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Weatherman posted:My TVs have Internet ports. My chromecast had a bug when viewing some dolby vision netflix shows. I called to complain. They asked me to use the streaming app built into my TV, and i made her wait while i put it on my wifi, downloaded system updates, made a samsung account, and connected to netflix to tell her, "no this one looks okay".
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All the TVs sold today are smart TVs full of ads because that's they subsidize the prices that way and otherwise they'd be priced out of the range where people can afford to regularly update their hardware. It's part of the slow creeping reduction of the buying power of the average american, kind of like how food container sizes keep getting smaller while the price stays the same. Easier to hide the fact that wages have been hosed over for decades that way! 
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I went to a wings bar for dinner with my wife and they said it was happy hour the bill comes and we discover drinks are not discounted for happy hour they never mention this when we sat down. what the gently caress.
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Taintrunner posted:I went to a wings bar for dinner with my wife and they said it was happy hour How do you not ask when you sit down since every place on earth is different?
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Bombadilillo posted:How do you not ask when you sit down since every place on earth is different? how the gently caress does an establish that serves alcohol have a Happy Hour not discount drinks for Happy Hour. it’s pretty fuckin obvious what that means
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Aug 10, 2019 00:38
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people are happier paying full price
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Taintrunner posted:how the gently caress does an establish that serves alcohol have a Happy Hour not discount drinks for Happy Hour. it’s pretty fuckin obvious what that means True, but theres a place near me that has $1 off cocktails, that are all $10+ so it's like, what's the point? Always ask. And restraunts, put it on your drat website/yelp
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Aug 10, 2019 00:41
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alright, fine, I apologize for being a new york rear end in a top hat for a hot minute
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Taintrunner posted:I went to a wings bar for dinner with my wife and they said it was happy hour I've never seen a place that discounts every drink, is that a thing? Its always like $2 off some things, $1 other things, etc. etc.
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Aug 10, 2019 00:56
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hobbesmaster posted:I've never seen a place that discounts every drink, is that a thing? Its always like $2 off some things, $1 other things, etc. etc.
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Taintrunner posted:alright, fine, I apologize for being a new york rear end in a top hat for a hot minute Nah, that's bullshit even in the city.
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DisgracelandUSA posted:Nah, that's bullshit even in the city. Not discounting anything is weird. Usually happy hour disagreements are over the definition of domestic vs import or some such.
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Aug 10, 2019 01:03
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I would complain. Depending on how much your dignity is worth you could throw a tantrum to get them to relent.
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I'm looking forward to when smart TVs get cheap/common enough for homebrew nerds to start developing them. Lol just lol if you can't rm -rf * your TV.
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T-man posted:I'm looking forward to when smart TVs get cheap/common enough for homebrew nerds to start developing them. Lol just lol if you can't rm -rf * the TVs of everyone else in your neighbourhood. ftfy
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Aug 10, 2019 01:53
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Computer monitors are suddenly way less hassle than TVs.
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hobbesmaster posted:I've never seen a place that discounts every drink, is that a thing? Its always like $2 off some things, $1 other things, etc. etc. you should visit a little bar and grill called chili’s, where it’s always happy hour and the drinks are buy one get one free
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http://twitter.com/MoMoButFaster/status/1160020012066676736
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Aug 10, 2019 04:12
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Can we still say what our TV is? My TV is an old bottom of the range one I bought way back in like 2013 that has absolutely no features besides a couple HDMI ports, component/composite in and a SPIDF out port. It's absolutely perfect in every way and I pray it will never ever break in a way I can't repair.
