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  • @techlinked
    @techlinked  19 дней назад +636

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    • @yuvrajchakravarti8038
      @yuvrajchakravarti8038 19 дней назад +13

      You were in the video.... Kind of

    • @Day100
      @Day100 19 дней назад +33

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    • @CameronOwen101
      @CameronOwen101 19 дней назад +5

      ​@@Day100it's good to have goals

    • @brionlund2467
      @brionlund2467 19 дней назад +5

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    • @lasarith2
      @lasarith2 19 дней назад +3

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  • @AayushChaudharyGames
    @AayushChaudharyGames 19 дней назад +1854

    We should have called windows on ARM ..... WARM

    • @VanillaSpooks
      @VanillaSpooks 19 дней назад +279

      I prefer COLD, Computer on Linux distribution

    • @AayushChaudharyGames
      @AayushChaudharyGames 19 дней назад +35

      @@VanillaSpooks Hehe

    • @Ironpants57
      @Ironpants57 19 дней назад +84

      @@AayushChaudharyGames That is terrifying..
      RUclips translated your message from '@VanillaSpooks Hehe' to 'CAIEazWuHEID5HlHQ8XaC8w Hehe'

    • @akhilbabu_
      @akhilbabu_ 19 дней назад +1

      @@Ironpants57 Ah, yes, the grand machinations of RUclips's transcendent algorithm have once again revealed their celestial power. 'CAIEazWuHEID5HlHQ8XaC8w Hehe' is not merely a mistranslation, but a coded message from the digital gods, whispering ancient secrets of the cyber realm. Embrace the terror, for it is but a gateway to enlightenment in the world of binary whispers and pixelated prophecies.

    • @e1ectrino
      @e1ectrino 19 дней назад +29

      And “ARM architecture” - “ARMchitecture”.

  • @id104335409
    @id104335409 19 дней назад +619

    EU: All phones should use the same charger!!!
    Us: Yees! Finally!
    EU: All phones should use the same cable!!!
    Us: OMG! Thank you!
    EU: We need to read all your text messages before submitting!!!
    Us: Yees, wait - WHAT?!?!

    • @ultramegax
      @ultramegax 19 дней назад

      What does the charger/cable issue have to do with the proposed EU spying legislation? Nothing. I don't see your point here at all. Not all regulation is good or helpful.

    • @mirai9150
      @mirai9150 19 дней назад

      The US already does it in hidden fashion, don't you worry

    • @jeckjeck3119
      @jeckjeck3119 19 дней назад +17

      We'll just learn to write in codes.
      So let's gooo!

    • @gormless-idiot
      @gormless-idiot 19 дней назад

      @@jeckjeck3119 yeah, bb doubleplusgood. I thought Airstrip One left Eurasia (doubleplusungood btw) years ago.

    • @Butterscotch_96
      @Butterscotch_96 19 дней назад +24

      Fuck it
      Standard galactic alphabet

  • @loftismark
    @loftismark 19 дней назад +70

    "surge pricing" my arse. changing the price of water in a heat wave is price gouging. literally criminal.

    • @MTGeomancer
      @MTGeomancer 18 дней назад +6

      Only if there is a declared emergency, which there wouldn't be for a simple heat wave.
      This practice of electronic price tags could be stopped if consumers simply boycotted any store that implemented it. The practice would end in a single day if they did. But the reality is consumers are stupid, and they don't care. They'd complain endlessly ... yet still go to the same store and still buy everything they normally would. The voice of the wallet is the only one businesses listen to.
      Proof is in the stores that have already done this, it's quite common in department stores like Khol's and JcPenny to already have electronic price tags. A funny, but also sad story involving JcPenny is for a time they tried being honest with their customers and having real pricing instead of playing games with fake sales and fake coupons. Sales plummeted and they had to go back to being deceptive. Turns out, consumers like being lied to.

  • @pniehusde
    @pniehusde 19 дней назад +694

    Finally someone talks about Chat Control. It is shocking how little media coverage such a dangerous law gets.

    • @Elegusch
      @Elegusch 19 дней назад

      They are just hyped dunking on apple and not realizing that you can’t give ANY power to governments. Boot in your ass from different megacorps are easier to change than government’s tasted blood

    • @papakamirneron2514
      @papakamirneron2514 19 дней назад +87

      Because people don’t care and are stupid. As a Frenchman it is shocking to me to see what my fellow countrymen will loose their shit over before just ignoring the blatantly Orwellian bills that are passing. Semi recently police got access to our microphones and cameras, a power I am sure will never be abused, we stopped abusing power in the 1940s, I mean 50s, etc… until 2010/20s.

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 19 дней назад +4

      It isn't dangerous, allowing people to torment children into suicide is dangerous. If you can't say it out in the open, perhaps you should reconsider saying it at all. Virtue dies in darkness.

    • @gagagero
      @gagagero 19 дней назад

      It's been tried multiple times. Half the time it didn't pass the vote, the rest of the time it was either declared illegal or against the core principles of the EU.

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf 19 дней назад +1

      It wasnt going to pass.

  • @Bananalnc
    @Bananalnc 19 дней назад +889

    If there's one technology I'd love for everyone to hate it to extinction, it's surge pricing. I love getting punished for going to the grocery store at the only time I'm available

    • @GASNICABRUNATNA
      @GASNICABRUNATNA 19 дней назад +14

      Which tyrannical country has this in place?

    • @rohithkumarbandari
      @rohithkumarbandari 19 дней назад +18

      For me the tech is windows. If this happens nvidia would focus driver development on Linux. Everyone would start making apps for Linux and all drawbacks are gone. Now world would be so much efficient with less energy consuming lightweight os.

    • @itisabird
      @itisabird 19 дней назад +34

      Germany already has it in petrol stations. Their prices vary enormously from one hour to the next, and there's no clear pattern on when should you go to get a decent price. It is a really hateful practice, indeed.

    • @mcbaws21
      @mcbaws21 19 дней назад +5

      @@GASNICABRUNATNA certain services like uber already do this

    • @reanimationxp
      @reanimationxp 19 дней назад +2

      delete this comment, good god why would you give them ideas?

