Comments by "Gareth Hart" (@tgheretford) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. I've been saying for a while now when it comes to women's dating preferences "don't listen to what they say, watch what they do" or more succinctly "actions speak louder than words". It does apply outside of dating too but it is nice to be vindicated by the study at the start of the video.
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  2. I've notice parallels with the business model satellite and cable TV in Europe had from the 80s onwards. Everyone will follow suit. YouTube Premium with advertising is inevitable.
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  3. The retro gaming tier of the hierarchy - I want to play a retro video game and are happy to pay a fair price to compensate the creators but the publisher no longer sells it, complains about not getting a cent from a second hand sale, it is out of the reach of virtually everyone because of the collectors market inflating prices and the publisher has no intention of re-releasing the game, it is seen as "abandonware" and you find a pirate copy.
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  4. Wait until not only you have to pay for access, allow them access to gather all your data and hold it to ransom if you don't pay the monthly subscription fee, but also when they demand a royalty payment for the work you created using their software so they get a cut of your success. The days of "if its free, you're the product" is long gone. Now everyone paying is also the product.
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  5. Something to note is that this is another example of a precedence that has been happening in the last few years - one individual is now deemed to be legally responsible for the behaviour of other people. In the UK, we had the case of Alex Belfield who was jailed for harassment and stalking for five and a half years. In the sentencing remarks, part of the rationale for his jailing was not Belfield's behaviour but the behaviour of his subscribers, even if he told his subs not to contact anyone he covered in his videos. As an individual, you are now deemed legally responsible for the behaviour of others and dissuading people from that behaviour is not a defence in court.
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  6.  @SavageMontreal  It's the online safety law that allows him to be labelled a victim of someone he claims to be spreading "defamation", "hate speech", "doxing" and "misinformation". This was the concerns critics of online safety laws had - that it would be weaponised to censor critics, whistleblowers and investigators.
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  7. If you put a camera in someone's private property and catch someone intimately, it's voyeurism and you can expect to go to jail. If a corporation gets you to put a camera in your private property and catch someone intimately, it's not voyeurism but "data gathering to improve your service experience and security" and not a jail-able offence.
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  8. This is the consequence of online safety laws which Australia now enacts. The person who cries victim will be the one who gets protected by the Government and the other person who critiques them will be the one deemed to be spreading "hate speech" and "misinformation". Online safety laws must be repealed.
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  9. a.k.a. every retro gamer who wants to play games on what is increasingly most platforms nowadays. The prices of an increasing number of Sega Saturn games are well beyond the reach of those who want to play the games because the collectors market have shrunk supply at the same time people who likely bought a PlayStation in the 90s and only just seen the Saturn via YouTube and want to sample its library of games increase demand. Plus, the publishers don't want to re-release the games.
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  10. Facial recognition software got so good in the last few years that it can recognise people who are wearing a mask. So it won't be anything to do with that, masks are not a barrier any more. ETA: I oppose both facial recognition and mask mandates on civil liberties grounds.
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  11. It is happening across the board, in jobs, hobbies and society. And we wonder why there are increasing number of NEETS (or the Japanese term, Hikikomori) who live with their parents, playing video games and failing to launch. And I fear it will only get worse as AI, automation and the as a service model takes jobs, ownership and freedom away from individuals and SME's to large multi-national corporations and an ever expanding Government. I was made homeless in 2002 and I would dread to think what would happen if I was in the same situation now. Because all the help and opportunities have gone.
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  12. Me: "I would like to be able to control how I use the product I purchased with my hard earned money". Government and private companies: "No".
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  13. Another scenario, if a content creator criticises the anti-consumer behaviour of a company, should he be charged with a crime if a subscriber commits a crime against said company? The answer is obviously no but courts now think otherwise.
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  14. And yet we keep being told the solution is for men to "be better". Telling them to grow 99 metres taller so they can reach the hoop? All that will do is raise the hoop another 100 metres because as you rightly said, hypergamy floats. Maybe people won't be in despair and nihilistic if we have practical and realistic goals and expectations instead of reaching for perfection and a fantasy that is not possible in real life?
