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How to deal with those annoying TVs blaring Fox News all day

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social/post/3lmkfwebeuc27

In fact you can use your smartphone to change the channel on nearly any TV. In the comments on that post some people talk about how to do it. Basically you need a smartphone with either builtin IR or use a USB-C IR blaster or if your phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack you can also try one of those but I'm not sure if the 3.5mm ones are as commonly supported.

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There is this place I unfortunately have to go to a lot that always has Fox News on really loud and a bunch of white dude boomers watching it. April was glorious. They had the weather channel on lmao but it’s back now
- If you work someplace with public-facing tv's, the weather channel is a fucking godsend. If it's on a news station, entitled boomers will want it on their news station. If it's on weather, well, it's just the weather.
  
  Oh you mean the woke channel that keeps insisting that this year is hotter than it was when I was growing up‽ Global warming is a socialist conspiracy and the weather channel is in on it! /s
  
  From experience, that channel stays where you put it more reliably than any other. It's not merely inoffensive, it's bland. It draws attention away from itself.
  When entitled people change the channel, they first have to register that there's even a tv present. The weather channel camouflages public televisions as bland information kiosks that dispense information you already have on your phone. Not only that, since no one would intentionally put on the weather channel, it has the air of being required by policy, so some of the karens who are capable of shame will leave it alone.
- Wait, what happened in April and has changed again since?
  
  Stock market looked like complete shit and no amount of spin control could hide it, to the point where one day Fox literally removed their stock ticker for the first time in decades
- That's really annoying. Do you think they'd notice you using your phone to change the station and possible remove Fox from the channel list? Is there windows in the building with the TVs? There are some high power IR blasters that might let you change it from outside.
  
  It would be funny to block the channel ngl but I don't know what they're using to get fox specifically. A lot of cable news is now part of a digital tv package, so TV access isn't enough. I'd need to get to their verizon/AT&T/etc. box which usually operates independently through the HDMI.
  
  That's right but it doesn't necessarily mean that access is impossible, just need the codes for the box instead of the TV assuming it has an infrared sensor on the box.
  
  True true

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