  • @JS-hx1cu
    @JS-hx1cu 19 дней назад +166

    Not to mention the biggest problem of chat control: It doesn't even target criminals, as anyone with a brain can encrypt illegal stuff themself before sending it over a messenger.

    • @gormless-idiot
      @gormless-idiot 19 дней назад

      Yeah, it's really dumb. I think they just want to be able to read everything people are saying. It's basically just the Patriot Act but for the EU, but the lawmakers writing it are pretending it's a good thing because they're "thinking of the children". I bet the people writing these laws have been to Epstein Island. Rules for thee but not for me.

    • @andreamichelezucchi8600
      @andreamichelezucchi8600 19 дней назад

      Exactly. It's just an excuse to spy on everyone.

    • @BellCube
      @BellCube 19 дней назад +5

      This gets into a concept in design that I've been calling barrier-to-entry (don't know if that's the actual term). Essentially, making something harder to do makes fewer people do it. A drastic example would be how few people use Linux. You **could** do it, but most don't, even if a lot of people would like the privacy benefits, because it's quite time-consuming and requires prior computer-working knowledge. In a similar sort of way, look at how a number of online services add a ton of buttons between you and the cancel button. It's not that they're going to catch everyone. It's that they're going to catch even a few people.
      And, hey. If you catch just one more child predator (and there are no other reprecussions for innocent people), that's a huge win in my book.

    • @cinderwolf32
      @cinderwolf32 19 дней назад +7

      There are some things that obviously need to be illegal and punished. No same person will argue that child predators need to be ripped from their comforts and at least placed in prison (since people disagree about the death penalty). Let me remind you that there are things which are not so universally illegal which governments do not like: what when, in some years, the government enforces policies that anyone LGBT should be jailed? Egypt has already used invasive measures to catch these supposed criminals. My point is that there is no universally uniform division between legal and illegal, and these things change over time. If you think your government is certainly better than that and moral: no they aren't.
      First they came for the Communists
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a Communist
      Then they came for the Socialists
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a Socialist
      Then they came for the trade unionists
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a trade unionist
      Then they came for the Jews
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a Jew
      Then they came for me
      And there was no one left
      To speak out for me
      - Martin Niemöller

    • @XX-pp3bx
      @XX-pp3bx 16 дней назад +4

      @@BellCube no, you do not throw the baby out with the bath water. Privacy is a fundamental human right and you do not take that away because bad people do bad things. you find another way.

  • @leonidas14775
    @leonidas14775 19 дней назад +467

    Never fall for "think of the children"

    • @JohnDoe-wq5eu
      @JohnDoe-wq5eu 19 дней назад +57

      As true today as when The Simpsons first made that joke.

    • @martinferjancic
      @martinferjancic 19 дней назад

      Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things, The Flag, the bible and children.

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 19 дней назад +2

      Especially not if yours is a stain on the pavement after being bullied into jumping by anonymous classmates.
      Top tier heartlessness there, genius.

    • @DJRaffa1000
      @DJRaffa1000 19 дней назад

      ​@@InservioLetumwe just dont want orwellian total government control and this is a huge step in that direction.
      Also how can "classmates" be anonymous. If you are in the same class you know them.
      And on top of that, why dont the parents intervene before the bullying gets so bad that Something serious happens ? Its their responsibility to watch out for their children and not the governments.
      (Dont get me wrong, bullying is very bad and should be punished. But being subject to general suspicion to the point where private corporations crawl through every message ever sent is compretly brainrotted.
      Whats next on the list, car manufacturers listening to conversations in cars and school busses because bullying can happen there too ?... playgrounds being under 24/7 surveilance because it happens there too ?. .. and also some patents bully their child, so better have police or private security listen to everything you do at home even if you dont have children?. ... thats just a dystopian world we dont want to live in.
      And the point of it is. If you are going to the police because of severe bullying and they investigate, they are already allowed to search encrypted devices and all that.
      This legislation just is a 24/7 surveilance of what the police CAN ALREADY DO if there is an investigation.
      So got to the police before Something bad happens instead of wanting to subject everyone to a total dystopian surveilance state)

    • @Hybris51129
      @Hybris51129 19 дней назад +73

      ​@@InservioLetumMore like condemning your children and their children to have less privacy and fewer rights. But again as it has been pointed out why let logical concerns get in the way of blind emotional decision making?

  • @InfernosReaper
    @InfernosReaper 19 дней назад +94

    Considering the only way to enforce not-sharing illegal material involves invading the personal information of individuals and privileged information of companies, that's a bit too intrusive for anyone's good and can be a huge backdoor issue for security in general
    Meanwhile, those who regularly deal in such things will work around it one way or another, as always. They always do

    • @LlywellynOBrien
      @LlywellynOBrien 19 дней назад +4

      The thing is the huge majority of those producing and funding CSAM are not particularly sophisticated.

    • @tonyjohnson1580
      @tonyjohnson1580 19 дней назад +5

      @@LlywellynOBrien right now. People are only as sophisticated as they need to be. At one point most of the internet was unencrypted, because encryption was deemed unnecessary, until too many problems came about due to the lack of encryption. Right now they don't need to be that sophisticated, because the easier method works, but if that method is compromised they will become more and more sophisticated to combat the problem as long as they want to continue to profit and distribute from such material.

    • @Davinmk
      @Davinmk 19 дней назад +2

      It’s like thinking increasing border patrol fixes drug abuse

    • @LlywellynOBrien
      @LlywellynOBrien 19 дней назад +1

      @@tonyjohnson1580 I don't think the majority of those engaged on either end are really capable of participating in a technical arms race. Certainly a certain number of hardened and skilled people on both ends will but if for example we could cut the flow of CSAM from extremely poor Filipino families to Western men, that'd spare tens of thousands of victims.
      Those families are very unlikely to have the skills, incentives or resources to go beyond using pretty mainstream sites and apps.

    • @captainbumface3595
      @captainbumface3595 19 дней назад +2

      Same thing with gun control

  • @Chewbucksa
    @Chewbucksa 19 дней назад +624

    That grocery store scam is insane. It warrants a hunger strike.

