Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. Louis talks too slowly. We all watched the video at 15x speed.
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  2. Beyond the swappable ports, I wish we were seeing more of a ecosystem around Framework's other easily-swappable components. Imagine if, say, Keychron announced they were making a swap-in replacement ultra-low-profile mechanical keyboard for Framework.
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  3. Classic gaslighting. "We would never use your data to train AI (even though we could)! We would never scan your files (unless they have a warrant)!" The most disgusting thing is that they claim they need permission to access your files in order to open them, which is backwards—ADOBE shouldn't be opening my files, I should be opening my files using their software, which I bought and paid for. Disgusting. Even worse that realistically nothing will change, as you can't even use an "old version" of CS unless you're willing to go back, like, a decade.
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  4. You gained a lot of cred from me today by using an LLM correctly. Everyone and their parakeet focused on their generative applications (to pump out schlock) when these models are best used for information extraction (best done with guardrails in place such as asking them to cite the line of the TOS instead of produce its own summary).
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  5. That Black Mirror episode (its title trips YT's automod) is one of the all-time best. Mulling over the message of that ep is my "Roman Empire."
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  6. I swore off ever buying another piece of Google hardware after I had two Nexus 5X phones go into the bootloop-of-death a day after each's warranty expired.
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  7. Last week a pair of insoles arrived from Amazon. I didn't order any insoles. The package was clearly addressed to me. There weren't any insoles in my order history—in fact, I hadn't ordered anything in a super long time. Finally, after adjusting my purchase history window, I found a pre-order for a Blu Ray box set I'd placed months ago. I'm super lucky I figured it out before my ADHD brain forgot about it and the return window lapsed.
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  8. I watched a video over the weekend from someone with 12.6MM subscribers talking about mental health. The comments were full of spambots using non-obfuscated violent language that would trip even the least restrictive content moderation filter. I reported dozens. Two days later, I came back, and all those comments were still there. What wasn't? My comment expressing sympathy to a commenter who had opened up about their own mental health. This is just ridiculous.
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  9. The German electrician and YouTuber Great Scott! has an entire series where he finds hidden gems on various bottom-of-the-barrel eCommerce platforms. It's essentially roulette. The trick is that since he's an electrician with a ton of testing equipment, he can verify with his purchases that it'll never be of the Russian variety.
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  10. ​​ @damiang888 I hate it when Louis misses his morning coffee. He sounds like Texas whalesong
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  11. Hush. Next thing you know Ford will be taking another page from Apple's playbook by installing DRM in their modules so only "Ford authorized repair technicians" can complete the handshake necessary for a swapped sensor to talk with the ECU.
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  12. Octoprint controlling a dumb and simple Ender 3 over USB for me. I want remote monitoring? There's plugins for that. I want external slicers? Honey, it's all external slicers.
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  13. I've been told that there is no greater insult to an economist than "rent-seeking."
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  14. Let's not forget the time he invited Naomi Wu to meet him at his hotel or how he threatened an ex-employee with a defamation lawsuit. Linus is not someone I would ever want to work for or work with. But he did invest in and promote Framework, he did publish a video about Switch emulation and he did rescue Riley Murdock from the NCIX dumpsters.
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  15.  @Eskoxo  What are you, a mac user? Heck, uninstalling on a mac isn't even that easy—Adobe software works its little tendrils all through your operating system, changing extensions defaults, cluttering up your registry, setting up autoupdate and phone-home daemons and collecting who knows what telemetry.
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  16. Can't un-ring the bell, though. When JD breaks interop in the next update, it's no longer "pure paranoia" that it was done intentionally. And not only might this empower a friendly AG to subpoena their internal communications, but it might motivate (or shame) lawmakers to pass more stringent interoperability regulations.
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  17. Remember that the whole "hard r" episode came about because Linus was saying he had used that language in the past but had grown as a person such that he doesn't anymore. He implied that he hadn't used that word in decades. That was a lie.
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  18. Steam games only have DRM if the publisher insists on it—plenty of classic games I've purchased work just fine outside of the Steam launcher, and I'm on Linux where you'd assume that Proton and Steam-Runtime would have us by the berries.
