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I just recieved a "TV mini box"* and it works fine - except it doesn't have the main free channels: BBC1, BBC2, ITV, and Channel 4 (and probably others). Channel 5 is there, but not the ones before it. So checking online I need to look at the TV settings, and there is a button "Update Channels". No, there isn't. Just some info on how many channels I have, and a single "Done" button. The main box is connected to the same router via the same Wifi and has 'em all ... but not the new box.
So I go to the supplier site, and look in the help, and it says to click the "Update Channels" button that doesn't exist so I go to tech support and find the "contact us" button. Move the mouse over that, and ... the button appears on the TV. 
Click it, and the channels appear.
I think I scared it into working ... 
* I junked Sky back in January in favour of a "streaming only" TV service for 1/2 the price and twice the reliability, and just got sent a box to work in a second room
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It's either that, or a super-efficient response team.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I had something similar happen.
We have an eufy outdoor camera that started to only last 1 day after charging as if the lithium battery was needing replacement and the camera would just say "offline" in the app. Word on the interweb is that you're not going to get at the battery but there are two screws on the back so let's start there said I. I extracted the first screw and my wife exclaimed at that moment, "It's back!" - no kidding. And furthermore it says it's fully charged so I took it back it it's station on the porch.
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Interesting. I recently bought a couple of a Eufy cameras. Haven’t had the battery issue yet. I’ll try to remember your note if it happens.
But I did find that if I blocked them from internet access (limited them to LAN only) they’d go offline within an hour or so.
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I've been threatening these machines with violence for the last 40 years. Works every time.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I think I scared it into working
I have that effect. People have problems with their computer/phone/printer/whatever, I show up, ask them to demonstrate the problem, and it just starts working...
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Me too. The very same effect. On other peoples machines.
My own machines, are the opposite. They, really, really, love to infuriate me.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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That too.
My mere presence fixes other people's systems.
This does not apply to my own however.
And mine never present simple problems.
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Me too, my one and only super-power. Our office gremlins are terrified of me; stuff always works as soon as I sit down to observe the bug.
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Ha, same here with the wifey. She'll have a problem with something
on her computer and when I come down and try it it works just fine.
She swears she'd did exactly the same thing I did (yeah right!).
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One of my colleagues has the opposite effect. You'll be testing a device, everything's going smoothly, you think you're done... then this person inevitably walks up and touches something, *KABOOM* something breaks. This person is now our 'acid test' prior to release. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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jeron1 wrote: then this person inevitably walks up and touches something, KABOOM something breaks. This person is now our 'acid test' prior to release
I had a coworker from the QA department like that. I was just getting started as a dev, and in hindsight, he probably made me a better programmer, as he would inevitably force me to expect the unexpected.
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dandy72 wrote: made me a better programmer, as he would inevitably force me to expect the unexpected.
Exactly!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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The Babbage programming language ([^]) provides a special programming mechanism for handling such situations, the 'conditional threat' statement: DO -so and so - OR ELSE.
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trønderen wrote: The Babbage programming language
In the 1980's I programmed in the real Babbage language on GEC 4000 computers at Manchester University and Daresbury Laboratory and thought "I don't remember that!", but the article you referenced is clearly a spoof!
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The two languages are completely independent of each other. The name coincidence it nothing but a conincidence.
(Note that even 'your' Babbage language has taken its name from somewhere else )
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How fine do you grind your coffee grounds for american coffee? I'm curious to know how other people do it, as I have very little experience with that coffee making process.
I use coarse for french press, midway between coarse and fine for moka, ultrafine for turkish but I never know how to grind it for american.
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I just set my bean to cup machine to "finest grind" and leave it there.
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I tried with a fine grind yesterday and it seems it improved the taste quite a bit, I will sample better when not sleepwalking.
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Greetings Kind Regards
By American do you mean Americano? If so from a video I just now learned it is an espresso poured into a cup of water. So presumably the grind is that of an espresso. By the way perhaps this site may be of use Coffee ad Astra[^] If not Americano may I inquire the meaning. The method of brewing I am most familiar wtih is "Cowboy".
Then there is this fellow. James Hoffmann - YouTube[^]
modified 2 days ago.
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BernardIE5317 wrote: If so from a video I just now learned it is an espresso poured into a cup of water.
That's an Americano if you ask it in Italy. I'm referring to the drip coffee machines so common in the USA.
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The only thing I hate about cowboy is that when you get older and into what you're doing you forget and take that last gulp and end up with a mouth full of grit.
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I always strain w/ metal strainer though plenty of grit remains but I've been successful in avoiding consuming it. Unfortunately I have yet to figure out how to strain w/ a paper filter as it always clogs. Some many months ago the paper filters did the trick. I do not know what changed. The result was a smoother flavor. Also according to Harvard drinking filtered coffee results in a lower rate of death. I am not certain such is to be preferred as it may be preferable to get to the big coffee house in the sky in an expeditious manner once your number is called.
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How would Jesus do it? 
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I do not believe he would do it in any way as it is well documented he drank wine.
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