    • @blooddumpster3427
      @blooddumpster3427 19 дней назад +25

      I'll be over here with my diabetes cheering you on. I gotta eat tho

    • @Chewbucksa
      @Chewbucksa 19 дней назад

      @@blooddumpster3427 you will have no diabetes if you join my hunger strike and lose weight

    • @Demmrir
      @Demmrir 19 дней назад +7

      If you don't like it, you don't like capitalism.

    • @AirbornChaos
      @AirbornChaos 19 дней назад +71

      @@Demmrir Your point being?

    • @Chewbucksa
      @Chewbucksa 19 дней назад

      @@Demmrir I like my free Linux because it no capitalist and I don't give money to trillionaire.

  • @NormanSaxon331
    @NormanSaxon331 19 дней назад +57

    1:22 Always get a kick out of how the lawmakers don't want those laws applied to themselves. I'd also be curious about how actually effective these massive "save the children" ideas really are versus false flags and privacy leaks. My guess is the amount of legitimate illegal material about kids wouldn't even be a fraction of a percent. But it would be a gold mine for info about wrong thinkers and protestors.

    • @ultramegax
      @ultramegax 19 дней назад +20

      And that's exactly the point that privacy advocates are making. Most crime is stopped through good police work, without the need to erode everyone's privacy. Moreover, breaking encryption for the EU also gives free reign to any authoritarian government. You can't just selectively do this, thinking it won't affect journalists and dissidents in authoritarian countries.

  • @lemmonsinmyeyes
    @lemmonsinmyeyes 19 дней назад +219

    Bro... that digital price label combined with an AI that can track you thought the store, compare a years worth of previous purchases, combined with the ability to buy search data from other places. They could change the price for each shopper as they go by! "This customer has alcoholism and perpetually buys cheap vodka twice a week. Lets charge a few cents more for him and call it a 'we know you very much like this product. Therefore, we keep extra on stock as a premium personalized convenience experience. So we charge a bit more for that service'. When in actuality the store carries the same stock they always had. Like how streaming prices change alot depending on the region a subscriber is in

    • @nicolarobatto7469
      @nicolarobatto7469 19 дней назад +38

      "dear customer, your vitals reveal that you are damn thirsty rigt now! buy this small bottle of water for the small price of 15$ to quench your thirst"
      a great future awaits us

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 19 дней назад +2

      Thankfully illegal where I live.

    • @Alloveck
      @Alloveck 19 дней назад +3

      Yeah, it's definitely a bad thing most likely. But at the same time, I have long wondered just how much companies would drop prices if A: They could set prices on a per-customer basis, and B: Knew you were an iron-willed cheapskate who absolutely never would pay the standard price in the foreseeable future. Would they choose to sell at a lower profit margin when it's definitely either a lower margin for that particular customer or no sale at all?
      I mean sure, I'd expect that such price customization potential would be far, FAR more likely to raise prices when demand is high then lower them otherwise. But I still dream of a world where patient cheapskates don't have to meet the inflated price points that wealthier and/or more impulsive shoppers enable. Because seriously, the markup on some stuff is ridiculous.

    • @reanimationxp
      @reanimationxp 19 дней назад +3

      why are you fools GIVING THEM IDEAS

    • @reanimationxp
      @reanimationxp 19 дней назад +14

      @@Alloveck they would choose to screw you on things you NEED, wants don't matter

  • @huberttiddlywinks1445
    @huberttiddlywinks1445 19 дней назад +18

    Spotify doesn't intend to actually sell the basic plan, it's just there to make premium look more appealing. It's called price anchoring and you'll notice it anytime there are 2 or more variations of the same product/service, like McD's meal sizes, Starbucks cup sizes, popcorn sizes etc. The lesser option acts as an "anchor" point to make the expensive option look like a relatively better deal. Most companies do this because it's so effective. Our brains are terrible at judging absolute value.

    • @aravindpallippara1577
      @aravindpallippara1577 19 дней назад

      And it's on a product that sounds great on paper but absolutely terrible in practice - a single ebooks are on average 15 hours or so ish - and they are meant to be listened all together not broken up into long chunks over many months if you want to follow the story.
      Turns out I used audible free trial credits for 6 books and only ever listened 2 books over an year and is going to switch back to reading for the 3rd book in series.

  • @robcat2075
    @robcat2075 19 дней назад +280

    Note to writers: Legislatures *pass* legislation, Governors *sign* legislation.

    • @TheGrinningViking
      @TheGrinningViking 19 дней назад +84

      Lobbyists WRITE legislation

    • @mikezappulla4092
      @mikezappulla4092 19 дней назад +7

      Not entirely correct. The legislative leaders must sign the legislation for enrollment and as a requirement for procedural validation before reaching the executive branch.

    • @Frostgnaw
      @Frostgnaw 19 дней назад +3

      Does it matter? Government doesn't even matter. Everything is corrupt when politicians get involved.

    • @prakharchaurasiya8107
      @prakharchaurasiya8107 19 дней назад +1

      This is not Corrections.

    • @user-od3ii6bd7d
      @user-od3ii6bd7d 19 дней назад +7

      @@Frostgnawdoes this pedantic detail matter? No not really, we all understood the point
      Does government matter? Yeah actually it does, a lot. Outside of the roads, bridges, and other social programs that genuinely help people, it’s also got the monopoly of violence so you don’t have a choice in agreeing it’s important.

  • @ayoCC
    @ayoCC 19 дней назад +61

    Who keeps trying to lobby for governments to scan all of our messages???
    Is it the messaging services themselves?

    • @kazioo2
      @kazioo2 19 дней назад +18

      No, it's the power craving politicians.

    • @user-pc5qj2ix2c
      @user-pc5qj2ix2c 19 дней назад +7

      Probably WEF.
      Don't want us talking about them.

