Those two vertical lines on the right side aren’t part of the meme. They’re faults on my TV that I keep forgetting about the moment I stop consciously noticing them. And on the rare occasion that I’m moved to try and do something about it, I’m stopped from getting it fixed by 3 things
1: I would need to fill out a shitload of paperwork for the warranty to cover the repair
2: I would need to have the faintest idea what date each fault started (there was several months between, but I don’t know anything more specific than that…)
3: I’d have to bring it in for repair myself, I don’t have a car and I don’t know anyone with a big enough car that I feel comfortable asking
4: thought of another hurdle as I was typing it all out but forgot again before I got to the end to add it.
Maybe I should call the store I bought it at and explain the situation, see if there’s anything they can do to help. Which of course is super for my social anxiety comorbidity 🤦😮💨
The description of your TV’s problem and the chain of events you’d need to take to have it fixed made me stressed and uncomfortable. Thank you
Sorry and you’re welcome, I guess 😁🤷
I was riveted and barely able to keep from peeing ever so slightly on my chair.
Why in gods name are you photographing a screen in 2024? We left that shit behind at least 2 decades ago…
YouTube app on Android TV. It was less of a hassle than finding out how to take and share screenshots in SmartTube 🤷
Response time: 6 hours. Hmmmm…
I posted this right before going to bed but nice catch 😄
could’ve just opened the video on your phone or something
Which I was about to, but then I realized that the very faults on the TV was an example of what the meme is about…
fair enough lol
I mean it’s still one of the most convenient ways of doing it and cameras are good enough these days that it doesn’t matter much if you don’t send the original file
#4 on your list speaks to my soul.
“Never” should be a third section
4th after my addition, but yes.
So this is an actual picture of your TV…?
Yeah, the source is a YouTube video and I couldn’t get it to take a screenshot so I took a picture with my phone 🤷
Do you also browse here on Lemmy with that TV? No smartphone or something?
Nah, but as I was about to look up the video on my phone, I realized that the lines on my TV were highly relevant to the ADHD reaction time issue that the meme is about 🤷
Damn. Stuff like this makes me thankful for the consumer protections we have in Australia. They’re not the best, and certainly don’t measure up to EU level protections, but if there’s a fault you can return your product to where you bought it from, or do a warranty request. Warranty requests are usually faster because if you return it to the store and it isn’t a major fault, they will most likely just send it back to the manufacturer anyway, but the option is still there.
I had my laptop hard drive die on me once and I went down the warranty route. It was quite easy. I just went to the warranty page, entered the serial number, described the problem and uploaded a photo of the receipt and they emailed the next day to say a courtier had been booked for 2 days later. I did have to provide my own box (I just reused the box it came in), but that was pretty much it. Repaired in 3 days and delivered a few days after that. It wasn’t even a high end laptop, it was a fairly cheap Asus crapbook
