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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