    • @user-gx3st2th8q
      @user-gx3st2th8q 19 дней назад +1

      Child corn and exploitation advocates

    • @commentinglife6175
      @commentinglife6175 19 дней назад +7

      @@kazioo2 who also want to exempt themselves from the law! Never forget that part! If it is so good for the rest of us, you politicians should be showing us how it is done by doing it first! Find a company that will offer you the service and mandate everyone use only that phone for the next year. Show us you can live with it!

    • @gnanasabaapatirg7376
      @gnanasabaapatirg7376 19 дней назад +1

      Whoever it's the law will also help three letter agencies anyways so they don't care

  • @JohnDoe-wq5eu
    @JohnDoe-wq5eu 19 дней назад +98

    The idea of prices changing at a store in real time sounds like a nightmare.
    Nothing has ever been better using surge pricing, and putting it on basic needs like a grocery stores or anything else like that is just inhuman. But it just feels like yet another symptom of a declining if not absolutely collapsing society.

    • @SurgStriker
      @SurgStriker 19 дней назад +8

      It doesn't seem likely that it will actually happen. That was one "industry analyst" who said surge pricing was a threat here, but there's a good chance that laws will prevent it from happening anyway, like they said in this video if they tried, there would be fighting at the register because "when i picked this up it was this price". They are likely just doing this digital thing to prevent having to have multiple employees go aisle by aisle updating pricing manually each night. Cost saving, kind of like fast food using kiosks. Might also make price checking easier if they can just have someone double check the database instead of sending an employee to find the item in the store and check for it's price tag. Though, i wonder if these digital tags will be vulnerable to things like flipper zero. Cause lots of headaches by changing the signage so when people get to the register it turns into an argument.

    • @commentinglife6175
      @commentinglife6175 19 дней назад +2

      @@SurgStriker I know someone probably could change a paper label but we've become so trusting of machines that if a hacker did change the prices, the store is going to find they have to accept them cause who is ultimately responsible for detecting and preventing hackers? Oh yeah - that same store! This sounds like a good idea cause it means fewer employees but this is a grocery store; isn't someone checking the stock on the shelves for refills or expiration date issues anyway? ("We saved you time walking to the item and changing the price. Oh, go take this box and walk over and refill those exact items anyway.")

    • @NeverlandSystemZor
      @NeverlandSystemZor 19 дней назад

      The only thing that would work better is the reduced demand that would be caused by people saying "screw this crap" and workers not being insanely overworked for the same pay.
      But NOTHING GOOD happens to customers for that.

    • @techno1561
      @techno1561 19 дней назад

      ​@@SurgStriker Plus it'll be confusing. People aren't exactly going to want to buy something if it suddenly costs more between the time they got it off the shelf, and might just abandon it for the clerk to deal with.
      At least with the way they do it now, there's an excuse of them doing it by day/week, rather than by the hour or minute, so it's less noticeable.

    • @TurinAlexander
      @TurinAlexander 19 дней назад

      I don't see these being used during business hours to change prices, for the very reason cited in the video. Which price is correct, what it was when I picked it up, or what it is now? People wouldn't put up with it. But, these tags would save literally hundreds of hours of labor for a store. I used to work nights in a grocery store way back in my younger years. Changing out shelf tags was literally what we did all night the night before the next week's sale took effect. It's boring, tedious, and takes forever. Being able to update prices by pushing an update file would be a huge time and money saver.

  • @osnofa__
    @osnofa__ 19 дней назад +11

    "Europe is not a country" That is true, because it's a continent

    • @fletch7497
      @fletch7497 17 дней назад +1

      When you try to be funny but make yourself look like a complete fool.

  • @gungan7859
    @gungan7859 19 дней назад +31

    The mic on the off-camera person feels a little less… organic? I get the idea, but the previous setup felt more like playful off-screen banter, whereas the new setup feels more… manufactured I think. Either way, love the show! Thanks for your grueling, time-crunched work!

    • @andybrice2711
      @andybrice2711 19 дней назад +8

      Yeah, maybe mic them a little more distant so it still sounds like they're further away.

    • @user-gx3st2th8q
      @user-gx3st2th8q 19 дней назад +3

      Agreed

    • @kalmes
      @kalmes 19 дней назад +2

      Yeah

    • @mateoconk
      @mateoconk 19 дней назад

      Blame me for encouraging the ASMR

  • @Kaldrax
    @Kaldrax 19 дней назад +9

    Would’ve been awesome if you included that Apple also tried to implement client-side-scanning/upload moderation into their systems not so long ago and faced a massive backlash for it.

    • @ralphm6901
      @ralphm6901 18 дней назад +1

      It would be interesting to see Apple tell their users that they'll be shutting down Apple phones in Europe, rather than compromise encryption, and hand out addresses and phone numbers of the politicians that demanded the encryption be broken.

  • @psmv3
    @psmv3 19 дней назад +81

    why is richard stallman doing techlinked?

    • @kpcraftster6580
      @kpcraftster6580 19 дней назад +13

      The gnu gig isn't going well. He can't even pay for food and has been reduced to eating ...things... off of his foot.

    • @anmolkumar6655
      @anmolkumar6655 19 дней назад +2

      @@kpcraftster6580 wtf 😭

    • @JakobRush
      @JakobRush 19 дней назад +2

      Relevant intro: ruclips.net/video/MSIeYKjdLTA/видео.htmlsi=LHRQZZd0rTUbyP3s

  • @TimelessTechNL
    @TimelessTechNL 19 дней назад +21

    Interesting. Here in the Netherlands we have used these electronic price tags for at least two years now. The changing in prices are not that bad. It is indeed nice that if an item spoils today that you automatically see 20 or 30% discount in the screen. If the prices would change so rapidly that the price would have changed when you are at the register, I foresee a public outcry. Here the paper cards were mostly replaced with electronic ones because it was such a pain to have to replace all of the paper cards every week or so for new discounts.

    • @jfwfreo
      @jfwfreo 19 дней назад +2

      The e-ink price tags are becoming more popular in Australia as well and they are a good thing IMO. But there is no way the supermarkets here in Australia would be able to get away with any kind of dynamic pricing.

