• Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    This is me, but with my grandfather instead of grandma. He can barely hear anything, so he cranks his TV up too. I think it’s almost 60 now. up from like mid 30’s from 3 years ago.

    And yeah, YouTube is a hostile offender of that. He watches everything on a Gemini device, because that device is the only way you can lock in your price for two years. Otherwise, they hold the right to jack you up to almost $50 more a month after 2 months of having service, so I can’t just throw an ad-blocker style thing on it because it’s directly controlled by DirecTV.

    And you can always tell when it hits an ad break, because you can literally feel the ad vibrating the floor.

    I feel bad for my gram because she doesn’t remember/know how to reduce the volume on her own, and every damn time I turn it down he turns it back up again the next time he enters the room.