Comments by "DefaultFlame" (@DefaultFlame) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. I think you mean "in the best way possible." Also, I still haven't seen that thing even once. Not a blip on my adblocker.
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  2. Yup. The bots are bad. The people are worse.
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  3. If your work is not publically accessible or behind a paywall, yes. If you post your work so it's accessible by anyone for free, no. AI training just means the AI looks at your work and learns from it, your actual work is not stored or reproduced, whole or in part, in the AI at any point.
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  4.  @thehammoth  You want to be paid for your work? Charge for access. You want to give it out for free to everyone? Then give it out for free. You do not get to give things out for free and retroactively expect payment.
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  5.  @thehammoth  Obviously. That's theft, pure and simple.
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  6. Wish I had an Amazon subscription so I could cancel it. I bought a Kobo ebook reader specifically to avoid crap like that. It reads just about every format, and while you can connect it to the internet everything I have on it is stuff I've downloaded. Legally downloaded mind you. I haven't pirated stuff in years, partially because I had the money, partially because just buying it was more convenient, and partially to pay the people who made what I consumed, but I supposed it's time to start again. Not that there's much worth pirating, almost all newer games I play are indie games and almost all fiction I read is either stuff I already own or free original fiction available at places like Royalroad. (Which unfortunately belongs to Amazon, but as long as I don't pay them squat I'm happy.)
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  7. He bought material and manufactured something from that material. The producer of material has no say in what you do with the material. If he had put their logo on the wallets it would have been trademark infringement for the logo. If he made a wallet copying one of their designs and had put their logo on it then it would have been counterfeiting. They don't have a legal leg to stand on. Which they know. Which is why they hired a PI and didn't involve the law. They wanted him to scare him into silence.
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  8. I bought my first smartphone in 2019. It was a flagship chinese spy phone model (aka cheap for the performance offered) at the time and still runs well. Call me a luddite, but I didn't see the point in buying a smartphone until my old nokia died. (Not a 3310 sadly, or it wouldn't have died.) Sure it replaced three other devices, my mp3-player, my e-reader, and my cell phone, but what really sold me was having the internet in the palm of my hand. Having a camera with more than 0.6 megapixels was a bonus too I suppose. (Or was it 0.3?)
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  9. If you are willing to cough up the money for it the Epson Ecotank line of printers use refillable ink tanks that you can refill with third party ink. However, as mentioned the printer itself is expensive and you should research any third party ink you put in it as some have issues, such as clumping.
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  10.  @Rollin8.0  Nah, too lazy to be that spiteful. Besides, I'm not running an organization, I'm just a guy, IE, I'd be buying through the online store, not signing any contracts.
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  11. The same reason I love GOG. They are amazing. Is it as convenient as Steam? No, but there are no hoops to jump through. It's just your game, download and play. Hell, burn the .bin files to discs and you have offline backups.
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  12.  @sticy5399  It's not, and I'll tell you why. Giving in to Netflix cost you money in exchange for more convenience. Giving in to youtube increases inconvenience rather than reducing it.
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  13. In my experience Firefox is slower than Chrome when you have very few windows and tabs open, but once it exceeds a certain number it starts chugging. I tried to switch to Chrome a few years ago. I use an insane number of tabs. Chrome started shitting itself and eating all my memory after just a few windows and tabs, so I went back to Firefox. I have noticed an occasional extreme slowdown on youtube, however if that is the price then I'm still coming out ahead compared to watching ads. I started using adblock because the ads were getting insane. I was perfectly happy watching ads before that point, but when the ads started being anywhere from half the video to longer than the video I was watching and they started fucking with creator's control over ads that was too far for me.
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  14. "Are customers not allowed to have privacy?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no. Not according to big tech.
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  15.  @bawbehh  Copyright law . . .
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  16. This is why I have never, in my 20+ years on the internet, ever stored anything in the cloud. The only things that are stored off of my own computer and external hard drives are my emails on my email provider's servers. Edit: Also, I despise Apple as a corporation. I will assume malice until something is proven to be imcompetence. Something breaks easily? I assume it's a feature, not a bug. Your charging cable gets worn out and short circuits faster than those of other phones/music players? Malice. The 3.5mm jack is removed? Malice. Your battery suddenly start running down faster than ever? Malice. Your phone runs much, much slower after an update? Malice. Planned obsolescence + walled garden (aka captive customers) = Evil.
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  17. Fines means legal for a fee.
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  18. This is insane. They should stick to phones. They're decent at that. I should know, I have one. It is a really good phone? No, it's just ok, but it has the performance of the other flagship phones the year I bought it and it cost between a third and a quarter of what I'd have paid for a Samsung or Iphone with the same specs. Five years later it's still a decent enough phone.
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  19. Woooooow, what a scumbag. Edit: . . . Ok, so not just a giant scumbag to customers, a pedo as well.
