Hulu quizzing about the ads played

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Does it delete random pieces of your data if you give it a wrong answer?

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• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would immediately cancel any service that does that.

  I actively avoid advertising. I’ve cancelled Amazon prime now it has advertising.

  I got Sky’s Internet TV here in the UK - a supposedly premium service yet the first VOD demand show I streamed I found it had adverts and you had to pay more to be able to fast forward through them. I immediately cancelled.

  These companies are greedy as fuck, and driven by the stupidity of always trying to be “growing” to grow their share prices. That just means always trying to save money and take more money from their customers. Enshittification is a result of the stupidity of the stock markets.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was on Amazon Prime for years.

    Then in the space of one year they decided that listening to an album in order was now a “premium” feature, and that ads would be shovelled into everything.

    Sure, I lost the “free” shipping, so now I hardly buy anything from Amazon either. I see this as an absolute win.

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    • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I cancelled Prime over a year ago and for some reason I still get “Prime” delivery. I don’t get the games, movies, or Twitch stuff but if I order something it shows up faster than when my partner does.

      So, I don’t hate that about Amazon… Everything else keeps me from ordering there unless there’s no other options.

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    • 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      same i was really buying a lot of pointless shit it turns out lol

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  • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s as if they want you to torrent stuff again.

    And funnily I feel less worse than the last time (before netflix arose)…

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sky really pisses me off. They have exclusive rights to the F1 in the UK, but you need to pay a fortune for it, as you have to have the base sky package plus sky sports (I think) plus sky sports F1.

    Probably comes to over £50/month for something that’s on every other weekend on average, and they still show ads! If there’s a subscription, there shouldn’t be any ads.

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    • Knuschberkeks@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If all you want is F1, and you kniw someone who lives ina country where F1TV is available, try booking F1TV through them. It’s 50€/year.

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  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I cancelled Amazon Prime the second they sent me that email.

    My GF then got her own subscription within less than a month so it nets out as 0 loss to Bezos in the end…

    Sometimes i imagine him pointing and laughing at me

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  • comrade19@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep and its never going to get better if you stay, only worse

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• Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Why would anyone put up with the attack that is advertising? If it requires you to watch ads, it’s not worth it. You wouldn’t sit through a free movie if it meant a stranger showing up every few minutes and offering to let you rim them, (it’s not that no one wants what their offering, it’s that they don’t care whether you’re interested or not. They’re still going to show you their asshole) why would you allow a similar violation of your mind?

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• kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Please drink the verification can

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s finally here…

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  • tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And the example they use is a guy shooting another guy on TV.

    🦅

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As long as it’s not a breast

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      America, Fuck Yeah

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    • srecko@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Its the second comercial

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  • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t have to answer the question you know. It’s shitty, yes, but it’s not forcing anything to happen.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not yet…

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• TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I found the answer! It’s help.hulu.com/…/hulu-cancel-hulu-subscription

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ooh, I know the answer!

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d cancel any service that did this to me.

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  • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right? We don’t have nice things because we put up with bull crap.

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• Affidavit@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re really doing everything in their power to destroy their own business model, aren’t they?

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• ATDA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Somewhere someone thought this was a good idea.

  Fuck that individual specifically, fuck head…

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We need a name

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    • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Das Capital.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Immediate uninstall and cancel.

  Fuck that.

  🏴‍☠️

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I already don’t subscribe to Hulu, but I want to do my part to fight this.

    Is there something I can do actively to cost them money?

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• ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What happens if you answer wrong?

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You get sent to ad prison for re-education.

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    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Re-aducation

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  • answersplease77@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you do reset if you failed after that, you have to watch the film from start again to go to the next episode

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• tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Theyre making it easier to switch back to pirating by the day

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• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t be quizzed over ads if you pirate everything.

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  • udon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can pirate the ads and quizzes

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    • Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A friend of mine in college pirated a japanese show which included the ads. The first episode seemed to have subs with legitimate translations. The rest of the season the subtitle author had fun and changed them to make fun of the ads. It was pretty funny.

