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Re: It is now that time of night...

By: De_Composed in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 26 May 26 6:00 AM | 29 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 17680 of 17790
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You're lucky. I sleep frequently. My wife thinks I sleep a lot. She doesn't understand that I never sleep for much more than 3 hours. When you go to sleep at 0100 and wake up at 0430, there's a good chance you're going to fall asleep again sometime that afternoon.

I'm just glad this didn't happen to me when I was trying to hold down a job. I had fairly normal hours and behavior back then. Well, hours anyway.

I spent a while this evening trying to replace my broken Sony Audio/Video Receiver with a Denon Audio/Video Receiver from 2012. For me, that's like BRAND NEW!

But it's not brand new and I don't have the remote for it. It doesn't have very many controls on the front. That should make it pretty easy - though one of them is the magic "MENU" button that does about a thousand things I don't understand so maybe not.

The owner's manual is online. I grabbed it and quickly figured out that it wasn't going to walk me through setting up the radio stations, so I turned to the Copilot AI. It said, "Piece of cake! Press the BAND button."

"Uh, there isn't a BAND button," I told it. "Don't be offended, but I'm going to go talk to Grok instead of you."

So I hopped over to Grok and asked it for help. "Piece of cake!" it said. "First turn the large SOURCE SELECT button on the right or middle of the console until the screen says TUNER."

"I see you don't know what you're talking about either," I said. "SOURCE SELECT is on the left. Goodbye."

I went back to Copilot. If I'm going to get bad advice, it might as well come from someone who doesn't limit my access.

Once Copilot understood that my AVR1910 doesn't have a BAND button and chastised Denon for selling me this model, it advised me to "Go to the Menu button. From the Main Menu, just press the right arrow key."

I did and nothing happened. Only then did it tell me that the problem is that Denon made the AVR-1910 so that changing radio stations can only be done with the remote control. Ahhhhhh. Okay. It would have been nice if it had told me that at the very start - about an hour ago - when I asked it if it would be able to talk me through doing this even though I didn't have a remote.

Well, I've got a remote on order. Should be here in about a week. Unfortunately, it's not the remote made by Denon but one made by Ching-Sui Hsao. It doesn't look right but claims to be AVR-1910 compatible. I give it a 50/50 chance, and if it works, the buttons will wear out in about a year. I'll see if the first one works and then, if it does, I'll order two more to put away in storage. Sometimes I wish that somebody out there still made quality merchandise.


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It is now that time of night...
By: ribit in GRITZ
Tue, 26 May 26 5:19 AM 		Msg. 17679 of 17790

...when I like to jump in bed, pull the covers up over my head and make snoring sounds for 8 or 20 hours. Only I have a couple hours of bitching and bellyaching to listen to before I does that. I dunno why she does that. She been going on about the same stuff for 60 years (officially next week sometime) and I haven't even wavered the slightest bit in my goal of being "Pig King Husband". Somebody gotta do it.

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