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Aug 10, 2019 04:21
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Hooked up to it are some videogames, a chromecast, and a mid-2000's-era DVD player/writer that I found out by the dumpster being thrown away, which just happens to have S-Video inputs and an actually quite good upscaled output, so old consoles look fantastic now 
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Aug 10, 2019 04:24
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I recently got a 55" LED insigna from Best Buy because it was the only brand that didn't have a Roku or Tizen thing built in and it's actually pretty nice. Cost under $400, its just 1080p but its also just a big screen for my posting station and watching pirated tv shows and the lovely laptop connected to it could never do 4k anyways
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T-man posted:I'm looking forward to when smart TVs get cheap/common enough for homebrew nerds to start developing them. Lol just lol if you can't rm -rf * your TV. I'm sure that's already a thing, I guarantee smart TV's aren't anything more fancy than an off the shelf ARM chip running some linux flavor so it's probably not that hard. e: Yeah here's one for Samsung https://www.samygo.tv/
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I would look for one, but androidTV works great and even has VLC, plug in a harddrive or flash drive go. Plex app
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Aug 10, 2019 04:41
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I use an old Sony projector hooked up to a surround system and my computer. poo poo's cash.
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Aug 10, 2019 04:45
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I live in the burned-out ruin of an old IMAX. Sports look great on it when I can fend off the scavenger gangs long enough to get a moment of peace.
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Aug 10, 2019 05:21
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I don't even own a TV, all I need is a laptop and anime streaming sites. 
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Aug 10, 2019 06:58
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my TV is huge because capitalism taught me that the bigger my TV the bigger my self worth
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Aug 10, 2019 07:00
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i don't even own a TV, i just stop taking my medication and get all my entertainment from the spiders who tell me that the neighbors are globalists trying to poison the water supply and that the only way i can stop them is masturbating in a Taco Bell while screaming the lyrics to Rocky Mountain High 
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Aug 10, 2019 07:28
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I got an LG oled with "smart" features because I'm not some kind of poor weirdo.
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i said in the climate change thread that we need a pol pot who will dispose of the petroleum engineers, let's extend that to anyone with a marketing degree or who has worked in advertising
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spankmeister posted:I got an LG oled with "smart" features because I'm not some kind of poor weirdo.
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Shipon posted:i said in the climate change thread that we need a pol pot who will dispose of the petroleum engineers, let's extend that to anyone with a marketing degree or who has worked in advertising Let's face it, that's a mercy kill
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Got a 33% off Sony LCD for roughly $375 like seven years ago and I'm honestly amazed it still works. It never got the firmware update that allows you to turn off the annoying BOING! sound it makes when you turn it on, but at least I don't have to sit through ads. I've seen a single sorta good smart-TV in my entire life with responsive menus, a remote pointer and poo poo, all the rest have been garbage.
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T-man posted:I'm looking forward to when smart TVs get cheap/common enough for homebrew nerds to start developing them. Lol just lol if you can't rm -rf * your TV. The future is a combination of Brazil and cyberpunk where you have to hire a domestic terrorist* who moonlights as a repairman just to fix your IoT appliances. All your devices attempt to spy on you but don’t manage to do it because the devices are riddled with spyware, bandwidth is being sucked up by all the ads, and corporate bean counters didn’t want to pay for the good spying hardware. *Opening up any of your devices will be considered terrorism.
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I have a non smart TV which gets used maybe once per week. This thread has made me realize that Roku is gonna go out of business and brick all of their devices before long, so my options will be to a) get cable, b) get a new tv, c) get one of those illegal streaming ghost box things.
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Shipon posted:i said in the climate change thread that we need a pol pot who will dispose of the petroleum engineers, let's extend that to anyone with a marketing degree or who has worked in advertising Add FIRE industry people and landlords and I'm right with ya.
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Aug 10, 2019 16:07
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Fine, I'll be that guy. I DON'T EVEN OWN A TV.
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Screaming Idiot posted:i don't even own a TV, i just stop taking my medication and get all my entertainment from the spiders who tell me that the neighbors are globalists trying to poison the water supply and that the only way i can stop them is masturbating in a Taco Bell while screaming the lyrics to Rocky Mountain High That's just a normal Saturday night for me
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Screaming Idiot posted:i don't even own a TV, i just stop taking my medication and get all my entertainment from the spiders who tell me that the neighbors are globalists trying to poison the water supply and that the only way i can stop them is masturbating in a Taco Bell while screaming the lyrics to Rocky Mountain High lol if you can afford your medication gtfo this thread you one percenter
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