      There were no quizzes though…

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    • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was wondering how I should prepare for the tests

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Piracy is a hassle, the convenience of streaming made the cost worthwhile. They’ve forgotten this. Once the cost outweighs the convenience, the hassle won’t seem like such a hassle anymore.

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    • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not a hassle at all. I use my phone to tell my computer what I’m interested in watching. It automatically downloads that, and when I’m ready to watch something it streams to my TV. After I’m done with it, my computer removes it.

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    • pip@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As a person who uses stremio; not only is it not more of a hassle than streaming services, it’s WAY less. Astronomically so. You set it up once and you have literally everything

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only upfront effort. Downloading is almost as much of a hassle as choosing what to play tonight.
      Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this fucking real? Get fucked, mainstream media, if this is the case. Plenty of books and old games to keep me occupied until Alzheimers hits, and then occupied again afterwards

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  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This isn’t mainstream media.
    This is capitalism.

    This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
    Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn’t really matter.
    This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mainstream media and capitalism are part of the same bullshit

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol.

      EVERYTHING BAD IS CAPITALISM!

      Aiight, Lemmy.

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• spiritsong@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Somebody better tell Sony about this. I’m sure they want to cash in from their patent being infringed.

  :p /s

  The dreaded future of advertising is here. Next step, in your face as you do your daily stuffs.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    McDonald’s!

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• SuperNerd@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is a brand lift study. It’s almost worthless: Hulu is paid nearly zero for it. I can’t believe they’ve stooped this low to scrape so little incremental revenue with such a customer hostile tack. Their product and analytics people must truly suck and completely lack awareness of counter metrics.

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  • irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s exactly what I was thinking.

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• MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  🏴‍☠️

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• westyvw@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When Hulu still had ads when you bought a subscription, I swore I would never pay them ever again. That was around 2014. I have stuck to it, and every year I am reminded why. Fuck Hulu.

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• CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love when instagram goes: “have you heard about …?” Presumably asking this as they just showed me an ad about it that i completely ignored and i just go “no i haven’t”.

  The only use of showing me ads is them getting paid and wasting my time. I don’t pay attention to them because i either don’t need/want it, just bought it or can’t afford it.

  It’s been a long time since i bought something as a result of watching an ad.

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  • geelgroenebroccoli@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The effect of ads is usually not directly linked to a specific product.

    If, for example, you need a new box of laundry detergent, you’ll go to the supermarket. There you might find brand A, which you’ve never heard of, or brand B, which had an ad you’ve seen or heard somewhere. Studies have shown you’ll be more likely to buy brand B, because you’ll find it more trustworthy, which is because you’ve heard about it somewhere.

    So, a lot of ads aren’t solely about a specific product, but also about making their brand perform better in the long run. Therefore, even if an ad is just making noise on the background, it may still have an effect on you. And, since it’s a subliminal process, it’s extremely difficult to make a concious decision to not buy products you’ve seen or heard ads of.

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s all true, but I’ve still got 500 things I need to spend money on before buying a Lexus. Ads for luxury cars are wasted on us poors.

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    • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah i’m too weird for ads it seems.

      I just buy whichever has the best price per kg. I make a normale mortal wage i can’t afford to get used to such luxuries like paying double to get the Nutella that actually says Nutella on it.

      I feel for everyone who makes an equal wage and doesn’t have the ability to see food as fuel.

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• ech@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Aaaannnnd this just resolidifies my decision to not engage with streaming services. What a load of shit.

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• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Extremely infuriating. Fuck that, pirate hat stays firmly in place.

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  • Trilobite@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep my media server is better quality and I can share it with my friends

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If i ever am forced to answer a quiz like this, I will make a youtube video lambasting that product or service.

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• Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Next step: political adverts that quiz you on what you’ve just heard and repeat each segment if you get the answer wrong.

  Just kidding though (or am I). This is truly some dystopian shit. My first reaction was what the actual fuck. And I bet you that their numbers aren’t really going to hurt that much because of this. Mark my words.

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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What really grinds my gears, is for every shitty “feature” like this, for every denial of policy or piece of spyware… someone thought it up.