    • @CheaterCodes
      @CheaterCodes 19 дней назад +3

      I guess it's similar to gas prices, which also vary throughout the day (at least here where I live). However, we have a law here that you may only raise the price once per day, at noon (but lowering it is always allowed). If there was something similar, I think it would be fine.

    • @OhhCrapGuy
      @OhhCrapGuy 19 дней назад +7

      You have to remember that here, the only changes we ever see are corporations inventing new and exciting ways to silo off resources from the economy rather than participating in it.
      Here, improvements in efficiency don't correlate with jobs getting easier, they correlate with jobs not existing anymore.

  • @AirbornChaos
    @AirbornChaos 19 дней назад +16

    Technology can solve your grocery store problem. Take a photo of your shelf tags as you shop, and use them as evidence to your cashier. I already have to do that at Kroger with paper shelf tags, so ...

    • @Fakyp
      @Fakyp 19 дней назад +14

      Taking like 40 photos and keeping track of them all doesn't seem fun

    • @kerolokerokerolo
      @kerolokerokerolo 19 дней назад

      what kind of problem is that? lol

    • @mateoconk
      @mateoconk 19 дней назад

      You’re right. Sounds like a job for an AI app. While they’re at it they could compare prices on the specific item to let you know when you’re being hosed

  • @K.F-R
    @K.F-R 19 дней назад +25

    I think Analcanal was a pivotal Pacific battle in WWII.

    • @xp8969
      @xp8969 19 дней назад

      No, it was part of the Mexican-American war

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 19 дней назад

      I seem to remember it being part of the Colorectal Incursion

    • @litetaker
      @litetaker 19 дней назад +1

      I think they fought at the Pacific Rim.

    • @arnox4554
      @arnox4554 18 дней назад +1

      I do believe it was, instead, an old, old wooden ship used during the Civil War era.

    • @VicariousModder
      @VicariousModder 17 дней назад

      Worst level on HL2

  • @shesh32
    @shesh32 19 дней назад +231

    Surge pricing on groceries? Just when we thought capitalism couldn't get any worse we reach a whole new level. It's like candy crush, except common people are the one who's getting crushed.

    • @xp8969
      @xp8969 19 дней назад +5

      And candy are the only affordable calories

    • @AL5520
      @AL5520 19 дней назад +10

      In my country the solved it by obligating stores to continue to put a price sticker on every product so the change the signes as much as they want but unless they change the stickers on the product it won't matter, which is why they allditched the digital price tags idea.
      It's also obligatory fir manufacturer to pring in a clear manner any change of the content of the lackage size somic they shrink it down they must say on the package that the amount is now lower and how much lower it is.

    • @tonyolmstead8282
      @tonyolmstead8282 19 дней назад +13

      > big corporations create horrible working conditions with low pay
      *theft goes up*
      *shocked pikachu face*
      Then they try things like surge pricing, locking everything up, and closing self checkouts.
      *theft goes up MORE*
      It’s *almost* like when you show your customers you see them as less than dirt, they’re likely to treat you just the same. Surge pricing is 100% just going to result in more theft, and I’m just going to laugh. Gotta claw every penny and every last bit of human dignity you can from your customers, eh Walmart?

    • @ridingweeb4801
      @ridingweeb4801 19 дней назад +3

      not a symptom of capitalism but okay

    • @slyseal2091
      @slyseal2091 19 дней назад +6

      @@ridingweeb4801 price surging is literal, 1:1 translation of a price based on supply and demand. This has nothing to do with big companies cartelising.

  • @fireninja8250
    @fireninja8250 19 дней назад +14

    The grocerie store displays are not a good idea in my opinion. It's like bargaining all over again except the company can decide how much you need to pay after you get to checkout

    • @JanJanJanJanJanJanJanJanJan2
      @JanJanJanJanJanJanJanJanJan2 19 дней назад +1

      We've had those in Germany for quite a while. They are mostly used to not go around and replace paper price tags all the time. I haven't noticed sudden price changes yet.

    • @ricardoamendoeira3800
      @ricardoamendoeira3800 19 дней назад

      Planet Money did an episode on it, I think they spoke to Aldi, they said that during the day they only use it to lower prices (to avoid the issue of someone seeing one price but then it being higher when they check out) if things are close to expiring or to compete with another store.
      They only increase prices after the store closes.

    • @BAMBAMii95
      @BAMBAMii95 19 дней назад +1

      That's the point - it could change before you get to checkout or before you pick it up. Your ability as a consumer to make decisions based on your budget, if you need to have one, is lowered.
      The fact that you might not be aware or have not noticed any 'sudden price changes' is exactly why it's worrying. Unless you itemise and track your spending on a weekly/monthly business....

  • @DrySushi
    @DrySushi 19 дней назад +10

    Even behind the camera I fear Riley's mustache.

  • @prawny12009
    @prawny12009 18 дней назад +1

    I've noticed in the UK that more and more stores do not lower prices on soon to expire stock.
    I've also noticed expected shelf lives on goods reduced , smaller franchise stores in less affluent areas are getting short dated goods delivered daily from other larger stores.
    All stores are in my opinion deliberately leaving expired goods on shelves even though they could be fined, if there are no staff around to tell i now just take expired goods off the shelf and leave them stacked in the isle.
    Just yesterday 22/06/24 i had to point out two boxes of expired bacon in a refrigerator at asda (walmart) (50 packs per box?) one box about half full dated 16/06 the box behind it dated 20/06 others in the same refrigerator had long dates well into july.
    During COVID lockdowns the ENTIRE shelf, hundreds of bags of flour in the same asda store consisting of several brands and varieties was expired some by over a year.
    The only explanation is that the containers MUST have been in storage somewhere before being sent to the store to sell knowing they were expired and that people had no option but to pay.
    It is my opinion that they learned over COVID that people without a choice will still pay full price (or more) for short shelf life good so there is no incentive to rotate stock.
    As a carer i was permitted to travel during lockdown (many people were not so lucky), after seeing what was happening with main stream supermarkets i started putting together parcels of fresh meat, fruit and veg from my local farm produce shops for friends and family, not only was it cheaper but also fresher i know the over heads are different but that's no excuse for gouging during a crisis.

