happened. C'mon corporations - get your shit together, review your processes! My home automation devices NEVER connect to anything in the internet and every one of them either is non-essential, easily replaceable or has manual override. I run them with an on-premise hub (Supla + MQTT) I personally installed on a Raspberry Pi, and if that thing tries to pull off some shenanigans, I'm quick to dig deep and tackle that.
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  468. Ha! About fuckin' time.
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  469. Hey, nice jukebox! Cool to know about the door closer adjustments - now I'll be traveling with a set of hex keys, hacking every one of them I encounter, making the world a better place, haha. Probably starting with the one at the staircase in my tenement house.
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  470. He's the President - he needs and deserves media coverage!
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  471. Oh for crying out loud. First they go and destroy local media, and later on they try to distract the public by making platforms hide independent creators from other countries. Meh, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtDit6klbMs
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  472.  @ethanwasme4307  single signal and an insane number of controls, haha!
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  473. Whaaaaaat?! The unforeseen consequences of questionable ethics. This is just getting out of hand. It looks like looking for an excuse for kicking an uncomfortable person out, farfetched beyond any semblance of logic. Definitely nothing legitimate. Was there anything problematic going on with Tomazos prior to that, like intimidation, sexual harassment, bigotry etc. that gave him a proven track record of being "that guy"? If there was, that would be a legitimate reason for taking an action, possibly beyond the organization (e.g. filing a lawsuit) - and there's absolutely no fuckin' reason in the entire world to use something as benign as using the word "question" in the paper title as a silly excuse for excluding the person from the community. I'm really fuckin' upset by privileged people babbling about hate speech not experiencing it themselves in that particular context, spouting their fanaticism, trying to be "SJWier than thou", becoming a wingnutted caricature of the movement.
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  474. Gives the new meaning to "daily grind".
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  475. I wish the actual haters deleted their own accounts, instead of you. Would make the world a better place.
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  476. It's the landlordosis bullshit again... Good thing you checked and exposed that scam. They'll rip you off for total shit... hell if you knew right away it was gonna be shit, but it's simply shit covered with chocolate.
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  477. Keeping a healthy lifestyle is good, but integrating it with your day-to-day life so that you treat it as something so simple and obvious rather than a set of particular activities you do for your health is even better. I don't have to spend time or money to go to a gym - I just ride a bike going to my customers, doing shopping or running errands; I live on the fifth floor in a tenement house, so I end up going up the stairs quite a lot, etc. And sometimes I have rough sex too :). And I stay away from addictions (alcohol, smoking, drugs) because I knew it was bullshit from a very young age, seeing my mom smoke and pay lots of cash for cigs made me stick to the decision that I'm not going down that way. All the better for now, at least it doesn't fuck with my hormone replacement therapy.
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  478. Good thing y'all take some time to move around. Sitting there all day long makes people butthurt, like we've seen with the NYC mayor :)
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  479.  @aylen7062  ha, another one of the girls like us! :) Mine cracked in 2017/18
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  480. "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum."
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  481. It's not a chair, it's a presidential seat! Try negotiating with the '90s head of the most powerful country on Earth and he'll just say MEEEEEEEEOW.
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  482. Whooooooooa! Reel-to-reel recorders, tapes, vacuum tubes, amps, speakers... Real deal vintage things that would fetch tens of thousands on eBay. Absolutely lovely stuff for the audio and electronics nerds like me. I think the owner had a private dentist practice and an audiophile or radio hobby, a nice combination. And some love for arts and cats too! Pity the place is so ransacked.
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  483. Damn awesome, Louis - that's the spirit!
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  484. Sounds like it's time for a class-action lawsuit... Don't let it go, rock the boat to hell and beyond, but definitely don't sell your business.
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  485. Those who compete with Dymo and HP must take great care lest they become Dymo or HP themselves, and when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss will stare right into you. Some nice kitty love here.
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  486. Bet my fuckin' ass this is not what Steve Wozniak wanted. Good rant.
