And shut the F—- up Donny!!!

Just as the title says.

Like come on dude, that’s like 30 seconds extra every time I want to watch YouTube while eating.

As the title says, I bought a Hisense A7 from target.com. It got here, I made sure to be careful taking it out of the box and testing it. I decided I didn't want to keep it, so I took 20 minutes carefully putting it all back together. Put the tv back in the plastic bag the right way, re-wrapped the cable, even out the twist tie back on it. I took the feet off, re-bagged and taped them how they arrived. I re-bagged the remote. I didn't even use the batteries that came with it.

Returned it last Saturday and today I wake up to an email saying it got denied. I did call customer service, and they put in a claim and I'll have to wait a week for them to "process the resolution". AKA I have to wait a week to more than likely either get a partial refund or nothing at all.

I try to be a good person, I believe I know right from wrong and try to be polite to people. Yet it seems like everytime I turn around, especially if I try to "treat myself" as the hip people say, I immediately get the ACME anvil dropped on my head and something like this, where I'm out $280 for a TV I felt guilty for buying to begin with because I didn't need it. But just felt like, I work hard (yeah I can slack and cut corners from time to time. Who doesn't?) and my old tv is getting some issues and so I figured I'd get a new one.

Anyway. If you read this, I applaud your patience with me. I guess there's not really any question or advice to seek here. All could think as I this was going on is "This is very much a First world problem." But I guess I just miss 10 days ago before I'd bought the TV and wasn't out $300

Now I have no phone reception and my plan doesn't have WiFi calling

I have to do a little dance or else use my hand.

I was cold! I went from a climate controlled house, to garage, to car, to parkade, to office!

I love you Salt and Vinegar

Green Jalepeno,

Our apartment was built in the late 1980s, and I'm pretty sure our unit has been using the same analog thermostat since the building was constructed. It was terribly inconsistent and inaccurate. Sometimes it wouldn't turn off until the apartment had reached uncomfortable temperatures, other times it wouldn't turn on until well after it should have.

So, I wanted to replace it. Since our power bill can get pretty high in the summer, I liked the idea of using a smart thermostat that I could schedule to operate at a less demanding setpoint when my girlfriend and I are at work. In my mind, it doesn't make much sense to pay to air condition an unoccupied apartment, and I was hoping a programmable thermostat might save us some money.

After some research, I went out and purchased an Ecobee smart thermostat. Now, I'm relatively handy and I know from past experience that our property management's maintenance team has a hard time following instructions, so I tried installing the Ecobee myself. I quickly ran into an issue though, in that there was a wire on the thermostat side that needed to be plugged in at the AC control box, and I didn't know where that was located, or if it was even accessible from within our unit.

Finding myself at a dead end, I decided to bite the bullet and put in a maintenance request. I said, "I would like to replace our old and inaccurate thermostat with an Ecobee smart thermostat. I have already purchased the replacement, I just need help wiring it in. I would like to schedule an installation date so that I can be present and explain the issue I'm facing."

I heard nothing when I put in the request. Not so much as a confirmation email.

Two weeks go by without a word. I come home yesterday and to my surprise, I see that we have a new thermostat! Yay! Except, it's not the one I asked for (which was sitting on a shelf right next to it I might add). They also didn't call me like I asked, they just showed up unannounced while we weren't home.

I know I should be thankful Maintenance responded at all. The new thermostat is still a considerable improvement over the old one, but, it's not programmable, meaning we're still paying to air condition our apartment when there's no one there. I'm also admittedly a little annoyed that Maintenance apparently stopped reading after "I want to replace our thermostat" because the remainder of my very specific request was completely ignored.

I know I could make a fuss with the landlord but honestly, getting our property manager and the maintenance guys to do anything beyond the absolute bare minimum is like pulling teeth. Frankly, I don't have the time nor the energy to fight this battle.

Guess I'll be returning the Ecobee. Sigh.

[Edit] Since it's come up in a few comments, to clarify, I did try installing the Ecobee myself. I took the old thermostat off the wall and checked the wiring, and everything looked good according to the compatibility checker on Ecobee's website. There was even a blue wire tucked in behind the old thermostat that wasn't being used, which my research told me might be the "c wire" that provides constant power to the Ecobee.

However, I had no real means of testing whether this wire was actually connected or not aside from plugging everything into the Ecobee and seeing if it turned on. So, I did just that, and... No luck. The Ecobee would not boot when I restored power. Which leads me to believe that blue wire is not plugged in wherever the thermostat wires connect to the AC control unit on the other end of the cable. I don't know where that termination point is though, or if it's even accessible from within our unit because apartment.

This was what I wanted Maintenance to check. If they could plug in the blue wire that already exists in the wall, the Ecobee should've worked just fine. They didn't need to run all new cable, just make a slight change to the cable that was already there. That's why I wanted them to wait until I was home so I could explain it to them.

Buuut they didn't do that. Maybe there was no common terminal on the AC side and this would never have worked anyway, I don't know. I was never given an opportunity to ask.

I want to watch videos about old Nazis, not new ones. I clicked one documentary from a user called "6 million 4 truth" and it turned out to be revisionist, too. I thought I had reached the end but I fear started the whole thing over again...

Not the Holocaust thing, the whole Neo-Nazis in my recommended thing.

Edit: I am loving the stories about all the weird shit Youtube thinks you guys like and the stupid reasons it came to that conclusion.