  • @kaileh57
    @kaileh57 19 дней назад +48

    Ah sh** the group chat's leaked

  • @DoctorVadarWho
    @DoctorVadarWho 19 дней назад +3

    When the digital shelf labels are broken, how do you know how much it cost?

  • @PS1212
    @PS1212 19 дней назад +57

    So theyre finally addressing digital drugs

  • @krisplanker9640
    @krisplanker9640 16 дней назад +1

    under US law, the price on the shelf is an "offer," which can change at any time before it's processed by the register. The register is the part that's regulated by each state's department of commerce and bureau of weight and measurements.

  • @RolandHazoto
    @RolandHazoto 19 дней назад

    On the electronic signage:
    I worked a couple of retail joints here in the US, one of which used to be a major office supply store. We had a whole extra hour or 2 once a week to change prices that needed changed. I imagine some corporate big wigs did some math and realized they could cut thousands of hours of pay if they changed to signage they can update with the push of a button like a gas station does.
    Except for tags getting hacked and the headaches that will cause, nothing will change on the customer side. On the retail side, companies would have the option of updating prices every night if they wanted and not pay anyone to do it.

  • @bfwebster
    @bfwebster 19 дней назад +4

    These updates make me feel that we are ever so slowly drifting into a William Gibson novel. 😂

  • @Ness_and_Sonic
    @Ness_and_Sonic 19 дней назад +22

    Good point. Those digital price tags could get a company sued over bait and switch tactics.

    • @kadosho02
      @kadosho02 19 дней назад

      I remember walking into a Kohl's store, just to see what they had available. Their digital price tags were informative, and also headache inducing.

  • @T3utonicus
    @T3utonicus 19 дней назад +1

    I worked in a tech store a few years ago and digital price labels were standard there back then. Yet in Austria the law says: the price is set at the checkout - whatever price you get there is the price the shop offers.

  • @umbra1016
    @umbra1016 19 дней назад +18

    The digital price signs have been implemented for a while, just not as wide-spread. They're E-Ink displays that update via bluetooth. Home improvement stores like Home Depot use it for appliance displays. Walk that department at around 8 o'clock and you'll see all of them refresh and update. Pretty cool stuff. Pain in the ass to set up though.

  • @FalkonNightsdale
    @FalkonNightsdale 19 дней назад +9

    Greetings from Czechia🇨🇿🇪🇺 - local LIDL supermarket has digital shelf labels for maybe 2 years - I noticed only after some bug caused part of them malfunction and display colourful zigzag pattern…
    However dynamic pricing is illegal, so it serves more for the ease of overnight price adjustments and emergency sales I guess…

    • @supermaster2012
      @supermaster2012 19 дней назад +1

      LIDL is german

    • @Gramini
      @Gramini 19 дней назад +1

      @@supermaster2012 But they have stores in multiple countries, including Denmark.

    • @supermaster2012
      @supermaster2012 19 дней назад +1

      @@Gramini but then it's not a "local" supermarket, is it?

    • @wsketchy
      @wsketchy 19 дней назад +2

      @@supermaster2012 It is though, the shop is nearby therefore it is local. The company's not local but the shop is. What're they supposed to do, visit Germany every time they want to go to LIDL? They didn't say local business, did they? No

    • @FalkonNightsdale
      @FalkonNightsdale 19 дней назад

      @@supermaster2012 Na dann… That specific supermarket is 70m from my flat, therefore it's local…🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @lazylamachrischrisl9923
    @lazylamachrischrisl9923 19 дней назад +5

    About the Bag on fire. My Surface book 2 nearly did that on wendsday. Somehow the Laptop crashed and went into recovery mode while in my bag which turns everything to 100% load. It went up to 100°c and probably stayed there for 2 hours before i noticed it. The screen now not only has temporary screen delamination wich makes the screen Yellow in the areas were the heat would be. Not its permanent on the Lower edge. Microsoft pls fix your shit. Especially for a 2.4k€ device.

    • @Vishwajeet_Kadam
      @Vishwajeet_Kadam 19 дней назад +3

      I own a gaming laptop and whenever in sleep mode, the laptop would sometimes randomly heats up to 100°c and drains all the battery due to the amount of heat generated. Unfortunately I could not find any solution thus permanently switched to hibernate mode whenever the lid is closed.

    • @tekeagle2136
      @tekeagle2136 19 дней назад +2

      For my $700 2020 Lenovo 2-in-1 laptop, even hibernation and a fresh Windows install would not work. This caused the battery to completely drain during my 4-hour work shift. By the time I reached my next class, the battery would be less than 10%. However, my 2022 Lenovo Legion does not have that issue, but I still use hibernation just in case. I could manage 8 hours of battery when fully charged, but instead I use "conservation mode", which charges the battery to 75-80%. Even with that, my laptop can last through all my college classes and rarely go below 20%.

  • @rhiethreal
    @rhiethreal 18 дней назад

    Where do you get that 90s sweater jacket?

  • @GreenBoxMedia
    @GreenBoxMedia 19 дней назад

    7:31 I did not realize this was news. We got those here in Switzerland for a few years now.

  • @bahamutbbob
    @bahamutbbob 19 дней назад +3

    Man, it's going to go the same way as surge pricing at McDonald's. People will call them out on it, and they'll change their minds.

  • @djartyom924
    @djartyom924 19 дней назад +7

    digital price tags have been around for over a decade I remember seeing them in Mexico

    • @nabawi7
      @nabawi7 19 дней назад

      Also in Canada

    • @KrullMaestaren
      @KrullMaestaren 19 дней назад

      Also Sweden

    • @tekeagle2136
      @tekeagle2136 19 дней назад

      And little me thought that they were just e-ink screens programmed with a special IR transmitter and receiver. I guess not.

  • @OMGg4m3r
    @OMGg4m3r 19 дней назад

    aldi in the uk already have digital prices. Apparently its not even updated by the store itself but by the regional manager

  • @sasmitha8446
    @sasmitha8446 19 дней назад

    Is there a page similar to wowoa but for apps and software?

