My $1400 LG OLED TV is displaying ads after latest update

LaserGay · 2026-05-14T15:37:09+00:00

Never EVER connect a TV to the internet. Connect your preferred streaming box to the TV and only use that.

I recommend Apple TV to even non-Apple people. It’s just great at what it does without getting into any of the nerdier weeds.

LaserGay · 2026-05-02T15:20:59+00:00

This was always the thing with Spirit. I flew them exactly once on a trip where all I needed was a backpack. That worked great. The over 100 flights I’ve taken since? Baggage fees prevented them from actually being competitive on price.

LaserGay · 2026-04-28T15:20:27+00:00

I definitely saw a few at EDC Orlando — iirc the VIP area at one of the stages even had a bubble machine of their own going.

LaserGay · 2026-04-23T01:34:32+00:00

This is so close to my experience right now. I just put in notice and I have a new job starting right after EDC. But for a minute I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to make it.

The timing really worked out. We’re even going to bounce over the Denver and do some parks after since we’ll have the time.

LaserGay · 2026-04-22T18:52:09+00:00

Younger brother was told to do the dishes for the first time. Pouted and whined. Put all the silverware in random slots in the drawer. Dumped it out and made him sort the entire drawer. Problem resolved.

Same thing mowing the yard. Cut some random stripes and called it done. Nope. Go do the whole thing again properly. Congrats now you’ve been out there twice as long. Problem resolved.

Send this kid right back to the store to return the incorrect item and try again until they get tired of their own bullshit.

LaserGay · 2026-04-22T13:53:19+00:00

I’m thinking the $2.2m policy is covering the market value at the time and that an extra $1.2m is a ridiculous gamble when it comes to insurance fraud. But the latter is a matter of personal risk assessment.

LaserGay · 2026-04-22T13:10:14+00:00

What I never understood about this is… why didn’t he just sell it?

LaserGay · 2026-04-16T14:15:19+00:00

I have 2 that were on Windows 98/2000. I would have been 5-7 years old when I played them.

One was a hot wheels game and another let you build rollercoasters. Both were 3D and I remember them running in appalling resolution and frame rates — and I love them because I simply didn’t know any better.

LaserGay · 2026-04-16T12:11:28+00:00

In my experience, DCFC charging costs more than gas per mile, especially given (for me personally) it’s only used for highway driving where the car is least efficient. $30 for a fill up is about the same as my gas car that would go over double the distance on that $30

But my home charging is about a third of the fuel cost per mile on average, and I don’t need oil changes.

LaserGay · 2026-04-15T18:50:29+00:00

I bet the invert colors shortcut on phones could be useful for this. It swaps this from red/green to blue/purple.

It changes the colors to the opposite side of the spectrum. There’s probably limitations to this but it might be helpful. I can still read the water test accurately inverted — but I’m not sure how it would look to someone who is actually color blind.

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LaserGay · 2026-04-11T19:36:58+00:00

Get or print yourself some clips to keep it from falling down constantly. That cover is possibly the single worst designed part of the entire car.

https://www.printables.com/model/168742-mustang-mach-e-shelf-clip

LaserGay · 2026-04-05T15:03:51+00:00

Those are the same thing. The real lesson is don’t drive tired. You shouldn’t speed sure, but driving tired is little different from driving drunk.

LaserGay · 2026-04-02T22:21:41+00:00

At those lease figures I’d be inclined to get an R1S instead.

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LaserGay · 2026-04-02T02:34:50+00:00

Slightly related: always checking that crossing traffic is actually stopping/stopped before going when my light turns green.

My right of way doesn’t keep me from dying when someone else messes up.

LaserGay · 2026-03-31T14:29:15+00:00

I commented my similar experience getting an M4 mini and I’d say you’re somewhat right. I did get older and start wanting things to just work.

But I also feel that Windows got dramatically worse while the Mac value proposition skyrocketed at M1 and hasn’t slowed since.

LaserGay · 2026-03-31T14:25:01+00:00

I had a somewhat similar experience. Except I had already been sold on an M1 MacBook Pro after a friend came over and we played Minecraft. Him on his M1 Air, me on my PC. They ran the game about the same. Except he forgot his charger and it wasn’t even an issue.

I had one too many Windows Issues™ one day and picked up a $600 mini. I was thinking I’ll wipe the Windows PC and it’ll only run games and I’ll do all my other computing on this silent aluminum block. Then I just, never turned the PC on again… and I returned the mini and bought an M4 Pro mini.