    I wonder does anyone ever, in the meeting where this is decided, bring up what a horrible idea it is? I’m sure that person won’t have the best career, but has anyone ever seen someone take the bullet?

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Man, I’ve been to these meetings.

      Shitty MBAs have a shitty idea, and when you go “that’s impossible to do / directly against any sane set of values / clearly and plainly very, very illegal”, they just go “don’t worry about it” and have you do the stupid shit. When it comes crashing down, responsibility is usually distributed like when you take a turd and throw it in a high speed industrial fan, everyone gets a little.

      Then you have a choice between either becoming so jaded and cynical that it’s not even funny anymore, or switch jobs. I’ve had too many jobs.

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• Presi300@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You seem to be hurt by modern subscriptions, take this, it will give you strength.

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• starchylemming@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  hulu is owned by disney. encourage canceling disney+ too just for good measure

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• ye_olde_noob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  do they make you keep watching the ad until you get it right?

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There-Are-Four-Lights-2765708688

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have one TV for my PC monitor and one for, well, TV. Both hardwired to the network, no external network access. Wrote a quick PS script to switch from one to the other or both, made it into an EXE with buttons, très chic. Everything streams off a crappy USB drive “RAID” array. OpenVPN server with Digital Ocean, hosted in Amsterdam, $6/month. DONE.

  I’m not on some crusade against capitalism, I simply choose not to participate in bullshit like this.

  tl;dr: STEAL YO SHIT.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    For over a decade I’ve been watching TV Series and Movies from a Media Box connected via Ethernet to my home NAS (which is generally an old notebook or even my router - once I got myself a decent router - with some external hardisks), which is actually a pretty simple network to set up using Ethernet Over Powerlinr adaptors (which were already good enough for it back when they only did 20 Mb/second and now that they’re 1000Mb/s will handle even the huge resolution lightly compressed stuff that one can now find as booty out there).

    The setup has been recently upgraded to a Mini-PC with Lubuntu and Kodi, which is in my living room (right next to my Internet router to which it is connect with Gigabit Ethernet) and is also my home NAS and Bittorrent server over always on VPN, with a wireless remote for using in my living room to control Kodi (so it works the same as a TV Box for watching media) whilst the background stuff I control from my main PC remotely using a mix of web interfaces and ssh plus command line.

    I had never had this good an environment for TV entertainment and I’m not even using any of the *arr suite or Usenet to source content so a lot of it is really just doing the same stuff as a decade ago but with better hardware and a more modern UI for media playing and (most importing) away faster Internet connection.

    Anyways, the point I’m making is that nowadays one can actually upgrade a little bit from your setup (which, by the way, is superior to what I had before my Mini-PC upgrade) cheaply and even get themselves very close to the same experience as the corporate stuff (media box with remote and a nice UI to play stuff from a media library) whilst maintaining maximum control and getting no shit from enshittification.

    PS: I couldn’t recommend more getting a wireless remote if you want to just be able to sit down on your sofa and have a no hassle media box experienced (even whilst behind sits a far more complex home infrastructure that what people who outsource that side of things to the likes of Hulu have). It real helps with having a shit-free under your total control entertainment experience without sacrificing the part of that experience that comes from having a modern interface for media selection.

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  • Shameless@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its honestly getting to the point now where doing these home setups are so much simpler than owning these proprietary streaming boxes which have everything locked up to serve you ads or just steal data in general.

    Hooking a PC up to the TV even to watch the paid services is probably better at this point.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Throw in an ad blocker like a Pi-hole. Life changing. FFS, $10 a month on AWS and you can spin a Lightsail instance, or roll your own on a toaster.

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wish I was technically savy enough to do any of this.

    Unfortunately I am cursed, I break shit and hate having to spend hours working out what’s fucked on my computer.

    TV’s wifi card shit itself, problem solved pulled out replaced.

    Computer wouldn’t boot cause reason number 432 (actually the flash on the MB said fault reserved for future fault finding) hours of struggling.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Perhaps you’re a bogon emitter like my wife?

      Learn more here:

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_bogodynamics

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These companies are insufferable.

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