Comments by "D. von N." (@D.von.N) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. 5 seconds of slowed loading is 100x more appreaciated than x seconds of ads.
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  2. Count me in. I am a savvy shopper, not dragged into debt by brands and advertising and if I wanted to see adds, I would click on a channel with adds (if there was some). So far there are only a few videos summarising funny ads, or ridiculous ads, from the past. I enjoy watching those. Once.
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  3. Having access to internet 20 years ago was still a sort of a privilege. Many didn't have that. I remember I had to travel 30km to an internet cafe to connect with the wider world. Precious times they were, indeed.
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  4. Is it Lenovo? I know Thinkpad is very popular among comp geeks, but no Lenovo for me I'm afraid. No Huawei, no Opera, no Tiktok... you get it
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  5.  dammer001  I would suspect that even if WE don't watch ads, we still can share youtube content on other media and whoever views that content might be exposed to the ads, so not entirely true that we are a dead end and getting rid of us would be good for youtube. But taking how intrusinve those ads are without any filter whatsoever, I can assume that sooner or later pretty much most of the audience will reach for some adblock or stop watching youtube completely. And I am sure youtube doesn't want that.
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  6. Similar experience here: Having a well built greenhouse, from Rhino. After a couple years (maybe three), the automatic vents openers on one side collapsed, the plastic part on the holders broke and could no longer hold the vents. I emailed a reasonably formulated message to the company we bought it from, with photos, and that it is the faulty design when this plastic gave way like this. I don't remember whether they replied or not, but in several days I received replacement. It still holds, a few more years down the line. Some companies rather please the customer with small parts than cause outrage over internet. The holders were on ebay for like £40 a pair I think.
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  7. X gets overrated these days. Not on it anymore.
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  8.  @big.muscles.ohyeah  you have a point there. I must dig out my old mp3 player, hope the battery won't let me down.
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  9.  @GameCyborgCh  Indeed, I like silence... so I'll patiently wait, could even watch a paint drying. There used to be one ad I had very often playing before my video of choice. I don't remember what it was for but it started several levels louder, with a young woman running in a flat towards the camera (perhaps in the kitchen kitchen) and shouting: Granny?! I didn't watch it any further. I always reloaded the page and it often worked to start playing the video itself.
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  10. I don't even find Disney that appealing anymore to waste any time with it, other than commenting here now.
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  11. I wrote a review of one software, that allowed me to decide to share my data with them or not, before installation, but it won't install until I say yes, as a rapist strategy. The review website refused to publish it. Any ideas how to word it so they publish it?
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  12. Sounds plausible. I went for Kioxia for my laptop upgrade and have a cooler master enclosure for the original one. Kingston seem to be a good stuff, too. Then Crucial on my list.
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  13. Great idea here. 'Shame' I am not having that issue to exercise it otherwise I would have the greatest pleasure to follow this scenario. I did win a couple small issues in the past when the shop wanted to screw me up. Education is the key, knowing your legal rights and tools what to do to your defence. Well done, there.
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  14. You can literally set up any cheap tablet to display photos for you, turn off logging off timer, plug it into a power and go. I have one old Samsung, if I only cared about having photos displayed, rightr? And then there are electricity bills. Why would anyone want such a device? I find moving stuff distracting, anyway.
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  15. Honestly, had to look with a magnifying glass not to sign up with prime, refusing it every time when making a purchase. They keep moving the opt out option on the layout. Three years ago I received a card via post, I thought it was a voucher for a discount, but no, it was a sort of a reminder (as I ignored their emails), to subscribe to prime. They offered 3 months for free... not interested in any of that shit. There are months I don't buy anything, why paying for a subscription? I don't even do Netflix! LOL.
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  16. When I cannot control privacy in my car I'll won't buy a replacement for mycurrent one and will rather pay a taxi to take me to the shopping etc. I might even save some money that way. No need to pay road tax, servicing, insurance, MOT, repairs... Less worry.
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  17.  @new0news  those sneaky ones that suddenly start talking about something irrelevant, without warning it is a sponsorship, are the worst. I have started giving them a thumb down for that, regardless of how good their content is. At least show some respect to the viewers and tell them you are changing the topic for a while. I too just slide the video further, to avoid that crap. I understand they want to earn some bucks, but at least be transparent. We aren't a bunch of idiots just staring at the screen and absorbing everything like sponges without differentiating what is the content and what is the ad.
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  18. Indeed, at least electronics. Easily faked and full of it. These days I only buy from reputable sources, ideally from the brands themselves and often get a better value than on market place like ebay. With delivery charges including!
