Comments by "James LaBarre" (@SenileOtaku) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. The 2013 Mac Pro doesn't look like an air filtration unit; it looks exactly like the trash cans at Dunkin Donuts. Except the trash cans at DD are better at their job.
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  2. A couple years ago when I needed a new TV, I was specifically looking for used TVs from tag/estate sales. Found a 46" unit at an estate sale for $65, and only had to replace the I/O board (found from a salvage non-profit for $20). Fixed it myself. My computers are all used, refurbished, or hand-me-downs I wiped and then installed LINUX on. At this stage the closest I'll get to a new computer will be building it from my own selected parts, and I already have cases I can use (that still have bags for optical drives, which so many of the crap-ass cases from WorstBuy and many others don't have anymore).
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  3. Precisely. If these companies are ready and willing to screw over people who can afford $2,300 headphones, then they are definitely going to be screwing YOU over.
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  4. Part of the problem here is the mad obsessive rush to eliminate bezels. If you had a proper bezel all around the screen, there would be plenty of space to make a more robust frame for the screen/lid. I'd rather have a thicker lid if it meant the system could hold up to actual USAGE. Same for the base; I'd prefer it to be thicker if it meant I could have a bigger (removable too) battery, removable memory and an upgradable hard drive. Of course, that means I won't be buying Apple products, doesn't it? Not enthusiastic about some of the "PC" laptops these days either.
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  5. I've opened up PLENTY of drives. It's how I destroy ones that can't be wiped before I dispose of them. Open the case, pull out the platters, and smack them with a ball-peen hammer (to put dents in them). Laptop drives are much easier to destroy. Flatten them with a sledgehammer. I even tried putting one in a woodstove once. It was hot enough the drive actually crumbled.
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  6. In those situations, when I'm on chat or phone with some poor unfortunate support line person, I'll be sure to phrase my complaints to "your company", "the company" or <insert company name here>. I don't say "you" when I mean the company I'm dealing with. That takes it out of any implication that it is in any way personal. If necessary I'll even say something along the lines of "this isn't about you, it's about your employer".
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  7. And with all the morons on the road who can't even handle driving in "two-dimensional" space, you want them to add another dimension to it?
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  8. The thing Apple just won't accept; your data is far more valuable than the phone. It's just that Apple doesn't give a crap about your data.
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  9. I don't think a class action suit is the best option here. This is outright fraud, and warrants action Frome various States' Attorney Generals, and just get Yelp shut down. Maybe even bring criminal charges against the company principals.
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  10. I should have become Amish decades ago, except I don't follow their religious beliefs. Since I've drifted more towards neo-taoist, maybe I should buy an abandoned remote village in Japan and spend the rest of my days restoring the local Shinto shrine.
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  11. They did... The walls ATE them...
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  12. A friend who grew up in Scottsdale AZ in the 1930's/40's said in the stores would jack up their prices during tourist season, and all the locals would only buy on credit accounts where THEY would be charged the regular 'locals' prices rather than the posted tourist prices. (this would have been before Scottsdale got absorbed into the Phoenix Metroplex)
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  13.  @Plackomiot  The problem in Android is *EVERY* app you install thinks it should be perpetually running in the background ALL THE TIME. When I play a silitaire game, and then I exit the app, it should close COMPLETELY. If I use an app maybe once or twice a month (the calculator, for example), there is absolutely NO reason for it to run anything when it's not being used. And I despise those built-in apps that not only can't be uninstalled, but also can't be disabled. Android devices should work like a Linux desktop/laptop computer (and like MSWin used to work) where anything and everything can be uninstalled or never installed in the first place. Yes, I know there are projects like LineageOS, but far too many devices lock down the bootloader and firmware so you can't replace them (this should be forbidden as well). I expect it's probably worse with iOS, the only mobile Apple device I have is an iPad2 (sitting in a drawer somewhere) so I can't verify that.
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  14. "...and again, it's braindead..." Well, yeah, it's a MacBook air. "what is the fan blowing???" The foolish MacHeads?
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  15.  @stinkycheese804  particleman meant they refunded the customer's extended warranty (which in most cases is pretty much useless anyway).
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  16.  @dd07871  He's looking for a woman who can solder.
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  17. That was exactly my thought. Allowing ads for places that might fix Android phones means they'll sell fewer Pixel Phones.
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  18.  @antibull4869  and just HOW are they going to dismantle, repurpose and reuse those parts when they **GLUE** the farking phone/tablet/computer together????
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  19. Crowd scenes from new years' eve. 1978 Who concert. A "Magical Mirai" concert (not even in the USA). Crowd scenes from your favourite anime. Kissing scenes from your favourite yuri anime (oh wait, that might turn diBlazio on...).
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  20. All the more reason to be installing Linux on all those refurbished machines. Freely available, in fact you're encouraged to share. You don't have to deal with all the useless junk MSWin forces on you; you can configure it however you want rather than how THEY want you to use it. And if you're REALLY in need of a MSWin-compatible OS, there's always ReactOS.
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  21. @Deon Denis out on their extended trip, there might not have been a good, or good and trustworthy way to back them up. Which is where local backup would be useful. microSD while you're out and about, then transferred to a USB HDD when you get to the hotel.
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  22. Not so outrageous as it seems. The US military at one time required all their equipment be US made just for that reason, although with things like the tree-huggers driving a lot (or most) metal-casting out of the country, we have to have the cast turrets for our own tanks made in places like India. And there's patent concerns too. Some of that artillery we were using in WWII that we were using against the German army? They used patents owned by German companies. As I understand it, when the war was over, we then had to pay patent licence fees to those companies. These days I could just see patent holders in an opposition country tying us up with patent violation suits.
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  23. Better Tom Cruise than Steven Segal...
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  24. And I have the right not to buy Apple's shit. Unfortunately, pretty much every other company uses the same playbook.
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  25. For a brief time you could get one-use credit card numbers to use for purchases, etc. I expect that was killed right quick by companies wanting to continue their perpetual non-cancelable subscriptions
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  26. 2:24 The lobbyist almost fell for the trick question, didn't they? I was just waiting for the Senator to channel Adlai Stevenson with a "don’t wait for the translation, answer the question!" (OK, not an exact quote).
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  27.  @chlorophyllphile  And if I find myself in the situation where there is NO option to unlock my devices regardless of brand, then I'll buy the cheapest-ass devices I can, and the overpriced luxury brands can just suck it. If I get the same restricted functionality from a $25 knock-off as from a $1000 crApple or other glamor-brand, I'll buy the cheap option. I only pay extra when I *GET* extra.
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  28.  @maxine_q  Would that really be a bad thing?
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  29. I'm not a fan of NYC myself, I don't go there anymore, but I can understand why Louis had kept his business in NYC pre-pandemic, as that was where most of his customer base was, bringing in walk-in business. Now that everything has been going primarily mail-in, NYC seems more of a liability than a benefit.
