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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