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  19.  @HeathenHacks  Well, I am not that audience. I have an adblock, all across other websites, not just youtube. I am not even having Netflix or haven't used a single minute of free Amazon premium. They begged me by emails, ignored. They sent me a card by post. To the recycling bin it went. Amazon is trying to hide premium-free posting on their website, with a big coloured button to subscribe right in front of my face. FO! I am fine with Freeview and change channels when the ads hit (except of BBC), so I cover several shows at once LOL. If those ads on other websites were at least static, I could ignore them. But they keep moving, flashing, videos play where I came to read an article. Paying them so they stop annoying me? No, thanks.
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  20. Not really. Imagine millions wearing cheap sneakers that last one month or two. The amount of landfill would be overwhelming and incinerators aren't the best either. Africa and Asia are ful, of our waste, too. We all would be worse off by other means. Think more broadly.
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  21.  @Account.for.Comment  or to get benefits, at least in the UK. You are broke but you have to have a smartphone to manage your benefits. Or go to the library and feel lucky that yours wasn't shut down due to the lack of funding. And then there are ignorants verbally spitting on you that you aren't that poor when you have a smartphone. Seen it so many times.
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  22. Kingston, Crucial, my two to go to. For nvme only I went for Kioxia.
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  23. Man, I changed the playback to 0.9x speed, still struggling to follow when you read the document. Are you penalised for a minute or two longer video if you gave it some time?
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  24. It used to be a rule of thumb that if you don't pay for the service, you are a product. Now the tide has changed: you are a product whether you pay or not. Why paying then?
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  25. You shouldn't feel guilty for recommending a good product in the past. It is them who are wrong. If the products were good, they were good. No shame in recognising that - back then. Now you recognise they are greedy sharks and inform others again. Kudos.
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  26.  @JH-pt6ih  Still, you usually get what you pay for. Market is full with low quality and cheap stuff. Are my Merrel walking shoes for £95 expensive if they last me for several years instead of just one season?
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  27. There should be a special category: Louis Rossman Rage Series.
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  28. Gosh, really? Never knew that. I got Scan'n'cut... exactly for having an offline software that has even more features than the online one. I don't need internet to do stuff with the machine.
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  29. The biggest problem with overwriting existing books is one can change history. We can see what fElon is doing - wanting to boycott everyone who doesn't speak nicely about him, restricting twitter accounts who criticise him, sacking entire government departments because he doesn't understand how they work... This has far greater risks for the future than just the fact your book is different today than it was before. Entire democracy depends on recorded history and events. Right now they are trying to call black things white and otherwise. Trump blamin Ukraine from starting the war. Come on!
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  30. I am left oriented and I am yet to see something remotely anti-woke in your content (not that I follow every video, but I have seen a few). I read that comment you reference here and thought to myself: what a confused individual. And I agree with your sentiment that they are taking known features away from us and so I resorted to buying older models of devices, like a smartphone that costed me just some £300 because it still had the old 3.5mm headphones jack and I can keep charging it while listening music via a wire. I 'lost' my previous device, also older model which I bought as the latest still having home replacable battery, because it died when I tried to upgrade Android... it became useless. I sent it to the authorised lab as directed by the manufacturer, still within 6 months warranty, and they refused to fix it (or even look into the software issue) until I agreed to have a screen replaced, because there was a tiny dent in the corner of the screen. The phone once fell on the floor but it kept working, until that upgrade that went wrong. Replacing the screen at my own expense would cost me almost the same money I paid for the fucking phone. You can bet I never bought that brand again.
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  31. It depends on the context. If you make a purchase, you enter into a contract with the platform or a seller. Your statutory rights have a priority over their T&Cs, like for the length of the warranty. Other uses of the website is your choice whether you accept the T&Cs, or stop using their website.
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  32.  @seedney  There are enclosures available, for nvme and for sata ssds (or HDD) alikeI bought three last year.
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  33. With Windows, you don't really have a control over what you 'own', because you don't own the software, even if it is on your machine. They own it and they do whatever they please with it. Here are coming the times.
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  34. Influencer = corporate pros*itute. Got it long ago.
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  35. Who in their sane mind can expect unlimited storage at a one time fixed price forever? That's like a Ponzi scheme. Unsustainable. The change was coming and it was abvious from the beginning.
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  36. Those expressions - exactly the cheap tabloid style that puts me off and I tend not to click on it.
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  37. You mean scamazon?
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  38. I guess most viewers have their own pool of topics and styles they engage with and forcing anything else on them will bring little or no fruit to the creator. Everyone has only 24h in their day and can view only as much. Hence I don't have many subscriptions on my list as the algorithm feeds me enough of what I want to see. And if it keeps offering me something I am not interested in, or even annoys me, I just 'don't recommend' that channel and no amount of payment of the creator can change it (I hope). There is a lot of nonsense on Youtube now, everybody thinks they can earn easy money from recording their face talking and counting money from their home, but that isn't the case. There is more and more of such content and one needs to be very selective not to waste their precious time on crap. Quality still sells, I hope.