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  19. Wait, I've seen this design before in shipping crates. Wedge a ribbon in between two metal plates so that if the package is dropped or mishandled, the ribbon is cut, thus alerting the receiver that FedUps might have broken their gizmo. The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this was an intentional design so they could tell users, "You clearly dropped it. Too bad you didn't spring for drop protection..."
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  20. You're both much more forgiving and much harsher to your employees than I could ever be. Holy Moses, if Chris survives this, in 20 years when he's running his own shop, he's going to tell his employees about the worst fuckup of his life.
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  21.  @kwinzman  Interesting. Have you looked into custom-fabbing your own? If you don't have a 3D printer, there are plenty of makerspaces around that will let you rent time on theirs, not to mention online services.
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  22. I'm actually in favor of this—anyone buying a 3D printer should first have to undergo mandatory anger management courses because God those coping skills will come in handy. (is joke)
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  23. Ironically, Louis' "hard R" was what I thought Linus was referring to, and before clicking the video, I was scratching my head trying to think when I'd ever heard Louis use Linus' r-word.
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  24. IDK—it's easier to switch from Windows to Linux than it is to switch off the Adobe suite. Forgetting that professionals have decades of files in their proprietary formats, Photoshop and GIMP (or Premiere Pro and Resolve) are so completely different, switching stacks is basically starting from zero. Just as we saw with the Pantone charlie foxtrot they have creatives by the cojones.
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  25. I see reddit returning to its pre-Swartz roots: an empty site populated exclusively by bots deployed to make the site appealing to investors.
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  26. Just looked up the guy and his site. Seems like a cool guy, and I bet he and Louis would have a lot to talk about regarding Right to Repair.
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  27. I hope this is the thing that finally galvanizes people to take action. And I'm optimistic—as JD Vance learned recently, the one demographic you don't want want to mess with is cat people. (either kind—the other subculture being way over-represented in the hacker community)
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  28. > private equity firms More accurately known as vulture capital
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  29. "Sponsored content" is a big exception (for me at least) to his "direct ads don't work" argument. Sure, no matter how many segments I watch, I'm still not downloading Raid: Shadow Legends or signing up for ExpressVPN, but there are quite a few products and subscriptions that I've found out about because they took the time to find a creator who catered to their target niche. If YouTube had positioned themselves as the middleman and leveraged their giant recommendation engine as the way they earned their x% cut, literally everybody would have won.
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  30.  @theKashConnoisseur  That works fine for you and me, but not so much for small businesses and self-employed professionals who have to worry about getting sued. Have a look at what's going on with Oracle right now for the poor schmucks who actually still pay for Java.
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  31. "I don't know." Those three words are what marks an expert in a field, when they're asked about something outside their subject matter or experience. Thank you, Louis.
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  32. Ah, I see you too have had a car serviced at the dealership before.
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  33. Let's be clear that the "they" at fault is Amazon for paying their delivery folks so little and giving them such brutal quotas that the human beings responsible for ensuring that A gets to B have neither the time nor the incentive to ensure that your stuff gets to the right house. And this includes your US Postal Worker whose load has been tripled while his coworkers have been fired, all so Louie DeJoy can win some points with his future employers.
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  34. Or they should hire Louis' "tough guy" uncle
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  35. It's really insidious why that's the case—it's because all the college and online courses are for the Adobe CS. And why are all the courses and tutorials for Adobe software? Because of those dang "educational licenses." Adobe follows the same business model as your local crack dealer—the first hit is on the house.
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  36. I figured I'd tune in for long enough to get the general gist, but I stayed for the whole thing. The truth is, the video is less about Linus than it is about having the awareness and self-respect to realize when you're in an abusive relationship.
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  37. For a second I thought you meant Blackberry. Good kitty.
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  38. I ran Photoshop 7.0 (legally obtained and everything!) in WINE up through 2022. Finally made the switch to GIMP (which, at some point in the last decade, finally overtook PS7 in terms of functionality and even user-friendliness!)
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  39. As a decently technical software dev, I've been in the situation where a FOSS project I rely on has broken or gone un-maintained, and my first reaction was to be frustrated with the developer. On such an occasion, I'd clone the repo and try to fix it myself. Half the time I'd be forced to give up not being able to figure out a solution, but 💯 of the time I would realize the Sisyphean effort the original devs had put into the project.