  • @pasc4le
    @pasc4le 19 дней назад +3

    Shit, you've missed a beautiful Terrance Howard joke 7:19

  • @45545videos
    @45545videos 19 дней назад +6

    Jakob is back!

  • @IR4TE
    @IR4TE 19 дней назад +2

    I have to say after a little getting used to it period Jakob is one of my favourite hosts now, his more chill tone and delivery is what I like.

  • @dnoodspodu1159
    @dnoodspodu1159 17 дней назад

    07:50 In Poland the laws says that price on the shelf is the price- and if it is different at the check out you are obligated to pay the shelf price and can report this to authorities

  • @MrBaskins2010
    @MrBaskins2010 19 дней назад +13

    that analcanal tangent not being edited out is why i love this channel lol

  • @EphyMusicOfficial
    @EphyMusicOfficial 19 дней назад +11

    I almost never find a video 2 minutes after release.

  • @zshadows
    @zshadows 18 дней назад

    After thinking about grocery pricing for a bit:
    1) They could already do basic surge pricing. How difficult would it be to see a hot week coming up and have the hand-pricers prioritize updating water, gatorade, ice cream, and beer first?
    2) Sometimes we currently already get price gouging of water and supplies, especially in emergencies.
    3) The grocery stores would rather bait you in with a deal on 12-packs of water and have you buy those overpriced BigBrand Soda cans and BigBrand Chips and anything on special display.
    4) They mostly just want this so they can cut another worker or few from their payroll.

  • @danxribeiro
    @danxribeiro 18 дней назад

    Hey guys, love all your content. I took the time to write this because I usually watch late at night with the volume down. It's great that you finally gave a mic to the producer (or whatever you wanna call the person behind the camera interacting with the host). It's much better having all voices in the same volume!!! Love your guys.

  • @bgill7475
    @bgill7475 19 дней назад +4

    Europe is a continent not a country.

  • @bene7042
    @bene7042 19 дней назад +6

    The story about the Perplexity AI crawler is... misleading. The only thing demonstrated in the article is that the AI can access the site via a web request when asked to summarise it, however the robots.txt is only intended to block requests from the crawler that itself discovers the sites paths for training

  • @zit1999
    @zit1999 19 дней назад

    LOL that dollar is just an ad for the audiobook feature 😂 that’s the “discount” we all got

  • @junostr
    @junostr 19 дней назад +1

    We have digital price indicators in most European super markets since like 10 years now haha

  • @hexrag5901
    @hexrag5901 19 дней назад +3

    we need dna encryption... with really painful needles

  • @goose9137
    @goose9137 19 дней назад +4

    You’re right Europe is not a country 👍

  • @buddybleeyes
    @buddybleeyes 19 дней назад

    Butterflies reminds me of the alexa vs bixby vs siri 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @MaverickBlue42
    @MaverickBlue42 19 дней назад

    General consensus, at least in Canada, is if the price on the sticker or sign is cheaper than what the register says, they have to honor the cheaper price that is being displayed. I've seen grocers quickly dispatch somebody to "correct" the sign when something was physically marked as discounted that shouldn't be...usually when a sale expired but the sign was never removed.....the catch is you have to notice...

  • @yashrastogi149
    @yashrastogi149 19 дней назад +23

    Well yeah, Europe is not a country it's a continent.

  • @savagepro9060
    @savagepro9060 19 дней назад +5

    'Ewe🐑' and 'You're up?' are not the same!

  • @PapaZlRO
    @PapaZlRO 18 дней назад

    I wonder how secure the surge pricing systems are. I don't imagine that the people who manage WalMart stores are super tech-savvy or hire security professionals. And having all those wireless tags seems like a potentially large attack surface.

  • @danielpakiam2629
    @danielpakiam2629 19 дней назад

    4:39 6 continents? What if I'm in Antarctica?😂

  • @BumbleBeeChicken
    @BumbleBeeChicken 19 дней назад +5

    The Snapdragon X Elite looks so promising. The competition always makes me happy.

  • @savagepro9060
    @savagepro9060 19 дней назад +11

    'You're Up?' is not a country, nor a continent. It's a question angry parents ask their kids watching TechLinked past midnight!

  • @jacksonpfeffer8159
    @jacksonpfeffer8159 17 дней назад

    Quick, call security! The heckler got a hold of the mic!

  • @frankhuurman3955
    @frankhuurman3955 19 дней назад

    So when you're saying Snap engineer do you mean Snapchat or Canonical?

  • @DiamondMaster115
    @DiamondMaster115 19 дней назад +5

    Geez Jakob, your going crazy with the swearing 😂

  • @lucbloom
    @lucbloom 19 дней назад +4

    CSAM < FOPFA (freedom of privacy from authority)
    We’re not China! (yet)

  • @dm95c
    @dm95c 19 дней назад

    Is there a way to not have ads on Spotify podcasts? I have the individual Spotify premium account in Italy but I still got ads on podcasts

    • @MartyrKomplx
      @MartyrKomplx 19 дней назад +1

      Premium Spotify gets rid of the ads put in by Spotify, but ads put in by the podcast itself remains. Just like RUclips ads vs sponsored segments on youtube videos.

    • @dm95c
      @dm95c 19 дней назад

      @@MartyrKomplx I know but, at least for my experience in Italy, despite paying for Spotify premium I got all types of ads while listening to podcasts:
      1) ads inserted directly by Spotify;
      2) ads inserted through Megaphone that is a company controlled by Spotify;
      3) ads inserted by the podcast creator

    • @dodo19923
      @dodo19923 19 дней назад

      @@MartyrKomplx It doesn't though. I have premium and get 2 ads at the start of each podcast i've downloaded for offline use (internet problems where i live). I'm paying for no additional ad's and other than an ad read a podcaster puts in themselves i'm still getting ad's. It's a fucking scam imo.

  • @jubuttib
    @jubuttib 19 дней назад

    2:39 And here I was calling it WOWOA, pronounced "Wo-Woah!"

