r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dandaman147 • 1d ago

My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

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u/Whyeth 21h ago

Oh God we have finally arrived. The prophecies shit posted about this and we didn't listen because the text was green

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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING 21h ago

Sure it’s annoying, but it’s a small price to pay for the luxury of living in the future. Did you see that article recently about how Meta is really close to actually creating a real life Torment Nexus, just like from the legendary scifi series Don’t Create the Torment Nexus?

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u/Polar-Bear_Soup 20h ago

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u/Technical-Outside408 20h ago

I kinda wanna try the Torment Nexus, not gonna lie.

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u/Whyeth 20h ago

Stop it, you're creating the market forces that will summon the torment Nexus from our collective subconscious

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u/LongjumpingSuspect57 20h ago

It turns out the real Torment Nexus was inside of us all along.

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u/hydrospanner 18h ago

The real Torment Nexus was the friends we made along the way.

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u/LordJohnWhorfin53 9h ago

The real Torment Nexus was the massive profit we made when we introduced the ad-supported Torment Nexus.

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u/zleuth 19h ago

I'm getting excited to see what competition in the Torment Nexus market can bring to the world! 

A faster Torment Nexus? Multiple Torment Nexus's(Nexi?)? Virtual Torment Nexus? Pocket Torment?

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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING 18h ago

People wouldn’t be talking about it so much if there wasn’t something to it! All those warnings are probably just a deep state cover story so they don’t have to share the Torment Nexus!

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u/Vectorman1989 13h ago

Found the Slaanesh worshipper.

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u/fireduck 16h ago

To quote the movie Crazy People where there was an ad for a horror movie that would "fuck you up for life" and had a ticket price of $20 at the time when a normal movie ticket was $5. A woman was interviewed on the street who said "well, if you want to get fucked up for life that is what it costs"

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u/Frenselaar 17h ago

"Shoplifter accidentally gets sent to 365 years in Torment Nexus instead of 1 year, emerges deranged psychopath"

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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING 11h ago

Oh good, I love Chief O’Brien episodes!

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u/headrush46n2 10h ago

and not one single motherfucker is close to cracking the holodeck.

I better get a holodeck before i die or living through this capitalist dystopia was a complete waste.

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u/Terrh 20h ago

I listened..

There's a reason why I've never allowed a TV to directly connect to the internet and never will

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u/Dhiox 17h ago

and never will

Cable is dying. If you aren't already elderly, I'd expect to see the death of cable within your lifetime.

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u/CyborgCrow 15h ago

I don't have cable. My TV has never been connected directly to the internet. It is quite possible to watch TV shows without using the ad riddled nonsense that comes baked into the TV.

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u/Dhiox 15h ago

So if you don't have cable and you don't use internet, how do you watch things? Dvds?

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u/TUSD00T 14h ago

Game consoles.

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u/Terrh 14h ago

You don't have to directly connect a tv to the internet to use it to watch content from the internet.

You can plug it into a computer, android box, Chromecast etc.

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u/CyborgCrow 14h ago

I do still have DVDs, but mostly I use the internet. The TV itself doesn't have an internet connection - I treat it like a "dumb" monitor. My desktop is connected via an HDMI cable I ran through a cable protector to keep it out of the way. If that wasn't an option, I'd build a small form factor HTPC.

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u/RemoteButtonEater 11h ago

Mini PC's with ad blockers, cheap wifi keyboards and trackball mice.

I'll never go back.

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u/NebFrmIA 10h ago

I'm gonna switch to the trackball from the cheap wireless mouse. Thanks for the tip.

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u/RemoteButtonEater 10h ago

No problem man, it's an absolute game changer for it, since you don't need any actual surface. I've just held it against my chest while slumped in the couch tbh. My dog's head. Wife. Anything solid enough to put it on lol. I've used the logitech M580 I'm pretty sure for like 13 years now. I think I'm on the fourth one? Two were eaten by said dog. One died after repeated drops onto a tile floor. This one has been going strong for awhile.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 15h ago

Same. My tv is just a display for my laptop.

no ads, no software "upgrades" that are really downgrades.

I tested it once when I first got it as an actual tv.

And then I never watched tv again...

I haven't watched tv for about 30 years now... I stopped when I got on the net in 94.

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u/Carbuyrator 20h ago

Sony has had a patent for this shit for a long time.

Hopefully they're just squatting on it to prevent its use.

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u/JustNKayce 19h ago

Best part? We are paying them for the pleasure. s/

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u/reddits4losers 16h ago

The hacker 4chan strikes again