Re: [OT] Tragedy, narrowly averted

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 3:50:59 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

Saturday night, my life changed. Our U-Verse DVR went out, and I lost
all my taped programs and the ability to tape, pause and fast-forward
any shows, on any TV. The satellite U-Verse TV still worked, barely.
I had to start fooling with the paradigm and remotes provided by Hulu,
Apple+, Netflix, Paramount+, Roku, Samsung, etcetera. I never bothered
to do that before. It sucks, but I learned a little.
Today, an AT&T tech showed up and reminded me that U-Verse is
unsupported
technology, but he'd see what he had in his truck. What he had, after
some serious monkeying with my system, worked.
I'm back, Baby!
>
[ObFood] My wife has a gout-bout, so I made her a tuna sandwich and
served it with a pickle. I'm a good boy!
>
leo

Those tech-com companies hate people like you. That tech will probably
lose his job over this. Sqertz will probably send AT&T an anonymous
email ratting him out.
One of my clients has a POTS telephone that will randomly drop signal so
she can't understand the person she's talking to. The telephone company
will just shrug and say they don't know what's the problem and they
can't do anything about it. They want her to upgrade her service. I'm
not sure why she doesn't surrender and let the system have its way with
her. It's 2025 and we don't need no copper wire no more!