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  • itsyourmom@artemis.camptoTechnology@beehaw.org•The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.
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    1 year ago

    I too am in the market for a new tv. I’ve had my 60 inch plasma tv from Samsung for going on 12 years. I dropped a pretty penny on it from Best Buy at the time and haven’t had any problems with it at all for over a decade!

    Only in the last year or so I’ve started having issues with turning it on if it was just turned off. Like it’s plasma so I’ve always been super careful of burn in of images. So I press pause on whatever I’m watching on the Roku streamer connected by HDMI. Then I turn off the tv itself. If say I’m running to the bathroom, when I get back and attempt to turn on the tv it’ll make the red power light blink randomly several times over and over… but it won’t initiate the start up of the screen…

    I’ve tried lots of things… unplugged the tv and waited about 10-15 seconds and plugged it back in then pressed the power on the remote and it’ll usually come back on with the volume all the way back to “1” which stinks… but it still “works”…

    I’m willing to pay a good amount for a plasma adjacent/similar tv just because of the luck I’ve had with this current tv. It makes more sense to me to invest in a really great tv now, as opposed to replacing several less great tv’s when they inevitably break down…

    I’ve been looking around, and obviously they’ve stopped producing Plasma tvs now… so I’m still searching for a plasma like tv that I want…

  • itsyourmom@artemis.camptoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?
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    1 year ago

    The hospital will keep sending you bills. Every month, and if you don’t pay that or set up a payment plan with them… they absolutely send it to a collection agency. That law agency will hound you all day every day, phone calls… text messages… Mailing threats and lawyer fees on top of the OG bill.

    Eventually, I know from personal experience… they will take you to debtor’s court. Where you sit in a room full of strangers till your name is called. Then you have to prove how poor you are and they can pause the collection efforts for a period of time… or if the judge believes you can afford something… then your court ordered to pay… or else.

  • itsyourmom@artemis.camptoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Does a tornado have the force to knock a cow into your house?
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    1 year ago

    So, I’m no meteorologist, nor am I an expert in cows 🐄. But I’m gonna go out on a limb and say… yes… maybe? Theoretically tornadoes can in fact pick up whole houses… take for example (The wizard of oz). I have also seen on the news whole cars being thrown around. Yikes! 😳 😬…

    I suppose it would have to be a strong enough tornado 🌪️, hitting the area you live exactly, to take the 🐄 and break and enter into your 🏠.

    I’m reminded of the movie Barnyard and the farmer dude’s little tiff with his wife… “course there’s gonna be cows outside! It’s a cow farm!” Lmao

  • itsyourmom@artemis.camptoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Have you noticed spotify removing stuff from your liked songs list?
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    1 year ago

    I had a similar experience recently. I have my “liked list” that I play in my car while driving. Idk like 300 songs. My car is old as shit so I have to have a dongle attached to an aux cord plugged into my phone and a tiny aux Jack in the bottom of my center console. Well, sometimes I’m in the mood for songs and sometimes I’m not, so I’ll poke my screen to skip a song or two while driving. One day I was searching for a particular song and it wasn’t found in my liked list.

    I finally figured out why it didn’t show up. There’s a bunch of clickable buttons right below the play button “hip hop, pump up, aggressive “ etc. Long story short, I had accidentally clicked one of these buttons and it had hidden half my liked songs. So I had to un-click that, and then all my songs were back again.