>At about the same time ModelFKeyboards posted his comment here, somebody created a new account on that wiki, then removed much of the negative information on the page and replaced it with similar wording to the comment (including deleting a scan of the warranty policy for "DMCA reasons").
> SF is a hell-hole because of these crime loving activist groups.
the cost per arrest in austin while these cameras were up was over $7000/arrest.
From an anti-crime perspective, spending $7000 on police salaries & having the police patrol high crime areas is a much more effective use of funds. It also doesn't violate the 4th amendment.
A lot of the criticism of librewolf is for being "woke"
I differentiate between someone who holds political beliefs that I don't, or that are a little wild; and someone who holds the belief that I am trying to get them killed. Particularly when there is an easy way to figure out which phone is mine if one were so inclined.
The former may not like me, but the latter ? if you believed someone was trying to kill you, what lengths would you go to? i think grapheneos & librewolf are two very different cases.
This is interesting since I never had an issue with the loaner program, or apple making those tools available. The tech press had a field day laughing over that, but it wasn't anything professional repair people considered an issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vhCaFW5xTk
I was quite aggravated that the tech press managed to put focus on the piece of kit they were sending people to fix devices, rather than on the real issue; telling distributors they're not allowed to sell us individual components that they would otherwise make available to anyone willing to wire them money for a large enough order.
The aggravation over the tools rental, to me, was always a nothingburger.
> As a long-time Louis fan it's sad to me he basically just complains even after leaving New York City. Also, when I met Louis IRL at one of his meetups he was actually super rude.
I've always gone out of my way to make people feel welcome at meetups. From asking a little about what they do, how their day is going, what their dreams are in life. I don't just do this as meetups. I do this when people recognize me on the street, when people recognize me if I'm on a date. I even took five minutes out to talk to a viewer while I was taking my girlfriend for treatment after she had a stroke.
The only person I've ever had a negative reaction from at a publi
meetup in person was the stalker that followed my girlfriend across the country after I physically removed from the event.
There's at least 50 videos on the channel on any of the issues I consider to be main issues that are 5 minutes or less. The people who make the criticisms you make usually don't watch any of those.
It's not just the 10 minute video they think is boring, it's anything I produce. They're not viewers, they're commenters when something frontpages reddit or hn.
and that's fine - people don't have to watch or like my stuff. I just don't produce content for people who will NEVER watch my stuff. It's like fogo de chao trying to cater to vegans.
I could make this video 30 seconds, but it loses its effect. It loses the story, which is what draws people in who otherwise wouldn't care. Without the history, the details, the villain, and the point - do you honestly believe a 15 short of "hey bro john deere uses gpl stuff and doesn't release it rawr" would have the same effect as this video? Even 10% the effect, of getting normal people to care about farmers getting screwed? I doubt it.
I could be wrong, but as far as "Pushing into mainstream" - it made CBC news, at least half a dozen other news stations, got a 50 page report from the FTC, made it to the president's desk, was mentioned in an executive order, and a bill just passed a week ago.. I don't know how much more mainstream it gets unless the issue gets made into a boy band.
This guy pretended to be offended at me calling him clueless in my video thumbnail here. TL;DR - he implied independents might install tiktok on customer cellphones if they're unauthorized. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vmbDczK-78
He then said he cannot negotiate with bullies, and the legislature said if the opposition won't negotiate, then we can't pass a bill.
Imagine if I said that I refused to be present at my murder trial because I didn't like the clerk. Would I get off trial for murder? Hell no. But it works for them.
He makes broad assumptions and undermines trust in our entire industry, and claims me calling him "clueless" in the thumbnail is beyond the pale - that's just too much! As a result, I am hands off in that state. I supply money and resources to people who do the work in that state, and keep my name off of it all. There was one senator who was on my side, Doug Erickson, but he died of COVID....
The irony of it all, one of the companies he represents, Samsung, actually DID start installing tiktok on customer phones without their consent, a point I went over 2 years later. This happened months after the legislature tossed right to repair because of concerns about repair shops stealing student data/copies of their homework... I'm not kidding. My demeanor in this video is kind of off the wall, but.. can you blame me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUThdBfy_-U
>Off topic but have you considered adding Chat-GPT added summaries to your videos as a TL;DW? There is a plugin called eightify.app that produces summaries. It just feel like sometimes you are limiting your audiences to the hard core nerds with your long winded rants.
No. My channel was never started with the goal of having 100m subscribers. In my initial musings, I thought, MAX subscribership, BEST CASE scenario was 300 subscribers, since I estimated the people going down the LCD-cell-only/component level repair rabbithole with Apple products to be around 300 at the time 10 yrs ago. and that assumes 100% of them watch/subscribe to my channel, which is a lofty figure.
getting to 1.7 million subscribers is ridiculous. This wasn't supposed to happen. A cursory look at my older videos, total lack of preparation, production quality, etc should make clear that the goal was never widespread viewership.
but, if 1.7 million people ARE viewing, if I've blown out my initial best-case-scenario by 3 zeros and change.... why go out of my way to do it all differently? Why adapt my content to people who admit they don't want to watch anyway?
It's not a movie, it's a 9 minute video... I totally get if someone doesn't want to watch a 9 minute video, but... I'm not making content for them.
I wasn't trying to get big, I was just producing what I felt like producing.. if doing that got me to 1.7 mil, maybe being myself is the thing to keep doing.