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  487. A lightbulb moment indeed. Loved the video, and the Scott Mackenzie reference!
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  488. "You can't always get what you want" --The Rolling Stones I sometimes wonder if you're on the autism spectrum. Got what was formerly called Asperger's syndrome myself. Won't hestitate to use it! You're another one (because Fran said it in her "Approval" podcast) to say what I was thinking for a loooooooong time. It's something about being ambitious in science and tech, but I think it can relate to any field, like sports etc. It's also something about being past the initial stage of Dunning-Kruger curve, when you realize your incompetence and become humble, allowing yourself to learn. The more advanced we get and the more complex, challenging etc. the stuff that we do is, the more "genius" we are considered by those who can't do it, but still our horizons are far away, we look up to the people who can do far better and more advanced stuff than us, and feel little in comparison. Like me compared to Fran, or Fran compared to e.g. Einstein or others she looks up to. Permanent impostor syndrome. Being praised by those who are not on our level yet doesn't cut it for us - it's being praised by those whose level we want to reach that matters. Like me back in 2000s, when I was building amps already and was buddies with a professional amp builder (Piotr Stanisz of Black Dog Amplification), I saw his amps inside and they were very clean and elegant, so I got inspired to build mine better, and better, and better still, and he appreciated my work quality. Felt absolutely great. And if something was wrong, we talked about it, and I learned. Looking for answers to life, universe and everything. There must be something more than the 42 everyone knows. Well, maybe it was supposed to be 420, but the zero was lost at some point? Sometimes I wonder about Dave Jones' failures and how he got where he is now. Would totally love if he got philosophical, like you or Fran. Always appreciating thoughts and insights from people who know their stuff.
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  489. Makes me wonder how long the warranty was on the battery, and how oversized it was in order to ensure that lifespan. But still, including any killswitch-like feature sucks big fuckin' time.
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  490. You hit the nail squarely on the head here - it's about protecting their revenue streams, thus maintaining the power in the context of the market and economy in general.
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  491. Of course you drink IPA when nothing works! LOL
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  492.  @sparcnut  Artificial intelligence becoming sentient? We've been over that so many times :D
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  493. "Ooh! Meta!" - and now you know that Mark Sugarmountain is drooling all over himself.
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  494. This ain't no Nina Hagen's song. It's the post-apocalypse.
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  495. Truly fascinating! Love the complex tech in the backstage. This made me think of the behind-the-scenes works of the Apollo program mission control room, or the Electrosonic system installed in the Lenin museum controlled by an Apple computer.
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  496. "In case of implosion, look directly at implosion" (Aperture Science)
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  497. A real deal turbo-encabulator talk! Good joke :)
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  498. Seeing it all over Poland... Maybe not riots, but complacency and material fatigue. Antivaxxers are rather strong here, too. That doesn't help at all. Daily new cases reaching 20k now. Last year the misgovernment tried to blame the Women's Strike movement for the surge in infections, but that was bullshit. Now no massive protests and a lot of infections nevertheless. Fortunately the misgovernment didn't go the route of lockdowns again, because they totally destroyed many branches of our economy and I think that if they were to do that again, they'd be in for a civil war, and they're losing support big time. I had two jabs and will be going for the third one - I trust science, I'm definitely pro vax, and I'm also somewhere between individualist and collectivist, caring about individual freedoms as well as the reasonable common interest such as getting this pandemic over and done with. So, I'm for wearing these masks in closed spaces, getting the shots, keeping distance, limiting unnecessary contact etc., and intensifying precautions if the local situation is getting serious.
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  499. Sounds like a fuckin' scam. Or bureaucrats having such a total mess in their systems that not even the toughest brains would be able to take care of. And as for running a business in the Big Apple, gotta ask Fran or Ladyada.
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  500. Fix the NYC governor, people! :)
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  501. I'm seeing some goa'uld technology here! Excellent creations.
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  502. I was gonna ask where you can find one :)
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  503. Darth Elon crying for help to Emperor Pal-o-putin. Where's the "think of the cjildren!!!" they tout so much this time?
