XPost: alt.home.repair
From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com
In sci.electronics.repair, on Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:12:52 -0500, Jim Joyce
wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:02:54 -0400, micky
>wrote:
>
>>...
>>[DVDR] worked for 40 minutes this morning and then stopped
>>just as Beaver was going to have confess to being arrested for stealing
>>a rowboat (which he didn't actually steal). But I still wanted to know
>>what happened to him and I won't know for another 120 or so episodes and
>>they repeat it again.
>
>Multiple streaming services have Beaver available to watch whenever you
>feel like it. That seems much easier than trying to deal with a broken
>DVDR.
Not to me. a) And sufficient in itself, I would still need a recorder
for when I want to record something, The last thing I want to do is drag
my computer into this stuff.
b) and the computer's not connected to any of the TV's in other rooms,
so how would I get the streaming video into my televisions in other
rooms, the bedroom, kitchen, basement, and bathroom. The DVDR is
already connected to all of them.
c) I never bought records or CD's or cassettes. I just want to listen to
what the radio provides, or the TV provides. Sometimes I record it but I
let other people decide what's available. (I do occastionlly look for
something on youtube.) Beaver is what I want now because that's what's
on. When he's not on, I'll want something else.
d) Having to find something on a streaming service would be a pain.
e) I did have one for a few months before the election, in order to
watch MSNBC. It came with lots of movies and tv shows in some system I
found too much trouble to use. I think I watched all of three hours in
4 months and they weren't shows I really wanted, just the best I could
quickly find on it. I'm pretty sure it was Sling. Don't know if any of
the others are easier to use.
f) The airways are free. The first DVDR lasted about 15 years before it
broke, and it's fixed now.
g) Dealing with a broken TV or DVDR is a pleasure in itself. When I
lived in Brooklyn, NY, I used to find broken tvs on the street. One
time I found one on a Sunday just before I picked up a young woman to go
to the Bronx Zoo. Then we went out to dinner. When I took her home she
wanted me to come in, but I had looked forward all day to trying to fix
the tv, so I went home (and made her mad at me). But it turned out the
TV was not broken. I was disappointed. How can you fix it when it's
not broken? That's why I read two ng's with "repair" in their name.
Jim, I like you, I do, I read your posts diligently, and they are always
well-written and never stupid, and I'm not annoyed at this either, but
it might be worth pointing out this is the third thing about me you
suggested I change. Another was that I don't collapse all my threads and
have them expand when someone posts in them. And another was that I
make my motel reservations on the phone without seeing the place, or
something like that. Maybe it's good that you give helpful suggestions
-- I mean that. It could just show that you care about people. And most
of the threads here start with people asking for help so it's consistent
with that -- but no one else gives suggestions quite as unrelated to
the thread topic as you do. Or maybe it's that they would need me to
change something about myself more important, more about me, than how I
drill a hole or what I use to glue two things together. Or it's
something about how you phrase it that makes me feel I've been a
disappointment in your eyes for not taking your advice.
But none of this will in any way discourage me from reading your
posts, and I will continue to do so diligently (except that I don't read
AHR itself as thoroughly as I used to since the horde invaded.)
And I've overdone the answer, but it came out quickly so I let it. .
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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