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  30.  @linkinl1  and you know the subscription would be their standard BOHICA pricing schedule.
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  31. Yes, I thought that line was contradictory. Obi Wan says "only a Sith deals in absolutes", yet that statement itself was an absolute. Was he outing himself as a Sith?
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  32. It's an unconscious way of visualizing the story, especially if it's made up. For the purposes of the fiction, you have to put yourself into the mindset of the lie being true, thus visualizing the scenario.
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  33. Maybe wrap the transmitter with a grounded mesh, make a Faraday cage around it.
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  34. Exactly. As libertarians we oppose the use of force or fraud in personal interactions or business dealings. This activity violates BOTH.
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  35. Class Action Suits don't really help anymore. The lawyers all end up with most of the money, and you'll end up with a $5 iTunes voucher. On the other hand, if a bunch of State Attorney offices from a dozen or more states go after them. Not that the one from MacLand Kookafornia will do it though.
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  36.  @juancarrillo1270  That was my thought too. Even back when Japan was the "low-cost manufacturing" country (before China) they took some pride in what they made. Early on their products may have been a bit crude in their construction, but they gave it their best effort to make the best with what they had. China, OTOH, cranks out whatever is the cheapest (in more than one use of that word) and laziest they can do. There is so much corruption at all levels of government that it's the only way a manufacturer can afford to make anything. And as they abuse and exploit their workers, those workers logically have no incentive to improve the products, or even care if they're good, bad, or even dangerous. One thing that shows just how different the products are between the two countries; look at the collectability of toys made in Japan or China. The clunky old stamped metal Japanese toys of the 50's and 60's are in much higher demand. Granted, Sony, Nintendo, etc have had plenty of "asshole" moments.
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  37. I'm not sure even Apple know how their phones work.
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  38.  @MaNameizJeff  Again, there is NO moral basis for these companies to forbit you from seeking alternatives to their substandard offerings. The DMCA should never have been passed. But I guess Logic and Reasoning are not your strong points.
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  39.  @realtravisblaine  I don't know, a lightweight USB drive stuck to the back of the screen with Velcro could work quite well. And you can get solid-state USB drives too.
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  40. Well, the article DID have the words Apple, Mac & iPhone, so it caused the price to go up.
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  41.  @B.D.TRX4  What do you think Faraday Bags are for?
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  42.  KMac  No, Libertarians would be in favor of a Right to Repair law. Apple uses force and coercion to advance their own interests, and push for protectionist legislation in their favor. These are all things Libertarians are opposed to. Libertarians are not Conservatives, Libertarians are not Republicans. Republicans may like to talk-up Libertarian principles, usually when they're in trouble. But they NEVER follow through.
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  43. The only reason it looks "nice" on the outside is because it's hidden behind so much foliage. And all those trees/shrubs right up against the building will have rotted the frame/walls/etc. And the roots will have destroyed the foundation.
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  44. @Steven Shenkosky It would be a handy way to cover up someone acting on behalf of opponents of R2R. There's a lot of companies that stand to lose a lot of their power and may be quite willing to resort to illegal tactics to get what they want. ESPECIALLY if those companies are connected with people like Bill & Hilary Clinton. But then we have states like Kookafornia where they vote to KEEP the asshole that is killing their state. Probably why R2R has such trouble in so many places; the sheep are just too clueless to throw off their opressors.
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  45. When you were saying "butterkly keyboard", I thought maybe it was something clever like the ThinkPad 701, not just some crappy under-key pivot system.
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  46. I suppose, if you can't stop your TV from automatically attaching to your dumbass neighbor's wide-open wifi, the next option would be to block their ad servers at the router, or connect to the internet through a Pi-Hole.
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  47. Interesting, as I always referred to Western Digital as "Western DEADical", with all the failed WD drives I've encountered.
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  48. You'd think they'd just shut off the advertising and save some money, since nobody's there.
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  49.  @B.D.TRX4  That's why you buy a used car that no longer has a warranty, and has has firmware that's been jailbroken.
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  50.  @jesseparrish1993  "...If the majority of the population can be expected to learn the quadratic equation in high school, the majority of the population can be taught the most basic aspects of the technology which dominates their lives..." They probably don't teach quadratic equations in high school anymore. All to busy indoctrinating them on equity and opression to teach PRACTIAL skills.
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  51.  @OmniscientWarrior  Yeah, I was thinking it wasn't yogurt either
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  52.  @tigerwoods373  It's one reason I only buy budget phones. Base-model Moto phones that still have microSD slots and headphone jacks. I keep all of my data on the SD card so all I have to do is pull the card out and read it from my computer (the cards in Android devices get formatted ExFAT, so they can be read in Linux, MacOS, and even that crap-OS from Redmond).
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  53.  @short1der307  Really depends on the person, and how they approach the job. Look at Lou Gerstner; he was brought in from outside the company to help turn things around. While he didn't have prior experience in a technology company (that I know of) he did have an understanding of IBM's customer base. So he could approach the reorganization from the viewpoint of making products and services better for the customer. Now I may disagree with some of the decisions he made (I think John Akers plan to break the company up into independent operations would have been better long-term as an example), and I think he allowed too much of the old-guard to remain and eventually contaminate the company after he left (looking at you Palisamo and Rommety). But there's the big difference. Even as an outsider he had some sense of what the business was, and how customers would use the products. Your typical MBA is only concerned about processes and balance sheets, and cares nothing for making the company excel at their actual business.
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  54.  @Bl4ckw0lf1  iPhone69
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  55.  @furinick  I could see something along that line happening. Emergency rooms (at least in a couple I've seen) have all their medical supplies, including bandages, in a locked cabinet that has to be opened with either a passcode or the ER staffer's ID card. Imagine a newer version of this cabinet with an automatic dispensing system where the bandages are in sealed modules ("for your safety"). Now imagine that you can ONLY buy refill modules from the cabinet manufacturer. If that manufacturer is backordered on refills, or has replaced that model with one using incompatible modules, then yes, DRM could kill you.
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  56. Yes, my A1278 has an SSD now.
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  57. That's when I say "then I'm not interested in it" for items that scan too high or (in the case of non-priced items) end up being priced more than I think they should be. They get to re-stock them then.
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  58.  @OWEN-CASH  An agreement made under duress is not a legal agreement.
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  59.  @MarkoCloud  I don't see his staff being able to set up all the equipment in whatever apartment they live in. There are power requirements, space considerations, etc. It would likely require buying all sorts of duplicated equipment. And they'd have to each have a stock of spare parts on hand. Some work could be done from home, but it would be much more limited.
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  60. Could be worse, could have been a Samsung Note7.