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  504. Remember what Sam the turtle says... when you see flash, duck and cover! That would make a really dynamic shot. Lovely slo-mo shots of magnesium bulbs. Thing of beauty, joy for ever... maybe not for ever because they're disposable and obsolete. I definitely prefer the electronic flash units.
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  505. I love your ranting, it really reminds me of Dave Jones (EEVBlog), and that's absolutely fuckin' brilliant! :) As for that guy talking about TikTok... is he a poor wannabe standup comedian, or what? Who cares anyway? If only he was talking about installing some actual malware, servicepeople looking through stuff or other sketchy shit going on... but his anal argument tells it all. Samson Electronics, you say? The company that does pro audio gear, or someone else?
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  506. What the actual fuck? Restaurants ain't obliged by the law to provide bathrooms to their customers? No sanitary inspections to enforce they're up to standards? That's just unthinkable! #HackTheBathroom hahaha!
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  507. "We are the Youtube - you will be assimmilated - resistance is futile!" Which is the reason to "fuck YT monetization and focus on Patreon" in 2023. Seriously, a meowing cat is dangerous content to them? I could understand if the kitty was hissing, biting and scratching. BPD AI? No, you ain't talking about GLaDOS, are you? Because she'd kill all the team off with deadly neurotoxin... oh wait, maybe that's what happened at YT, and we're all just test subjects? LOL
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  508. Real deal mechanical watches are the best, plain and simple. None of that newfangled cloud-connected electronic rubbish.
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  509. Time travelling trains? Now I'll need to watch Zurück in die Zukunft 4. Great Scott! Germany was a paragon of European high tech, pretty much like USA globally. It's just a pale shadow of its former self now, through the '80s till 2000s disindustrialization and offshoring. The reason, as always, is greed. The desire to have more for less. When it goes too far, it'll invariably lead to cutting off the branch you sit on. Good rant on energy. While some reactors were far obsolete and should have been modernized or shut down, it doesn't mandate a blanket ban on nuclear energy. That's shooting oneself in the foot, the knee AND the groin... with a heavy machine gun.
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  510. Being a single decent person in that trumped up semblance of a government? Stay strong and give'em hell.
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  511. Thanks a million, I'm definitely checking this one out! Been using GNU/Linux and OpenWrt for 13 years now.
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  512. As if "software-as-a-service" wasn't enough, now we've got "hardware-as-a-service". It's pretty common in the business-to-business practice, but consumer products were mostly free from it... other than planned obsolescence, either by maing the thing no longer relevant, or making it fail, or withdrawing support and shutting down the infrastructure the product needs to run. In neither case was the manufacturer so obvious about it though.
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  513.  @jackburton6330  talking about Lizzy, my friend's tortoiseshell cat who was super ornery, to the point of jumping on anyone she didn't like, biting and scratching. If the Combine ever wanted to create a cat and headcrab hybrid in order to infiltrate people's houses and do more harm, this would probably be the result.
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  514. Not exactly agreeing with you, but still I wouldn't want to live in such a big city as NYC, LA etc. Hell, not even Warsaw. Too overwhelming. I still love cities (and especially Dutch ones), I'm just an old town kind of gal. Living in a tenement in the center of Gdansk feels way better than living in a '70s/'80s block in a remote part of Lodz where I spent my entire live before I moved out three years ago. Plus I feel a whole damn lot safer here than I used to in Lodz (before I even started transitioning), where I was getting harassed enough to give me PTSD.
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  515. Too good to be true. Expect a serious shitshow... Wake up, Neo. The Matrix has you.
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  516. ...no zombies!
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  517. Splendid! Resistance and pressure does work, even if not always. You don't just reserve a pat on the back - I'd hug you joyously if I were in the Big Apple :)
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  518. It's just inflation, I guess.
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  519. Don't worry, it'll all be a nuclear wasteland by Oct 2077...
