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Electric sweater shaver!!! I am obsessed with depilling everything I own.
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It’s not in gods plan for me! I have one.
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a cropped athletic jacket can go well over lots of things, including sun dresses (hard to think of them right now, but in 4 weeks we should be there) or slinky dresses.
There is a Korean fashion/vintage shop near me and I’ve been eyeing their cropped jackets for my black sundress or babydoll dress
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is wearing it over a tunic with leggings unless the tunic is closer to ‘almost dress’ and has some positive ease over the hips/thighs.
Wearing it just with leggings and a shorter shirt can lean a bit towards Sandy or the Pink Ladies in Grease, which is a look, and great if you want it.
I’d also personally try to avoid wearing a cropped jacket with something that creates a horizontal line right across my hips because it emphasizes the delta between the width at the crop and the width at the hips.
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Ok I’m thinking about buying a TV. For the past 15 years spouse and I have just streamed shows on a laptop and it’s been fine. Before that I lived with roommates who supplied the TV but we were poor and just used bunny ears for local channels. Pretty sure netflix was still sending physical dvds the last time I lived in a house with a dedicated tv. But I kind of want to follow some sports again and I want to be able to have it on in the background on a larger screen while I’m doing laundry or cooking or working out (for example)
Can someone explain how tvs work now? What do I need to do to watch some baseball and maybe some basketball? We usually pay for one streaming service at time (currently apple TV which seems to have MLB but we’re getting ready to switch soon probably…).
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We just have a Roku TV so everything is streaming.
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Is that a brand? Or something I get separately? Haha please assume I’m extremely behind the times
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These are my questions exactly, thank you for asking them. I blinked and its no longer 2001?
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It’s basically a smart tv. (Way back in the day you could get a little device called a Roku and plug it into a tv to enable streaming, now they just make integrated tvs.)
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Our TV is 15-25 years old and when it’s last streaming stick died we got a roku (last yearish) it was about $30 and it plugged in and we put on apps of our choice and it also magically has it’s own shows. I would also recommend Tubi and whatever your public TV apps are
(@Sunflower)
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We recently got my parents’ old TV and have literally put it in the living room attached to an old laptop with an HDMI cable and steam stuff that way instead of watching on laptops only.
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We have a FIRE tv. It’s hooked up to the internet. We pay for Hulu to stream things, the level that has live sports so dh can watch hockey. Also Netflix.
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So I still prefer a television that’s not allowed to talk to the internet and a physical roku box…smart televisions seem to have (finally) stopped building cameras into their products, at least for the most part, but hands-free voice control means something constantly listening/sending recordings elsewhere for processing which also doesn’t thrill me (push-to-talk remotes at least have some control when the mic is active, although I usually disable all of it). I generally want nothing to do with smart devices that expect communication outside my home network, though, which I’m aware makes me weird. @Sunflower, for television-buying pretty much anything off the shelf will do what you want, but I’d just suggest being aware of what they’re taking return and make sure you’re okay with it or know how to disable the things you aren’t okay with.
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Yeah it’s been a minute since we bought a tv but finding a not smart TV limited things. Similar to when we had to but a kitchen appliance and there seemed to be a filter for “Has Wifi” but no filter for “does not have Wifi”. 
I want my tv to just be a tv and not listening to me!
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my personal experience with smart TVs was that a friend purchased one to use as a monitor during the early pandemic, and it wouldn’t even let them connect via HDMI until it had been connected to the internet. That put me off smart TVs and since I don’t watch that much tv I don’t really see the point.
I have a large computer monitor with a Chromecast stick (dongle that plugs into the monitors HDMI port) and a pair of computer speakers (plug into a headphone jack on the back of the monitor). I turn the whole collection on and off via a surge protector. I lose the ability to turn on/off and adjust the volume with a remote control. Everything else is controlled via a streaming service app on my phone. One day I will get a big AV receiver that has a remote control and HDMI capabilities and that will be more convenient for adjusting sound and playing my MP3 library since I will be able to have more things always plugged in.
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Ohhh ours is old enough that there’s no voice control or camera. I would not be chill with that.
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We got whatever Roku tv Costco had in 2020 and it had a microphone button on the remote, but no camera or always on feature. I didn’t even think we needed to screen for that, we just went to Costco and got whatever was there.
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Thanks everyone! Lots to think about.
My ideal setup is something that’s not out all the time but is easy to access when we want to do a movie night or put on a weekend sports game.
We’ve been doing the larger external monitor plugged into the laptop sometimes but there are cords everywhere and there’s not a good place to balance it when we want to watch and no place to stash it out of the way easily when it’s not in use. A pain all around!
I feel like I’ve been waiting for years for projectors to come down in price but it seems that is not happening.
I’ve been really intrigued by the new portable tvs (there’s one on sale for $500 from Samsung) but it appears they are really “smart monitors” on a wheel base. The form factor is amazing and it could slide into my coat closet but all the smart is giving me pause.
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I’m intrigued by the new Samsung smart TV on a wheely pedestal too. Haven’t gotten too far in my research, but the dumbest TV is an unplugged TV and I think that form factor should handle unplugging/plugging well.
I work on a 31" iMac and we mostly drag chairs around to set up in front of that for an extended movie night. Works ok for now and I like that it’s very self-contained, minimal cables.
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I was brave today! And awkward! Ha. I mean, randomly knocking on someone’s door is weird. I stopped at the house that sells the beautiful flowers and asked if I could share some of my extra dahlia tubers. She was very happy to get them. There were 23 different varieties, so now she will have new colors to put into her bouquets. I’m happy that I did it but as an introvert it was hard.
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