Literally not even a novel design and in my opinion, not patentable.

Didn’t Audi edit: try some similarly outrageous stunt about 25 years ago? Something like no user access to the engine compartment at all? As in go to the dealer to have them remove the front of your car and refill your washer fluid. I remember that went over like a limestone cloud and I don’t think they pulled the trigger on that design. Car people, where are you?

Microsoft UI “designers” need to be beaten with frozen braids of 3 foot long licorice ropes.

Fact: STFU already

When I read this crap, all I can think is that yeah backlash is growing because the forced implementation is growing. Another useless sentiment-based article.

I can’t comment on that because I’ve never been out that far but I do live in Winnipeg and we have a large french community … and I can say that I can understand and communicate in French with everybody here.

Same with Quebecois!

We were taught Parisienne French in school in Canada even in my French Immersion school.

What is spoken in Quebec is so different they’re effectively different languages, outside of academic or linguistic analysis.

I excelled in French as a kid and that’s why I went to immersion school. Imagine my shock when I moved to QC for 4 years in my early 20’s… I could have a great conversation with the dude that literally came from France but neither of us could communicate in either direction with our French co-workers lol

Guys I discovered a hidden microphone in my headphones speaker!!!

I mean it’s not that sinister.

It’s just not impressive in the slightest. Like, we still use lookup tables for trigonometry functions

Guys it’s a lookup table. Whoop de fucking do.

I’m not condemning the person I haven’t watched.

But I don’t need a 41 minute video that sounds like he just expounds personal opinions and is not really meritorious.

I follow this stuff, I have for 30 plus years.

If he didn’t heavily focus on extended warranties, he’s in the weeds.

And I see no evidence from what people are discussing here that he clues in on that.

I haven’t watched this video, but based on your comment I don’t think I’ll bother.

It is my sincere understanding that the degradation of quality is from the companies trying to leverage extended warranties as the true profit center of appliances.

edit: I should add in more detail. Sorry Avid, not trying to converse “around” you, it’s just meant to inform other’s on how I come to think this way.

The shit really hit the fan for quality when Maytag/Whirlpool bought Amana and restructured. They closed most of their manufacturing and consolidated. Really this meant that for all the “banners” or “brands” that various machines were sold under in the various stores, now for the most part they were all the exact same machines, literally made in the same plants, same pumps, elements, controllers, you get the picture. The drop in quality was precipitous from this point.

Oh, and Haier was trying to purchase either Amana or Whirlpool, can’t remember which. But at any rate Haier was in the game walking the dog on consumers as well. Samsung, who had absolutely no fucking business making appliances, then jumped hard into the game because they’re a major competitor. Businesses playing shell games and strategically competing.

All of this dovetailed with the larger industry-wide push to embrace the “extended warranty” profit stream. Companies everywhere were figuring out that the money was flowing like water with this scam. This slowly evolved into a quasi-subscription type business model where they are now designed and expected to fail in a specific time frame. Circuit boards by steam vents, changing key components to aluminum which corrodes. That type of obvious bullshit.

I think now they’ve got us by the nut sack. Buying an EW is almost automatic at this point. Nobody thinks for a second that their device is going to hit 18 months without a major malfunction.

They’ve managed to turn buying a washing machine into a Vegas Hotel type situation where the up front price is $47 but in the forensic accounting you’re paying $160.

What’s it like being an amateur that is so clueless you actually think you have any capacity to analyze what is good, better, best for coding?

What’s it like working in a field where you are completely incompetent?

Stop being a half-wit

Thank you.

I’m an oldhead so I remember the way early days.

Yes, there was a small ‘season’ that was used to churn out old tech inventory in preparation for the December frenzy. This was in the day that meaningful device updates were, by today’s standards relatively slow so it really made sense for holders of inventory to unload the stuff. Its also worth noting that at that time, electronics/tech was at it’s cyclycal low in August and early September, so nobody wanted stuff collecting dust while consumer spending slowed.

Conditions are wildly different now. Besides, it was a “genuine” thing for a few years but that’s ancient memory by this point.

e: Oh wow I found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kApzLuMw9_A

I wish I could have seen the presentation. I love the slides.

It’s what I’ve been saying for a long time, we are at the “We can easily drill to the center of the Earth, we’re simply waiting for the drilling machine to be complete” stage.

Ok going off the script a little.

I actually just had the brain wave to start up my PC House Doctor service again.

Dollar signs appear in my eyes when I remember back to the XP RPC vulnerability and how much business I did from that. This seriously, seriously sounds reminiscent of that - except the threat is directly inside the OS now it’s baked in.

like data exfiltration or … installation

Bad actors are going to have a fucking field day.

I’m so glad the steam controller is back.

I was an early adopter, I got my first steam link and steam controller in November 2015

I went through 17 steam controllers.

Seventeen.

Because they were built like absolute fucking shit, and my ear actually got attuned to the sound of the shoulder spring breaking. Crunch.

The first one I bought was totally DOA, the replacement was DOA with a broken button membrane, the replacement for that DOA with a malfunctioning back paddle. The fourth one, and first functional one I got lasted two months before the shoulder broke. There were ones I got new out of the box and the shoulder broke within an hour.

So I’m happy as fuck that it came back, but I’m so hesitant. I choose to believe that they have corrected the shitty build problem, but I guess I’ll find out!

I feel like the people who buy these types of things are trying to fill a hole in their souls.

Again it was just a shower thought which is the requisite for this comm.

Wrong.

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