On that front (updating consumer electronics, etc) had one of my less stellar moments last night: had seen in forums (fora?) that the annoying hum in the e-Motion telly I'd bought from Sainsbury's a couple of years ago could go away if I applied a firmware update. Went to the site in question, sanctioned by Sainsbury's but not the manufacturer's site (they don't seem to have one, e-Motion seems to be a Currys Matsui of the modern age) , downloaded and applied the update.. you know what's next. Bricked TV. Nothing comes on screen, doesn't respond to any menus or commands (and even better, the hum hasn't gone away). Will have to investigate further -or else throw this thing away and live without a telly for a few months, can't afford to buy one now. Was never in love with it, with the hum, but -had a reasonable image and three HDMI ports, budget tellies seem to have only one or two. Will be phoning people and see what can be done about this later today. Silly flavio.
upgrade paths, sometimes to disaster
On that front (updating consumer electronics, etc) had one of my less stellar moments last night: had seen in forums (fora?) that the annoying hum in the e-Motion telly I'd bought from Sainsbury's a couple of years ago could go away if I applied a firmware update. Went to the site in question, sanctioned by Sainsbury's but not the manufacturer's site (they don't seem to have one, e-Motion seems to be a Currys Matsui of the modern age) , downloaded and applied the update.. you know what's next. Bricked TV. Nothing comes on screen, doesn't respond to any menus or commands (and even better, the hum hasn't gone away). Will have to investigate further -or else throw this thing away and live without a telly for a few months, can't afford to buy one now. Was never in love with it, with the hum, but -had a reasonable image and three HDMI ports, budget tellies seem to have only one or two. Will be phoning people and see what can be done about this later today. Silly flavio.
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Through the wall of sleep and beyond the cosmic microwave background...
For a long while I have had some difficulty falling asleep. Maybe a consequence of the passing years, I don't know. Also have had a mild case of…
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Still here, stars burn
Not a lot to relate. Not many adventures. Guitar lessons continue on Zoom and, for the two schools I teach at, on Google Meet. I still have fewer…
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Mastodon again, just in case
If anyone here is on Mastodon, I'm there as fflavio@mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/@fflavio Just in case, etc. I'm on Dreamwidth at…
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