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  520. Hey, thanks for this one :) I'm autistic and saw myself as androgynous / non-binary for 14 years or so before coming out as a trans woman in early 2021. Makes me wish it was around in early 2000s when I was in high school, haha! Both of my queerfriends are non-binary and on the spectrum too. And I feel most attracted to trans or gender-non-conforming autistic people.
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  521. It's complex and fascinating - simply insane!
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  522. "Talk to Google button" haha! You nailed it.
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  523. Hey, I learned so much about the process of pressing, and still think it's just a teeny weeny bit of it all! Checking Royal Black out :)
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  524. BIG thumbs up for showing, Louis! That preamp looks baaaaaaaaaaadly discombobulated... like it wasn't just damaged in transit butmangled inside, boards flying, standoffs broken or just missing. Using plastic ones for stacking boards with heatsinks is a mistake... also, the plastic feet could have hex sockets for nuts, so the whole preamp could be taken apart with no tools.
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  525. Looks kinda like the opening scenes of Fallout 4 :) 2:29 modern tech spotted. Look at the records inside the jukebox too, pretty modern, the PA system as well. 3:40 that jukebox is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever! These tracks don't ring a bell, but I might recognize some others. But... Meat Loaf? Prince? Oh my... 10:48 imagine going there at night and seeing that rust... that blood... and seeing eerie sounds in the background. Perfect horror setting. 15:22 is the very Fallout-y moment haha. Shitty water ruins it all.
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  526. Peace through power? Naaaaaah... Power through greed.
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  527. A successful peer review after countless failed peer reviews, haha!
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  528. Frankenrocket? Of course Fran can rocket! :) It's better to reuse the parts that would otherwise just be lying around, taking up space (I mean the storage space at 1G) and requiring maintenance, but I agree that NASA will have to come up with something more innovative for the future flights. I also wish for worldwide cooperation... we've seen competition between USA and USSR in the golden space age, it can only lead to going fast and cheap at the expense of good.
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  529. Wait a moment, you ran your repair business in a park and no one gave you a hard time for it? That's WILD. Make Big Apple alive again! Not the rotten worm-infested and gentrified place it has become through greed.
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  530. Right on the money! Good rant, and I agree though I don't know shit how things really work in NYC apart from what you say. Running red lights can be done but has to be done responsibly: check all the surroundings, check the conditions! If there's literally no traffic, go. If there's even a slight chance of collision, please, for crying out loud, wait! It's their time, respect that. Indicate your change of direction! People can't read others' minds. If you're gonna turn or stop, then stick a hand out, especially when riding fast. Oh, and riding in the streets, mind the trucks' and buses' blind zone. As for sharing space with pedestrians, again, you said it better than I would: Spiderman rule applies, physics apply, psychology applies. We, the riders, ARE stronger - with higher mass and velocity, our higher kinetic energy is way higher than pedestrians' (still just a teeny tiny fraction of cars') - which means we have more potential to do harm AND will be perceived as a threat, for a good reason. Let's do everything we can not to induce that sense of threat in others. Slow the fuck down when passing pedestrians or when visibility is not clear or there's a chance of someone going out of the building, don't take risky decisions (as in overtaking a bike with an oncoming bike at a short distance). No matter if we're talking electric kickscooters or bikes, their users ride all too fast, all too careless. I'm pulling a wild guess here as I've never ridden an electric scooter - but it's a matter of "feeling the energy". Riding a bike, one has to put their own work into accelerating, and this happens over time (same thing as you mentioned about high-powered electric bikes). Wanna go fast? You'll get tired. This teaches respect for one's own limitations, and teaches conserving energy and planning its use. On the other hand, electric scooters and fully electric bikes, as well as motorized vehicles, abstract that. Within the vehicle's limits, it accelerates and decelerates fast. This incentivizes people to use more power as there's plenty to go around. Time is money, don't waste it, go fast, you'll have more for yourself, can do more work, earn more cash, which offsets the cost of energy you have to draw from external sources (electric or fuel), though putting your own work into riding is not exactly free as you have to eat to be able to ride. Also, I'm not sure how e-bikes are regulated in the States; here