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  61.  @bradhaines3142  I think Louis meant that the guy being there was creeping Erica out, not that it was the guy's intent. I think in some other states the attendees at the meet-up might have convinced the person to stay away for good, but not in the Socialist Republic of Taxachusetts
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  62.  @TheNefastor  Oh yes, I approach any purchase as the seller is out to screw me over and rip me off. Then I can be pleasantly surprised when they don't (*IF* they don't that is).
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  63.  @JohnS-il1dr  Not that later model Android devices are much better. Google and the device vendors are locking their systems down more and more, and refusing to let you have control of hardware YOU pay for. Sorry, but the grand New World Order can kiss my ass (actually, I'm not sorry).
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  64. Engineers don't make good liars.
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  65. Once we remove Andrew Cuomo from the Governor's office, can we then remove his jackass father's name from the Tappan Zee bridge too?
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  66. You know, I *used* to think "I'm not so enthusiastic about MacOS, but boy Apple makes some really nice machines". As time progresses I'm no longer impressed by their hardware. And I don't need MacOS because I'd rather use Linux and actually have some ability to configure the system the way I want, and not what some colourblind and flatso-brained MacHead at Apple thinks I should do. Apple is starting to make Microsoft look open-minded and customer-friendly by comparison (and you know THAT'S gotta be bad).
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  67. I guess I'm lucky to have a mid-2010 MBP instead. Only have it to keep up with MacOS.
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  68. Well, the parts ARE coming from China...
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  69. At least when I screw up board-level work it's my own hardware I'm messing up, my own responsibility. Replacing whole parts in systems I've done plenty of times over the past 30 years, but last time I did any board work was replacing capacitors on motherboards (working in the zSeries test lab, I actually had decent equipment to do it with), and that was 11 years ago.
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  70.  Tina Perez  Yep, John Deere absolutely supports " right-to-repair": the right of only their technicians to do repairs.
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  71. It works for changing company policies, and it works for politics as well. Whining about how third-party candidates will never win so you're not going to vote for them, that's why things don't change. You gotta step up and say "I don't like what the major parties are offering, I'm looking elsewhere."
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  72.  @ozordiprince9405  And people wonder why I buy the cheapest possible option. If I'm being denied the ability to *OWN* what I buy, I'll give them the absolute least amount of money. My last Android phone cost $120 for an unlocked new phone. It still works perfectly fine 4 years later.
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  73.  @pluto8404  The way things are headed, you may not have the option to buy anything else. Try and find a TV these days that isn't a "Smart TV". Went shopping a couple months back, and found the current TVs don't even have physical buttons anymore. They rely entirely upon the remote. So instead I picked up a USED TV at an estate sale and fixed it myself. Some day that sort of thing will be made illegal.
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  74.  @rossmanngroup  I've looked at what it takes to set up an Android development environment. A full-bloat install of World of Warcraft AND Diablo III would take less space.
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  75. I had thought about that, but I think I'd go for the forgotten Shinto or Buddhist shrine in an abandoned Japanese village.
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  76. No Death Star-related business loss expenses?
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  77. No Louis, it isn't that Apple thinks you aren't competent to work on their products, it's because they're afraid you ARE competent, and by you fixing something, that's one less chance for Apple to gouge yet another customer. One less opportunity for Apple to rip someone off with a shoddy repair, or one less opportunity for Apple to say "oh, so sad you lost all your data when the machine died, buy another one".
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  78. @bo gao: Well, had I been programming in 2nd grade, it would have had to be OS/360 assembler...
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  79. Might be a little hard to do now... (besides, MY dad would have said "feck 'em, do what you want")
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  80. I think that is always the case. You're "rebuilding" the drive in order to recover the data from it. As is the case to everyone except Apple, the data is always more important than the hardware.
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  81. The problem is that people like Ms. Ahrendts are first and foremost MBAs. To your typical MBA, the nature of a business is irrelevant, and they tend to be very smug that they don't HAVE to even know or understand a particular company's product or business model. Milk products this week, cars the next, the differences don't even enter into their sphere of concern. There had been an old saying that "an MBA can run any company". I'd modify that to say "an MBA can run any company... into the ground".
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  82. Look back to Louis' earlier videos. Dymo already DRM's paper.
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  83. Just as long as it's not a Western Digital
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  84.  @enemyspotted2467  I'll deal with the cold car. I've done it that way for decades now.
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  85.  @sterlingarcher2702  Well maybe they shouldn't be adding all that bullshit to the phones then. Make the phones thicker then (I actually don't like overly-thin phones, not that the manufacturers give a shit).
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  86. One other problem relating to your example of paying payroll up front, and getting tax credits back over the next year (factoring in the lag time of them actually starting it) is the presumption that the business will still BE in operation over the next year. They could fail 5 months later because of the extra expenses and loss of income, at which point the Govt wouldn't even have to credit the money back.
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  87. I've often joked that I made the mistake of not becoming Amish, but more likely I'd prefer to take on the job of Kannushi/shinshoku.
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  88. And Chrome/Chromium is even more of an impending disaster than MSIE ever was. MSIE only had one build of the application at a given time, and it only ran on one OS (other than brief attempts at MacOS and Unix). The severity of vulnerabilities was really limited to MSWindows. But with SO many browsers based on Chromium, and with them running on SO many operating systems, WHEN (not IF) a severe zero-day vulnerability (or multiples at once) comes out, it will probably take down the entire internet.
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  89. And what would "knowing what they are doing" have to do with your typical "factory repair" joint?
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  90. A car that is better designed, and thinks of the car owner rather than the car manufacturer? Tucker tried that in the 50's, and the carmakers made sure to shut that down. DMCA and protectionist legislation has made it even easier for the entrenched companies.
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  91.  @SangheiliSpecOp  "Lion King"? Oh, you mean the one they RIPPED-OFF from Osamu Tezuka? (as in "Kimba the White Lion")
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  92.  @testboga5991  would have to be the NY Post. The rest are obedient mouthpieces of the regime.
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  93.  @minilathemayhem  Either that or they saw what the company was up to, and did the job only well enough that higher management would think it was secured.
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  94. Android 9? Hah, mine is still running Android 8. Works perfectly fine for what I need. Meanwhile the cheap $15 TracFone I had been using as a "work" phone (to keep work and personal things completely separate) can't be used for work-related Google apps because Google decided to drop Android 9 as a "supported" platform. So here that one sits, still in good shape, usable condition, yet I don't have anything to use it for (Bluetooth remote perhaps?)
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  95.  @Stand00  yep, I have a 2012 MBP with the aftermarket 16GB memory upgrade, a nice SSD, and a patched version of Catalina (2 releases newer than the last version it officially supports). I wonder if there will ever be a "BigSur-patcher" release (although Catalina will probably be supported for quite a while)
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  96. It's a Western Digital drive, of course it's clicking. The Apple of hard-drives.
