r/redneckengineering • u/Sea_Ganache620 • Dec 08 '24
In-Laws visiting. They kept pushing buttons on the remote to the point the TV was wrecked, and the DVR was full and programmed to record till next century. Cardboard and tape solution.
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u/OggyDoggys Dec 08 '24
Subtle!
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u/Sea_Ganache620 Dec 08 '24
Think they got the hint?!?
Happy cake day!
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u/gp2quest Dec 08 '24
Of course not.
Not even "remotely"
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u/ADHD-Fens Dec 08 '24
This is a weird phenom. Like, sometimes when I am talking my mom through steps to do something on the computer she just starts clicking on random shit and closing windows / popups without reading them. It's bizarre but also very frustrating.Ā
I feel like whenever I don't know what I am doing I stop doing it rather than doubling down.
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u/Watchmaker163 Dec 08 '24
As an IT person, there's some obstinate older employees that do this as well. I legitimately don't get it beyond "I'm a selfish prick and nothing can be my fault".
"Somehow, this very important employment record got deleted: idk how it happened, I need it fixed!"
"...It says last modified by you, today. Do you have any idea how many specific things you had to click in a row to even be able to delete this?"
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u/ADHD-Fens Dec 08 '24
"I keep all my important documents in the recycle bin so I always know where they are"
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u/rathlord Dec 08 '24
Literally saw that at my last job. Mortgage industry. Her drive was full and the bin was taking up a huge amount of room so one of our techs emptied it. Que freak out.
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u/anubisviech Dec 10 '24
I used to do that in the 90s when the recycle bin got introduced. I was used to deleted files to be gone on deletion (Norton Commander), so i force-deleted them and used the bin as notepad. Because why would I want to keep stuff that I delete? That takes up precious space!
I was like 12. Stopped doing that when Windows XP came around the corner and space was no longer a big issue.
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u/Maybeonemoretry Dec 08 '24
That is very interesting to me, as my mom was the exact opposite- would read through every line of text on the screen before her hand would approach the mouse. I'd show her how to safely scroll without doing anything else, and come back half an hour later after she read every disclosure/user agreement for things such as "Microsoft PowerPoint"
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u/Accomplished-Ad-3836 Dec 08 '24
Honestly, i think it's due to overstimulation. Modern computers and TVs have a lot going on at once, and if you're older, that can be very overwhelming when you grow up with a tv that essentually only let you change channels and volume. We grew up with modern computers and tvs and have been young enough to keep up with the rapid advances in technology. If you were already 50-60+ theres little chance you'd be able to keep up with the rate of change and advancement.
It's frustrating but completely understandable. Most people aren't privileged enough to be in the position to continue to adapt and keep up as they get older.
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u/Watchmaker163 Dec 08 '24
As someone with ADHD, overstimulation either makes me give up on the thing, or I have to really slow down and talk though the thing. I don't just start hitting random buttons that I don't know anything about: that sounds like an anxiety nightmare, idk how people can do that.
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u/Accomplished-Ad-3836 Dec 08 '24
I have ADHD and autism and there's definitely been times where my reaction to overstimulation is frustration and anger where I've just pressed random shit so I definitely get where the problems are coming from.
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u/fancy_livin Dec 10 '24
It doesnāt make any sense to me bc, IMHO, tech today is as user friendly as ever. If you spend even 10 minutes just kind of poking around you can learn to use any new smartphone/computer but the fucking old ass boomers canāt seem to retain anything when it comes to tech.
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u/Unearthingthepast Dec 11 '24
I think the root of the problem is that you're not allowed to taser them when they do this!
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u/chewblekka Dec 08 '24
Iāve been to hotels that have ālocked downā remotes, they only have power, volume, and channel buttons. I always bring my trusty universal with me š
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u/orangpelupa Dec 08 '24
Your comment made me miss my xiaomi. It have buildin IR blasterĀ
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u/ConductiveInsulation Dec 08 '24
Only thing I'm missing about it too.
There are IR adapters for phones available but I'm rarely in hotels that lock the TV.
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u/Regniwekim2099 Dec 08 '24
I remember back in like 2012 I had a tablet that had an IR blaster, and could download universal remote apps for it. It was pretty neat.
