My TV has one button. My household has three teenage boys. The remote is always lost and I have to use that ONE button for everything.
Stupidest bullshit since taking headphone jacks out of phones.
Like, they sit in different places in the living room and leave the remote in different spots?
Get more remotes, and have your very own? Universal remotes have been around for a long time. IIRC Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, was involved with inventing them.
https://www.amazon.com/universal-remote/s?k=universal+remote
Can get one for less than $10 this Christmas, make the problem go away.
EDIT: Yeah, thought he was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CL_9
CL 9 was a company that developed a universal TV remote control. It was started by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc. and designer of the Apple I and Apple II personal computers. CL 9 was in business for three years, from 1985 to 1988, launching the 6502-based CL 9 CORE remote control in 1987, which Wozniak calls the first programmable universal remote control.
EDIT2: Hah. Just noticed the CPU model. That’s the same processor that the Apple II had that he put in that remote.
I’m not saying your solution is complicated. You’re right, $10 is cheap and that is simple, but I will still counter with: I should not have to BUY ANOTHER PRODUCT TO USE THE ONLY INTENDED FUNCTION OF SOMETHING I’VE ALREADY PURCHASED.
I mean, you still don’t want to walk to the TV each time to fiddle with the controls, regardless of the design of them, right? Like, even if the on-TV controls were more-accessible, is that the route that you’d most-prefer to go, given the option?
