Comments by "SeanBZA" (@SeanBZA) on "Louis Rossmann"
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Friend got one of those dongles for his car. Plugged it into the blue one, which is a Proton Savvy AMT, a whole 0.9l NA engine and AMT gearbox. That could not exceed any speed limit, and also would not brake hard either. plus also was driven possibly a day a week. Got great scores that way.
For the fish toss in a cabbage heart, they will absolutely love you for that, and eat it up in a few hours. Lived in a rental where there was a pool that was unused, tossed in a few cheap Koi, and a pair of goldfish, plus some mollies. Now they are monster fish, and the owner still enjoys them, now they have bred a few times, making long finned koi, plus he also has a few resident kingfishers, a heron and a fish eagle coming every so often to visit and get a snack. He feeds the fish dog pellets, and the odd whole cabbage as well.
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Well, I have separate scanners and printers, but I did not buy the scanners, but picked them up off the ewaste pile. As to the refill cartridges, yes, and the refill in general has more ink/toner than the original one, simply because the refill actually fills the cartridge to the correct level, unlike OEM, where they fill to just pass a IEC page print test. Proved it regularly, where an original cartridge would barely get past 1000 pages printed before showing empty, while the same refilled cartridge (send in and get the same one back a week later, with new toner, new drum if needed and new wiper) would typically give the empty display at around 1500 pages of the same print mix.
Refill is also typically a third of the retail cost of the original, and around half the cost of wholesale as well. when looking at new or new to me printers I always look up the cartridge number and the refill cost, and simply do not choose those which are not refillable (more the DRM chip is not yet cracked, or not changeable, over any other reason) in the decision. Does mean I have stripped a good number of inkjets, because the cartridges are way too expensive for the amount of use, and if I need colour prints I go to the local shop and get it printed there for 10c per page. Last time it was a canvas print, on A2 canvas, so it was going to be them anyway.
Yes I have a colour printer, but it is going to be turned to scrap, because turning on a Tektronix/Xerox Phasor 360 costs $600 in wax, and I got this printer for free as well.
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Manufacturers want all the data because they can sell it for a profit. They know who the owner is, have the address details, and then know where they work, where thy shop, where the kids go to school, what stations the listen to, when they listen. This is to them very valuable information, which they can make a profit on even after selling the vehicle, and so long as the vehicle is running this is a profit centre. Plus they can update the vehicle remotely, reducing performance "for safety", to persuade you to trade it in to them for a new one again.
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I only ever bought one vacuum cleaner, and that was a small cylinder Aim branded one. The rest i got for free, generally Columbus, and they last, just need to buy spare parts to fix them occasionally, and new bags every so often. you want good buy Columbus, or Kärcher, or WAP, which all are commercial machines, and they are the ones you see in the rental market, and those machines go through hell in there, but survive. The commercial machines Ridgid sells are not made by them, but are made for them, and they need a good product, so keep the quality up. The others sell badge jobs, made by some cheap OEM, who gets the mantra with every order of "MAKE IT 10c cheaper or we will change supplier", so they rapidly go from barely acceptable, to total junk, in a few months.
Of course they will make hoops for warranty, because a warranty claim costs them not only the cost of a unit (doubt the OEM got more than $20 for the unit in the first place though), but also shipping for $30 to send it. Lost the whole $50 profit they made on it. Rather make the customer give up and buy another, so they get another sale, remember the brand names are often held by the same large holding company, so a sale is a sale, and the brand is indifferent, they often have the exact same call centre handling returns, and only the phone number used flashes on screen how to respond with a brand, the rest is the same Byzantine system.
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Uber by me has been forced to accept the drivers are actually employees, because they get told when to work, and have to follow direction from the app. Not a happy company getting that, especially as the drivers also have a right to strike, and have done so on a few occasions. Also getting into court for drivers assaulting passengers. The drivers also have to pay for insurance through Uber, though I can bet they get shafted over for that as well, one of the reasons they strike, because the drivers know what they get per trip, and what Uber charges.
