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honey the codewitch wrote: everyone has a smartphone.
Nope. I don't. My wife doesn't. We've never lost a TV remote control. (Well, not for more than a few seconds anyway). Even the wireless ones (our first one was, yes, a wired one and there was no risk of losing that). The kids broke one once and we they bought a "universal" replacement which worked fine (and was never lost). Only disposed of when we got new "smart" telly with functions the "Universal" didn't know about; but thank goodness the telly came with a remote.
I did install a remote function on wife's tablet. Turns out to be unreliable; takes an age to start up (the app, not the tablet; add yet more time if the tablet isn't on standby); the tablet is more bulky than the remote (and often on charge plugged in, unlike the remote); we wouldn't risk chucking the remote across the room to someone who's actually interested in the garbage on telly anyway, and lacks 70% of the functionality of the remote control - despite being from the same manufacturer. And when the grandkids come round they can watch what they want without faffing about "synching" their phone or borrowing ours.
I just don't get the obsession with putting everything on a phone. Our phone is in the hallway where you can sit comfortably on the chair provided and have a private conversation away from other distractions. That way you can have a quality conversation with your friend/family/client and everyone is happy. (Especially having used the remote to pause live telly when the phone rings).
Now do you know why companies still make TV remotes? 
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I basically agree with you.
Sometime ago I downloaded a remote control app for my smart TV to an older smart phone. I am very glad that I did that.
I don't watch much TV but I do use it for doing other things as well.
I don't often lose the remote either, however, I have had to go and look for it a couple of times.
Earlier this year I lost the remote during a clean up that wasn't performed by me.
Everyone said don't buy a new remote because if you do then you will find the old one.
First I looked up if it was possible to hail the remote. Alas no.
I didn't watch any TV for about a month.
Then there was a big sporting event that I couldn't miss.
How the elephant do you switch the TV on.
The remote app lets you turn it off but not on.
Search the TV and then went to the internet again.
Eventually found a secret switch that was hidden on the underside of the TV.
Ha ha, now I could traverse up the channels to get to the right one from the phone.
But the phone app is quite limited.
No air mouse so using the web was useless.
No voice control to go from channel 2 to channel 54.
It just did the basics to let me watch that show.
After 6 months I caved in and purchased a new remote.
Late on a Friday night I successfully attached the new remote.
Early on Saturday morning I found the old remote.
It was in a place that I had already checked.
If the phone app had the same power, utility and ease of use as the remote control, I would use it.
Then if I lost it I could call it and if it was somewhere where I couldn't hear it I could use the GPS to show me where it was.
I was humoured by megaadam's assertion that the reason for your "unpopular opinion" was most likely due to the fact that you are half the age of the bulk of people on the forum.
So, most of them are 80 years old. Yet a whole lot of them seem to be interested in writing smart phone apps. Still it must be nice to be referred to as a youngster. Gee, when I was 40 I was given a card that said, that it is all downhill from here.
Oh and I did discover that the only feature of the TV remote that uses infra-red is the power on button. The rest of the functions are either Bluetooth or WIFI radio. Possibly the reason the phone app doesn't switch it on as well.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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wow, someone that agrees. 
i thought i was getting sent to the stocks over that comment. haha
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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losing sleep is a lot more fun when it's deliberate.
now should i accept the fact that i just didn't sleep last night and call it good enough, or do i lay in bed for another several hours expecting different results?
at least i don't have to work today.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I can't do that: I get up and do something.
That may drive me back to bed later, but generally doesn't.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hours like these i wish i had a code project back burnered i could work on.
Nothing interesting though. I'm coming off of PCK and that was big and probably not ready to start something fresh.
Oh well. I like the wee hours before dawn, but i prefer to be occupied.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I don't know. I'd sleep on it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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*shakes fist*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I've seen it. (The Robin Williams one)
I liked it. He plays a good killer.
Although I thought Pacino wasn't up to his usual self in that movie, or maybe I was just so engrossed with Williams' character it outstripped him. Still, Pacino doesn't play a good cop/detective, IMO.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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If you have Netflix, check out this show. If you remember Wipeout (an obstacle course show), it's like that, only for cars. My advice is to skip over the idiot gender fluid announcers, and get right to the driving. I binge-watched it on Friday/Saturday. As a car guy, I was impressed.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'm looking into it specifically for the genderfluid announcers.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: genderfluid
Does that taste anything like Coke? Or rootbeer?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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in my experience the agender folx taste like rootbeer.
any further elaboration should be taken to soapbox.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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For some reason, Netflix recommended that to me lat night. It is amazing that they think I will watch this because I saw Sacred Games.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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If you're into cars, I recommend it (as long as you skip the up-close/personal announcer crap). The driving part is pretty good.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I am in car when I have to go from place A to B and bike or public transport is not an option. Other than that, no. But now I am really interested to look at the presenter.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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One or more of the announcers came from the new Clarkson-free Top Gear, so I already hated them all.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: Clarkson-free Top Gear
I have not seen the post fall out version of Top Gear. Clarkson, Richard and James were the selling point of the show more than the cars themselves in my opinion. I saw some clips of US version and that was bad.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Don't have Netflix, boohoohoo 
At work I often get looks of unbelief from my colleagues 
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I've been watching Road Kill...it's amazing what they can do with duct tape and chewing gum! 
Thanks, I'll have to watch for that one.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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This[^] was the only Hyperdrive worth watching. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I noticed in the (nearly) defunct soap box a disparaging implication about the "Thought of the Day"
Well - OG's Thought of the Day is one of the highlights of the lounge - I look for it (hoping it's on-time and the best words aren't already used) - certainly long before even considering going to the Soapbox to vent* and otherwise totally waste time in a kid's food fight with listeria.
Scanning one's entire vocabulary with that awkward point of view to come up with something is probably very stimulating for some or other odd part of the brain.
Actually, one thing about it I'll miss: the place to post those non-KSS jokes, rare as they were. A good laugh is always, well, a good laugh.
Venting on the soapbox === pharting into the wind . . . it was necessary to phart, but the blow-back is always looming.
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That nearly gave me a heart attack!
I keep a DOCX file with all the TotD's I've posted in a (sometimes vain) attempt to avoid reposts. And I thought I'd just check now big it is: must be pretty huge given how many years I've been posting them ...
Location: X:\Future Posts - on my NAS so I can add to it from any device
Size: 53.9 KB (55,246 bytes) - Wow! Smaller than I expected!
Size on disk: 3.99 GB (4,294,967,294 bytes) - Oh, oh. Looks like a NAS problem ...
Checking, rechecking, disk status, file system integrity, ... all looks fine.
Hang on, it's doing that for all files ...
Oh, yes. RAID5, so it's stored "smeared" across disks and it's reporting the size of a physical disk as the smearing occurs in a disk sized file on each of 'em ... phew!
That had me worried for a moment!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Agreed.
I'm not that much into pun threads, so I don't read them all, but they're an institution that a lot of people like.
The CCC is the same (credit where it's due: Dalek Dave started that off, and contributed it solo, every day for years).
Things like that are affable and friendly, and contribute a lot to the tone and atmosphere of the Lounge -- and are unique to the CP Lounge.
I'm dreading the influx of ill-will and bad manners that will probably result from the closure of the soapbox.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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