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  40. I can't speak for every payment processor, but regarding your example at 3:45 historically when you issue a chargeback for a small amount (say, under $100) many processors would just credit you and even bother taking it up with the merchant.
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  41. Bingo. Don't Blu-ray players require regular firmware updates to keep up with the latest DRM? And there are a few Nintendo Switch games that are unplayable at launch (even single-player) without day-one "patches."
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  42.  @electricindigoball1244  Gray is a professional racecar driver (GT4 class), and while that technically has no bearing on how he would act as CEO of a software company, I still think it's rad as Hell.
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  43. Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge / Haswell were ridiculously good chips. My 4790K scores similarly in single-core benches to my OC'd 5900X¹. The only reason I upgraded was because I needed more than 32GB of RAM.² ¹tbf, this is partially a "skill issue" on my part ²I have 128GB and honestly would upgrade again if 128GB weren't still the upper limit short of going Threadripper / Xeon.
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  44. pgp—and gpg keys in particular—should be more common than they are.
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  45. I was going to make a crack about how you must have worked for the McDonald's Ice Cream Machine maker, but reading the rest of the replies has made me painfully aware of how common these sorts of issues are in industry. Big yikes, and massive respect to all you craftsmen and factory workers out there actually making things.
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  46. Luke is probably Linus' number one victim. Sincerely believes he owes everything to Linus and that he'd be unemployed without his patronage. That's why he takes the abuse and covers for his "friend" and why he's content—as CTO—not to own a single share of the platform he built.
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  47. THAT'S HOW THEY KNOW!! 😝
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  48. I think he only could if that content was covered by his privacy policy! 🤣
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  49. I kinda love that the glass computer case trend that lets everybody see your fancy components is apparently making a jump to car tuner culture.
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  50. Quick correction: he said, "If you're insane, Gentoo from tar." It wasn't super clear—I had to re-watch it figure out what clause that parenthetical belonged to.
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  51. After all the shenanigans with the State of New York, he's used to dealing with bloodsuckers.
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  52. I assumed that was already the case, given how many politicians in the state seem to have some screws loose.
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  53. ​ @Koketsune You talking about the Naomi Wu stuff? They don't disagree on the facts, just the interpretation. And hey, maybe Linus really is just that stupid and naïve to think that it's perfectly innocent to ask a woman in a culturally conservative nation to meet him at his hotel after dark. All I know is a lot of people rushing out of the woodwork to give this guy every benefit of the doubt.
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  54. ​ @zachmondial2172 wtf why would YT delete my response? Anyway, tl;dr—full report was never released, we only have LMG's word for what it says. But also—Madison only came forward when other folks started complaining about the toxic work environment and has stayed silent since the investigation began. If she was doing it for attention, seems like she'd be trying to... call attention to it.
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  55. Nicco gaining a bunch of subscribers who then decide to try out this "Linux" thing he keeps talking about would be such a cool twist on this saga.
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  56. This is why I go a step further and fully wipe and reformat external storage to make sure they don't have vendor spyware software on them.
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  57.  @the_kombinator  Yeah. Even if you're a cishetero white male with thick skin, LTT published a video to their own channel interviewing employees about what it's like to work there, and, even knowing that the video would be public and their bosses would see it, everyone was heavily negative about how overworked they are and how they have no time for retrospectives or fixing systemic issues. Linus is no longer CEO, and it's possible things have changed for the better, but as much as I truly love a lot of their writers (namely the Techlinked team), I wouldn't work for them even if recruited.
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  58. Which is especially fun given that you can be in the db even if you never got swabbed—all it takes is your mom getting one as a birthday gift from a friend.
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  59. With everything going on, I'm glad to see that, when Bush comes to shove, you're able to put food on your family. 🐟
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  60. Same. For me what did it was my kid loving bees (in large part because of Minecraft's Buzzy Bees update). Now we have a yard full of bee-friendly flowers designed to attract native pollinators.
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  61.  @SuzuBelle-w4n  This is why I love "San Junipero." Completely unclear how the economics could possibly support that technology, but that is absolutely a happy ending.
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  62. There was an article in The Onion from like 2013 that Ford was recalling the 1995 Ford Taurus because, "You really should have gotten something better by now." At the time it was the height of comedy. Now it doesn't even read as satire.
