Anon owns a fan

You know, you only need to be around 5% smarter than the tool you are using to be successful with it. Humanity is right fuckered isn't it?

Oh, 4chan is back Your post is how I got to know it.

There are consequences to being stupid.

His life was set to ‚dim’ for six years
Cause in the dark no one could see his tears

Once you get used to proper bias lighting, suddenly overhead lamps become insufferable. I don't know how people do it.
- you can make things feel much comfier with a well positioned cheap lamp
- what's bias lighting? i've never heard of it and if it works as a complete replacement to overhead lamps, i don't think looking it up showed me the right thing
  
  Lights that you place behind things, like your bookshelf, TV/monitor, bedframe, etc. It's so much more cozy and inviting compared to direct lighting. Like the other person said, a simple cheap lamp works wonders.

My grandmother gifted me their old TV back in the 2000s because it was only showing black and white.
They had a mechanic look at it, who said it was broken
There was a button to change the saturation and get the TV back to show colours
Edit: There and their
- Ha. I had a coworker gift me a high end amp because the volume was all crackly. Opened it up sprayed electronic cleaner on the volume rheostat thingy and gave it a few back and forth turns. Perfect sound. I offered it back but he'd already purchased a new one. :/
  
  I had something similar, except it was a blown fuse.
  Granted, the fuse was soldered in place and you had to take it apart to get to it. But once it was replaced it worked perfectly. No idea why the fuse blew either, unless it was just defective.
- I know someone who bought a new laptop and complained that the display broke after only a couple weeks
  It only showed a super dim display and the viewing angle sucked
  I pressed the fancy new "privacy screen" button and it "worked flawlessly" again

Okay, I'm sorry, but this is totally true and heterosexual. I have seen two people do this in real life.

Anon needs a hug. 💔
- He doeeees!

When you don't read the "friendly" manual.

I'm pretty sure the fan was not the only thing set to "dim".

Me plugging my monitor into my mobo instead of my graphics card for three years. I thought I had just gotten reeeeally unlucky in the silicon lottery.
- Or getting a high refresh rate monitor and not changing the refresh rate in your os.
  
  Afaik fullscreen should bypass that one.
- Last time I did that I just didn't get any output to the monitor, isn't that how it's supposed to work?
  
  one time i was testing something with the monitor in the motherboard, which worked fine, and then i put the gpu in the motherboard but forgot to plug the monitor in the gpu, and it showed a black screen.
  there might be systems where you can plug both a gpu and the igpu into the monitor and it'll use one for most things and the other for games and stuff (i dont remember what that is called), but i have only ever seen that in laptops so idk
  
  If your cpu doesn't have integrated graphics yeah.
  
  Massively depends on the system.
  if you get a F series CPU with no igpu then you will likely get no output.

idk if this is gay or fake, but it's funny as shit

- The idea that people are making fake greentext screen shots is both puzzling and embarrassing. If you have the idea, just post it as a normal comment somewhere else—forging 4Chan screens is the path of madness.
  
  Be me
  see qt 3.14
  wanttosex.exe
  Show her my translated green text
  She rips off her clothes
  Give her the best three minutes of ~~her~~ my life
  See you later virgins
  
  Is a green text actually a 4chan screen?
  Or is it a distinct meme template to tell stories in ab engaging way that just happened to originate on 4chan?
  Especially when the content literally never existed on 4chan, it looks like it but isnt.
  I ask this with some rhetoric. We did click the content. Would it have been equally enjoyable as a twitter post: “after 6 years of living in the dark i discovered my light is dimmable, fuck me”?
  
  you're right.... it is fake, and yet it is true. so is it true or is it fake? and if it's fake, is it a less or more genuine greentext?
  But here's the real question: did OP convert a TIFU to greentext themselves, or did they use AI?
- Well, it's back now!
- What's 4chan gonna do about it? Fire up those used Dells M00t bought at a yard sale?

this is a vegan greentext no animals were harmed in the creation

I was gonna say “CFLs just plug into a normal socket, those don’t generally just ‘go bad’”
- The text is about a halogen bulb, though, not a CFL. Those generally use flanged prongs.
  
  It still wouldn't be dim, it would either work or not. If it's dim, it's either a bad bulb or a setting on the light housing causing less voltage (I think?) to make it to the bulb.
  
  I'm pretty sure he meant a CFL.
  For exactly that reason.
  
  I totally misread that.
- Depends on the CFL. I had to replace one in a fixture in my new house a few months after I bought it, and it was some goofy round one with a rectangular attachment point and some clips. Thankfully it was pretty easy to replace and was easily gettable from Dom Depot, but I was definitely surprised by the socket when I went to replace it.
  
  That sounds like one of those fixtures where the ballast is in the fixture and the bulb is just a bulb, similar to a regular fluorescent light fixture. As opposed to the screw-in CFLs that most people are familiar with where the bulb also contains the ballast.
  Those are kind of unusual in homes - I've mostly seen them in commercial applications like hotels and stuff like that.
- Worst case scenario just replace the light kit and check your wiring but yeah obviously that wasn't OP's issue
  Of course doing that with the fan still together/hanging is much more of a pain than just getting a new one, usually, especially if the fan is old. Most other electricians I know don't bother doing ceiling fan repairs, they'll swap em but any more than that's not worth their time. I'll do whatever but I'll be up front about it.
  Especially since you're usually doing it for retired folks who can only afford so much...

Anon has never heard of lamps, either.

Pro tip: Modern American fans are required to have a voltage limiter chip to dial down the lights. They fail. Lots. If your fan lights don't work, buzz, hum, whatever, take it down and cut the little fucker out, wire back together with wire nuts.
I've replaced two crappy fans with really nice units I found in the trash. 100 how-to's on YT.
- I do the same thing with fuses. I would send a picture of my little heater but I lost it in a house fire.

anon gets owned by a fan

This feels...wrong.

Human Moment™. One of my former professors in Uni, the one I respected the most because she was one of the wisest and most perceptive people I'd met at that point, confided in us that it took her however many years since their introduction to realise that the small light on some wall-mounted light switches was meant as a guidance light if it's pitch black.
- I always thought those were just there to incentivize turning it off at the breaker /s
  
  Ooooooh! Boy, do I feel dumb!

I have one of those fans. It only has a remote, no pull chains. I fucking hate that thing as much as I have ever hated anything in my life. It's so shitty. You would think having buttons would make it easier to use than a pull chain but they somehow made it even worse. Both the light and fan use the same Up and Down arrows to change the setting but there's a delay of a second or two between hitting the button and the fan actually changing (if it changes at all). There's also no indicator of which setting you're on currently (which is the only annoying part about pull chains). Also couldn't get it to switch directions for winter even after spending probably an hour on their site and Youtube looking at documentation and trying shit.
- My remote controlled fan sounds like yours except it still has a physical switch on the side of the housing to change direction. I still hate the fan but thought I would share just in case you never checked.

Why not just get a floor lamp?