in the European Union an e-bike can only have 250W and go up to 25km/h on assist, then it cuts off after breaking the speed limit. People still bypass that limit, haha. Registration of e-bikes conforming to those regulations is not mandatory, above that it'd be probably classified as moped and need to have licence plates and the rider would have a driver's licence (AM, A or B). Certain observations apply to my life in Gdansk and my 13 years of experience biking in the city every day as a basic form of transport. Bikes with assist are frequent as the city is surprisingly hilly, but since electric kick-scooter share systems have become more popular than bikes, it's mainly about those scooters. Food delivery guys are commonplace, they mainly ride mountain-ish bikes with electric assist or electric scooters (as in Vespa etc.) as the downtown is heavy with restaurants. What you said about getting as much shit done in as short time as possible applies here, the cost of living in Gdansk is one of the highest in Poland. The food delivery workers get their task via platforms such as Glovo or Uber Eats, which in itself is a crap job, it doesn't pay well. The platform/app tracks the worker and imposes limitations on route choices etc., unlike the old bike messenger thing (BTW I haven't really seen bike messengers here). You did household repairs? We've got something in common, haha! Then I got old-ish, burned out and went on fixing various stuff, mainly audio gear, here in my teeny tiny lab. BTW I'd add assist both on my Gazelle city bike and my Sorte Jernhest cargo trike. Those hills are killing me... Staying car-free (or car-as-a-service), considering a motorcycle someday cause I'm a rebel girl, haha.
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  531. Loved this one! Repairing while saying some true words about being smart. Oh, and you're a good sex educator! :)
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  532.  @ChernobylFamily  thanks a million! That's one step closer to solving the mystery :)
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  533. Don't get me wrong. I'm here for Mr Clinton. Haha.
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  534. Just spouting their bullshit as always, while the world is burning... Same old, same old. It's just poly-ticks - poly being many and ticks are blood-sucking creatures. Period. Love your rants, as always, and again, I hope I learned something.
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  535. The cookie was a lie!
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  536. Building a sphere around any star would certainly disturb not only the processes taking place in the star's planetary system, but also the gravitational forces, leading to unforeseeable changes with potentially catastrophic effects. I would definitely not go in that direction. We, as a human civilization, have fucked up life on Earth already - let's not do the same elsewhere out of sheer greed mixed with ignorance. And I'm an advocate of de-growth of energy usage, as long as it comes with a growth of energy efficiency, and that's where technological progress should be directed.
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  537. The destroyer of American economy. And yet there's a cult of personality around him... "strangely" not among the working people.
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  538. OMG, it's so canon it should be written in the canonical law!
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  539. Fire? Meeeeeeeh. Explosion of an anti-tank grenade launcher in the chief commander's office, on the other hand... now that's epic. NYC ain't gonna beat Warsaw on that one!
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  540. Was expecting MEEEEEEEEEOW! Mr Clinton's style... got dissapointed! Downvoting. Just kidding :)
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  541. SmartASS! Loving it :)
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  542. Nailed it. This has been a problem for years, but sometimes shit has to hit the fan to see it. And speaking of getting old titles and having them work - I recommend Good Old Games. And I still have CD-ROM discs of Fallout 1&2, Red Alert 2 and some others. Real deal physical product you can own.
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  543. The good old "cut the bullshit" rule.
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  544. Looks like someone put their asses on fire, LOL
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  545. Hey, I'll probably get back to Jitsi, it's no hassle free and open source, just install it with your distro's package manager and that's that. None of that downloading, EULAs and other proprietary software rubbish... BTW @rossmannrepairgroup - any comment on the Red Hat shitshow that's been going on lately?
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  546. Never heard of plans for the future collider, but if that's a few times larger than the LHC, then it's gonna be really big! Good to see some steps forward in nuclear fusion energy technology. Hope we're getting there. That Elon talk was hilarious!
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  547. Expenses, human resources, another replaceable cog in the machine. Meh. Not an investment, someone's talent or personality... This doesn't count for the BigCo.
