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

  1.  @OmniscientWarrior  Yeah, I was thinking it wasn't yogurt either
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  2.  @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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  3.  @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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  4.  @Bl4ckw0lf1  iPhone69
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  5.  @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 Imagine a newer version of this cabinet with an automatic dispensing system where the bandages are in sealed modules ("for your safety").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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  6. Yes, my A1278 has an SSD now.
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  7. 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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  8.  @OWEN-CASH  An agreement made under duress is not a legal agreement.
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  9.  @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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  10. Could be worse, could have been a Samsung Note7.
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  11.  @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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  12.  @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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  13.  @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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  14. Engineers don't make good liars.
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. I guess I'm lucky to have a mid-2010 MBP instead. Only have it to keep up with MacOS.
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  18. Well, the parts ARE coming from China...
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  19. 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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  20.  Tina Perez  Yep, John Deere absolutely supports " right-to-repair": the right of only their technicians to do repairs.
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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23.  @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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  24.  @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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  25. 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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  26. No Death Star-related business loss expenses?
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  27. 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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  28. @bo gao: Well, had I been programming in 2nd grade, it would have had to be OS/360 assembler...
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  29. Might be a little hard to do now... (besides, MY dad would have said "feck 'em, do what you want")
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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. Look back to Louis' earlier videos. Dymo already DRM's paper.
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  33. Just as long as it's not a Western Digital
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  34.  @enemyspotted2467  I'll deal with the cold car. I've done it that way for decades now.
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  35.  @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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. And what would "knowing what they are doing" have to do with your typical "factory repair" joint?
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  40. 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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  41.  @SangheiliSpecOp  "Lion King"? Oh, you mean the one they RIPPED-OFF from Osamu Tezuka? (as in "Kimba the White Lion")
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  42.  @testboga5991  would have to be the NY Post. The rest are obedient mouthpieces of the regime.
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  43.  @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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  44. 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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  45.  @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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  46. It's a Western Digital drive, of course it's clicking. The Apple of hard-drives.
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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49.  @sixdsix5028  it's bad when downtown Poughkeepsie NY looks better than most of NYC.
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  50. "We're gonna flux it up a little bit..." Hey, I flux things up all the time.
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