Yeah and mass manufactured CD’s are physically stamped into aluminum and then covered in polycarbonate.

In 20 years some new type of degradation might be observed and people will say, “Oh yeah, we didn’t think of that.”

For example the etching could start micro fractures from repeated heating and cooling that happens over the long term.

Like Verbatim’s 100 year Azzo DVD media that failed in 10 years?

Or 1000 year CD’s that failed in 3 because a manufacturing defect that let moisture into the metal layer?

It saves screen space but uses on average the same memory. Variable names aren’t preserved by most compilers in the binaries so it doesn’t matter how long you name them.

But that leaves the utilities with alle the risk,

Not if you make the data center pay for it.

If a consumer wants a utility upgrade, the consumer pays all costs upfront. I know this because my neighbor works for the power company and was trying to get gas lines run to our neighborhood. The cost the power company would charge us was hundreds of thousands which even divided by the number of homes meant it would never pay off vs outlr existing cost for propane delivery.

The resources are finite whether the taxpayers pay for the construction or the corporation that needs the electric upgrade pays.

He did a comparison of products ending with a recommendation. That’s a review.

I don’t know why you can’t accept that.

You don’t watch all of his videos which is why you have the wrong idea. It’s the 2024 video where he reviewed Tru Tone.

If products are compared in detail and a suggestion to buy is given, it’s a review.

It doesn’t matter what you think the channel is supposed to be. What matters is the content.

At this point you are nitpicking and being pedantic to attempt to “win” an agurment not being had.

You wrote 3 paragraphs to avoid admitting that despite my writing about his detergent video, you responded with his dishwasher video because you haven’t watched all his content!

Comparing samples with an independent lab isn’t a review? Come on. As I already said just because most of his content is “talking head”, doesn’t mean he can’t recommend products. Which he clearly has done.

His dish washing video went to great lenghts to explain how something works

That’s a different video. He recently did another video of detergent and why his brand of detergent that he is selling for charity is better than pods.

His dish washing detergent video went to great lengths to create experimental comparisons to show his brand of detergent is better than pods. He has done experiments with other products too like dehumidifiers.

He is promoting a product. That product possibly has what many perceive as a severe defect (flicker). He could say it doesn’t personally bother him but still compare it to other lights in the same way he compared colors in detail. Is the flicker large or small?

I love his channel and watch every video. But that doesn’t mean I have to ignore when he misses a detail.

Careful reviewers cover all factors independent of their personal bias.

I meant ignore in the context that he said it doesn’t personally bother him.

His obsession over color quality while ignoring the flicker is very annoying.

The Xeon 2224G workstation with 32GB of ECC ram I got on eBay pulls 15 watts from the wall streaming 4k video on Plex.

It didn’t have 6 bays but if I needed it I could move the guts to a bigger case

I bought a used Coffee Lake era Xeon 2224G workstation with 32GB of ECC RAM to use as a NAS. It uses 15 Watts at the wall measured with a killawatt while streaming 4K with Plex.

As if you’ll have a choice in 20 years.

He’s not talking about people who actually switched but those that publicly say, “I’m switching.” But never do or immediately backtrack.

What is on my mind right now is why you care so much.

He wants to hear about those that tried it and stayed and those that tried and went back. It’s very important to know both despite his hostile phrasing.

Dahua must have improved their software. I was trying every brand of camera about 8 years ago when I setup my system. The first Dahua I bought required their ActiveX component for Internet Explorer to see the camera output from their web interface!

I agree that Dahua looked better but at the time their web interface was so bad I kept the Hikvisions.

Dahua and Hikvision have great cameras but of course you shouldn’t trust them. Block them at the firewall. I bought mine a few years ago and preferred Hikvision for its better built in webserver for initial configuration.

On the hosting side you run Frigate, Zoneminder or BlueIris (Windows) to control the cameras and record their streams.