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[–] [email protected] 125 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

How you choose to fight hell spawn is OK with me.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I just watch TV at the gas pump like everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

2nd button down on the right, press twice to mute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

When you kill an enemy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Becomes a white noise that’s comforting?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Where’d you dig up this pop psych bullshit?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

How is noise comforting?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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] 4 points 5 months ago

Or just put some adhesive flat magnets on your tablet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm sure there's flat magnets you can put on your tablet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The aspect ratio of the screen doesn't seem like it'd be all that ideal.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Ow! Now my soul is taking splash damage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I wouldn't want to watch TV, but having a recipe in large text would be really nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 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.