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  63.  @ichijofestival2576  You're minimizing what was clear evidence of a toxic/burnout workplace culture. Are you forgetting that the second Terren took over they put all of LMG on a 1-2 week hiatus to address the concerns raised in the video (in conjunction with the GN exposé)? Don't get me wrong—I absolutely give LMG and Linus props for putting out that video, and it very well could be that things have gotten better since. That would be awesome. My point is still that I don't want to work there.
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  64. There are actually a lot of legitimate reasons--even a "dumb TV" of a given resolution will typically be cheaper than the equivalent monitor. Off the top of my head, the relevant specs are refresh rate (I don't even think 90 Hz, let alone 120 Hz, is particularly common these days) and input latency. But furthermore if you've ever tried to debug issues directly on your set-top PC, it's really clear that something about the specs or settings makes them really unsuitable for productivity workloads where you're staring at giant walls of text.
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  65. It's Hyeef, right? The olde English pronunciation?
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  66. The problem with smart TVs is that when they stop being maintained, you're worse off than if you had nothing. I really like RokuOS--the UI is intuitive and mostly functional, and their sticks saved me from needing to sacrifice a precious Pi during the shortage. But already I'm dealing with issues in the Jellyfin app that were fixed two years ago that still haven't rolled out to the official "channel." With my dumb TV, I can swap out my Roku for a Pi no prob, since my TV "boots" straight into the last selected input when I turn it on. But with my Roku TVs, I'll have to navigate a menu to get into the correct input every time And that's even assuming that TCL/Roku doesn't up and push out a firmware update that literally bricks my TV to get me to buy a new one or pay a subscription.
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  67. Jeff Geerling just did a video about a third-party internal storage upgrade for the Mac mini. I always figured that was impossible because they soldered the storage to the SOC—nope. It's a module. Looks like an M.2 until you get really close and realize the key is arbitrarily different. Apple went out of their way to reinvent M.2 just so users couldn't do their own upgrades.
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  68. rabbit. And not the one that leaves people satisfied.
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  69. ​ @simplus1980 If any of these clients hosted sensitive data, there can be very strict rules about where your data can be "at rest" where the standard procedure of backing up data to your "offsite mobile cold storage" (magnetic tapes stored in the back seat of the sysadmin's car) simply won't fly. Oftentimes cloud buckets are the only acceptable data store. Still, I'd hope that clients under those restrictions at least sprung for cross-region duplication...
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  70. This is super cool, and even cooler that it can run locally. And even cooler that it's not using one of the large, general-purpose transformers but a svelte 32MM-parameter model by default. I'm going to point to this every time someone comes at me that we need a 42B parameter GPU-accelerated LLM for some simple, narrow use-case.
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  71. The Venn diagram between people who have no idea how HIPAA works and who spell it "HIPPA" is a perfect circle.
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  72.  @WaffleusRex  Oh my God, that's gorgeous.
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  73. I can see this having a minor impact on foreign investors (who weren't aware of these practices and never visited the properties they owned), but realistically what will happen is that everyone will just do a mental conversation between "real sq ft" and "NY crooked ft" and move on with BAU
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  74. You're reading him wrong (in my opinion). You can see their back-and-forth in the comments section of his video and Louis' community post—mutual respect and mutual humility.
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  75. For $50? Yeah, this would be fine. Burner Windows VM for one-time configuration, then CCTV viewer, as you say. But for $250?! Heck no. For that price you can get a used Android phone with a decent IP rating and a long USB cable. Then either partially submerge the phone or caulk around the USB port (the cable's insulation should be waterproof enough). On the phone itself, run a minimal install of Lineage and any of a number of free IP webcam apps. Done.
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  76. Folks, help me out here--why does anything need to be hosted at all? Wouldn't Bluetooth / Zigbee work fine for remote start? Or LoRa-WAN if you needed the additional range? If I can turn my Xmas lights on and off from inside my house without needing to go through the company's server, why does my automaker need to "host" anything?
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  77.  @rossmanngroup  You're right on the money. Transformers can't produce¹ any novel insights, but one doesn't always need insight. They can extract maximal context from a natural language proompt and can effectively synthesize a response (effectively: "how would the experts in my training data evaluate this code snippet?") much more efficiently than traditional search methods. ¹literally can't—those neural layers have been stripped out to focus on the "attention" mechanisms
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  78. High five! 🖐️ Erm, wait—I was using the high-five package from the AUR, and it's not compatible with the newest version of commentslib. Lemme see if the maintainer has responded to my pull request...