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  97. Especially a problem is that it's become near impossible to buy a stand-alone scanner, and your only way to get a basic scanner is to buy it inside a printer. I'm sure that's intentional too (we're not talking about high-end professional scanners. You won't be buying one of those for home or a small office).
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  98. I definitely try to buy from alternatives to Amazon. Sometimes (often) it's really really hard to find someplace else (and I avoid 'chinesium central' Ali Express).
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  99.  @sixdsix5028  it's bad when downtown Poughkeepsie NY looks better than most of NYC.
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  100. "We're gonna flux it up a little bit..." Hey, I flux things up all the time.
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  101. The "IT Crowd" response.
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  102. Interesting you should mention the a1278 model. Just picked one up at a flea market over the weekend (for all of $75), although it's listed as a "mid-2010" model (did they just re-use the number?) It's only my second Mac (after the iMac Rev.D from 1999, that we lost in a house fire some 11 years ago). It does what I need it to do; gives me experience working with MacOS, and was priced at about the maximum I would spend on an Apple computer these days. It even runs 10.13 ("High Sierra") and is likely something I could repair myself if needed (maybe even watch some repair videos from that Rossman fellow). But yeah, if I can't fix a computer, I don't want it. If I wanted a machine with all the components, memory and processor included, permanently wave-soldered to the motherboard, I could get a $200 Asus laptop rather than a $2000 Mac (and even with everything else built-on, it still has a regular HDD, and is possible to dismantle without trashing the entire system). At work I was recently sent a "laptop refresh" email, and had my choice of a Lenovo or an MacBookPro. I looked at the specs, and the Lenovo was far more useful for my needs (especially when I attach two external monitors) than the Apple. Specs were far better, and the Lenovo was running Linux, which gives me far better control over my desktop environment than Apple would deign to allow me.
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  103. This sounds exactly like SO many articles and videos from The Lunduke Channel. This sort if psychotic reactions are happening all through various opensource projects and organizations.
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  104. AC??? I have that in my car, it's called a window crank.
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  105.  @joeschmo622  I've had a couple of those, a 1962 Falcon wagon and a 1965 Falcon Futura.
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  106.  Aerrin Longheart  I don't give a shit about Apple's viewpoint. If they want to sell more product, make them WORTH buying, rather than this environmentally-hostile bullshit move.
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  107. It just requires an FTC director who feels the company in question hasn't paid a large enough bribe to them, so they'll want to punish the companies.
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  108. "What did you DO UBreakIFix?????" Um.... they broke it?
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  109.  @vicentiubucingeni  Do you really want to start your car when you're nowhere near it, and can make sure someone doesn't steal it once it's running?
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  110.  @jeffpolster8438  Then they should be easier to swap/remove. There's no excuse to wilfully making the devices impossible to repair. Apple claims to be environmentally and socially conscious, yet they produce products destined for e-waste, and that require raw materials and components that are the product of human exploitation. Typical far-leftists.
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  111. I would have been amused if they recommended your shop as a local service center.
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  112.  @johnnyblue4799  Actually there IS open-source software going in cars. I know since I worked with some people working on it. Now, the specific user interfaces and some other parts may be proprietary (whatever bits aren't built on GPL code) but the kernel and such are open source.
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  113. Besides, a partial-refund doesn't spank Scamazon as much.
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  114. No complaints Louis? What about the guy with the label?
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  115.  @Trobblehobbs  Ah, a troll from the Woke Mafia trying to dissuade people from the truth.
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  116. I would think filing a complaint with your particular state's Attorney General would be better. Enough complaints against them either the AG gets involved, or the AG gets to retire on some nice fat bribes from Amazon & others.
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  117.  @kopazwashere  I don't. I use open-source software. Donating money to the project is a much better use of money.
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  118. @@user-iz4st3zx1v Well of course they want the incompetents working on your devices, that way they break them and you have to buy a new crApple object.
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  119. Hey Louis, you got mentioned in the comments section on the Apollo AGC restoration project videos... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3xK0O7lnNs
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  120. I don't put these sort of apps on my phone (I don't put ANY "store" apps on my phone either). If they want to contact me, they can call, or they can email me. My phone is for MY benefit (and for family) not anyone else's.
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  121.  @silverify  You can only reverse the polarity of a neutron flow. Just ask The Doctor.
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  122. Just remember that ASUS is the company that had first built their netbooks with Linux, but when Microsoft complained to them they went grovelling before them, and profusely apologizing that they would dare to pre-install anything but MSWindows. From then on I've known they have NO spine, and no morals.
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  123. Wait, you're saying "Honest" and "NYC". Now there's a Venn diagram with an extremely small intersection point.
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  124. I could see a problem with "structural integrity" if someone doesn't correctly and snugly align the halves of the housing when reassembling. And as some others have said, tightening the screws too much (even if they realigned the threads to their existing ones). But I am wondering which are worse; self-tapping screws into beefy plastic studs, or brass studs molded into miniscule plastic skim-coats that a flea could hammer their way through.
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  125. And I'd just bet there wasn't an equivalent clause for YOU to audit THEM. Without that it's already too one-sided.
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  126. No, the idea is that now we are actively and intentionally undermining Google, a noble and just cause in itself.
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  127. Simple enough thing to remember: Apple lies. As do a majority of multinationals as well. The difference here is that apple lies about being "customer and user friendly" when they're about as customer hostile as Microsoft. They claim to be "environmentally conscious", then glue their hardware together so it isn't repairable and has to go into a landfill (or get sent to a third-world country so the phones contaminate THEIR country rather than ours). Would be NO problem securing and backing up photos if Apple would include a microSD slot. But that goes completely against Apple's iClot storage gulag. Sure, I just recently purchased a used MBP, but it was well under a C-note, and was probably about as much as I'd ever spend on an Apple product (and it's an old enough model it's actually repairable and upgradable myself). Only wanted it for brushing up on Mac experience, it'll be the only Apple device I'd ever need.
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  128.  @joesmith6972  You know, you could use Catalina Patcher and bring that 2009 MBP up to MacOS Catalina. I did the same on my daughter's 2009 MBP.
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  129. Yeah, all that construction, and it's still a shithole.
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  130. Another issue you haven't touched upon in this video (I will have to check the Wiki to see if it's there); having full access to your printing data ALSO means they have the ability to prevent you from printing something they deem unacceptable. Some years back there was some 3D printer that would prevent you from printing anything that looked like a gun or a gun part. You want to make a pistol grip for your camera? Nope, can't print that. Considering the infestation of far-left socialist wokism in corporations, I wouldn't put it past them.
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  131. Who would ever have imagined that NYC would become the next Detroit?
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  132. Intel?? Arm??? Hah, wimpy. I work with Power9 CPUs.
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  133.  @marscruz  I wouldn't put it past them.
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  134. with a sledgehammer, as is appropriate.