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  15. Has anyone actually asked why more and more people are walking away from finding a IRL relationship and a number of them consider an AI companion to be a better option than a IRL relationship? The answer to this question are not as simple as "just touch grass bro", "just lift bro" and "be better" as "self-improvement" influencers (or grifters as I would call them) keep preaching.
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  16. "That's a valuable piece of work you created on our software. It'd be a terrible shame if it was kept locked away until you agree to give us a cut of your revenue from every sale". The future of SaaS.
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  17. Same thing happened with satellite and cable TV in Europe - once they hit a plateau two things happened, subscription fees rose sharply as companies intended to increase average revenue per unit (ARPU) and the amount of advertising and sponsorships increased.
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  18. This is the sort of behaviour that when exposed and goes viral, will destroy a company. Already seeing rhetoric from people who are now going out to replace existing working devices just to protest them after seeing this.
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  19. I don't want to see a situation that in order to turn secure boot off or install a non-Windows OS such as Linux on the product I paid for, I have to pay a fee, one off or ongoing, to do so.
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  20. Team leader at work today sent a PDF document which was in the wrong orientation. Only wanted to rotate the document to the correct orientation. Was hit with a paywall demand for £30 a month to use the rotate function. I told him to tell Adobe to "do one" and open it up in the web browsers PDF viewer and hit the rotate button to rotate the document for free.
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  21. Because subscriptions make more money than one off payments. Even then, all a developer has to do is release new versions and time limit the current version.
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  22. The people who suggest men should make sure she is interested romantically first demonstrate zero knowledge and experience of how most people with a social circle and social skills communicate and interact with one another. And I say this as someone who is both introverted and lacks said skills.
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  23. There are politicians and individuals in power who believe words and ideas are just as, if not more dangerous than dangerous, life threatening goods. 0.2% for the latter, 10% for the former with new online safety laws. The danger is, right to repair will be in their sights too.
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  24. You won't be able to ignore the already in progress population decline as increasing numbers of people forgo finding a relationship which in turn has knock on effects for a wide range of issues and subsequent consequences for everyone.
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  25. First they will charge content creators to get people to view their content. Then they will charge viewers to have videos served to them from content creators. YouTube is going pay to play.
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  26. Just yesterday in the UK, the CONTEST 2023 strategy was released by the Home Office. The Government is now monitoring men who are single and not succeeding quickly in the dating market. The term "extremist" is being grossly watered down and over-used but it is noted how the state and private companies insist on aligning privacy and liberty with extremism.
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  27. The same people who can easily afford the transactions and monthly subscription fees that will be needed to view the content they see and hear today. Those who are poorer do not have that privilege.
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  28. It allows companies to control who rents out their product, what can be done with that product, ties people in to one provider and kills off the second hand sales market. eBay will have to radically change its business model in the future as a significant chunk of its purpose disappears. Linux will be in trouble as every computer manufacturer locks in to Windows and bars you from installing your own OS under a rented computer. In any other situation this would be deemed "anti-competitive" and "anti-trust". I expect Samsung to follow suit for its Galaxy S23. I also expect the next generation of video game consoles - the successors to the Switch, XBox Series X and PS5 to follow suit (console manufacturers HATE second hand game sales as it is those what make the profit from loss making consoles) as well as television manufacturers, smart device manufacturers and eventually anything with a microchip inside of it. Everything will become "as a service" with the ultimate goal for companies being having all the advantages of renting while passing on the disadvantages to consumers.
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  29.  @mattpobursky850  They also tell you that the law is to "protect children".
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  30. ​ @dontmatter4423  Not according to the over 70 randomly controlled trials reviewed for the Cochrane Review metastudy on mask efficacy. Little to no effect if you are being generous. Plus, surgical masks are designed to be used for short periods by surgeons in highly ventilated environments to prevent droplets, not aerosol, getting into open surgery and the mouth.
