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How to deal with those annoying TVs blaring Fox News all day (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by BoycottPro@lemm.ee to c/chaoticgood@sopuli.xyz

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Source: https://bsky.app/profile/funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social/post/3lmkfwebeuc27

In fact you can use your smartphone to change the channel on nearly any TV. In the comments on that post some people talk about how to do it. Basically you need a smartphone with either builtin IR or use a USB-C IR blaster or if your phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack you can also try one of those but I'm not sure if the 3.5mm ones are as commonly supported.

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[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Flipper Zero ftw

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really expensive for the use case.

I considered it recently but then the flipper zero community was like "Spend $15 bucks for a universal remote man."

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

haha im in the middle of switching careers into IT/CS and I figured it would be a good investment for the future or at least to tinker with. I've just had to focus on other things for certs I need, so no time to really dive into it.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I have one, for a year now or so. But haven't use dit much really. And now the flipper one is announced. So I wished I waited and bought that one instead.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I really need to get one.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

I'd wait a bit. The flipper one is announced.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And I need to learn to use mine better. All I got is a couple of neat magic tricks like turning off TVs or scanning people's cats lol

Just been too busy learning other things lately I guess

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Yeah same here. Not really using it for anything other than that. Oh and opening tesla charge ports.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

scanning people's cats

... Pardon?

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

haha some people have their pets microchipped so they can be scanned and returned to the owner if lost. If you run the flipper over the right spot (and in the right mode), generally between the shoulder blades, it'll tell you if they're chipped and read out some of the data.

[–] Biscuit@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if chip == True:
    print("is cat")
else:
    print("might not be cat")