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  135. Oh yes, I always presume a company that treats their customers like shit is going to treat their employees like shit too.
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  136. That's exactly what I do. If I can't control my device, I'll pay the ABSOLUTE minimum possible.
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  137. While I can't see MacBooks as being an affordable alternative, I can see some potential cost savings in Chromebooks or the like, amortized over three years, if they can be used to replace teh the need to buy expensive textbooks, planners, etc, especially when you have some textbooks that are only meant to be used for one year (mathbooks with fill-in/tear-out pages, for example). Digital copies of articles that would have to be otherwise photocopied and handed out. Offsetting the costs of physical media that will only get thrown out afterwards. Considering some level of computer experience is needed anyway, perhaps the costs are offset. Mind you, I don't know the actual costs involved, but textbooks aren't very cheap either. But if you're buying MacBooks, I expect those savings go right out the window. Leave the Macs to people who specifically need MacOS capabilities (heck, have a few in your school computer lab for the occasions where they may be specifically needed).
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  138. Hey, some of those MacHeads really love their Apple hardware, and they want to express their love in the most intimate way. Would it be better for them to be out on the street molesting innocent traffic-signal boxes?
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  139. So what do you and your viewers suggest as a good source for second hand cell phones?
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  140. Well, it IS a dog, it's only slightly more intelligent than an Apple executive.
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  141. Louis needs to do a remake of "Fitter, Happier" with his own lyrics.
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  142.  @bluewren65  My brother has seen that happen at fast-food (and semi-fast, if you count Panera Bread) joints in Albany NY. If they don't take cash he just walks back out.
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  143.  @javaskull88  I'd think if the only difference were the practice questions you could just scan those sections from the library book and use an earlier edition for everything else.
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  144.  Ed Gein  Which would certainly be ironic, if you know what I mean (not judging someone's preference, just that your statement has a certain irony to it).
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  145. And this coming from a tree-hugger company that CLAIMS they're so concerned about the environment. Bunch of bullshit artists.
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  146. The problem is not so much covering the carmaker's operational costs, the problem is them belligerently shutting down any alternative systems/software. The DMCA has never been anything but a bludgeon for companies to shut down competitors.
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  147.  @longestpants  Here's why you people need to stop being chickenshit and start voting third-party (REAL third-party, not those fraudulent swing-parties that merely end up nominating the Demopublican and Republicrat candidates anyway). Back in 2016 when everyone was holding their noses to decide on Trump or Clinton, lots of people were saying they'd vote for Gary Johnson instead. And they all wimped out and voted D or R instead. Voting third-party is NOT wasting your vote; not voting, or voting for a candidate you despise simply because they're slightly less offensive than the other major-party candidate IS wasting your vote. That sends the message that you're OK with the status quo. Voting third-party takes the percentages away from the major parties, it cuts their victories down to where they can't legitimately claim a mandate. And eventually they DO win.
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  148. @alb9229 The thing with disputes between two different corporations isn't always a matter of one side being good and one being bad. Sometimes they can BOTH be assholes (look at the Oracle vs Google lawsuit, etc). Sometimes you'll agree with one side's case, yet still dislike the company.
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  149. Great, remote start and remote keyless entry. So you can unlock and start your car when you're nowhere near it, making it easier to steal. Brilliant.
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  150. it's Google, of COURSE they're going to be assholes. It's the entire corporate mantra of Google. Anything they can do to be user-hostile, they'll do. And don't you DARE to speak anything that doesn't fit their Socialist, woke agenda.
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  151. Funny you should mention spending $75 at a flea-market, that's how I bought my mid-2010 MBP.... (or were you referring to me anyway <g>). But I suspect Apple's intent here was to find a "defect issue" they could make themselves look good with (by being "proactive") without it being one they would have to actually spend time and money fixing, since it is exceedingly rare (and for all we know was staged for this PR bullshit anyway).
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  152. "...why are you so paranoid?..." Well you know the old saying: "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you."
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  153. That's what they say about our property in Westchester.
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  154. One of the major problems is far too many people are clueless on these issues, and can't even be bothered to remove their heads from their behinds to observe and learn what's going on in the world. Heck, even at a particular open-source company there's a lot of people using Macs even with all the proprietary and user-hostile moves Apple makes on a daily basis. (it's one of the reason's I'm pro-choice; my hope is to see the stupid ones weed themselves out of the gene pool).
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  155. There's the sort of nonsense why I marked Linus' videos as "I don't want to see this shit". So shameful he has the same name as Mr Torvalds. Now there would be a fun tag-team debate against a couple Apple reps. Let Louis critique the hardware, and Linus Torvalds critique the software.
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  156. I could spend $3k on a laptop... It would be something like a fully tricked-out Serval WS (System76) though (what, you were thinking I'd be buying Apple?)
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  157. My thought when I see something like this is "how are they going to use this to screw me over?".
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  158.  @witherschat But we don't *HAVE * free market capitalism. Existing/established companied have bought off and bribed Congresscritters for decades to make sure no competitors can get a start in the marketplace. The only reason the current crop of tech companies were able to get started was by entering a marketplace the entrenched companies were unaware of. But now that the "tech startups" have become themselves entrenched, they are using the same dirty tricks to buy off those same congresscritters.
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  159.  @FakeJeep  I suspect it is a PR stunt.
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  160.  @andrewmackenzie2638  Apple just wants their suppliers running something suckier than MacOS. If they told them to run Linux instead those suppliers might find they like it better than MacOS/iOS.
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  161. Mazda can still be on the shopping list, as long as the car is old enough not to contain spyware, or has already been jailbroken.
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  162. ThinkPad P50, the same laptop I use for work (I've intentionally been avoiding getting a laptop refresh since I know the replacement laptop would have a smaller screen, fewer ports, and neither of my external monitors have HDMI). A laptop refresh would actually be a step down for me.
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  163. That's right. I know I need to keep up with my ancestors... [1] [1] OK, don't know if my ancestors were specifically involved in piracy themselves, but they were associated with various pirates.
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  164. Three words, Youtube/Google: **KISS** **MY** **ASS**
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  165. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME. Fool me 3, 4, 5 or more times, just HOW MUCH of an idiot am I?"
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  166. Hey look, it's the model I have. So I can see how I could fix it if I had the equipment. Mainly bought it (75 bucks at a flea market) in case I needed MacOS for something. Turns out I needed it to run FaceTime for my daughter's tutoring. Of course, that could be done just as readily with a 4th or 5th gen iPod Touch (haven't found how to hack FaceTime to run under Linux).