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  548. Wow! Beautifully made and very elegant.
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  549. Can Paul dressed up as cat have a meaningful conversation with Mr Clinton? Post-apocalyptic recovery ain't gonna be easy. Even if things seem to be coming back to normal, you're never sure what shit you encounter right behind the corner.
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  550. On point. I love your rants. And again, I hope I learned something.
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  551. Hey, Mario now got a new quest: become a test subject for Aperture Science! Play mari0 then. In case you don't know it... it's Mario with portals and some typical Aperture puzzles - lots of fun!
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  552. Fun fact, Lugol's iodine was used here in Poland shortly after the Chornobyl disaster.
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  553. Reminds me of how the Soviets installed a sensor and transmitter in IBM Selectric typewriters at the US embassy... Clever and undetectable to a naked eye, only a very thorough teardown or X-ray shot could find that something was wrong.
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  554. Looks like a regular squirrel cage induction motor with an extra stator winding. I call BS! And gotta tell EEVBlog about this.
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  555. I'm a 37 year old autistic trans woman diagnosed in high school (2004, at 18); also got suspicions of ADHD and I'd go for a diagnosis but can't afford it. While watching YT certainly doesn't cause autism, it may lead to self-discovery and more people seeking diagnosis and support. Back in the '80s...2000s the social awareness was way lower, people just couldn't figure out themselves and their closed ones, lived in shame or perpetuated violence out of misunderstanding. I hope those days are gone never to come back. Neurodiversity is whole humanity combined, both neurodivergent and neurotypical people. And there is a vast diversity in the neurodivergent population, it's not just autistic and ADHD people. And don't even get me on the Autism Spooks or those medicalists... The topic is indeed controversial and has lately become political.
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  556. Junkyard? Gotta tell The Post-Apocalyptic Inventor about this...
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  557.  @gblargg  Alexa? Nothing compared to GLaDOS.
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  558. That's the 96% ethyl alcohol, Louis!
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  559. A VERY elegant weapon of a more civilized age. Absolutely lovely! Now time for a Jaffa staff :)
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  560. Interesting heating element placement indeed - I like the clever idea behind it :) Here in Europe we use these standing heaters for houses or small tenements / apartment blocks (gas boilers esp. combined with central heating are more popular). Smaller storage heaters up to 150 liters are hung on walls, mainly for space considerations. When getting a storage heater, pay close attention to its insulation and standby power losses. I've got a 120 liter heater, one of the best to be had (Stiebel Eltron SHZ120S) and retrofitted it with a contactor and ESP8266 based relay module. It starts only in off-peak hours on a split tariff. Heating water up to 70...80°C and running it through the pipes was a recommended practice for legionella disinfection, but I don't know if it's still the case.
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  561. One small move of a capacitor, one great leap for the humankind! :D
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  562. Someone just joined the Caesar's Legion, huh? :D
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  563. That's pretty dope! Ha. Channel subscribers, or members? Clearly Youtube is out there competing with Patreon, while the latter merged members and followers, which would be pretty much like subscribers with no pledge.
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  564. Waaaaay back when I was a school kid playing Prince of Persia in a PC AT running MS DOS 3.x, haha! Makes a millennial nerd feel old. "Think before you type. Respect the privacy of others. With great power comes great responsibility." I never cared the message other than it's an alternative way of saying "hey, this user is not in /etc/sudoers".
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  565. A business integrity 101 course. So many people still have to go through that.
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  566. ​ @volk4523  BLACK MESA - Badass Local Anti-Capitalist Killer Makes Executives Scared Again.
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  567. Hey, nice to see you back! I had an infection too, probably XBB1.5 ("Kraken") which caused me to lose my voice almost completely and while it's pretty much back, it's not perfect and there's still dome harmonic distortion in it ;). Nice to see your work on the studio and other projects :) Music, musings and mutilations? Nice. I love your channel. Keri on!
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  568. Looks like that number is served from some call center in India... Just kidding!
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