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

  1. Most companies I have found make it relatively easy to cancel their services. If they make it easy you may come back later. The ones that make it miserable lose you forever as a customer and anyone you tell.
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  2. I think a lot of degrees are a waste. If you want to be a doctor, engineer, scientist though you need to go to college. There are things I learned doing a chemical engineering degree that you just can't learn on you own because the equipment needed to learn it is so expensive. Right now, I am working on a PhD and nearly finished. My work is already being used in industrial applications to make medicine faster and cheaper to make. I do think there is more to success than making money.
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  3. I just plan to keep working from home. Everything I do is making computer simulations for making medicine. We had planned to meet up and have dinner soon but had to cancel it because 3 people are in quarantine right now because they are infected. Everyone is fully vaccinated, the case is not severe but it does keep happening. I know a number of people now that have been infected at least twice so far. Since I can do all my work remotely and my productivity is higher this way I can't think of any good reason to go back to the office. From what I can see the company is not even making an effort anymore to have people go back.
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  4. I love home assistant. I have it on my NAS that I built with unraid. I control everything in it.
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  5. I expect full right to repair legislation from the EU in the next few years. The recent work on standardizing connectors is already really nice.
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  6. Why would anyone want a phone or laptop where you can't replace the battery? I can't easily replace the battery in the phone I have now and I hate that part about it but I was not able to find a better phone at the time with one I could replace. On my laptop I can easily replace the battery. It just has two screws in it and the battery comes out. The previous model just had a lever you moved and I think that made the battery come out a little too easily so they added two screws. Either way removing and replacing the battery takes less than a minute.
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  7.  @trevoravery9270  So not everywhere is evil and forces their workers to pointlessly stand all day.
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  8. The one I am the most okay with is that companies are not willing to sell electronic copies of movies. I think it is okay to buy physical copies, convert them to electronic copies for your own personal use. I don't support sharing that online but so long as it is just for you I think it is fine.
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  9. I hope you are not just realizing that elon musk is a con artist. That is what he has been since the beginning. Electric cars won't fix our environment problems. Self-driving cars are not going to make the situation better. If he launched enough rockets to make a colony on Mars he would also be the largest polluter on earth with all those rockets. Of course elon musk is a con artist.
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  10. I don't think that content creator is actually a good way to make a living right now. Most of the platforms pay very little and they are always trying new ways to claw back even more money. At the same time the platforms are expensive to run and mostly have run at a loss and have been subsidized by effectively free money. I don't see an actually sustainable business model yet for how people can make content and get paid for it and the platform can run at a profit. Until that is solved I just don't see this working. I expect Twitch to close down, Twitter is going to fail, reddit looks like it will fail, tiktok is heavily subsidized. I don't know if youtube actually runs at a profit or not, the information is unclear on that.
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  11. This should be illegal. ... Of course it probably is illegal and it is not enforced.
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  12. Thank you for making this video. I can now write them off my list for getting a 3d printer. I planned to get one soon for d&d games.
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  13. I think these companies have also done a lot to promote right to repair unintentionally. Long ago you could repair things because you could just take them apart without any special tools, stuff was not glued in and you could pretty easily find parts and replace stuff. We did not have schematics but some of the stuff was not that hard. However, as they companies have pushed to lock down things and get more extreme at it like you showed with just replacing some cables in apple devices it stops working correctly it pushed the need for right to repair. They created the need for right to repair and the more steam right to repair gained the more they pushed back against it and further created additional need.
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  14. Right to repair should just be the law regardless of what these e-waste generating companies think. Our world can't afford the current situation.
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  15. I like that you made a positive video. I think it is better for your mental health.
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  16. Watching your videos for years helped convince me to get rid of all streaming services and just buy movies on disc now so they are mine permanently.
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  17. I love work from home. It is so much more productive. I get more work done, save money, and eat much healthier. Conver the office buildings to housing that people can afford. Then more people would be in the city because they live there and we can still work from home.
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  18. If they state had actually wanted to preempt cities on this and make one standard they could have just made the state law that you must give a water break every 4 hours if the temperature exceeds X. Honestly, I would have made it every hour. Here is the reality though. Conservatives are not in favor of smaller government. They use government just as much and abusively as democrats do. They use it to enforce their will over cities in their states and at the federal level they impose their ideas on states. The other point is you are missing the inherent cruelty that many business use. A simple example is that in most service jobs in the USA you are not allowed to sit down at any time. Not at fast food, not sales, not at a grocery store. It doesn't matter that there is a measured productivity gain in allowing those workers to sit, it is quite well known at this point, it is easy to measure, businesses can test it themselves. They don't because part of the point is the cruelty of it. Just look at the Texas floating barriers with razorwire and stuff underneath it designed to entangle and drown or injure people. The point is the cruelty.
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  19. Binding arbitration should be illegal.
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  20. I suspect that for the laptops the extreme thinness of the device just doesn't have enough structural integrity and something happened while the device was closed that the person never considered could damage the laptop. It may even be something they didn't notice. Many of these laptops now are dangerous to even put in a backpack because if something gets squeezed up against them with very little force you can break them. The older style laptops seem far more durable.
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  21. I love home assistant. I have been using it to smart plugs that I can monitor the power of. I still need to find a good air sensor that give temp, humidity, and preferably air quality.
