Tbh I wanted to boycott Samsung after They got rid of bootloader unlocking.
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Influencers having public fights with corporations is a pretty funny genre
Does Rossman qualify as an influencer? He seems too... competent for that term. I see him more as a consumer advocate
He influenced me to hate apple and support right to repair.
I know what you mean but he's the definition of influencer just instead of selling vapid sponsored products he's selling 44 minute long autistic rants where his hyper fixation is consumer rights.
I personally define influencer as "someone who makes social media content for a large percentage of their income"
I know it has a derogatory connotation for many people though
I'm not sure if that applies to Rossman actually.
I do agree that depending on how we define influencer he may be one, but the revenue part is not necessarily it & there are many counterexamples of influencers for whom this activity is not their main source of revenue.
FYI Rossman has videos on his own stance on influencers and whether he considers himself one. You can just search his channel for "influencer". It comes up a bit too in his videos on Linus Sebastian.
Yeah that's how most influencers work. But there are others as well.
I love it. Does more than just a lawsuit on its own since it simultaneously does public awareness and advocacy work, plus it's kinda just entertaining to see people have beef with corpos
Yes exactly it creates an unsolvable public relations crisis for the corporation and they can't use any of their favorite dirty tricks to get out of it
Yup.
Pull some strings to keep stories out of traditional print media about it? The stuff on social media has already been clipped and reposted a billion times.
Buried the plaintiff's legal team in paperwork? Here's another video on your obviously scummy tactics that clearly indicate to most average people you're not acting in good faith and probably have something to hide/defend that's unjust, making even less people trust your company going forward.
Know you won't get sued for that much because it's just one claimaint? A ton of people who watched the videos now want to sign on to a class action.
The only solution if they're truly in the wrong is to fix the problem, or pay up in court.
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Or hope it blows over because people's memories are notoriously short so that sometimes works too 💀
Samsung did the same damn thing to me before the AI craze. Apparently the S/N of one of the 2 970's I bought from Amazon indicated a non-USA region. Entirely indistinguishable to consumers. Warranty denied.
Never bought another Samsung NVMe since 2019.
Thank god I'm European and in the EU the 2-year warranty is mandatory by law and it's carried by the seller, not by the manufacturer.
that would be the fault of amazon's genius idea of mixing inventory from multiple sellers and suppliers together.
Yeah, you can't trust Amazon to not mix stock from various sources. Though with any product with verifiable serial numbers, I always verify them as soon as I receive them. Too much counterfeiting which is why they're verifiable in the first place.
He makes an honest point. Besides, my first 980 pro lasted only 24 months. The second lasted 26. It's nice performance but without much reliability.
I have a 980 pro. It’s been sitting in my PC since I built it for college back in 2021 or so.
You, uhh, offering to sell on the cheap maybe?
I do put mine through some abuse, between the programming, gaming and server duties. Still having rotten luck with them though. I think I bought my first in 2020, my girls in early 2021, and my second in late 2021. Mine are now both dead. Glad yours is going strong.
My Intel 520 series 60GB 2.5" SATA SSD from 2011ish is still going strong. It's the OS drive in my FreeBSD server
Pretty crazy how this modern shit fails so quickly
I honestly think it's because they make it so small. It's an unnecessary requirement. I'm considering going back to sata. My near 20-year-old and long-since-retired Western Digital Raptors would probably still boot if I pulled them out and plugged them in. They did 5 years ago when I did it to reclaim a few old files. They sounded like a frozen turkey rolling down wooden steps, but they worked.
What's crazy is that in this day and age, it is near impossible to find anything designed for longevity. Despite it being very possible, it's bad business and not among the options. Things are created only if they have an achilles heel that causes non-permanence and necessitates repeat business.
I say this as I copy files over to my near 20 year old PNY XLR-8 flash drive (my old daily driver). Those things were built with love. It has lasted and outperforms a lot of the new ones I own for both read and write speeds and also for it's ability to protect itself from outdoor elements. I've been using it up in the woods in my radio for the last 2 years after the (2) newer 1T drives I was using both died pretty quick deaths. Half a year at best. I think heat from sunlight kills them.
Buy enterprise gear if you want longevity. I have a stack of Seagate Exos drives that I've had for many years of 24/7 uptime without a single failure yet.
Same experience and use with 60GB Kingston SSD. Before FreeBSD it run Windows 7.
The fact that both died after such a similar time frame indicates that something is going on. Assuming he is not hitting very high TBW numbers, could be a voltage issue from the PSU even. Then again TBW spec wise these are quite weak, so it wouldn't be that unreasonable to hit it given some slightly niche use case.
we've been through similar bullshit here. we just cut out those companies and never again do we buy from them, for ourselves or our clients.