Comments by "George H" (@georgeh6856) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. Two takeaways: 1. Audiophiles are not human. 2. Why have I never heard the song "Discovision" before? That should have been the #1 hit of disco era. Solid Gold.
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  2. I moved from the USA to a country in Europe in 2018. The condo I bought there did not have a dishwasher, so I bought one from Ikea and installed it myself. It didn't wash dishes well; that's when I went back to the instructions and learned that I needed dishwasher salt. They sell this at most grocery stores there, and it is very cheap. After that my dishes were clean again. I also learned that in Europe they only run cold water lines to dishwashers and clothes washers. The machines heat the water themselves, so you get very consistent temperatures.
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  3. One other difference when I lived in Europe was that my dishwasher had a compartment in the floor for salt. Every six months or so I would have to refill the dispenser with dishwasher salt. I think this may be to help clean better with more environmental detergents. I hate pods for both dishwashers and clothes washers. I like having the choice of how much detergent I want to use depending on the load. Plus pods taste worse.
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  4. Be carful. Bad audiophiles get added to the sax offender registry.
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  5. Why single out "The Birdcage" and not the plethora of heterosexual movies with sexual content? It seems like you are saying that LGBT content is offensive to children while straight content is not.
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  6.  @meowmochimeow  Then what was the message? The Birdcage did not show two men in bed together, nor actual human nudity. It did have statues of naked men, mostly used as humor, descriptions of sexual situations, small kisses, pats on the butt or something like that, and language. But just because it is LGBT, it is deemed "inappropriate" or "dirty". Compare that to the 80s teen movie "Pretty in Pink" which showed full side female nudity and received a PG rating. Or better yet, watch the documentary "This Film is not Yet Rated" which describes both how absurd the movie ratings system in the USA is as well as how time after time LGBT movies with similar situations get rated much more harshly than straight ones. There were so many straight movies he could have used, yet somehow he picked the gay one. Not a coincidence.
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  7. 2:11 I love the dubbing. I have seen movies with worse dubbing. "'Yippee Ki-Yay, Mr. Falcon" (done for American TV censorship, but some dubbing in theatrical releases was bad too)
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  8. 8:42 "All we need is uno, dos, trays..." Ugh.
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  9. I worked at a large computer company with a person who was about the dumbest person I ever worked with. Our large computer lab had a raised floor with removable tiles. There were plenty of spare power drops beneath the floor. But my coworker had the bright idea to daisy-chain power strips! That was less work than removing floor tiles to pull the power outlets up above the floor. Then she blamed the contractor on the team because workstation computers on her daisy-chained power strips would suddenly turn off. 15 years later, she was still working there!
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  10. This is completely not a problem in the USA. It would only be a problem if people ever used turn signals here.
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  11. If you have an attached garage, as well as everyone else, also install a carbon monoxide (CO) alarm. CO is a poisonous, colorless, odorless gas which comes from internal combustion engines, and other things which should not be run indoors like portable gas heaters. A family in Florida came home from a trip, accidentally left their hybrid car running in the garage because it made no noise in battery mode, then went to sleep. The car's ICE engine started up and killed some of them. Even if you have an electric car, you still could have guests with a hybrid who park in your garage. Be safe.
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  12. I had a Lightscribe drive in an HP laptop I owned. Lightscribe was the best part of that crappy HP laptop. It had a resistive plastic touchscreen with a stylus. Resistive touchscreens suck; capacitive touchscreens are used most commonly in consumer products now. The HP laptop came with Windows Vista. Terrible. The worst part was the laptop CPU overheated and finally died about two months after the 1 year warranty.
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  13. This video has absolutely no meaning in Texas.
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  14. Where's the floppy drive?
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  15. 10:53 "This also means that if you're the kind of person who hates having multiple clocks in the same room which don't show the same time, *like me*..." Who would have guessed that you don't like multiple clocks in the same room that don't show the same time??? Shocking!
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  16. Bees do not meow.
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  17. TOO DEEP: your geothermal heat pump installation is disrupting China.
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  18. I bought a sidecutting manual can opener at an IKEA in the USA years ago. This opener is more like a traditional one but it cuts just below the seam, not on top of the lid, and not into the seam. You do have to squeeze to make the cut, but the lid stays on top. Plus, the weight of the opener rests on the lid as the opener is held parallel to the lid, not perpendicular to it. I moved within the USA, gave up the sidecutter, and then found that IKEA no longer sold it. But when I later moved to Europe, the IKEA store there still sold the sidecutter! I bought one and brought it back to the states two years later when I returned. It is funny that Americans apparently could not figure out the sidecutter whereas Europeans could.
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  19. I would think that they could have just used mirrors to rotate the image 90 degrees on a half-frame camera.
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  20. I grew up on a farm in the northern part of the US. When the electricity went out, typically during blizzards, we used kerosene lanterns. They smelled so bad. I wondered why anyone would use them when there was a non-smelly alternative. Then when you mentioned the $200 price of the Aladdin, that was why. My parents never would have spent that much on a kerosene lamp.
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  21. It's 2021, and there is more gaslighting than ever.
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  22. Silver halide crystal is my favorite flavor of Jell-O. Yum.
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  23. Use a pun, go to jail.
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  24. I feel so bad for him. Now he will never be able to watch "Charlotte's Web".
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  25. I miss glass lens covers. So much better than plastic.
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  26. Weird is good. Normal is boring.
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