Escape From New York: Louis Rossmann Edition - Hopefully he does not make Texas a bughive

Ted's Cabin said:
The sim card is essentially just a config file that the phone reads in, so having that extra hardware for no reason is an extra point of failure.
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They're way cooler than that. They have a tiny processor and do cryptographic challenges with the tower to establish a session. I'm not entirely sure how eSIM modules work, but it's probably a programmable SIM in software where you can write the cryptographic secrets to a protected area and do the same challenge-response authentication.

One notable oddity associated with eSIMs I came across recently is reflashing your phone does not wipe out eSIMs. After I went back to CalyxOS, all my previous eSIMs were still listed and worked fine. This is likely due to that protected area being entirely unaffected by the OS itself being replaced.
 
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Ted's Cabin said:
The sim card is essentially just a config file that the phone reads in, so having that extra hardware for no reason is an extra point of failure. If there is a problem it's because phone carriers shit the bed and made eSIM terrible like every other piece of software made after 2010.
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The SIM card is a hardware kill switch to get your phone off the grid. Pull it out, signal goes blank, period. It's also hotswappable between devices. It was designed in simpler times, back when the twin towers still stood proud, economy was flourishing and the was yet to be an incentive for every world government and corporation to keep a record of every second of your life through technology.

eSIM was designed way past the PATRIOT Act, in an age when every phone that you buy has a glued in battery, and now the thing that essentially allows you to be tracked based on which towers your phone connects to is now permanently embedded in the same way. You can't quickly swap it to another phone in case your battery dies, and you can't pull it out to make sure your phone will be at the very least offline.

I do not fucking trust it and I'll take the ability to kill off any signal of my phone over convenience at any time. Anyone pushing for eSIM to supersede SIM over "convenience" is a nigger and deserves to be publicly hanged via strangulation.
 
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Ted's Cabin said:
Going through town with a beeping device measuring "something" is too autistic for even me. I once had a guy leave his house and accost me because I was walking around with a clipboard, and my clipboard wasn't even beeping that often.
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I do agree with that, Louis going around town with this thing is suuuper fucking autistic. But his 'tism makes him interesting. Otherwise there would be many more like him. He's one of those guys where you can genuinely say no one else in your sub feed is like him, unlike a lot of these tech reviewers that all put out the same videos on the same topics with generally the same points, and I'm willing to bet most being afraid to lose some sort of privileged access. There's them, then there's this guy who goes around with his fucking power level detector gizmo, raging over arbitration agreements and LG TVs.

Ted's Cabin said:
Cool, a new label that says "you are getting fucked and we now have your permission to be fucked." At best this does nothing, and at worst people use it as proof that consumers actually love being fucked by companies.
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I wouldn't say nothing. Sure the general population doesn't give a shit and buys it anyway, but for the people who reject this shit, it would save the hassle of buying it, not having that money in your bank account, getting it home and setting it up only to be disappointed, then having to go back to the store to return it, then wait 2 days to get your money back. Ordered online? Even worse, because then you have to actually pack it up and ship it back, then wait like a week to get your money.

So yeah, a label on the packaging or web page in plain view disclosing such a requirement would save a LOT of time for those who care.
 
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Sharpeteer said:
So yeah, a label on the packaging or web page in plain view disclosing such a requirement would save a LOT of time for those who care.
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The biggest issue for me is that getting these labels is going to cost a lot of political capital, and probably isn't going to change habits for 99% of consumers. Especially when everyone does it, and you have no good choices so everything has the "fuck you lol. lmao" little sticker on them. I still think they'll just notice that most people buy it despite the sticker and they'll point to it as proof people want to be fucked with. There's also the issue where none of our current consumer laws are even enforced, so what's going to happen to them? The FTC sends them a stern letter and a $20 fine? It's just not the right direction for getting any serious change done, and a lot of work.
 
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Louis appears at 01:24:59.

One thing about GN - this is exactly the type of investigative piece he said was going to go on that one GNCA channel he made. I 100% stand by what I thought back when he announced it, and that's that GNCA was made because Steve accepted the premise of assholes (LTT and the fanboys) and wanted to stop doing investigative pieces on a channel that has way more eyes on it.

The fact that he's doing it here instead, I think the advice Louis gave him back when he did that LTT takedown video stuck.
 
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Sharpeteer said:

Louis appears at 01:24:59.

One thing about GN - this is exactly the type of investigative piece he said was going to go on that one GNCA channel he made. I 100% stand by what I thought back when he announced it, and that's that GNCA was made because Steve accepted the premise of assholes (LTT and the fanboys) and wanted to stop doing investigative pieces on a channel that has way more eyes on it.

