Note: this is not a request for troubleshooting help.

For the past few years my 10ish year old “smart” TV will maybe once a week or so completely lose the ability to play sound in the Youtube app, and only in the Youtube app. Sound works just fine everywhere else. Bizarrely this is always triggered by an ad and never a video. Restarting the app doesn’t fix it, and neither does clearing the cache. Fortunately doing a full restart of the TV fixes it, it’s just irritating to have to restart because an ad somehow broke the sound.

What technological gremlins haunt you?

  • @kuneho
    3•8 months ago

    My 3rd party Switch dock needs some strange ritual to actually work, but still not sure what the correct steps and orders.

    It’s a fairly early 3rd party dock, from the times when there were articles about 3rd party docks blowing the Nintendo Switch’s charging IC or something like that.

    Tho this dock works, but only if I plug in the charger, the HDMI cable and the Switch itself in the correct order. Otherwise no video, only just charging.

    IIRC, the order is HDMI, charger and Switch, but I may be wrong, it was a while ago I used that dock.

    Probably some funky device detection or bug in the dock’s code, but it’s amusing. Especially after others see me trying and trying and they are like that was the moment when I blew my Switch, but no.