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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. > "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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  4.  @arenomusic  it interprets it as advocating violence against an individual
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7.  @LegendslayX  Sabine Hossenfelder. Though that does sound like how NdGT would non-apologize.
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11.  @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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  12. 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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  13. ​​ @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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  14. ​ @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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. I can't believe how few cars come with this feature—colubrid venom is a fantastic wiper fluid.
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  21. Apple Authorized Repair really competing with Red Cross Certified Life Guard for most deceptive and meaningless designation.
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  22. Because she tried to block Microsol's Activision/Blizzard acquisition? Or is there something else I'm OOTL on?
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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. ​ @rossmanngroup It's up on the Last Week Tonight channel.
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29.  @ts757arse  Yep. Just always keep in mind, "trust but verify" is the name of the game.
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  30. 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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  31.  @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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  32. Jiminy Cricket—I had completely repressed all memory of that scene from Pinocchio.
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  33. Funny thing about that: frogs don't just sit in pots of water as they boil. They jump out.
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36.  @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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  37.  @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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  38. 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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  39. Elon can have his DOGE. You gave us CAT. And you even gave us a CAT Chat 🐱
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  40.  @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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  41. 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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  42. It looks like it's drinking the condensate on the lid, which should be pure water.
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  43.  @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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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. My main takeaway from this video: I should start dating short men. I'm a cishetero male, but duly noted.
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  50. 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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