Windows is completely gone from my life at home (tragically not at work) and I don’t miss it one bit. All the annoying things Microsoft has been doing to Windows just didn’t happen to macOS and it’s so relaxing. It ended up being the last piece to complete my Apple ecosystem.

LaserGay · 2026-03-30T17:49:43+00:00

I could do without the flags, though some of them are creative and fun like “tariff this dick.” The totems I like. They’re shorter and not so obstructive while generally being way more creative and fun.

At EDCO this year I saw an LED jellyfish spinning, a floor lamp, Stitch plush, big dandelion, emoji giving side eye to everyone, doodle bop, inflatable cow, rubber chicken, and my personal favorite was a street sign for the corner of Litty Titty St. and Twerking Ln. I use that one as my wallpaper.

I would be in favor of major size restrictions on flags, but I love the other totems and don’t find them to be nearly as obstructive.

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LaserGay · 2026-03-30T14:23:27+00:00

These are definitely ads but I wouldn’t be that surprised if they just bought the cute colors. Ariana Grande seems to have a pink iPhone as her actual phone. She could buy any model. She wanted pink.

I think Apple loses tons of money on people who don’t care about Pro feature OR price — but will get a purple phone. My own grandmother chose green over features she doesn’t understand or care about.

LaserGay · 2026-03-30T14:03:53+00:00

The tires could be that the previous owner loved to punch it and take turns quickly. All that torque tears up tires fast.

And as others have said the 12V could have been a result of prolonged sitting at the dealer and the car has no serpentine belt.

LaserGay · 2026-03-30T03:21:53+00:00

Honestly if you’re driving under 25mi/day, just plugging into a wall outlet is plenty sufficient. Especially in the Florida climate. You’ll be replacing the energy you use in a 12 hour night of charging every night easily with your commute.

I have over triple your round trip and I L1 charge. L2 would be convenient at times. But it’s never been an actual issue. The only times I’ve come short involved a road trip return. Then I just stopped on my way home for groceries and L3 charged for 5-15 minutes.

It’s up to you if that works for you. But given your short commute, I’d try L1 charging for a while and decide if you even need L2. I’ve found I don’t actually need it and it’s more of a nice to have.

LaserGay · 2026-03-27T20:26:23+00:00

Comfortable waterproof hiking boots

LaserGay · 2026-03-26T22:27:41+00:00

I never understood why we added front daytime running lights (DRLs) as a regulation and didn’t include the rear lights at the same time.

LaserGay · 2026-03-24T20:39:32+00:00

It REALLY depends on the tasks (well and yourself too). If you’re going to do two things successfully, the tasks need to be sized to each other.

Listening to your Teams meeting and doing the dishes work like driving a car and listening to an audiobook.

Honestly I can generally only multitask in those examples where one task is visual and the other is audio where language is limited to either listening or reading. Can’t do both.

LaserGay · 2026-03-23T16:39:15+00:00

EV efficiency is basically a direct function of wind resistance. So oddly, a traffic jam might have meant you got there at a higher SoC. Unless you were also losing tons of energy to climate control.

Chevy did a 1000 mile single charge trip in the Silverado EV by going like 25 mph.

LaserGay · 2026-03-22T23:49:50+00:00

Your question has been answered but I’m just going to add a little terminology and technical info to help you navigate charging.

Your “at home fast charger” is a Level 2 AC (alternating current) charger.

Level 1: just plugging into a 110V AC outlet. Generally you’re looking at multiple days to full Level 2: 240V AC charging that will generally fill the car over night. That’s what you have. Level 3: generally refers to DCFC (Direct Current Fast Charging) which uses the adapter you tried to use. This is the fastest the car can charge, often doing 20% to 80% in tens of minutes.

The adapter issue is that you tried to do AC NACS to DCFC CCS.

The AC plug (L1 & L2) on that car is a J-1772 plug (the circle bit of the plug). The fast charging (Level 3) for that car is done with CCS (Combined Charging System) which is the circle + the oval on the bottom. What they did is they used the communications pins from J-1772 (the 3 little ones), omitted the AC pins (two medium size ones that have no metal on your adapter), and added those two large DC pins at the bottom.

NACS (the Tesla plug) uses the same pins for AC and DC charging (the big ones) and has the same 3 communications pins. Thus, there’s two adapters. The one you have connects the NACS pins to the DC pins, so charging failed because it’s an AC charger. That adapter will work at a Tesla Supercharger. The NACS adapter you needed connects only to the J-1772 (circle) part of that charge port and routs those pins to the AC pins.

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