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  22. Honestly this is why I just purchase DVDs. They don't have the 4K quality but they are good enough, I can store them permamently, back them up, and they don't disappear from streaming services.
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  23.  @andreivaughn1468  When I looked into that it seemed much more difficult to do than with a DVD. Special drives with special firmware, more stuff that you can't backup, etc.
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  24. The more I see your videos the more sure I am that New York is some kind of hellhole that I would not want to ever line in. The stuff you show New York doing is not even legal where I live.
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  25.  @sct4040  That is why mixed use, walkable neighborhoods work MUCH better. They are much more resilient. If you have office space, residential, and light commercial all mixed then people will still want to live in the area. I love the european cities I have been to which have light retail on the ground floor and apartments above it. It creates a nice cycle of demand that helps keep the system in balance.
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  26. The EU has done this standard before. They mandated micro-usb at one point and Apple got around that by shipping an adapter. The EU does not want a repeat of that so they are updating the standard to usb-c. Actually I would need to read the text to see for sure because phones in the EU have already mostly switched to USB-C so I think the standard must have some kind of upgradability in it.
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  27. We live in a dystopia. It is just a boring one.
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  28. Do you get the idea that these companies have watched and read too many science fiction dystopias and thought about how great that world was for the people running it and decided that is the kind of world they wanted? From what I can see this kind of stuff is spreading throughout the world and breaking the system. I wonder how bad it will get before people seize power back from the super wealthy.
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  29. I read recently that after some extensive studying about 90% of all of the inflation is just companies increasing their profits. It is not about the cost of workers, materials, etc. Those are just excuses to raise the prices. The people at the top have decided they don't have enough and they want more. Sure they already have hundred million dollar yachts and some of their own space programs but it is clearly not enough. sigh what a bad world we live in.
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  30. Amazon cares about making money. They don't care about the customers at all. The only real hope I have is that the EU forces them to care. As for the USA .... well ... sorry.
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  31. A monopoly board tipping event would have made the pandemic FAR more severe. What the USA should have done is what Germany and other european countries did and that was cover payroll for companies so you stay employed at the same companies at your same wages. As companies are able to reopen and run, even if for limited periods of time, the government support cuts back based on the company making money again. It has made reopening easy, no real social unrest, and people where willing to stay at home because they where no going to lose their jobs, health care, living places etc. This system was also CHEAPER and easier to implement than what we did.
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  32. I am going to have to try this software. It sounds very good and paying for it is fine with me if it works for me.
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  33. I think that the EU is going to nail Google and Reddit for this.
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  34. Shame on you for reminding me of popups! Those memories are repressed for a reason! ;)
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  35. I have been buying my movies on DVD so I own them and can watch them whenever I want. I have cut way back on steaming and at this point the only things I stream are movies that I know I will watch once and have no interest in ever seeing again.
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  36. Honestly the best experience is just buying blu rays, ripping them, and storing them on your personal server. You own the content, you control it, you get it in high quality, you have no risk of viruses, and you SUPPORT the movies you like so you get more of them.
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  37. Basically, if you live in the USA you don't have a warranty. Consumer protection laws are just not enforced which is the same as not having them.
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  38. We need to do something to deal with this for-rent culture. Houses need to be places where people live and not investments. Using them as investments is destroying the country.
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  39. What do you think of the Clevo laptops? They come with manuals on how to take the entire thing apart and I have opened mine up before and fixed a few minor things. From what I have seen it is also fairly easy to order more parts although I have had not do that yet.
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  40.  @Sutchii_  That should be criminal.
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  41.  @Selvarin  Ran better? You must be on a different planet than I am on. From what I can see they are having far more service outages than ever before. They are also running afoul of more regulations than ever before. Elon Musk is going to lose a large court case with huge fines in the EU for firing a bunch of people with no notice. H would have known that if he had not fired the HR people. He is also going to face large fines or even get twitter banned from the EU for violating some other laws. He also seems to have run off most of the advertisers and completely tanked the revenue.
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  42. You just keep reinforcing why I went back to physical media. I just buy movies on disk and then watch them locally. I am done with the streaming services. There are so many movies I have that are not on ANY streaming service and even buying a physical copy now is hard.
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  43.  @elihaun9886  My point is that we should convert office buildings to living spaces so people would live in the cities. It would add a lot more housing which would bring the price down to live there. It would also have people there which would then frequent all those shops. We can solve the problem of workers there without working on an office.
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  44.  @BlueBD  That is why I think more of those business places should be converted to places to live. People can work from home and buy at local businesses, go to shows, parks, etc.
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  45. This should be illegal. This generates a lot of ewaste.
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  46. That is why we need to build better cities. Work from home seems to have had very little impact on European cities. Mixing apartments, shops, and office space together is much more resilient and walkable areas are nicer to live in.
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  47.  @cbremer83  I used to feel the same way until I moved to Germany. I realized what I hate is all the cars, the sound, the traffic etc. Walkable cities are quite nice. It is nice and quiet, people are walking around, sittings at cafe, etc. I just feels better.
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  48. Louis, Normally in the EU if that fine is not enough to get the behavior to change the fine will increase.
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  49. We need some serious trust breaking.
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  50. I love working from home. I don't have a commute. I eat much better because I can cook while working. I write computer simulations and all my work can be easily done remotely anyways. When I am done for the day I am just done I don't have some long commute after that.
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