Hi friends! I had about 6 hours of application training today and my brain is melty. It was good training and I learned a lot, but damn am I wiped out.
What’s new with you? Anything melt your brain recently?
What Melts Your Brain? [NOT 2/2/21]
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Fundamentals of Engineering exam. Worse than the bar exam.
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God how I hate application training. For my current job, I had two weeks which culminated in two exams and two different project assignments as a condition of being certified in the application. It was…rough.
Went to Home Depot and found some 25mm bolts to attach the bracket to the new TV. Got everything hooked up…and the audio still isn’t feeding to the external speaker. Now, I know for a fact that the speaker isn’t the problem because I can get output from the Blu-Ray player and from the Bluetooth adapter. Speaking of which, the new TV has BT and even when I connected it that way I still didn’t get audio. This is the kind of shit that makes me absolutely crazy–when something has zero reason to not be working and yet it continues to not work. I long for the days of just having a TV and no other shit to worry about.
Did you ever get it to work? That sort of thing annoys the fuck out of me.
No and it’s pissing me off. I used to do audio for a living so I know how to troubleshoot. It’s just fucking refusing to work.
Okay 2 obvious questions- have you tried a new audio cable and also double checked your output settings on the tv?
Yup and yup. I also tried the BT with this new TV and it likewise isn’t sending audio. I can use the BT with other sources, so I know damned well it’s this fucking TV that I just dropped $400 for.
I have a smart tv that I bought for the express purpose of cutting the cord. However whenever I watch any of the apps thru the tv’s interface (YouTube, Netflix, etc) the sound lags behind the video. Like the words are coming out a minute after the mouth moves. But if I go into cable and THEN the same apps, no issue. I’ve googled this and there are “fixes” but they don’t work. They’re either for the 4k version of my tv or the instructions describe a set of steps I don’t have. So, I have to keep cable :/
Honestly, the whole “cord cutting” thing is a misnomer. People still need internet access and a lot of the cable carriers make it cheaper to bundle the cable and internet than to have the internet alone. Our last house had one of those gigantic TV antennas on the roof that you can use to contact alien worlds. With a digital converter, we were able to pick up more channels than basic cable. All we wanted was internet, but we wound up paying for cable and just not using it because it was cheaper to have the bundle.
Yeah, considering how many streaming services there are these days, and that I would still need the highest speed internet to WFH, I’d probably be paying round about the same. Plus…. my cable box is pretty handy for a lot of stuff, I will admit.
I remember when “cord cutting” was just starting to become a thing and Marketplace Tech predicted that in short order we would wind up right back where we started: a few major players consolidating overpriced packages. Right now, we’re still in the uncontrolled expansion stage (I just saw a commercial for Paramount’s new streaming service), which like you said, means that people will pay more to get all their streaming services, than if they just bought a cable package. Of course, now the problem is becoming one of siloed content, but eventually Disney and Amazon will own everything anyway.
Yep. Between Discovery+, AMC+, Paramount streaming, Disney+, my fucking god, every channel has a streaming version WHAT IS THE POINT?!!?
I don’t watch a lot of TV but we have flat-screens in every room except the bathrooms and my home office, which is my sanctuary. All involve two remotes, which I’ve never understood or bothered to learn. When we first moved in we deemed the second bedroom “the den” and put in a DVD player, thinking we’d have cozy movie nights together. That involved a third remote. Because of the pandemic it has morphed into a home gym. But when we used to have large parties kids were always invited and if any showed up a mother (always a mother, never a father) would volunteer to run a kind of day care center in there. I’d hand her the three remotes and say, “Good luck” and point her to the cabinet where we kept the DVDs. We lead a very boring existence so aside from the occasional action movie or thriller all our stuff is PG at worst. The Moms always knew how to figure this out instinctively and if they couldn’t a random 7-year-old could. Me, not so much.
In the living room we have a comically huge flat-screen that we rarely use but it’s cleverly recessed into a wall so you don’t notice it. At these parties the TV served as the sound system, which required yet another remote, I have no idea why, but that’s a benefit to coupling off: each partner brings to the relationship a strength or knowledge that you don’t have. Life’s Helpmeet would somehow get music to play from it using his magical iPhone.
A Jesuit (of course I know some; I seem to have a very broad range of acquaintances) once said to me, “When you get to Heaven all will be revealed. The Jesuits are a teaching order, so we strive to bring some of this knowledge to us while we’re still alive.” I don’t really believe in an afterlife but if there is one and I get to Heaven (no sure thing) my very first question is going to be about how remotes work and why you need so many of them.
I’m seriously turning into a luddite in my aging years…
I don’t even own a tv, I live alone, and use my laptop to watch dvds, or stuff on Hulu/Netflix/Amazon.
Sometime last year, I was using a work vehicle, and was tasked with transporting a student worker from one location to another. I felt a bit silly, as I couldn’t figure out how to get the mileage to show, and sheepishly asked the student worker if they knew what to do to get the odometer to show. Apparently there are some buttons or something on the far side of the steering wheel?
Computer issues kill me! I’m still struggling getting it to work right & never fails it happens when I have people with deadlines asking me to do things!
When I’ve been interpreting for, say, an hour or straight with no break, I tend to start reaching – both in English and in Spanish. Same goes when I’m interpreting for someone who just doesn’t get what the other person is saying (or maybe just isn’t listening).
I am on a med that causes aphasia (like brain fog). I once said “bread lid” for bun, and “quesoburguesa” for cheeseburger (in spanish).
I think they both work.
paperwork…..especially if its gubment related…
fucking legalese man…. would it kill people to write fucking forms in normie speak?
(in unrelated news….me daughter fucked off to see her bf last week and brought home the sneezles….gave it to the missus too….this morning i woke up with sneezles….if it doesnt stop by the time i get to work i foresee a day off and some brain poking in my near future)
correction…decided to not be a dickhead and go to work..called me teamlead to splain…now gotta wait to make an appointment for a brain poking
Kudos to you for being a responsible person @farscythe . I hope all goes well and it’s just allergies for all your household
cheers 🙂
feels wierd to stay home for some sneezles… little worker drone me has a guilt now…lol
but this is definitely not my regular smoked for 20 years symptoms…so meh… no choice
Is it bad I kinda enjoyed my rona test?
I mean the nurse was pretty…it tickled like nobody’s business ( I didn’t know I was ticklish inside my head)
I learnt you can fit a surprising amount of qtip in your head and not hit anything
And I enjoyed being the only cyclist in a line of cars ( I’m a rebel me)
Hell…I’d be up for another one
(It is possible Rona me needs a hobby)