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What is the strangest tech related bug you can't resolve? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Note: this is not a request for troubleshooting help.

For the past few years my 10ish year old “smart” TV will maybe once a week or so completely lose the ability to play sound in the Youtube app, and only in the Youtube app. Sound works just fine everywhere else. Bizarrely this is always triggered by an ad and never a video. Restarting the app doesn’t fix it, and neither does clearing the cache. Fortunately doing a full restart of the TV fixes it, it’s just irritating to have to restart because an ad somehow broke the sound.

What technological gremlins haunt you?

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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 33 points 7 months ago

Once a week or so, my right hearing aid stops giving me audio and starts blasting data into my ear. Like the old dial up modem sounds combined with R2D2. But only at home and only in a few rooms. I figure it’s picking up wifi or Bluetooth and trying to convert them to audio, and failing.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 7 months ago

I kind of wish that I had a handheld gizmo -- maybe an ADC that could attach to a cell phone -- that could take into account location and direction and help me locate sources of radio interference.

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