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  39. Duck fuck go is my current engine on most browsers I use. I was looking for SSDs... under the first result, don't remember what that was, probably just a paid ad, there was a sideways scrollable panel with SSDs from Aliexpress. Like 99% were knockoff fake products right there, CCP paying hard money to promote its failing economy. Also about 80 % of the actual search results below were either Scamazon or ebay, mostly Scamazon, sellng the Chinese fakes at a premium price so you aren't that suspicious. Had to dig to find the actual brand's website where I made the purchase from. Directly from the source.
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  40.  @mrrooter601  I'll put it this way: in the pandemic we all had to wear masks to protect each other from excess particles in the air. Even those who weren't infected. If you find a way how to make sure only people in their homes can switch the id off, and it won't be abused by criminals or anyone going out and using the drone irresponsibly, I am all for it.
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  41. Make a backup and don't worry. 256GB is small and cheap, not a pain to toss it.
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  42. To be honest, I find this as a cherry picking for the clicks and revenue (if you get some from traffic on this channel). One guy arrested on suspicion of murder... imagine how many murderers could be found faster and preventing further murders if police kept using this data. Also those looked at who were searching for that radio... when police has a pool of data of various people, they will firstly go for those who flash the red light, could already have a criminal record... Honestly, as long as I do nothing illegal, I will have no issue answering to police. They might also speak to you when your face was recorded on camera to be near a crime scene around a particular time and someone identifies you. Stop being petty, Louis. I generally don't turn on my location for different reasons. Police investigating a crime is of my least worry. If you regularly google other addresses, police can look at what else you googled and make a profile when they have a high return of people googling a particular address. Honestly, you need to think this further than that. How many times you could have been a suspect and not knowing about it after being ruled out? Did it harm you somehow?
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  43. What exacly is 'grey market' for mbile phones? Does it include those stolen from lorries, that were registred and then traced back to the user? Nike found a way around this and transport only left or only right shoe of the pair in a lorry, reducing the risk of theft.
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  44. Hope they can detect when I switch channel during ads. Sometimes I go back to the program, sometimes I don't. And when I pause a show on demand that's usually when I leave the room for some reason so the ad would be played to the thin air. Hope they can detect that, too...ah, I just watch a freeview... Never paid for viewing the TV, only the compulsory TV licence to BBC and happy about it. This payment covers more than just the TV. I seem to have entered the episode in my life when I am less and less interested in TV. Haven't seen a Hollywood movie in years.
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  45. Never had scamazon prime, didn't see a value in it, no regrets. And I tend to buy electronics from other, independent, sources, or from the brands directly. I search their website (not sponsored, that's often scam, too) and I often get a better deal there than with added commission to the scamazon. Or ebay even.
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  46. Right now the us govt is suing Adobe over exit charges. Maybe it only need someone high in the ranks to get pi$$ed over the forced arbitration and a lawsuit will come by. Or a law.
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  47. What an obnoxious, toxic, narcisisstic and manipulative individual that was! You should have sent him/her an invoice for time spent reading that crap. Twice! Time is money! I personally had to skip part of your reading of that nonsense, didn't have the nerve for it. They clearly tried to use every element of manipulation, including their kids (if they exist).
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  48. Have had a phone that became useless after android upgrade. Sent it to the authorised service to fix, still within 6 month warranty. They refused to even look into it because of a tiny dent in the corner of the screen that wasn't causing any issue at all. The repair of the screen would cost me half of the phone value. Fcuk you, Samsung! Never bough another phone from them.
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  49. Looks like Amazon is getting too big to do things properly at all levels. There certainly must be a limit. Will it implode, you think?
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  50. Looks like youtube is using this grey area and the lack of clarification in the law for their own benefit. But they could as easily add to their cookie policy this little detail, that they will run a script to check for ad-blockers and if the users don't agree with it, they are free to exit youtube. It is a private platform and it is free to set its rules, within law, of course. There is a very easy way out of it. I am no lawyer, but I have saved myself a few bucks by looking into the fine print and T&Cs and found some holes that I could throw into the face of those who wanted to rip me off, Sky broadband including. Someone with a lot of knowledge, money and time could take Youtube to the court and at the end we shall see on whose side the court would lean. So far chat GPT said this: "The ePrivacy Directive, which is currently being revised as the ePrivacy Regulation, addresses privacy and confidentiality issues in the electronic communications sector. The new regulation is expected to strengthen privacy rules for electronic communications and may have implications for the use of tracking technologies, including scripts to detect ad-blockers. It's important to note that legal interpretations may change, and new regulations may have been introduced since my last update. Therefore, it's advisable to check for the latest legal developments and consult legal professionals or official sources for the most up-to-date information on this matter." Otherwise Chat GPT confirms, the use of script for monitoring adblock isn't clearly defined. So the title of this video might need to change, at least to make it a question.
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