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  167. So the repair market needs to catalogue the compatible part numbers for replacement batteries (so that EVERYBODY will know what the proper replacement parts are), and then repair shops can simply buy "generic" replacement batteries. If they are clearly marked as a "generic replacement", they can't be seized. Even though they are exactly the same part. It isn't like those machines will be covered under crApple Warranty anymore, so no problem with voiding one. You know, there are various times I think it might be neat to have a nice, shiny new piece of Apple tat, like a Mac Mini or MacBook. Then I see crap like this, and remember just what a horrid world their walled-garden is. *SO* much better using my Linux systems. Maybe I'll find some 3-year-old shiny-shiny some MacHead tossed out because it wasn't the latest thing, and play with one that way, because NO WAY am I buying anything new from them.
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  168. Can we leave bad reviews on Trustpilot about Trustpilot?
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  169.  @FluffyAnnoyed  And what happens when they shut down the servers or change them to point your late-model car is no longer able to communicate with their "service" [1]? Will you suddenly be unable to unlock your car? {1} if I recall, there was a line in "The Grapes of Wrath" where a character compared "customer service" to getting a cow "serviced".
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  170.  @FluffyAnnoyed  Maybe if the wokies can't open their cars anymore it'll remove them from the gene pool.
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  171. They didn't want to make any agreements/arrangements with the developer. They just wanted any and all competition shut down.
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  172.  @nayber2352  Whoooooshhhh..... That was the sound of the point going right over your head...
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  173.  @thekinginyellow1744  And there are supposed to be severe limits on that as well.
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  174.  @MaNameizJeff  But that still does not give them the excuse to attack someone developing an alternative solution to their subscription. The DMCA should never have been passed, but there were corrupt companies like Disney strongarming their bought-and-paid Congresscritters to pass it regardless of Constitutional and moral limitations. This is the sort f thing libertarians speak of in their opposition to force OR fraud. Fraud to pull some bait-and-switch scheme with their licensing, and Force when they beat an independent developer over the head with the DMCA. This is a reason I never sign up for any of these "free" subscription offers that may come with a product. If I never use it in the first place, I won't find myself having to pay for it later. For decades now I've gone on the premise that every company is out to screw me over, and far too many times I'm proven to be right.
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  175.  @nayber2352  I'm fixing my 2011 Hyundai so I don't have to buy one of these crap new cars. I'll wait until the more recent models get jailbroken, and then I'll consider one of those. Probably won't matter anyway, because the internet is going to collapse in the next few years, in between spam, malware, scams, walled gardens and predatory lawsuits. Once the internet collapses, these services won't work anyway.
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  176.  @oh_zoinkers  Simple solution; open the driver's door, roll down the window. Walk around to the passenger side and roll down the window. Once you've walked back to the driver's side the majority of the heat will have dissipated. Besides, never had air conditioning in any of my cars (one was equipped with it, but it didn't work)
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  177.  @stephenhookings1985  "... Closely followed by breaks as a service!! ..." Nah, B-M-Trouble-you already includes that.
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  178. The trick I guess would be to have someone in the audience wearing a pair of Google Glasses (or something equivalent). I doubt most security could be able to tell the difference. You may want to hack them so they don't go through Google (or perhaps it should; sweet irony to use their own tools against them).
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  179. This is precisely a situation where I won't pay for "Premium", because all it does is reward YT for their behavior. It would be like buying your kid a new toy every time they throw a tantrum. I was willing to accept ads on YT because I figured people gotta get paid. But once they went with mid-roll ads, I went out of my way to block ALL of them. When I hear people say "well you have ads on radio/tv/Pandora/Funimation/etc, I point out that radio or streaming music pit the ads between songs, and tv or streaming video place ads in logical breaks in the show. If YT were running a radio station, they'd put three ads, mid-verse, in "Stairway to Heaven".
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  180. As I always say, YouTub are dickwads. Along with the rest of Google/Alphabet as well.
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  181. That was essentially my thought. As the industry rep kept on her script, the Senator could have said "answer the question I *asked*, not the one you want to answer!"
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  182.  @jarredmitchell6164  Ah, the Bambu shill shows up in the feed...
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  183. Yeah, I saw that too. A Laaaaaabel on that computer. An nasty, sticky Laaaaaabel.
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  184.  @EhEhEhEINSTEIN  I keep telling people I made a mistake not becoming Amish... :)
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  185. It's HP's shitty practices that made us decide to never buy another HP printer.
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  186. So you mean a piece of blacklight paper that will ALWAYS show "water damage" then.
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  187. Some days I think I made a mistake not becoming Amish...
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  188.  @cheesecurd100s  Which means we ALL suffer for the stupidity of the sheeple.
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  189. As much as I think Apple may often be douchebags, from a legal standpoint I'd say the licensing fees need to be paid against the components *themselves*, and not the end product. It would be like charging more for the same exact halogen headlight bulb because you're installing it in a new Mercedes-Benz than you'd charge for one installed in a used Ford Focus. Much as it would nice to stick a heavy load of karma on Apple, Qualcom's pricing schedule sets a bad precedent. Would much prefer to challenge Apple on their own particular offences (and set proper precedent there as well).
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  190. Now this was a weird experience. Watching this video, and a future-funk vaporwave song came up in another window. Was an instrumental song, so it worked like a backing track to your board repairs.
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  191. It sounds more like you're only getting the problem when you're using the Official Canon Printer Driver then. Or perhaps just when you're using it under MSWindows. Which is another reason to be running Linux.
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  192. I am in the process of refurbishing a 2010 27" iMac. The only repair I had to do with it was to replace the memory (the system wouldn't boot, the beep code told me it was a memory problem). I installed memory I had on hand (from upgrading a couple MacBooks of the same vintage) and it started right up. And this iMac cost me all of $12.49 plus tax (yes, under thirteen dollars). And do you know what has been the hardest, most time-consuming part of refurbishing it? Finding a usable copy of MacOS (trying to get it to High Sierra) that I can get to install!!! The Internet Installer process no longer works, since Apple seem to have removed High Sierra from their install/upgrade servers. Bootable USB? Even downloaded directly from Apple's own webpage on creating bootable images, the files come up as damaged (that's over multiple tries, using a MBP as well as through Linux, multiple USB sticks, etc). Apple, just PROVIDE A STRAIGHTFORWARD IMAGE FILE!!!! Even Microsoft can manage to do that. And the ONLY reason I need to install High Sierra is to upgrade the firmware. After that I can install with Catalina Patcher or OpenCore Patcher.
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  193. And there's why I'm fixing my 2011 car, so I don't have to buy this new crap.
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  194.  @AxelStone  Oh, I'm sure they're researching how to implant nanites into the ink refills...
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  195.  @Anonymous______________  I would thank Joe Biden to kiss my ass (except I'm not an underage girl, so he wouldn't know how). Old sleepy-boy Brandon gave his "farewell" speech at the UN yesterday. He should have said farewell 30+ years ago.
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  196.  @TomSidProductions  is there a TV station in NYC that isn't in the pockets of the very same corrupt politicians running/ruining NYC? Makes Tammany Hall look like a cooperative government of the people.