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  31. They've been asking for the same measures for physical, non-internet games from the 2000s and before. They claim that additional second hand sales of an item doesn't generate compensation for their intellectual property and gives nothing to the artists, programmers, musicians and so forth - therefore it must be banned or the law changed.
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  32. At least with BluRays, the content owners can't walk into your house and take away the content you've paid for.
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  33. I should not be forced to do anything against my will and without informed consent whether that is a medical procedure or a dress code to make someone feel more comfortable, to prevent offence or do something that someone else dictates. I respect your free choice, please respect mine.
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  34. How long before YouTube implements DRM?
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  35. Video gamers were right about the state of journalism seven and a half years ago.
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  36. This is the problem of the everything as a service model that companies and individuals are chasing as the golden solution to make money. People only have so much to spend, we're not infinite revenue streams for everyone. One example, if everyone decided to charge $1 per view on YouTube, that would add up over a short period of time.
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  37. They will eventually move to a whitelist model. Everything blocked by default unless approved, licenced and paid for to the Government.
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  38. If you want to lose all hope, read Female Dating Strategy.
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  39. A UK content creator got jailed for five and a half years. Part of the sentencing remarks that got him jailed was down to the behaviour of his subscribers. Content creators are now deemed legally responsible for the behaviour of their subscribers and dissuading people from doing said behaviour is not a defence in court. A dangerous precedent.
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  40.  @roboman2444  Yes, the irony is not lost on me.
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  41. Clothing stores in the UK are already starting to introduce this and ban customers who wear an item once and then return it.
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  42. It's happening with jobs, hobbies and society. And then you wonder why increasing numbers of young people live with their parents without a partner playing video games and being NEETS who will eventually fail to launch. If I was made homeless now I would not have the same opportunities and help that I needed in 2002.
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  43. If anything, the studies I have seen range from a very small benefit to ineffective in preventing human-to-human transmission as well as significant adverse physiological and psychological effects. Masks should only ever be voluntary.
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  44. 2031: We now charge a fee for each insertion of the USB cable but charging and data transfer will only work if your Premium subscription is active.
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  45. The problem came when people started treating science as a fixed, unquestionable tenet that can no longer be contested. Today's lockdown and mask efficacy sceptics are the Galileo of the modern day. Treat anyone who claims to present facts as and make policy based on "the science" as opposed to "science" as a charlatan and a confidence trickster.
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  46. It might be better described as anti-social media.
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  47. I've noticed that the UI on Chromecast has been heavily downgraded to lower resolution images and opaque basic elements. Videos are also defaulting to 480p in the hope you won't notice and therefore YouTube can lower it's bandwidth usage and costs.
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  48. We have conducted studies which range from a small benefit at best to DANMASK-19 which shows a statistically insignificant difference in protecting the wearer to a recent Stanford study which suggested that masks are ineffective in preventing human-to-human transmission and that they have substantial adverse psychological and physiological effects. We can also make comparisons between states and countries with and without masks and it shows taking all other factors out of the equation, masks do not work - if anything, they could be making things worse. Even Fauci today on MSNBC can't explain why Texas is not having a surge in case numbers after lifting mask mandates. Masks should only ever be voluntary with people informed of their efficacy and cost to the individual.
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  49. And what will happen is that the comments section will disappear. I would say these things are on borrowed time, the UK is already planning to implement a new law that will have a chilling effect on user generated content because one offensive post will give you a ruinous fine. All it will take is President Biden to do the same in the US and clarify that "offence, abuse and harassment" is not covered by the First Amendment to bring in a similar law in the US and you can kiss goodbye to user generated content online. Dislikes, comment sections, political websites, discussion forums and the like - all gone. Social media will remain but will be heavily moderated with lots of collateral damage.
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  50. After blocking the ability for people who are not registered to view service updates, emergency weather information, politician communication and local news to name a few who have moved primarily to Twitter to communicate with the public. By putting it all behind a walled garden and sticking a finger up to privacy minded front-ends, I have zero sympathy with Musk.
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