The fact that he's doing it here instead, I think the advice Louis gave him back when he did that LTT takedown video stuck.
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I'm seeing a bunch of people call this GN video a TDS fest, but it seems reasonable from the half of it I watched so far. Good Louis segment too.
 
Prehistoric Jazz said:
I'm seeing a bunch of people call this GN video a TDS fest, but it seems reasonable from the half of it I watched so far. Good Louis segment too.
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It's because a good chunk of the forum has became the very thing they were laughing at and associate any criticism of Trump's decisions as TDS. Even though there's plenty of valid criticism to be made about the current schizophrenic China tariff plan, and that's what Steve tried to show while trying his best to avoid getting political. Obviously impossible to be completely apolitical in this topic, but Steve did what used to be called journalism: found a story, gathered information and material about it, then presented it neutrally so that the viewer makes up his own mind instead of Steve telling him "orange man bad" or whatever the fuck.
 
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It's because a good chunk of the forum has became the very thing they were laughing at and associate any criticism of Trump's decisions as TDS. Even though there's plenty of valid criticism to be made about the current schizophrenic China tariff plan, and that's what Steve tried to show while trying his best to avoid getting political. Obviously impossible to be completely apolitical in this topic, but Steve did what used to be called journalism: found a story, gathered information and material about it, then presented it neutrally so that the viewer makes up his own mind instead of Steve telling him "orange man bad" or whatever the fuck.
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I agree. I voted for the guy and I thought this video was reasonable after watching the whole thing. If this were truly a TDS video, then these people in these interviews would be saying that they don't like the tariffs, and therefore everyone that supports them or voted for him are racist, Nazis, etc.

All this is is people in these companies explaining how the tariffs affect their business. That's all. There's nothing even remotely TDS about it. Steve even goes out of his way to try and avoid the political part of these kinds of discussions. He's even said so in previous videos.
 
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I haven't watched all of it yet, but even without watching it I get the gist - it's not the steep tarrifs, it's the unpredictability of it all. We have the same shit in Poland every year where the tax code changes unpredictably year after year with little time to prepare and it wreaks havoc for anyone running a business. These tarrifs are being shot from the hip at an almost hourly rate. If Trump declared "we have a million % tarrif for at least a year from now" that'd be unironically better for these businesses because they can plan for that

As much as I enjoy the thought of American made shit that I could buy instead chinkslop, the way it's being implemented will mean inevitable death for many small American businesses, not be cause they didn't want to adapt, but because they couldn't weather the constant shifts
 
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Atlas Sneezed said:
As much as I enjoy the thought of American made shit that I could buy instead chinkslop, the way it's being implemented will mean inevitable death for many small American businesses, not be cause they didn't want to adapt, but because they couldn't weather the constant shifts
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There's a common theme in these interviews, and it's that if there was a tariff that was guaranteed to be locked in at that percentage, then they could find a way to make their business work, but this constant changing and flip-flopping is unsustainable, and they can't work in that environment. I don't want to get too much into the political stuff here, as I think that's better suited for those politics threads, but there are ways to make this work in the end without killing all the businesses that cannot afford such a change overnight in the process. I'm sure some of these companies will be fine, but not all. Louis does bring up a point though - if you were to lock in said tariffs for now, we could make it work, but how do we know that's going to be the policy going forward even after Trump's term? There's a lot of uncertainty, and I think that's the biggest problem the companies in that video are talking about.

Thread tax, considering buying one of those rework stations from Louis while he's still got them.
 
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Sharpeteer said:
some of these companies will be fine, but not all. Louis does bring up a point though - if you were to lock in said tariffs for now, we could make it work, but how do we know that's going to be the policy going forward even after Trump's term?
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There's another point that kinda hit me, and all others touch on the same point - that you're getting current info from a truth social post. This reminded me that a lot of euro countries were so deranged that during COVID you would learn about new restrictions from a PowerPoint presentation or a (then) Twitter post about it We all thought that was insane back then but this is the exact same situation the US finds itself in. New tariffs are being decided not in Congress but through a social media post. It was insane back then and it's insane now
 
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Prehistoric Jazz said:
I'm seeing a bunch of people call this GN video a TDS fest, but it seems reasonable from the half of it I watched so far.
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I suspect a Venn diagram of people accusing this video of being full of TDS and LTT ballwashers is an almost perfect circle.

Thread tax: I like the point Louis made about how unrealistic it is to ask Chinese suppliers for a discount to offset the added tariff.
 
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