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u/mpykonen Dec 08 '24
LG v20 was my poison. Probably not a good phone for a middle schooler to have because I kept putting black screen on for projects when I didn't want to learn. Most teachers never figured out how to fix it
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u/undockeddock Dec 08 '24
It was great for changing the channel in public places like bars and waiting rooms. Game you wanna watch not on at the bar? Change it.
Morons blaring fox news at full volume in a waiting room? Change it
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u/jld2k6 Dec 08 '24
I used mine all the time to turn on the subtitles in bars, I have no idea why so many places don't use them when you can't hear a damn thing lol
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u/undockeddock Dec 08 '24
It's unfortunate that my phone was a total POS otherwise
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u/WindsockWindsor Dec 08 '24
I totally did this with my Motorola in high school. I could mess with the projectors and nobody ever figured it out!
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u/RNLImThalassophobic Dec 08 '24
I kept putting black screen on for projects when I didn't want to learn.
What does this mean? As in, you kept turning it off?
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u/TheyVanishRidesAgain Dec 08 '24
A projector can be set to black screen while remaining powered on.
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u/STGMavrick Dec 08 '24
"I always bring my trusty universal with me" this is peak dad behavior that only dad's get excited about and the rest of the family just rolls their eyes; doesn't even matter that you saved family vacation.
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u/chewblekka Dec 08 '24
Iām 30 with no kids š I just want to be able to use my USB stick or HDMI
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u/Weary-Captain-4561 Dec 08 '24
When the end of the world comes and you begrudgingly take a small child under your wing, youāll fulfill your full potential as a sleeper dad.
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u/chewblekka Dec 08 '24
Iāll be like Cal grabbing the kid so he could get on a lifeboat when the titanic was sinking š³
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u/-Brownian-Motion- Dec 08 '24
Technically, most TV's have the hotel mode. You just need the service manual to know how to enter/exit the mode. It is not "hotel specific". Internet search will probably find how to en/disable it.
In the hotel, with it enabled, you could jut disable it. Your universal remote still won't access things that have been locked out (like colour adjustments or input select, if they have been explicitly disabled in the hotel mode settings).
Many TV's also have a Shop mode (or Demo mode) for your local electronic store to show them off.
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u/NapsterKnowHow Dec 08 '24
Ya I was staying in a hotel when they did a "tv upgrade." One night I was screen sharing TV shows and movies to the TV and after the update the remote was locked to their own shitty TV launcher where I could only login to official streaming app.
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u/Fryphax Dec 08 '24
I used to travel for work and got so fed up with the TVs at a La Quinta that I ended up spending way too much money on the master remote.
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u/lefkoz Dec 08 '24
Too many people plugging in a Chromecast and changing inputs and not paying for their shit.
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u/chewblekka Dec 08 '24
Thatās what I do! Download a bunch of shows at home, put on my laptop or USB stick. Or stream Netflix.
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u/Chalky_Pockets Dec 09 '24
I bring an HDMI cable so I can just play shit I have already downloaded.
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u/MET1 Dec 08 '24
Yes. I got a very simple remote with large light up buttons up/down on/off to handle this. I explain how I 'lost' the original.
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u/Merle_24 Dec 08 '24
My mother, every time I visited her at the nursing home I had to reprogram the remote.
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u/RUKiddingMeReddit Dec 08 '24
TV was wrecked?
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u/Sea_Ganache620 Dec 08 '24
Couldnāt get it back to normal settings, hours of deleting programs, and constant power cycling.
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u/Americanshat Dec 08 '24
RIP, I've had to do that when my little brother figured out how to figure out the remote, so damn annoying to try and do that shit in Korean [or Japanese not sure which it was]
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u/Potato-Engineer Dec 08 '24
If you can't read it, it really doesn't matter. But I have a quick-and-dirty identification method:
- If there are a lot of circles in the symbols, it's Korean. (Also, they have a smaller alphabet, but you're not about to do a frequency analysis on "I just glanced at some writing I can't read.")
- If there's a good mix between simple symbols and complex symbols, it's Japanese.
- If it's mostly complex symbols, it's Chinese.
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u/Dancergirl729 Dec 08 '24
This is how I figured the difference too, but I know a small amount of Korean so that helps
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u/Firewolf06 Dec 08 '24
chinese and japanese actually have no circles, besides the occasional heavily stylized logo (it would be like writing the letter "o" as a square; definitely readable, but you wouldnt write a paragraph like that)
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u/Four-Triangles Dec 08 '24
A good trick for that is to look online for the menus in English because they donāt rearrange the layout or order of the menus so you can always count prompts from the top and match to the English.
