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Posted by iancmceachern 1 day ago

Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer(www.tomshardware.com)
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jccx70 18 hours ago|
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chappi42 1 day ago||
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HowTheStoryEnds 1 day ago||
Bambu Labs is completely ignoring their legal duties under the AGPL code they used while trying to make others comply to their licensing terms through abuse of the legal system.

Nobody forced them to use said code, they chose to when it was in their best interest and now they renege on the part in the license (the only thing that gives them a right to use and build on said code) when they deem it not in their interest any longer and think they're big enough to squash individuals protesting.

Nothing wrong there, right, chairman?

daneel_w 1 day ago|||
If you are referring to his video from May 2023, "Why I deleted GrapheneOS", it is about the team lead, Daniel Micay, not about GrapheneOS itself. He, in fact, praises GrapheneOS to no end in the very same video.
hamdingers 1 day ago||
Perhaps the fact that he brings petty interpersonal drama wherever he goes is the root of the complaint?
daneel_w 1 day ago||
If you with "he" mean Daniel Micay, I unfortunately agree, based on observations from previously having idled in the GOS Discord for a couple of years. Plenty of downright mean and unforgiving behavior, not seldom due to him misinterpreting others' statements and questions.
eipi10_hn 23 hours ago|||
So just don't comment?
gosub100 1 day ago||
he projects a lot of is emotional issues into his work. I support what he does, but he appears to make himself miserable in the process.
cjbgkagh 1 day ago||
I think there is an element of audience capture. Similar to how ElectroBOOM has to keep electrocuting himself for his audience. It’s a living…
stavros 1 day ago||
Maybe you know this, but ElectroBOOM doesn't actually electrocute himself, it's just a running gag.
cjbgkagh 1 day ago|||
The few I’ve seen were obviously staged but it did appear real in that he was hit with a high voltage. Looking it up suggests that he has been injured a number of times due to miscalculations.
fhn 1 day ago||||
it's a stupid running gag because some might watch that and think playing with 120V live wire is fine.
gosub100 1 day ago|||
It sure seems real to me. although some of those HV circuits like the jacob's ladder seem way too dangerous.
dralley 1 day ago||
As a matter of fact he has mentioned that one of the Jacob's Ladder videos was the only time he messed up and came close to actually electrocuting himself (by reflexively trying to grab the leads as they fell off a table). Otherwise all of the shocks are "calculated" to be nonharmful.
cjbgkagh 1 day ago|||
In the late 90s internet there was a blogger that built cool stuff with electricity, really seemed to know what he was doing, one day he blogged about how he was going to use a bunch of microwave transformers for an upcoming project. No updates since then, I presumed he died by accident.
stavros 1 day ago|||
He showed in one of his videos that he uses some explosive material for the spark and explosion, but it's been years so I don't exactly remember.
rafram 1 day ago|
When was the last time Rossmann had anything nice to say? He seems utterly miserable. I don’t doubt this is an important issue, but when he inserts himself into a dispute, it only gets more overblown and vitriolic on all sides.

(The ridiculous NYC to Austin thing is pretty representative. Complained incessantly about loony liberal New York, moved to Austin, now he complains about Texas. Sorry! Turns out there is no utopia for pathological contrarians.)

gitaarik 8 hours ago||
Yeah he's often not in a good mood, but at least he points out these things, and I understand it can get you worked up if you're investigating these things and come to these concerning discoveries. I'm happy someone is doing that work, even if it's not fun. And he seemed to have taken up that job, and I think he's doing it well, albeit he is sometimes a bit intense, but I would forgive him that.
gambiting 1 day ago|||
He's just like Steve nowadays - he built his entire brand on being angry, so he has to be angry or his core audience will leave. And if that's what you like then fine, but for me it's just not interesting anymore.
overfeed 1 day ago|||
It's the sad thing about field experts who become YouTubers: to keep up the viewership, they undergo self-Flanderization.

I was sad to watch Sabine Hossenfelder devolve from a level-headed critic of how research is done, into a loony crank who selects the contrarian angle on every issue. I'm sure the YouTube analytics inform her which topics perform better.

CWwdcdk7h 6 hours ago||||
His rants were more palpable when he blasted the design of PCB visible on screen, or vendor that didn't want to sell replacement parts, when viewer could see the damage at the same time. Now he is just another guy with mic. And while he fights for good cause I find his videos at least 5 times too long considering the actual content.
superkuh 18 hours ago|||
...or, or(!) maybe things really do suck right now? I don't think this is a controversial view. There's reasons to be upset and demand change regarding intellectual property legislation and computing and related technology's hardware.
gambiting 17 hours ago||
Of course, but they get to choose what their channel is about, and we as viewers choose if we're intersted in it. Louis specifically used to put up videos of really interesting repairs of apple products and he just doesn't do that anymore. I'm not saying he should change or that he chose a wrong path - I'm just saying I'm not interested in his channel anymore, just like I stopped watching Gamers Nexus once Steve decided that his entire personality is just going to be ranting for 60+ minutes every video. Some people love that, I don't. That doesn't mean his complaints don't have merit or are not worth doing - just that consuming content(and it's very much content) takes time, which we all have in limited supply and I'd rather watch someone being happy with something rather than being angry at everything. If I feel like being angry I just open the news.
rainbow13 13 hours ago||
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