>Offtopic: is it true what he says about Apple pairing their sleep sensor chip to their security signatures? That would be such a scumbag move.
Try replacing an angle sensor in a A2442. It won't work, even if it is from another Macbook. It has to have GSX run on it for it to work.
What we do now when they're corroded is do our best to try and clean up the existing one. Maybe desolder the hall sensor, use a fine tipped iron like the Hakko 2032 w/ T30-KN tip to "file" the pins and pads as much as we can, and put it back on. Sometimes, it works.
When it doesn't, we tell the customer "I'm sorry, no sleep for you. Only manual sleeping!" It sucks.
The places with access to GSX, are the places not permitted to do component level board repair on machines with liquid damage.
The places without access to GSX, are the places with the best ratings in the country for component level repair on machines with liquid damage.
If I were to go forward with something like this, I would rather provide support/funding to an organization that has been pursuing this that I find to be well versed, qualified, and ready to go, than do it myself.
With the Right to Repair stuff, in some states, I've put together my own lobbying plans. In others, I tried to figure out who had the best foothold there already with an actionable plan & pre-existing experience winning on similar issues and funded them. Some examples of this were washington, rather than do it myself I gave USPIRG a fair amount of funding to get it done, which is helpful since the charlie brown affair sullied my reputation among some of the legislators.
Even in states where we do our own lobbying, there is usually a large level of partnership with organizations that already exist within the state, and a microgrant program where we fund a bunch of small groups to educate locals/organize people prior to making a legislative/lobbying push.
>It's cementing my personal opinion deeper and deeper within me that that the media is directly responsible for forming the viewpoints and ideas of a huge amount of people - and they're violating this responsibility in huge ways by having inexperienced/irresponsible journalists and journalism - not to mention the corporate and governmental meddling that's pervasive to journalisms core.
I would be fine with the author of the article not being informed on the topic if they had just reached out to some farmers to ask what they think before blindly publishing this as a win.
I'm not a farmer. I have no clue.
I get numbers of people who show up at the state legislature in Nebraska in 2017, Maryland 2020, NY 2015, and I call them all up when this comes out. Some will be open to speaking on the record, some not, and some will come on video.
Nobody has all the answers, and nobody has the time to research & become an expert on everything when covering so many different topics in a day. That's fine.
Not asking the direct stakeholders who are affected by this news what they think of it when writing these articles, is a giant misstep. It takes so little time to do.
I think there is a financial penalty to not being the first out with an article, so the incentive structure is to be the first out with the new news, rather than the most correct. The corrections will never do as well as the original piece, either. There was one thing I got wrong in 2018, because I didn't have access to the court records at the time. Once they were shared with me, I posted a correction in 3 separate videos, that, altogether, got less than 5% the viewership of the original piece. It's even worse for mainstream outlets that issue the correction as an asterisk or bury it, rather than as a centerpiece of their programming.
I hope the letter that Jared Wilson wrote the farm bureau gets published somewhere at some point, it'll be a good read! I asked if he had anything I could link to, he's not a journalist, just a really well spoken farmer.
> So, you think businesses should move away from the largest single-point concentrations of customers and workers? Something like 20% of all the humans in USA are represented by those two little acronyms NY and CA.
You are correct in that you need to fish where fish are. Conversely, this sounds too close to staying with the abusive partner because they're hot. At some point, the abusive partner needs that prompt to change their behavior, and that does mean leaving them, even if they are hot.
> If we can avoid saying I'm victim blaming, he clearly made mistakes. If someone is giving you money (front of the line/rush service) in most tax jurisdictions, you are going to owe a tax on that. The website errors of not paying local sales tax well that's just ...dude.... you were seriously playing with fire on that one.
My problem is not owing on the areas where I made a mistake, which were 0.1% of my transactions. By all means, spend a year and two people's time around the clock going through my books to uncover less than $7k, the state is welcome to spend their time the way they see fit, regardless of fiscal viability.
My problem was with the starting assumption that my error rate was closer to 50%, before they even read any of my submissions, and maintaining this for almost a year and digging into it. That's a heart attack.
Every step of the process feels like you are trying to convince a toddler that PPBUS_G3H is 8.5v when the SMC works and 8.15v when the SMC doesn't, and if you can't get the toddler to understand it you lose your life savings.
A 0.1% error rate is a pretty good error rate. Would I prefer 0%... sure... I am human... I spent years trying to grow a business from nothing. I didn't get a bank loan for this or line of credit, I was rubbing two sticks together for years, working out of the park, and taking the time to show everyone else how to do what I do once I learned how to do it at night during the little spare time I had. To do that and be at 0.1% for an error rate after a year of professionals who are financially motivated to find everything they can, I'm actually kinda proud of that.
> I watched about half of the video. Tbh his excuses about not properly counting sales tax to me just sound weird. if you have a business you need to hire someone who has expertise in this area if you grow to the size where it matters. I also find how he only shares his error rate and not the absolute numbers a little sus. I highly doubt the government would be auditing him if there wasn’t a lot missing.
I don't feel like sharing my gross revenue with people I do not know. I do hire an expert, which is why a business with so many different and complex income streams had a 0.1% error rate over a very long time period.
If you get a 99.9% on a final after a group of professors spend a year reviewing your test & essay answers, wouldn't you be happy?
I appreciate the alert, thank you my friend.