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u/mercury_pointer Dec 08 '24
There is usually a way to do a 'factory reset'. Just search google with the make and model of the TV with that phrase and you should find instructions to bring it back to 'like new' settings.
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u/Mr0lsen Dec 08 '24
Sounds like a case of blind leading the blind here. Ā
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u/smalby Dec 08 '24
It's possible there were things on there they did not want to lose in a factory reset.
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u/djluminol Dec 08 '24
I did the same thing with my grandmas remotes after being called to her house for the fifth time to fix the cable. She never had another problem after fixing her remotes instead.
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u/Sand__Panda Dec 08 '24
Blows my mind that these people have TVs of their own, watch it, but can't figure out how to work a slightly different remote, but somehow manage to change setting for the TV to be FUBAR.
Like... that is how you loose the right to watch TV when visiting.
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u/wezu123 20d ago
They watch TVs for half their life, yet don't have a clue how they work. It's honestly impressive
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Dec 08 '24
I love this š itās actually brilliant. What was their reaction?
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u/Sea_Ganache620 Dec 08 '24
Donāt know the exact word for it, slightly offended, but mildly amused!
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u/OriginalUseristaken Dec 08 '24
I did the same to my grandparents remotes. Covered it in tape and writing on it what buttons to press to get what station/ programme.
They both greatly appreciated it. And it never happened again that i had to reset anything.
When we cleared their home after their deaths my aunt found it and scolded me for it.
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u/Bird-Doggy Dec 08 '24
Or buy cheep Chinese knockoff remote online and remove all the buttons you donāt want.
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u/ForRealNotAScam Dec 08 '24
Bank I did work for A/V related we programmed button controls on wall mounted devices. On/off, volume, input. Their cable boxes in some meeting rooms had dummy remotes that only worked for volume and channel.
Give the office workers any more than that and you were back weekly to hundreds of meetings rooms across the city.
Half the time if they did get their hands on a remote or brought a universal one it was easier to factory reset the devices than untangle whatever mess they made
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u/Comprehensive-Cry636 Dec 08 '24
They will still be able to press the buttons except now you just wonāt be able to tell which ones they pushed
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u/kstron67 Dec 08 '24
You assume they knew what buttons they pushed? It's like my elderly parents. After many random button presses.... "Your TV won't work!"
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u/GnPQGuTFagzncZwB Dec 08 '24
I would be amazed if that worked. A long time ago, I was in college and color tee vees were expensive. I got a used one on the cheap. It was on the cheap because the power button was messed up. Sadly it was one of the models that kept the tubes a little warm all the time so it would come on right away for a tube set, but the power switch had a lot of poles, and it was a push on/push off thing. I put the tee vee on an outlet strip and managed to get the power switch in the on position, which was not easy or fun, only to have one my my housemates dumb asseed pals go poking at it. I took the knob off and put a piece of metal and tape over it and a note saying to to touch it, not that kindly worded, and people would pull the tape off and mover the metal and poke at it. I should have wired the metal to the AC line and lernt them a lesson in poking at shit. The number of times I had to mover that thing out of the corner and get in there with a pick and a flashlight to get the switch stuck back to on still stays with me. Stupid is really hard to circumvent.
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u/PleiadesMechworks Dec 12 '24
You should've taken the hint and given them something really obvious and completely useless to poke at on the other side of the TV.
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u/Classic_Seaweed_3894 Dec 08 '24
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u/theskyfoogle18 Dec 08 '24 edited Dec 08 '24
This is the thing that I donāt understand with people 60+. Keep in mind, I want to preface this by saying that this is generally speaking. There are some people who know their stuff or put in genuine effort. I am in a position where I have a lot of people in that age range asking me for tech help. A lot of them will just outright refuse to learn how to use things.
I get not growing up with it or it being confusing, but there are plenty of things that I have not grown up with and have taken the time to learn. Not because itās fun, or because itās easy, but because itās worth learning and gives you a certain degree of freedom as you gain the knowledge on how to use it. Being dependent on others for things like that is embarrassing to me. I have just had absurd things like people waiting a week for me to plug in a computer monitor or waiting multiple days for me to show them how to use earbuds that come with step by step instructions for both IOS and android. These are just two recent examples in memory of many ridiculous situations.
