it’s funny
Tbh I wanted to boycott Samsung after They got rid of bootloader unlocking.
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
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.
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
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.
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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.