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  79. ​ @the_kombinator If you don't want to watch the GN video: 1. They auctioned off a prototype copper waterblock that the manufacturer had asked be returned, but only after panning the product after testing it on an incompatible GPU and refusing to redo the test (because, Linus said, it would have cost him a few hundred bucks) 2. Their former head of social media was routinely belittled by senior staff, had sexual comments made about her by coworkers, and was ordered to perform demeaning tasks. When she raised complaints to "HR," she was ignored or told she needed to work out the issues directly with her abuser.
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  80. First off: you can set up a system like this (on my dd, I have pacman, yay, conda, pipx, cargo and now Nix), it's just that this combination is cursed. Second: I think he was trying to say, "I don't care which GNU/Linux* you use, just choose one." *Third: Not trying to crawl up Stallman's urethra—just trying to differentiate from Android, ChromeOS and a few other locked down operating systems which also use the Linux kernel.
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  81. 13:17 needs a label that it was sponsored by Toxoplasmosis Gondii Seriously, though—good kitteh
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  82. Having worked in data analytics for HR: they do, though, to stay ahead of discrimination suits. It's a two-edged sword, though: while willful blindness is a poor defense, it's 100x worse to have data showing there's a problem and choosing not to address it than it is to merely suspect there's a problem but never actually measure it.
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  83. Yeah, he's stated in his community posts that it's an intentional pun on how shy the fish have been.
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  84.  @tgj5680  Yeah but some creators are really effing good at making entertaining sponsored spots. At the top tier, the vibe is channeling how back in the day people would watch the Superbowl just for the commercials.
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  85. Ignorant question: does any crypto charge a competitive transaction fee? He quoted 2.1% in the video. Would Monero or anything else charge less thabln, say, 5%? And refund (as opposed to double) that fee for a customer refund?
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  86. ​ @pavementstoneguy Interesting. Was that Cash -> Monero -> Monero -> Cash or just the single blockchain transaction?
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  87. The Gentoo slander was on point! I would have posted this comment yesterday, but I was busy recompiling the Linux kernel.
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  88. I keep my 2013 MacBook Pro on the last version of OSX that can run 32-bit apps, primarily so I can open up any of my college projects in CS2 if the need arises.
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  89. That's a really vile comment. Completely ignorant. Piranhas play a vital role in their ecosystems. How dare you compare them to corporate execs.
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  90. ​ @zachmondial2172 No, the extremely expensive law firm they hired to conduct their audit reportedly determined that LMG did nothing wrong. The full report has not been—and I guarantee will never be—released. Madison has been silent about the report, and if I were her, I would be too out of fear of litigation. Remember that she only came forward in the first place once current employees were talking about the toxic work environment. Am I saying I'd stake my life on her story being the truth? No. But from where I see it she had a lot more to lose by speaking out than she stood to gain.
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  91. Louis, for all the good you do in Right to Repair, the most important lesson you've been teaching is don't trust anyone, at least not 100%, and certainly never uncritically. I don't trust Linus Tech Tips on Linux (or how to run a non-toxic workplace). I don't trust Chris Titus to prioritize facts over clickbait. And I don't trust you when it comes to the harmful effects of Toxoplasmosis gondii¹. I appreciate the work Marques has done lately ridiculing these AI scam products, and I think it's valid that you're calling him out for serving Apple's gaslight machine here. ¹That's the brain parasite that makes rodents—and, many believe, humans—friendlier to cats. It's a joke. Don't worry about it.
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  92. ​​ @Theranthrope Good luck. They basically don't exist. I just checked my carrier: they offer exactly one "dumb phone," and it looks like a Fisher Price toy from 2003. Even overpriced 💩 companies that used to exploit cater to this demographic (read: Jitterbug) have pivoted to Android devices now.
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  93.  @jamal874  He also lied about having not used that word in over a decade.
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  94. It would be hilarious if Drumpf's team of sanctioned bottom-feeders saw this video and entered it in their appellate filing.