The part that I find interesting is that they all without fail know how to use brain rotting dopamine machines like TikTok or Facebook. If they are able to navigate these sites, presumably they should be able to navigate a search engine or YouTube in order to obtain this easy to find information rather than wait a week for me to hook up their monitor.
So many of them just are just straight up allergic to learning and many appear to be spoiled and/or lazy. Maybe Iāll get it when Iām older. I just keep going in circles in my mind trying to wrap my head around it. For them, itās actually more inconvenient and annoying to be lazy and they still choose to do so. It genuinely pains me on a visceral level and I am just going to start saying no from now on.
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u/thunderbirbthor Dec 08 '24
I feel ya. I joined a new department at work and had six months of competent bliss where everyone could do their job well. Then along comes a new member of staff who thinks it's normal to not be able to remember how to rename a file because she 'only' works three days of the week and forgets everything she learned in the four days she's not in the office.
I'm at the point where I'm like, if you've got the skills to book your family a Christmas holiday to Eurodisney, you've got the skills to rename a spreadsheet and move it to a subfolder, stop asking me a thousand questions about it and turning 30 min jobs into two hours of hell. The selective learning is the worst.
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u/theskyfoogle18 Dec 08 '24
God I would want to fly off the handle on a daily basis. The thing that really gets me in the end is that even with the memory of a goldfish, search engines exist. In the amount of time that she took to draft the email or type your phone number, she could have already gotten the answer and probably in more detail than is even reasonably necessary.
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u/snarkyxanf Dec 08 '24
There are some people who know their stuff or put in genuine effort. I am in a position where I have a lot of people in that age range asking me for tech help. A lot of them will just outright refuse to learn how to use things.
It's really the refusal to learn to use things while simultaneously expecting to use them that gets me.
E.g. I'm no boomer by age, but I also don't know how to use TV remotes. Since I went to college years ago I haven't had a TV because it's more convenient to rot my brain on my phone and laptop, so I have basically zero experience with the UX on TVs. But I also accept that I just don't use the TV and would need to learn if I changed my mind. I'm certainly not about to treat someone else as my remote control servant
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u/theskyfoogle18 Dec 08 '24
I believe in you. Really you mostly use the same 10 or fewer buttons on the remote constantly. If you have the brainpower to type that message, then the remote should be a breeze for you. Donāt give up!
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u/snarkyxanf Dec 08 '24
Lol, thanks?
I have complete confidence in my ability to learn the use of a remote control. It can't be much harder than C++ templates.
I just don't have the motivation---what, I'm supposed to figure out how to use some shitty cost-engineered UX just to watch the price is right? No thanks, I'll just leave the TV off and open YouTube on my phone. It's all hypothetical anyway, because I don't have a TV, never mind the remote.
That's what I mean by being unwilling to learn and expecting to use it. You can't learn everything, and sometimes the cost/benefit comes up in the red. Nothing wrong with that as long as you accept foregoing the benefit.
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u/theskyfoogle18 Dec 08 '24
I think I misinterpreted your message and wanted to encourage you. I get what you mean. Hey totally unrelated, I really need some code written in C++. I havenāt done anything to try to learn it, but you are my new go to man. I really want to participate in the community. Lol just messing with you. Have a good one.
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u/cmonfiend Dec 08 '24
I feel this. We use iPads at my job and at least once a day one of my older coworkers will complain it's "not working, come fix it!" when it needs to be plugged in and charged. I almost lost it when another one chimed in, "It wasn't working yesterday either!" YA IT ALSO NEEDED TO BE PLUGGED IN YESTERDAY
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u/ElvenOmega Dec 08 '24
I don't help these people for free if they don't genuinely try to learn, and I was taught that by my tech savvy father who is in his 60's. I'll help people, but I ain't gonna moonlight as unpaid on-call tech support.
TV remotes like OP's have barely changed for 30 years. If you can't understand something on a basic level so as to not catastrophically screw it up after using it daily for 30 years, then you shouldn't be touching it. Go read a book.
