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

  1. 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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  2. "...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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  3. That's what they say about our property in Westchester.
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. My thought when I see something like this is "how are they going to use this to screw me over?".
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  8.  @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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  9.  @FakeJeep  I suspect it is a PR stunt.
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  10.  @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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Three words, Youtube/Google: **KISS** **MY** **ASS**
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  15. "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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Can we leave bad reviews on Trustpilot about Trustpilot?
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  19.  @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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  20.  @FluffyAnnoyed  Maybe if the wokies can't open their cars anymore it'll remove them from the gene pool.
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  21. 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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  22.  @nayber2352  Whoooooshhhh..... That was the sound of the point going right over your head...
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  23.  @thekinginyellow1744  And there are supposed to be severe limits on that as well.
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  24.  @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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  25.  @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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  26.  @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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  27.  @stephenhookings1985  "... Closely followed by breaks as a service!! ..." Nah, B-M-Trouble-you already includes that.
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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. As I always say, YouTub are dickwads. Along with the rest of Google/Alphabet as well.
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  31. 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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  32.  @jarredmitchell6164  Ah, the Bambu shill shows up in the feed...
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  33. Yeah, I saw that too. A Laaaaaabel on that computer. An nasty, sticky Laaaaaabel.
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  34.  @EhEhEhEINSTEIN  I keep telling people I made a mistake not becoming Amish... :)
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  35. It's HP's shitty practices that made us decide to never buy another HP printer.
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  36. So you mean a piece of blacklight paper that will ALWAYS show "water damage" then.
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  37. Some days I think I made a mistake not becoming Amish...
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  38.  @cheesecurd100s  Which means we ALL suffer for the stupidity of the sheeple.
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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. And there's why I'm fixing my 2011 car, so I don't have to buy this new crap.
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  44.  @AxelStone  Oh, I'm sure they're researching how to implant nanites into the ink refills...
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  45.  @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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  46.  @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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  47. but no figmas of her GF Luka?
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  48.  @TheUncleRuckus  We need a sarcasm emoji
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  49. 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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  50. 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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