Those two vertical lines on the right side aren’t part of the meme. They’re faults on my TV that I keep forgetting about the moment I stop consciously noticing them. And on the rare occasion that I’m moved to try and do something about it, I’m stopped from getting it fixed by 3 things
1: I would need to fill out a shitload of paperwork for the warranty to cover the repair
2: I would need to have the faintest idea what date each fault started (there was several months between, but I don’t know anything more specific than that…)
3: I’d have to bring it in for repair myself, I don’t have a car and I don’t know anyone with a big enough car that I feel comfortable asking
4: thought of another hurdle as I was typing it all out but forgot again before I got to the end to add it.
Maybe I should call the store I bought it at and explain the situation, see if there’s anything they can do to help. Which of course is super for my social anxiety comorbidity 🤦😮💨
Damn. Stuff like this makes me thankful for the consumer protections we have in Australia. They’re not the best, and certainly don’t measure up to EU level protections, but if there’s a fault you can return your product to where you bought it from, or do a warranty request. Warranty requests are usually faster because if you return it to the store and it isn’t a major fault, they will most likely just send it back to the manufacturer anyway, but the option is still there.
I had my laptop hard drive die on me once and I went down the warranty route. It was quite easy. I just went to the warranty page, entered the serial number, described the problem and uploaded a photo of the receipt and they emailed the next day to say a courtier had been booked for 2 days later. I did have to provide my own box (I just reused the box it came in), but that was pretty much it. Repaired in 3 days and delivered a few days after that. It wasn’t even a high end laptop, it was a fairly cheap Asus crapbook