god i miss having an ir blaster on my phone
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mine doesn't work
Smart TV 'remote' apps are infinitely worse than an IR blaster
Wait until anon learns about the flipper zero
trolling aside, has anybody had any luck with those 3.5mm ir blaster adapters? my phone has a headphone jack but no blaster and i don't have the original remote for my stereo :p
I do this with my OnePlus Open and the TV at work.
Samsung phones at that time also had IR blasters
Had a HTC One M8 back in the day. Had a lot of fun confusing the shit out of the teachers after turning off the audio system and projector lmao
It's bad when people mispronounce mischievous but this dude actually spelled it the way people mispronounce it lmao
At this point I realize I've most likely ever only come across the mispronounced version...
Isn't the dictionary out of date then?
Sure is. Someone should tell Meriam.
If they don't listen, time to escalate to Webster.
Not surprising, I think they even mispronounced it in an episode of Futurama. Just a shame because the proper way sounds so much better.
I had custom firmware installed on my PSP and got in trouble for turning the projector on and off on high school.
It was a great time indeed when the popularity of IR blasters overlapped with being in high school.
I was a few years out of HS when those blasters became more wide spread (my HTC M7 had one, though 6 years too late), and how I wish I had one back then.
Aw shit, why didn't I think of this! I too had a PSP with CFW in HS, but I just used it for... totally "backed up"....games lmao
I had a Casio remote control watch that I was actually using all the time in my room. I used it in an evil way only once, since the TV sales guy was showing off how loud the super high-end TV is. As he turned the volume up with a maniacal smile, I just pressed OFF button. New money couple lost interest immediately.
It is Casio CMD-40 for the interested.
One of the things I like about my OnePlus 12
Best use is it allows me to control the A/C in my apartment complex's gym :)
Ooh, didn't know that newer phones also have IR blasters! That's good to know! Do you know if the custom ROM experience is good?
During the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, an individual associated with Gizmodo brought a TV-B-Gone remote control and shut off many display monitors at booths and during demos affecting several companies. These actions caused the individual to be banned for life from future CES events.
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I used to want one of these IR blaster things to kill tvs in waiting rooms, but then earbuds got better and cheaper and more generally useful.
I miss my old HTC thunderbolt. Removable storage, IR blaster, removable battery. Phones while they have gotten faster, and the software /cameras improved, the actual phones design has gotten so much worse over the years.
I always wanted one because I was pretty young when they were putting IR blasters in cell phones and I thought I'd be able to remote control anything like Johnny Five in Short Circuit 2.
I had this watched with a calculator and ir blaster. It was great! I still have it actually