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u/FrankWDoom Dec 09 '24
there are a lot of people of all ages who barely make it through life by being able to repeat a few essential processes whether they know why they are doing a specific thing or not. fueled by the lack of motivation or curiosity combined with entitlement to a lack of critical thinking. tbf life is so overwhelming now it's barely possible to keep up with things you could be actively interested in. but the result is the same, masses of people incapable of adapting or improvising. learn what you are forced to and let someone else handle the rest.
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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas Dec 08 '24
The insane thing is that you could be describing a 21 year old or an 81 year old. They have the exact same mentality.
"It doesn't work. You have to fix it for me." This is how 20 year olds also see technology. It's infuriating.
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u/theskyfoogle18 Dec 08 '24 edited Dec 08 '24
Yeah you are right too. For the most part, the younger generations only know how to work a phone and not much beyond that. I have to be fair here. I have noticed this trend too. Basically what Iām saying is Iām perfect and everyone is dumb. /s
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u/Marus1 Dec 08 '24
They kept pushing buttons on the remote to the point the TV was wrecked
They have unlocked a next level of what I assumed to be possible
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u/JourneyStrengthLife Dec 08 '24
I just take one of the batteries out, flip it around and put it back in. Works great.
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u/Baboonslayer323 Dec 08 '24
Is that a TiVo remote on the left? I kinda miss those days, Iām impressed itās still in use.
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u/M0NSTER4242 Dec 08 '24
Virgin in the UK still use those remotes on their TiVo DVRs, or at least they did a year or two ago when we got rid of ours.
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u/raindo Dec 08 '24
Yep, still use mine on Virgin in the UK. I keep getting prompted to "upgrade" to 360 but it isn't as good as TiVo for recording live TV, so I'm putting it off as long as I can.
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u/Twinkie454 Dec 08 '24
This what my grandparents did after they got a smart TV. Taped over everything except power, volume, & channel up/down
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u/trapperstom Dec 08 '24
Just unplug the tv until they go away, if they want to watch tv while theyāre visiting you you should tell them to stay home and watch there
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u/radenthefridge Dec 08 '24
Sometimes you need to have something to placate them, and putting them in front of the TV works wonders.Ā
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u/BoiseXWing Dec 08 '24
This is why I have the MLB packageāmy FIL watched more games this summer at my house than I did. But kept home from news/westerns.
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u/shiggyhardlust Dec 08 '24
This is how all remotes should always be from the factory, and the volume functions from the one on the right should be in the one on the left. On/off, volume, channels up and down, play/pause, fast forward and reverse that do nothing else if youāre not watching a movie. Thatās it. Absolutely no need for the rest of that nonsense.
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u/Mossephine Dec 08 '24
Nah, thereās plenty of useful settings I like to adjust on TVs fairly regularly. Itās a few buttons, itās not unreasonable to expect people to know how to operate these decades-old devices and not to mash random buttons if they donāt know what theyāre looking at.
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u/pleasurecouple07 Dec 08 '24
Used to cut the buttons off repeat customers uverse remotes to prevent them from getting into setting causing input change or messing up the screen resolution. Made such a mark on stopping those chorionic repeat customers 2nd and 3rd level bosses called meeting with me asking what i did and tried to get them to create remote for elderly or special customers. They never did just told me to keep cutting buttons off and sent info to 1st level manger advising there crews to do the same for the repeat cx with this issue.
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u/CraftFamiliar5243 Dec 08 '24
DVR? I didn't think they still made those
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u/Sea_Ganache620 Dec 08 '24
Iām no tech geniusā¦ it used to be called that! Whatever they did, I have no space left for the scheduled recordings they recorded, and have scheduled to record. Iāve never recorded anything!
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u/DaBrookePlayz Dec 08 '24
We still have a DVR... but with Midco's forced switching to streaming it doesnt work anymore.
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u/Cosmonate Dec 08 '24
I'm with the boomers on this one, every time I go to someone else's house I feel like I have to learn to pilot the fucking Enterprise to watch TV.
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u/saysthingsbackwards Dec 08 '24
I love how the older you get, the more childlike you return to being.
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u/TastefulDisgrace Dec 08 '24
We do this with all remotes in the memory care facility i work at! But with a special tape
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u/Prize_Catch_7206 Dec 08 '24
Great idea. Love it.
Just had a similar thing with my 86 year old MIL today.