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  197. but no figmas of her GF Luka?
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  198.  @TheUncleRuckus  We need a sarcasm emoji
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  199. But I still don't like those super-thin devices. If I wanted to work on something that thin, I have a bundle of lined paper... It may be because I have big clumsy hands, but I like my devices to have SOME body to them. Now I'm not talking hefty like a DataGeneral DG-1 or even the HP ZX5000 (that I still have, it still runs, I just can't find a project I can use it for anymore). But something like my ThinkPad T430, taht's aboyt right; some solid feel, and not so thin I'm afraid I'll break it by breathing heavy on it (and no, I'm not breathing heavy on it because I was reading a Megurine Luka doujin, get your mind out of the gutter).
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  200. One solution that should theoretically still work is to never connect the TV to the internet. Attach a Roku instead, or build your own Kodi box. Of course, I wouldn't even guarantee that your current SmartAss TVs won't figure some way around that (such as attaching itself to your neighbor's wide-open guest network). Personally I don't need a monster sized TV, so some 36" computer monitor from Staples will probably work just fine.
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  201. If Erica asks for cookies, you give her damn cookies. But be sure you make them yourself, don't be handing out third-party cookies...
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  202.  @AppleReviews  if they didn't make it impossible to safely remove the battery they wouldn't HAVE that problem.
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  203. Hah, that would be like Disney trying to claim they didn't steal "Lion King" from Osamu Tezuka...
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  204. nah, it was a different system that someone came on...
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  205. Where are the people at Mozilla who can write a non-braindead press release or Privacy Statement? The wokesters fired all of them because they were found NOT making a daily hate-rant against Donald Trump, and/or weren't licking the office's picture of Joe Biden & Commie-La Harris on an hourly basis. (and dude, Tori Amos? Nah... Patchouli Knowledge or Megurine Luka...)
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  206. CAN is significantly different than *want to*. They probably could do it, but they want to suck up as much money as they can before the MacHeads figure out the MacBook/iPhone/iPad is all a scam nowadays. I remember some years ago saying that while I wasn't enthusiastic about MacOS, that Apple at least made nice hardware. That hasn't been the case for a long time now. Must be time to seriously work on a Mac-replacement Linux distribution. Although it might need to be built on one of the open-source BSD flavours.
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  207. Then you also have all those cable channels, already filled with ads, who refuse to let you stream their channel unless you're already paying for cable TV as well. HELLO???? You folks are ALREADY being paid by the advertisements, so you've already got your money. It's why I'm just watching Funimation and Netflix these days.
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  208. That "professional" plan looks like someone slapped together a bunch of clipart. Not even very attractive looking.
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  209.  @rossmanngroup  The Doctor: "...and where did you get handcuffs anyway?" River Song: (grins) "Spoilers..."
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  210. someone who owns a Mac repair franchise
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  211. " ..... It's like taking your car to a dealer to have it "repaired"!! WHY? ....." You mean like taking your car to a franchise repair shop (not naming names, lets just call them "Wavis") for a charging problem. Towards the end of the day you call them (because they never called you back to tell you what the diagnosis was) and say "it's the alternator, we can't fix it". Seriously? A repair shop can't change an alternator?
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  212. The probem then comes when you need a scanner*. I really don't think there are any more *consumer-grade flatbed scanners being made anymore. Sure, professional-grade scanners are available, at a premium price. Prices that are well out of the average home user or small business. They WANT you to have to buy those AiO printers to get scanning functionality. A scan-function-only device doesn't shut down when it runs out of ink, because it doesn't HAVE ink. And they can't have that.
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  213. I could see them saying it's "easier" to get repaired, if you consider it's more obvious that you can bring your Mac to an Apple Store to schedule a repair, while getting a WinTel-type laptop repaired will take a lot more effort to locate a repair shop. Presuming you don't want to rely on the GeekSquids at WorstBuy. But it's rather obvious to me; anything that requires un-soldering is going to be more involved than popping a couple clips and swapping a component. But that level of thought escapes many modern-day journalists of ANY field, but it seems to be more prevalent in the tech journalism field. Not that there aren't Wintel-type laptops that suffer from the same repair difficulty as MacBooks (such as the Asus x551c). But those are usually the lowest-end cheapass laptops, meant to be essentially throw-away devices. I had tried repairing/recovering one for a friend late last year, and ultimately found it to be a bad SATA channel. You might actually try to fix taht on a MacBook, on the Asus you just turn it into a laptop X-terminal with Linux on a bootable USB, and forget about fixing the components (the mboard is nearly the price of a new machine). But if re-soldering is such a "simple" repair (according to these tech journalists) then maybe I should replace the bad caps on a couple Dell boards I have here, if it's so dead-simple to do (well, relative to what LR does here, it actually would be).
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  214. I wouldn't doubt Apple is tryiing to make themselves the sole provider of parts (underselling or otherwise forcing other companies out of business) and then cancelling the program once they've done that.
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  215.  @mr.bianchirider8126  Same thing I was going to say. Although it could be partially correct, if you're thinking about birch bark, some forms of which were used as a writing surface.
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  216. The Talking Heads had a good line in 'Psycho Killer': "he's talking a lot, but he's not SAYING anything..." To be certain, I had to put on my hip-waders once the lobbyist started talking, because the bullshit was getting REALLY deep.
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  217. Motorola phones are passable. Still a tool of the CCP, but you can buy a budget model for $130, and it has a headphone jack and a microSD slot. If you're stuck buying from one shit company or another, you can at least make sure they get as little money as possible.
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  218.  @aduentix9491  "Which doesn't it do? being personal or computing?" Apple: Yes.
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  219. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4c6nFGt1iM
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  220.  @c128stuff  So the proper solution would be to provide an update that removes the dependency on that particular server and lets you run photos from your own chosen alternate location. I suppose if you were running something like a NextCloud system at home you could set your router to redirect the specific Scamazon server address to a plugin running on your own NextCloud. As far as the device would know, it would still be a Scamazon system. Kind of like how I "register" my MSWindows test VMs. They want to register to a KMS? So I provide one on a raspberryPi (running other tasks as well). All the KMS emulator does is respond with a "you're authorized" message back to MSWin. No dangerous binary hacks, just a simple Python script.
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  221. The other video may have been 2 to 3 years old, but the things you said in it are still valid. Entertainment companies still screw over anyone they can, and anyone who deals with them will continue to be aware of the multitude of ways they can get screwed.
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  222. Unless you've got a Chamberlain opener. Then you have to pay THEM for a subscription as well.
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  223. As rich as Jeff BOZO maybe...
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  224.  @g00gleminus96  what, burnt and overpriced?
