--- Log opened Thu Jul 13 00:00:54 2023
06:22 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
06:47 < Evilpig> screw you!
06:47 < Evilpig> went to go crawl in bed last night and the tv wouldn't turn on.  well, the tv turned on but there was no picture.  checked close and it isn't a backlight problem so at the very least it's likely a mainboard is out
06:48 < Evilpig> so I spent the next nearly two hours tv hunting last night so I can get it fixed today
06:53 < dasunt> :(  Are you getting it fixed, or just replacing it?
07:01 < Evilpig> replacing
07:02 < Evilpig> it's 8-9 years old and 1080
07:02 < Evilpig> it's the oldest tv in the house at this point too and it didn't fully support cec even
07:02 < Evilpig> replacing it with a sony 55" 4k
07:03 < Evilpig> I'd really like to do one of those samsung frame models but that yearly subscription fee to use the picture mode just destroys me
07:08 < dasunt> I like to go with TCL.  Why force the Chinese to pay Koreans for all my data when I can just cut out the middleman?
07:09 < dasunt> Let me know what you think of the Sony, btw.  I may go that route.  We'll be replacing our TV soon.
07:16  * aestetix hugs Dolemite 
07:28 <@Dolemite> I've got several vizio TVs but I don't use the smart tv functions on them.   I use a Fire TV stick, instead.
07:29 <@Mirage> Ditto.
07:30 < Evilpig> I wish I could get a dumb tv today
07:30 <@Dolemite> The companies make more money on the data than they do on the sale of the tv
07:31 <@Dolemite> That's why Amazon had a 55" Fire TV for dirt cheap on Prime Day.   Less than $200, I think.
07:31 < Evilpig> not sure what data they're gonna scrape from me using the shield
07:31 <@Dolemite> Well most users don't add a device, they just use the built-in 
07:33 < Evilpig> I learned long ago that native smart devices don't get updates and make the smart functionality useless within a year or two
07:33 <@Dolemite> Well Vizio updates theirs all the time because my TV shows when it updated
07:33 < Evilpig> guess i'm still weird for looking at tv as a device Iplan on using for a decade or more
07:33 < Evilpig> my vizio hasn't been updated in a couple of years at least
07:33 <@Dolemite> Is it even connected to the internetz?
07:33 < Evilpig> it hasn't been a bad tv, but the smart support is garbage
07:33 < Evilpig> yeah
07:34 <@Dolemite> Interesting
07:34 <@Mirage> My vizio's are both old enough they stopped getting updates and there wasn't any way to add stuff to them (at the time at least), which is why I moved to using the FireTV sticks
07:34 < Evilpig> about to head out of here and take sabrina to her freshmen orientation
07:35 <@Mirage> Evilpig: just give her a compass.   Should orient her just fine
07:35 < Evilpig> just can't make myself call it what they did when I started msu
07:35 <@Dolemite> STAND IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU ARE
07:36 < Evilpig> w00t, getting take wireless android auto on its first test run here.
07:37 <@Mirage> Evilpig: I should have dropped last night after Alg or Freya.  I was really paying for trying to 'tough it out' once I finally threw in the towel and layed down.  Didn't get to sleep until ~2a or so
07:37 <@Dolemite> It can be flaky
07:38 < Evilpig> Mirage: I was just happy to have a spot last night
07:38 <@Dolemite> A month back or so Google released a totally shit update to Android Auto that was causing it to randomly disconnect over wireless
07:39 < Evilpig> boooooo!  don't dash my hopes for my new dongle
07:39 < Evilpig> i'll be back in a bit.
07:39 <@Dolemite> It seems to be better now
07:58 < dasunt> Ugh, ZWave dongles will take 2 weeks to ship to me.  :(
07:59 < dasunt> I am almost tempted to do zigbee with this, but considering the range, I think zwave is the better choice.
08:20 < dasunt> So dumb question, but doesn't the Fire stick just sell your data as well?
08:20 <@Dolemite> Oh I'm sure it does, but it's already farming that info from my browsing and buying habits
08:21 <@Dolemite> Bezos gotta pay for a new rocket engine somehow
08:38 < Evilpig> I love being able to make every smart device in the house broadcast a message
08:38 < dasunt> I need a better router solution.
09:16 < Evilpig> btw this is the model I got.  KD55X80K
09:18 < aestetix> nice, I just farted. Man that one felt good
12:57 <@Mirage> Anyone else not really getting into Secret Invasion?
13:00 <@Dolemite> It's finally picking up
13:00 <@Dolemite> But it has definitely dragged
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14:51 <@Mirage> Thanks to my new wire-penetrating mutimeter probes I was finally able to determine that I had a bad AC Compressor relay.  Local OReilley had one, so popped in to snag it.  Dude looks it up and makes a comment about how expensive it is for being so small.  I told him yeah, and I'll tell you why... "This is TX and we like having a working AC."
15:45 < Evilpig> new tv hung.  holy shit, real black.  
15:49 <@Dolemite> noice
18:01 < Evilpig> bah!  can't get cec volume control to work right from the tv to the receiver.  I know google tv/android can control my receiver just fine becaues the the shield does it.
18:02 < Evilpig> if I hook everything up to the tv so I can do arc and have everything turn on / off together then it isn't controlling the volume right.
18:03 < Evilpig> if I hook everything up to run via the reciever then I don't get audio from the tv unless I set up the optical link and still have to use a second remote to control the volume there
19:35 < Evilpig> sony support got me fixed, but unintentionally 
19:53 < Evilpig> the issue came down to the hdmi cable somehow.  even though arc was working, the hdmi cable was causing some issue with either interference or something and it wasn't getting a full connection between the receiver and the tv even though that cable worked fine for arc
22:02 <@Dagmar> Fury is _married_?  To a Skrull??
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