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  95. God, I love not being able to take notes because I lost internet 🙄
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  96. I've eaten at Blossom in NYC. It's delicious. Don't have any vegan recommendations for Austin, but Uchi is probably the best sushi you can get in the US outside of the West Coast.
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  97.  @KohrakGKOH  I'm amazed you found a TV of any "intelligence" with those specs! Then agan, I haven't shopped for a TV in quite a few years, so maybe I'm just behind the time on the state of the market. 🤷‍♂️
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  98. As a Nix user, I'm offended he didn't mention nix-env. Or is it nix profile? Wait, no—I think I'm supposed to be using home-manager... 😕
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  99. You sure it was trying to eat you? A lot of moth species don't even have mouths—whatever they ate as caterpillars is all they'll ever eat—and spend their final stage of life strictly seeking to mate. To be explicit, are you positive it didn't mistake the back of your hand for a lady moth?
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  100. People who use the "r-word" or "autistic" as an insult should not be trusted on any topic.
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  101. Nah, domesticated honeybees are fine. It's the native pollinators you have to protect. In Austin, that means bumbles, carpenters, masons, sweats, leaf cutters and mining bees.
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  102. Technical question at 4:00 -- is this confirmed shadowbanning as opposed to a YouTube "bug"? I always assumed that differences between what one app shows and another view sees is a result of YouTube sacrificing "C" in favor of "AP" to satisfy the CAP theorem.
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  103. > "Final Fantasy IX" Can't speak for all editions of the game, but I will note that Final Fantasy VIII (non-remastered) from Steam required the creation of a Square account.
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  104.  @arenomusic  it interprets it as advocating violence against an individual
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  105. Verizon dragged their feet in my area for years until Ting got a contract to piggyback on Alexandria's municipal fiber. It's almost as if lack of competition breeds complacency. (Ting's fiber rollout apparently stalled, but at least they got to my neighborhood before they lost momentum)
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  106. Yes, but speakers with a large audience have some responsibility to own their mistakes and endeavor to do better. This was for great apology video whereas I've been thoroughly disgusted recently by a certain physicist who, when people pointed out that they were spreading disinformation that was actively harmful said, effectively, "I'm not mad at myself for lying to you. I'm mad at all of you for believing me."
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  107.  @LegendslayX  Sabine Hossenfelder. Though that does sound like how NdGT would non-apologize.
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  108. There's a theory out there that YT is running this experiment not because they think it'll work, but in order to conclusively prove that it won't. Probably wishful thinking...
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  109. A third?!? For that quality he could get a $50 5m endoscope. Mine was detected by Linux OOTB, no drivers or software required.
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  110. Is Lenovo patent-squatting on the TrackPoint? If there is anyone else making keyboards with them—even stand-alone ones—I've never seen one.
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  111.  @MelroyvandenBerg  do you mean that "theoretically," do you mean that as in, "One professional hardware modder posted a kludge on hackaday," or as in, "The PCB, parts list and CAD files are all on GitHub—go to town"?
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  112. Off-topic, but good on you for focusing on a really good use for a transformer model. Mozilla is similarly developing an opt-in system that runs on your local for generating alt text for images—massive win for the visually impaired. Even more off topic: if DaVinci Resolve is working great for you, that's awesome! But Kdenlive has gotten so much better in terms of stability compared to where it was ca 2010 (when I went with Cinelerra—RIP—instead).
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  113. ​​ @McWillis Yeah, at .75 he sounds normal for any other Youtuber, but for Louis it's slower than that video when he was on sedatives.
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  114. ​ @likemau5552 I would love to see a project like Asahi, Lineage, Chrultrabook, etc. that let you unlock the bootloader on Rokus and smart TVs and install your own OS.
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  115. Everyone is missing the big picture. Remembering the adage, "If it's free then you're the product, not the customer," it stands to reason that, maybe due to privacy laws, maybe just due to it being a garbage business model, the era of companies monetizing your personal data by tricking you into installing spyware aa service is effectively dead And we should all be celebrating. I agree with Louis' points otherwise--I love my LG appliances (I actually love their chiptune happy songs!) but I'm yeeting them from my home the second they charge me a monthly fee.
