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Me plugging my monitor into my mobo instead of my graphics card for three years. I thought I had just gotten reeeeally unlucky in the silicon lottery.

I'm pretty sure the fan was not the only thing set to "dim".

I was gonna say “CFLs just plug into a normal socket, those don’t generally just ‘go bad’”

Okay, I'm sorry, but this is totally true and heterosexual. I have seen two people do this in real life.

this is a vegan greentext no animals were harmed in the creation

My grandmother gifted me their old TV back in the 2000s because it was only showing black and white.

They had a mechanic look at it, who said it was broken

There was a button to change the saturation and get the TV back to show colours

Edit: There and their

Anon has never heard of lamps, either.

Once you get used to proper bias lighting, suddenly overhead lamps become insufferable. I don't know how people do it.

His life was set to ‚dim’ for six years
Cause in the dark no one could see his tears

This feels...wrong.

Pro tip: Modern American fans are required to have a voltage limiter chip to dial down the lights. They fail. Lots. If your fan lights don't work, buzz, hum, whatever, take it down and cut the little fucker out, wire back together with wire nuts.

I've replaced two crappy fans with really nice units I found in the trash. 100 how-to's on YT.

Human Moment™. One of my former professors in Uni, the one I respected the most because she was one of the wisest and most perceptive people I'd met at that point, confided in us that it took her however many years since their introduction to realise that the small light on some wall-mounted light switches was meant as a guidance light if it's pitch black.

idk if this is gay or fake, but it's funny as shit

anon gets owned by a fan

You know, you only need to be around 5% smarter than the tool you are using to be successful with it. Humanity is right fuckered isn't it?

When you don't read the "friendly" manual.

I have one of those fans. It only has a remote, no pull chains. I fucking hate that thing as much as I have ever hated anything in my life. It's so shitty. You would think having buttons would make it easier to use than a pull chain but they somehow made it even worse. Both the light and fan use the same Up and Down arrows to change the setting but there's a delay of a second or two between hitting the button and the fan actually changing (if it changes at all). There's also no indicator of which setting you're on currently (which is the only annoying part about pull chains). Also couldn't get it to switch directions for winter even after spending probably an hour on their site and Youtube looking at documentation and trying shit.