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  20.  @darrennew8211  I had a similar issue with a pair of (moderately expensive) JBL earbuds, except they were gold plated. Amazing sound in the things. The problem was that the plating fell off after a couple of months of use. Bought the cheapest Raycons I could to replace them. Sound is good for the price (IE not great, but pretty decent), however, 5 years later they are still ticking, and still has something like 70% of the battery life they started with. The only "issue" I've had with them is having to clean the contacts every few months due to accumulated dirt and skin oil. They also have better bluetooth reception than the JBLs. I have to put three concrete walls and 5 meters of distance between myself and my phone before I start getting connection issues. The JBLs would start having issues at about three meters with no walls in between.
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  21. Samsung preinstalls tiktok? I literally have a Chinese spy phone (as I like to call it), a Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro, and it didn't come with tiktok preinstalled. It came with virtually nothing preinstalled, beyond the Google play store and basic phone functions. (And a few health features..)
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  22. $2200 for an apartment? Was your shitter gold-plated or something?
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  23.  @beejls  There's housing shortage and then there's paying an arm, a leg, and a kidney for rent.
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  24.  @paulroyle-grimes  That really, really sucks. Can I ask what sort of tools congress took away from you?
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  25. siiiiiiiiiiiiigh That's a fucking shame since they make the defacto best printers. Expensive as fuck, and overkill for 99% of hobby printing purposes, but the best nonetheless. Oh well, when I actually get a 3D printer it won't be a Bambu Lab one. Probably going for a Creality or Anycubic.
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  26. It's nice to see Clinton more active. Make sure to give him plenty of cuddes.
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  27. . . . I like my Raycons . . .
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  28. I think of Amazon as the US version of Aliexpress. You can get good things, but you can also get absolute garbage that's genuinely dangerous to use.
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  29. I see lawsuits in Adobe's future.
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  30. Oh, what happened to make it crash?
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  31. I will say, the fact that you even own up to a mistake and directly address it is leaps and bounds beyond what I expect from any tech of software company at this time. Kudos to you. I have an old Lenovo, my first laptop, as well as an Asus, my first and only gaming laptop. Unfortunately the screen on my Lenovo is buggered and at this point it's an ooooold laptop. I hadn't considered buying Lenovo again if I buy another laptop, but if you can make it easier to install a different operating system than the one that comes preinstall (F Windows at this point) I'd certainly consider it.
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  32. I believe that's called a "car," Louis.
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  33.  @A-Dingleberry  Sky News Australia actually have their youtube comments turned on.
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  34. CAT! PET THE CAT! PETPETPETPETPETPET!
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  35. You know, I'm from the age when you had to pay youtube to post videos longer than 10 minutes. I was fine with that. When youtube changed models and started sharing ad money with creators and allowing long form content without a paid account, I was fine with that. When youtube took ad control partially away from creators and started putting ads on videos that weren't monetized and the creator didn't get a cent of it and started putting double twenty second ads on vidoes shorter than a minute, I wasn't fine with that and started using an adblocker. Also, when is this adblock blocking supposed to kick off? 'cause I haven't seen any of it yet, my adblocker still works fine.
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  36. Yup. Still saves time over the unskippable ads, especially the double ones.
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  37.  @gtags84  Utterly insane.
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  38. Commets for the algo! And for Clinton the cat!
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  39. I was wondering why you got paper to pick up a moth instead of just using your cupped hand. Now I know. You are a little scaredy cat. (Because youtube would probably delete my comment if I used the word you used, it's done it for much less before.) Also, why the fuck do you have a $4000 door? Is it made from pure crystal? Diamond? Some illegal imported wood? How the hell could that door cost that much? Additional also, as someone else said, some woodglue and clamps and it'll be fine.
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  40. @ There are some truly huge businesses that work like that and can function that way, but they also have insurance against certain types of loss, signed contracts for delivery and price of goods, customer service departments, and the cash on hand to buffer when needed. Basically, he gambled with other people's money and will likely be finding out why that's a bad idea, especially when you are small. (Not that $20k is a small sum of money to gamble. I do wonder what the hell he was selling that he so many pre-orders so rapidly.)
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  41. @HappyBeezerStudios  Business loans and investors exist for a reason. If you want to do some hobby selling start small, just a few units, and gradually scale up production and order numbers. This guy sounds like he started with a very large amount of orders for relatively expensive units.
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  42. @ What part of "take out a business loan or get investors to start a business" sounds like "already have money to start a business"? Did you misread perhaps?
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  43.  @Shadowvortx  Of course it's more expensive. People in the US aren't paid slave wages, and it's likely a much, much smaller operation than the Chinese ones. Aisler in the Netherlands is supposed to be the cheaper option for people in the US now. That, or if you are buying in bulk you could be sneaky like a corporation, buy from PCBWay or JLCB, arrange for shipping to a country that the US doesn't have tariffs on, and then shipping from there to the US. PBCs are relatively small and light to repackage and ship after all.
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  44.  @piotrd.4850  Running a business certainly falls under "adulting." If you want to do a hobby, do a hobby. If people get interested in buying your hobby thing then start small so you can afford to lose the money. Don't take hundreds of orders first thing. Build up funds to expand operations gradually.
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  45. @l4nd3r  . . . That is literally how a lot of businesses are started dude.
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