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  116. Here's a messed up thing: Adobe's stock price shot up around the time your video was gaining traction. AFAICT, this wasn't an "in spite of" the customer backlash, it was because Wall Street was excited that Adobe was finding a new way to monetize AI. 🤦‍♂️
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  117. While I generally agree with your point, I do wanna say that most DEI programs aren't what you're describing—to use a Right to Repair analogy, DEI is about avoiding "vendor lock-in" and ensuring organizations have access to a diversity of talent, rather than all being siloed with the same TechBro monoculture. Diversity fosters innovation. Equity and Inclusion make your job postings competitive to people who don't want to be the Token Minority in the office.
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  118. You make a persuasive argument. I spent a premium ca 2020 on what is probably the smallest desktop motherboard with a non-embedded CPU, because I loved the idea that I could always upgrade later. Welp, that didn't pan out as the AM4 socket was retired before a better APU came along. So now I'm sitting here looking at the 4x4 7xxxHS boards and asking—is it really worth holding out for AMD to release another G-series (and hope that someone makes a 5x5 mobo for it) when I probably will need to replace the motherboard by the time that APU needs to go out to pasture? And then that conversation extends into soldered-on RAM and maybe even SSDs, especially when you look at the power efficiency of full-on SoCs, and you can see the death of the building one's own PC not too far beyond the horizon.
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  119. Honestly, products from China are going to be the best bang for your buck. Plus, anything sold from the US, Japan or Europe (with the exception of Germany) will require you to create an online account and install their app. The trick with the Chinese listings is simply not to assume any of the specs or features are as advertised—read the reviews (not the ones that say "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ can I have my gift card now?") and look for actual specs, datasheets and compatibility information.
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  120. I can't believe how few cars come with this feature—colubrid venom is a fantastic wiper fluid.
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  121. Apple Authorized Repair really competing with Red Cross Certified Life Guard for most deceptive and meaningless designation.
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  122. Because she tried to block Microsol's Activision/Blizzard acquisition? Or is there something else I'm OOTL on?
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  123. Yeah, I weep the occasional tear to this day over the New Stratos project, which took donor 458s and turned them into modern versions of the Lancia Stratos. The issue wasn't Lancia—who, hilariously, never trademarked the Stratos name (or, IIRC, design), but Ferrari, who objected to their old supercars being used in that way.
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  124. Thing is: I don't expect a company that sells through IGG to offer warranty or customer service worth 💩 (so instead I prioritize repairability and standardization of components). But something I can buy in person from a brick and mortar from an established brand? Definitely needs to do better.
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  125. ​ @rossmanngroup It's up on the Last Week Tonight channel.
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  126. Hot take: I applaud Disney for arguing this, and I hope it makes its way all the way to SCOTUS, because this is so patently absurd and such a crystal clear example of UDAAP, that even our corrupt and incompetent high court judges will toss these terms and this interpretation out in a way so as to invalidate these sorts of terms in ToSses entirely.
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  127. It's worth remembering that on a personal level, Biden should be strongly in favor or automotive Right to Repair, as his most prized possession is a 1967 Corvette Stingray that his two sons restored as a gift to him (IIRC they completely rebuilt the engine). "Shirtless Joe" doesn't want to live in a world where the only way to work on his car is to get it taken into the GM dealership.
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  128. I used a copy of Photoshop 7.0 on Linux under WINE for a decade and a half. I only switched to GIMP last year (btw: the GIMP 3 rc is really good)
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  129.  @ts757arse  Yep. Just always keep in mind, "trust but verify" is the name of the game.
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  130. RasPad 3? [Edit: Alternatively:] if you have access to a 3D printer and aren't intimidated by sourcing components (soldering should be optional), it should be a good project to build a (chonky) Pi5-based tablet.
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  131.  @Guishan_Lingyou  Sorry, to clarify: those were two separate suggestions. RasPads come as an easy-to-assemble kit, but they haven't released a Pi 5 edition yet.
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  132. Jiminy Cricket—I had completely repressed all memory of that scene from Pinocchio.
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  133. Funny thing about that: frogs don't just sit in pots of water as they boil. They jump out.
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  134. The funny thing is that the Linux kernel has had NTFS support for a minute. I don't know what features Paragon offers, and I get that it's probably way more performant than the MacFUSE software I used back in 2010, but I wonder how much of their stack is piggybacked on top of open source work and community projects
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  135. Fix Or Replace Daily. If you need a reliable work truck—as opposed to a way to advertise your tiny shlong size to everyone in your city— grab a used '90s-era Taco and you'll be able to hand it down to your grandkids. Hey—it's good enough for ISIS!
