To this very day, with only the slightest amount of technical knowledge, you can log onto people’s existing devices, watch their video feeds, initiate print jobs, etc.
A ‘haha im hax0r’ amusement from 20+ years ago is still going strong.
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.
Perhaps this will explain it better
You’re referencing a time when the content was also completely useless, and ZERO production values were expected.
Times have changed, old man.
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?
You know that Vista was an irredeemable piece of shit. Don’t know why you’re bothering to defend it.
What’s it like working in a field where you are completely incompetent?
Stop being a half-wit
People like to rag on AI here because it grants them coolness points and because they’re threatened that it will literally do a better job, faster and cheaper than they can. If the so called “tech gurus” around here would think more about the greater good (as in helping to train AI instead of always criticizing it) we’d have a much better society.
I will murder you
You know what, that completely tracks
They are made with whole food sourced ingredients
I do too, this was my opportunity to say my opinion and not get yelled at lol
I really feel that would sell like hot cakes.
But since nicotine and caffeine are related molecules and are similar neurostimulants, we could just smoke tobacco hey
Sixths
Jurassic Park is a 2/5 movie at best.
OH NO DINOSAURS!!! LOOK OUT!
Whew, we’re safe.
OH NO MORE DINOSAURS AAAAAH
That’s the movie.
What about Mark?
My brother, who is the worst video game player I’ve known in my entire life. Takes games more seriously than any human being I know but is horrendous at them. Every thing he does is defended as the clearly correct choice no matter how conspicuously wrong it is; Continually grieves not being included in groups, complains that he’s not durable or DPS enough, but will reject out of hand the mildest hint, statement, suggestion, instruction, or commandment. Hated by every guild he’s ever been a part of; Only functional carrying characters an order of magnitude of lower power, and that makes him feel like Ultra Eternity King Lord Of All Games.
Nobody is afraid of technology.
Most people buying this stuff are just gadget goofs with way too much disposable income, nothing more.