lampsofgoldSo I have a dumb tv and an Apple TV (that I’m looking to jailbreak, if anyone has any suggestions pls let me know!) and one of the nice innovations in TVs over the last decade or so is this feature where the TV can sense HDMI inputs and turn on when you turn the peripheral on, negating the need for the tv remote if you have a set top box like I do. This works great, except this morning, where I went to turn it on and nothing happened. 1/ #googlebeevil #dumbtech
The lesson here, I think, is don’t fuck with things the OS is typically responsible for unless you’re willing to ensure it’s 1:1 feature identical to what the OS does, and even then just stay inside the app unless the user asks you to #googlebeevil #dumbtech
I puzzled over it for an hour or so until I remembered: the youtube app had recently begun showing its own screensaver, rather than letting the OS take over, presumably so YouTube gets more screen time, or more data, or more ads or whatever. I think this somehow both interfered with the HDMI sense feature and the TV’s sleep mode so that the TV would turn off but never come back. #googlebeevil #dumbtech
Carolannie