  • @kl6336
    @kl6336 19 дней назад +11

    These guys know that EU and Europe is not the same thing, right?

    • @JohnDoe-wq5eu
      @JohnDoe-wq5eu 19 дней назад +1

      Maybe possibly.

    • @jamismiscreant7514
      @jamismiscreant7514 19 дней назад +2

      Idk they seem pretty similiar

    • @jaredhamilton8694
      @jaredhamilton8694 19 дней назад +1

      Same way the US and America aren’t the same thing. Kind of, since America can be used to refer to the Americas as a whole, though America is often used as shorthand for the US.

    • @PropaneWP
      @PropaneWP 19 дней назад +1

      @@jaredhamilton8694 As a European, this seems really weird. People from the US say "I'm American" and seem to take it for granted that this means being from USA.
      Let's be real, this is just because it's awkward to say "I'm a USA'ian" isn't it? You took the name of the entire continent for yourself, because the name of your nation is awkward.

    • @ghost-user559
      @ghost-user559 19 дней назад

      Right I forgot all about the EU in Asia and the Americas. Our bad.

  • @rdspam
    @rdspam 19 дней назад +9

    I can’t pay attention with those arms flying all over the place.

    • @kadosho02
      @kadosho02 19 дней назад

      Why am I thinking of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 🤔

  • @tsartomato
    @tsartomato 19 дней назад

    8:04
    tag price is an invitation to bargain
    final price is always established by the cashier

  • @Barquevious_Jackson
    @Barquevious_Jackson 19 дней назад +1

    That human gave the best answer in that reverse turing test.

  • @Dtr146
    @Dtr146 19 дней назад +9

    The EU took that SMALL good press and let it get to their head

  • @anthonylundgaard6575
    @anthonylundgaard6575 19 дней назад +3

    the joke in the begin they basically descried New Mexico

  • @durchschnittlich
    @durchschnittlich 19 дней назад

    It's weird to see techlinked uploaded after the WAN show

  • @piimii55
    @piimii55 7 дней назад

    Those electronically changingin price labels have been a thing in Finland for a while now btw

  • @chregig7967
    @chregig7967 19 дней назад +6

    They do know that Europe ACTUALLY isn’t a country, right? RIGHT??

  • @Ian.Murray
    @Ian.Murray 19 дней назад +2

    Imagine seething about capitalism while reaping it's benefits.

  • @murilotheodoro5025
    @murilotheodoro5025 19 дней назад +1

    Jacob missed a big opportunity by not calling the WOWOA website the Wario to Jason Momoa

    • @JakobRush
      @JakobRush 18 дней назад

      I really like this lol

  • @asd1o1
    @asd1o1 19 дней назад +2

    Huh, TechLinked is still on time today

  • @user-um9sl1kj6u
    @user-um9sl1kj6u 19 дней назад +3

    It doesn’t make any sense for a robot to deprecate itself. That’s defamation. And you don’t deprecate yourself online. That’s even more insane.

  • @LillyP-xs5qe
    @LillyP-xs5qe 19 дней назад +16

    Europe isn't a country, it's a continent

    • @grizzlychair
      @grizzlychair 19 дней назад +2

      woah no way

    • @JakobRush
      @JakobRush 18 дней назад

      I'm gonna say this one time: it was a joke. I can't believe how many people commented this

  • @meamanik
    @meamanik 19 дней назад

    7:19 it’s called the pricing ladder

  • @vmoutsop
    @vmoutsop 19 дней назад

    You missed the automotive dealership cyber attack news that has shut down "ALL" dealerships.

  • @marcjuhl
    @marcjuhl 19 дней назад +11

    yeah europe is not a country, it's actually a continent🤓

  • @Kakkarot211
    @Kakkarot211 19 дней назад +2

    Spotify makes no sense and 15 hours of audio book is less than one book for me typically

  • @Xevf
    @Xevf 19 дней назад

    With chat control, back shall we go to the good old pen and paper

  • @Razear
    @Razear 19 дней назад

    Is the "word of the day" meant to imply that Jakob enjoys entering through the back door?

  • @tomalexander4327
    @tomalexander4327 19 дней назад +3

    Jakob is the best

  • @MoldyMcdonut
    @MoldyMcdonut 19 дней назад +3

    Not first

  • @SuperChocolateCocoaBear
    @SuperChocolateCocoaBear 17 дней назад

    Mathematicians and Me, Randy Newman would be proud.

  • @Zomboy4313
    @Zomboy4313 18 дней назад

    I’m in the UK so do I not get Apple Intelligence?

  • @itsmenotjames
    @itsmenotjames 19 дней назад +266

    I just found out that you can like a comment by double clicking it.

    • @whocares5946
      @whocares5946 19 дней назад +23

      Can't unlike by double clicking again though

    • @GeliSkandalis1337
      @GeliSkandalis1337 19 дней назад +1

      Done

    • @sativaburns6705
      @sativaburns6705 19 дней назад +21

      A thumbs down takes half the effort.

    • @feefre
      @feefre 19 дней назад +6

      Least obvious like beggar

    • @Nathan-mu1pz
      @Nathan-mu1pz 19 дней назад

      If this is how you farm likes, it worked on me

  • @512TheWolf512
    @512TheWolf512 19 дней назад +9

    again, tiktok ban is about foreign enemy propaganda, not about privacy or data collection...

    • @franjkav
      @franjkav 19 дней назад +1

      The possibility of*

    • @TamasKiss-yk4st
      @TamasKiss-yk4st 19 дней назад

      Well, the privacy issue and data collection are confirmed, if you check renevue for a free app.. even Facebook collected 1 billion company value with the sold user datas.. Tiktok is the same..

    • @nicolarobatto7469
      @nicolarobatto7469 19 дней назад

      it is about rivacy and data collection
      the us wants to do more of it lol and also censorship, like it does regurarly already on meta platforms, twitter and google

  • @ZebrastS
    @ZebrastS 19 дней назад

    We are about to have groceries scalpers 💀

  • @JoshWhitford91
    @JoshWhitford91 19 дней назад

    I immediately had the same question about the price tags... this won't end well!