As to LG, every single LG refrigerator arrives not in cardboard, but in a plastic shrink wrap now, with polystyrene corners, and only cardboard is a sheet on the base. Yes that comes off before delivery, unless the customer collects at the warehouse. Only thing LG supplies in cardboard are AC units, because those are thick wall cardboard, and those units are normally stacked up 10 high. Fridges are 4 high stacks only.
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Here that stainless steel would be gone the first night, ripped out, or cut off and taken as scrap metal. At nearly $1 per kilo stainless steel will vanish fast, though of course the ever popular thing is to steal every bit of brass or copper that can be found.Unless you bury it in thick concrete it will be taken, even if it is a 10cm length sticking out the wall, or a shut off valve. I just have given up, and am using PEX pipe every place outdoors, as that at least is cheaper than copper to replace, because it will be chopped off for the tiny bit of metal in the crimps, or the brass fixtures. Go to the police and they will not even open a case any more, because it makes their statistics look bad, having 200 cases a week minimum.
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Keep the receipt and box for the warranty claim. If it dies before the warranty ends simply return as defective, get a refund ( gift card is fine, and actually preferred) and go buy a new one with it, as that gives you the same warranty again. I got 7 years out of a cheap kettle that way, even though the actual units only lasted between 9 to 11 months before they went bang. first one was repaired, and died again before the 3 month repair warranty expired, and they simply gave a gift voucher, which gave a new unit, and a valid 1 year warranty on it, which, with a copy, went into the box, along with the loaner kettle. Kettle no 8 lasted 1 year 1 week before it died. Those 7 replacements cost me only $1, as the price went up in year 5, and the original store had closed up the branch.
Just had a TV fixed under warranty, as it had a failed backlight, just 4 weeks short of the 3 year warranty expiring. The year after I got it, they had changed to a 1 year warranty, for some reason.
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Many of those companies also use a POX for mail, so that they can simply toss out the notices that are there about the signature being needed, or toss those that arrive in there, so they can deny getting the cancellation request. The only way to get a signature would be to pay a server to serve them in small claims court, for a few months of membership fees, with the returned mail as proof that it was sent and ignored. Having to either have a lawyer local to you, or the gym manager, spend all his days in a court trying to say that he was not informed, will likely result in a few default judgements against them, and the gym forever having the equipment taken and auctioned off as well. Funny how in other lesser countries this type of cancellation is considered a predatory practise, and is illegal
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You can have a headlight with CAN bus in it, great for LED assemblies that can dim when needed, and not be bright when detecting approaching lights. But that also needs ot go to a BCM direct, and not be connected to the rest of the CAN bus, because it is easier to not have a firewall in the millions of spare processor cycles that the body module has when running. Then publish the spec for the commands when the vehicle is out of warranty for the first one, so anybody can make a compatible headlight, and no need for a serial number, or make the tool to add that new serial number free, or very low cost, so the manufacturers of all the scan tools can add this to the vehicle database they use.
After all many scan tools allow key programming, which arguably is a much higher security risk over a headlight swap, as having an aftermarket light is, so long as it is DOT compliant (not to go into the crappy US headlights, using a spec from pre war, and not even sure which war they decided on, so all are great at glare, and poor at light), not going to be a safety risk.
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Organised theft will simply clone the authorising machine, and then simply unlock the stuff before selling it, so this will not stop them. I see the only things with anti theft on them by me being expensive instant coffee, and baby formula. The razor blades are behind the counter with the cigarettes, right at the front of the shop, so you buy them there.
Disposable razors though, which use the exact same blades in them, made on the same machine, however are in the shop in a pack of 10 or 20, and are just on the shelf. You can guess which ones I buy, as that pack of 20 will last at least 5 times as long as the single pack of 4, non disposable, razor blades, but cost only a quarter of the price. Often the exact same blade cartridge as well, just solvent welded onto a cheaper plastic handle.
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