• @adam_y
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      864 months ago

      Right?! When they could be playing Doom on it.

    • @lemmylommy
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      174 months ago

      Lots of people have a TV blaring all day in the kitchen. I don’t get that either, but that must be their target.

        • @[email protected]
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          64 months ago

          I get it. I usually have some manner of street food compilation or gaming video in the background if I’m not actively watching something.

        • @Pretzilla
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          14 months ago

          Yep. It distracts from thoughts and loneliness. They start to think of it as a friend.

          • @Confused_Emus
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            14 months ago

            Where’d you dig up this pop psych bullshit?

    • @BertramDitore
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      134 months ago

      The reporter’s use case actually makes a lot of sense to me. I would never buy one of these, but I wouldn’t be opposed to using something like this if I ever ended up with one.

      It’s not like I stand in front of it and watch a whole movie in my kitchen. But I like to have the T2 Tennis Channel on while I scramble eggs or pop on a news show while cooking dinner. Plus, it’s nice to have a kitchen screen that doesn’t take up counter space.

      • @[email protected]
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        164 months ago

        Since it now the norm for everyone to film everything with a smartphone and in the vertical position (I’m old enough that this still hurts my soul), Ive hypothesized that it won’t be long before we start seeing a lot of tvs in this format.

        • @HowManyNimons
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          94 months ago

          Ow! Now my soul is taking splash damage.

    • @BradleyUffner
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      4 months ago

      Just be glad it doesn’t have an LLM based AI yet.

    • @[email protected]
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      04 months ago

      I honestly do not understand why anyone would want to watch TV on their fridge.

      I was sat in the optician’s waiting room the other day, and there was some cheap gameshow on the TV, where people would win like £20.

      I couldn’t believe that people would even film it, let alone broadcast it.

      Watching broadcast TV is the equivalent of going to a restaurant, not wanting to choose and just asking the waiter to pour any old slop down your gob.