What is the strangest tech related bug you can't resolve? - eviltoast

Note: this is not a request for troubleshooting help.

For the past few years my 10ish year old “smart” TV will maybe once a week or so completely lose the ability to play sound in the Youtube app, and only in the Youtube app. Sound works just fine everywhere else. Bizarrely this is always triggered by an ad and never a video. Restarting the app doesn’t fix it, and neither does clearing the cache. Fortunately doing a full restart of the TV fixes it, it’s just irritating to have to restart because an ad somehow broke the sound.

What technological gremlins haunt you?

  • testfactor@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    My phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra) will only partially pair with my car’s (2018 Camery) Bluetooth.

    It pairs for media just fine, so I can listen to music and podcasts no problem, but it refuses to sync phone calls and texts. It just goes into a loop of pairing/connected/disconnected/pairing.

    I’ve reset the phone and cleared the cache on both ends.

    It’s something I’ve been meaning to do a deeper dive into for literal years at this point and just haven’t. Need to check other devices to see if it’s specific to my phone, and I should see if I can’t do some monitoring on the Bluetooth comms directly. It’s just low enough priority that I haven’t gotten around to it.