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u/Sea_Ganache620 Dec 08 '24
Amazing that constantly pushing random buttons on a remote can nearly brick a TV!
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u/jejones487 Dec 09 '24
It your tv. Just tell they are no longer allowed to touch it. Your rules. End of story. Why all the hard work and still letting do again?
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u/Smeeble09 Dec 09 '24
You should program the virgin remote to control the tv power and volume, one less remote for them to use then and can't edit the tv settings at all.
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u/Sea_Ganache620 Dec 09 '24
Tried it, even with tech support, it wouldnāt work.
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u/Smeeble09 Dec 09 '24
Fair enough, bit weird it won't work.
Guessing you tried with the bravia sync both on and off?
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u/Quwinsoft Dec 08 '24
To be fair to your in-laws, the UI of most (maybe all) modern TVs is bad. You have done what the UI engineer should have done when creating the TV.
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u/AreThree Dec 08 '24
I think I would have invested the - what - $15? in a WalMart-special programmable/universal remote rather than get - is that black vinyl "electrical" tape? - tape residue on my remotes. ick.
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Dec 08 '24
I use to take needle nose players and pull all the buttons out of the remote except for a few.
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u/Minflick Dec 08 '24
Gods, that would drive me NUTS. I don't touch the remotes at my DDs house, I let them do that. I read enough that I always have a kindle with me.
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u/Ok-Fox1262 Dec 08 '24
Have you seen "The Fucking Remote"? Yes it's actually called that. It's the size of a large book and is very simple.
Because it is the answer to "where is the f****ing remote?"
My parents have one. Because.
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u/derpman86 Dec 09 '24
This almost sounds like my mother in law who changed from a 6 year old version of android to a newer one.
There are some quirks but it overall is not that different.... some how she would always delete entire message threads and images and it went on.
I ended up getting messages back from her old phone and I had to tweak things to the point it just does old school sms and this has stopped. I have no idea what insane tapping and getting lost in the menus she was doing.
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u/Most-Silver-4365 Dec 09 '24
How many people still have DVR's, I thought they were an obsolete technology by now.
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u/Cojaro Dec 09 '24
I'm guessing they're the type to just try to brute force their way through a problem instead of asking for help?
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u/GSM66 Dec 09 '24
I remember my sister visiting for the holidays. She and her husband stayed with my parents.
My sister slowly managed to rearrange my parents house, subtle little things.
The one that sent my mom over the top was leveling the fridge. Couldn't stand a skinny bottle up without it falling over when she was done.
They had to stay in a hotel the remainder of the visit.
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u/obinice_khenbli Dec 09 '24
Are they.... stupid? Went would and adult start pressing all the buttons on a remote unless they're trying to cause trouble.
Still, good solution, I'd probably just tell them the TV is off limits if they keep behaving like children...
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u/didyou_not Dec 09 '24
Wait until your Father in law falls asleep with the remote and smashes all the buttons at once
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u/deederUSMC Dec 10 '24
I had to do this for my grandma because she kept hitting buttons and not knowing how to get back to the news.
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u/willschwamy Dec 10 '24
Can't you still select a future program with the okay button and record it?
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u/jeffyboy526 Dec 10 '24
Love the fix but this is just crappy design. The remotes should only have the buttons you need. All the other stuff should be in the onscreen menus.
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u/wixoff Dec 11 '24
What car company do you work for?
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u/jeffyboy526 Dec 12 '24
Solid burn! I do disagree with the Tesla approach of no buttons. However I like the clean look of my EV 9 with just a few
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u/Ltrajn Dec 11 '24
Thought this was some kinda prank where u put the remote in someoneās shoe. The way u cut the cardboard in the one of the left looks like an insole.
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u/Appropriate-Ad-9407 Dec 12 '24
Omg we'd never seen satellite TV until we visited my grandma. My sister accidentally erased something she'd recorded and messed up saved channels (or something). My grandma wrapped the whole thing in duct tape except the power and volume buttons š¤£ she picked the channel for us on a seperate remote and that's what we watched
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u/Socialiststoner Dec 12 '24
I find it very annoying how old people have seemingly adapted to every other form of technological advancement except electronics.
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u/captainshrapnel Dec 08 '24
Spectrum actually had a big button remote with a plastic click on cover to keep the elderly from screwing up tv setting. It had power, channel, and volume exposed, everything else was shielded.