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  225.  @thalesnemo2841  The problem with the electoral college is the same as the problem with the way Senators are elected. Senators are selected by the popular majority of the state **in total**. Now when you have someplace like New York State, where the majority of the population is concentrated in two or three cities, those cities overwhelm the interests of the remainder of the state. The proper method would be to tally the votes *by county*, and then use those county votes to see who becomes senator for that term. As I understand the weird way NYC is set up, each borough counts as a "county", so even there they'd get five votes. The House of Representatives has it's members chosen by population groups of a particular size, so it's not like NYC and other similar cities aren't already being adequately represented. This is how the Electoral college should run. Two electors selected by a county subtotaling, and the remainder by a tally of the corresponding district to each. Of course, my own particular solution is a variant of one I read someplace. Rather than the massive dog-and-pony circus we deal with every four years, we should simply expand the electoral system, picking 100 people by lottery of citizens within a congressional district, for each congressional district. These people would receive the campaign materials of each candidate, and would make a choice from those. 100 superelectors per congresscritter means the number is high enough they can't be personally strongarmed by the candidate, yet still is economically possible for third-party candidates to participate. The superelectors can have time to mull over the particular platforms, get input from their friends, family, etc, and make their own decision without all the hype.
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  226. You added another Miku figurine...
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  227. Megurine Luka and Alstroemeria Records are more my style...
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  228. And isn't it funny that my laptop with the fubar Hall Sensor isn't my MBP, but a Lenovo Ideapad?
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  229. But we almost ended up with an incompatible color system.
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  230. Problem is, I saw the title and thought you were going to expose some shitty consumer practice from Ego Power Equipment.
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  231.  @liteoner  OR they could include a microSD slot in it so you could archive to there (or just save to the removable card outright).
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  232. When I finally had to replace my 5 year old Droid Razr HD (it would no longer recognize SIM cards) Ibought a Moto E5, unlocked*, for $130. It does what it needs to do (make & receive phone calls), works as a basic note pad and address book, *PLUS has the headphone jack and removable battery. Only problem with it was it had grown larger (W & H, not thickness) and barely fits in the carrying pouch I used for the Droid Razr. Other than the fact I have to (apparently) activate "OK Google" in order to use voice command over my bluetooth headset (F*** you Google) it's the perfect phone for my needs. feeble excuses on why they have to reduce/remove things is like one of my big complaints with Android tablets. I would actually prefer a full-size SD/MMC card slot, since there's plenty of space on the housing to fit one. But the manufacturers (f*** them) will never do that. Bezels? Yeah, I prefer some sort of bezel on the phone (big clumsy hands, so it's harder to use something with a full wrap-around screen) I ALSO would prefer them on my laptop screen as well. I hate it that laptops these days come with those paper-thin displays that seem as though the manufacturers WANT them to flex and break. I'd rather have something thicker and more resilient. So these days I only look at used machines (I'm loading Linux on them anyway, so don't need the warranty). Remember way back when Mad Magazine would have those 'pictorials' for various businesses, and the particular business would go out of their way to provide BAD customer service? Why do I get the impression business schools adopted them as models for running businesses these days? No, folks, those weren't meant as guidelines...
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  233. I'll deal with having to get into a cold car in the winter if it means I'm not beholden to some carmaker. Not that I could use remote start in the winter anyway, as I park in my garage. Back in the 70's we had block heaters to pre-warm car engines. Simple thing, just an extension cord out to the car. Should be simple to make a modern version with a RaspberryPi Zero.
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  234. Maybe Apple will lock down schematics and scrap parts leaking out enough that the cost of repairing them will be driven out of affordability. When Macs and whyPhones can't be repaired any longer, and the only option left is to buy yet ANOTHER overpriced and poorly-built Mac or whyPhone (oh, did you want to recover your DATA? Too bad, sucker), perhaps their market will dwindle to the point where their won't be enough sales to sustain the company. One can only hope they drive themselves to bankruptcy and oblivion.
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  235. You know, it's a lot like the automakers that got their bailouts. Cars are already grossly overpriced because of protectionist rules that make it difficult or even impossible for competition to survive. And when they say "Oh, Mazda, you can only bring in X number of cars per year, they'll just bring in the much-more expensive, high-margin cars, and skip over the budget models we'd prefer to buy. So in a market where the game was rigged FOR the big American automakers, they STILL couldn't make any money??? Seems they were obvious failures, and should have been allowed to die.
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  236. This is the sort of thing the Free Software Foundation should be getting behind. But the developer is probably a white cis male Trump voter, so they'll just brand the developer a racist-sexist-homophobe and cheer on Mazda for "teaching that bigot a lesson".
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  237. So does anyone make laptops (or consumer computers in general) that AREN'T shit these days? At least when it comes to desktop/tower computers I could just assemble my own from parts readily available. Not much chance of that with laptops. And so few of them come with optical/DVD drives anymore. And the excuse is "oh, nobody uses optical drives anymore". Oh really? I do, my wife does, so by their statement they're telling me I'm a nobody... I guess I'll have to save up and buy any NEW laptops from System76 or ZaReason.
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  238.  @roycsinclair  Except the way the open source community is going these days, you won't be allowed to build/use your open source car if you're white, male, or voted for Trump.
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  239. Don't mind their long LONG history of corrupt and psychotic mayors (current incumbent included).
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  240. You know, there's a reason it's called the "suXbox"...
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  241. Is that how you fix it? Piece-of-shit Samsung washer we have can't even manage to run the final spin at least half the time. It stops and starts pinging at you. And if you rebalance the clothes and try toing a spin-only (no rinse), half or more of the time it does the rinse ANYWAY. Can't even handle using the settings you tell it to use.
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  242. It's a sad situation when MSWindows is more open and user-friendly than a Mac (can't say much for the Surface Pro though). Heck, MS is probably more open than Android these days. That said, I use Linux. Don't want to deal with EITHER of the demon twins.
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  243.  @En_Joshi-Godrez  It won't help. Google fanboys gotta lie for their masters whenever Google demands it of them. There's the truth, then there's what Google will tell you. The two never intersect.
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  244.  @J.Green-Rx  You sound JUST like a Biden-loving lftist wokester. As long as your masters tell you it's OK, then the truth or the law have no say in the matter. Did it hurt when they removed your brain?
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  245. The DMCA was never there to protect copyrights. It was there to protect media corporations from competition.
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  246. "F-ing iPhone" Wouldn't it be redundant to say that?
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  247. Pedestrians have the right of way **AFTER** they check that the way is clear. If they cross without looking, they're breaking the law.
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  248.  @jjlarrea  The problem with class-action suits is the only people who benefit from them are the lawyers. All that would happen for YOU is Amazon would give you a $3 voucher for Amazon digital media (and downloading digital media from Scamazon requires you to activate their crap-ass "1-Click" bullshit, which is yet another customer-hostile scam). FTC complaints are one step, also be sure to file complaints with your state's Attorney General's office. There's likely to be at least one that hasn't been bought off/bribed by Scamazon.
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