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  136.  @zakhir91  Ryzen 9. But also, I was remembering incorrectly—Geekbench single-core score is 1344 for the Haswell vs. 2103 for the Zen3, so about a 50% improvement.
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  137.  @thepirate4095  Yeah, that lines up with my results. I had this conversation with someone else—I misremembered, and when I checked my history, the 5900X had a roughly 50% increase in performance on the single-thread test.
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  138. You'll also note how he's toned it down significantly since Zaslav took over. When it was just AT&T, he was 💩ing on them 24/7. Now, the worst he does is essentially blinking twice to let us know he's being held hostage.
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  139. Elon can have his DOGE. You gave us CAT. And you even gave us a CAT Chat 🐱
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  140.  @mericanignoranc3551  Yeah, no. Texas isn't exactly known for their cetaceans. I just needed a visceral analogy, and combining southern drawl¹ with the notoriously slow and low vocalizations of whales was the best I could come up with on the spot. ¹Technically, the Texan drawl isn't even that bad—Louisiana and South Carolina are the slowest. But then again Louis doesn't live in New Orleans or Charleston.
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  141. Yeah, this is a great time to use Debian, but bear in mind that the two-year release cycle means that it's going to be unpleasant to use as a daily driver in the first half of 2025. I still recommend Debian or Mint as Baby's First Linux, but for my own purposes I've switched almost entirely to rolling releases.
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  142. It looks like it's drinking the condensate on the lid, which should be pure water.
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  143.  @johnsmith-gs4qf  My first laptop was a 16"¹. I can never go back to anything larger than a 14", and TBH, if I were buying a laptop, I'd probably go for the 10" GPD Win Max 2—the "netbook" form factor is seriously underrated. ¹Good ole Inspiron 6000. Still boots (Lubuntu) to this day. And talk about repairable!
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  144.  @StormBreaker1987  Off-topic, but Acrobat is a such a bloated PDF reader / editor. The only reason to use it is the proprietary "features" they layer onto an ISO standard. On mac, I can count on one hand the number of times I've needed something beyond Preview, and on Linux, evince is the perfect viewer + LibreOffice Draw is fine as an editor.
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  145. If she's a domesticated honeybee, as other people are reporting, then the urban center is probably her home terf. A lot of people took up urban beekeeping as a pandemic hobby, so she could be from one of those hives.
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  146. I was using a RHEL instance a few weeks ago for the first time in 15 years and was extremely confused why I couldn't install anything via rpm. 🤣
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  147. Um, excuse me Church of Scientology—when my E-Meter went on the fritz, I used my Ouija Board to ask L Ron to send me the schematics from Xenu, and he was totally cool about it.
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  148. Yeah, Louis lost me at that point—to insuinate that the popo are somehow underfunded or that selling your data to insurance companies would somehow stop them from selling it again to law enforcement.
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  149. My main takeaway from this video: I should start dating short men. I'm a cishetero male, but duly noted.
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  150. I'm not an expert, but it sounds like these remote access features only work because there's a modem in the car and you're accessing the auto-start via their remote servers. Weren't you just railing about Arlo and the promise of remote-services-free-for-life always being a scam? To be clear, what Merc, BMW and others do, charging you a subscription for hardware is scummy AF. And Hyundai not participating in the anti-Right to Repair FUD is a big ❤ in my book. But this sounds like a different issue: why can't these functions be triggered over Bluetooth or LoRaWAN? Why should I need to phone Hyundai's servers when I want to turn on my car's AC?
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  151. I'm going to say something unpopular: another way you can vote with your wallet is to pay more for the "lifetime subscription" / having the features unlocked on purchase, so long as: - The purchase transfers to all future owners - The value of the car is still in line with the price after upsells. Because telling automakers, "I'm fine paying for heated seats, but this subscription idea is a joke" will hopefully get the product manager canned who convinced BMW to sink millions into the infrastructure required to maintain that rent-seeking behavior.
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  152. Periodic reminder that the US Dept of State has funded TOR and the FBI has recommended use of good ad-blockers. So yeah, there's an argument to be made that these technologies are indeed linked to terrorism.
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