The Lummox

As i get older, my bad thoughts i have suppressed are beginning to leak out.

[Eric Smith @Eric_Smith08]

A home theater installer has calibrated over 3,000 TVs in 12 years from $400 budget sets to $15,000 flagship OLEDs in custom media rooms.

He walks into people's homes, looks at their TV for 5 seconds, and can tell them exactly what's wrong.

He told me: "Almost every TV I see is running in the same mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent showroom lights. The motion smoothing is on. The sharpness is cranked. The eco dimmer is cutting brightness by 30–40%. And the TV is taking a screenshot of the screen every few seconds and selling the viewing data to advertisers. People are watching a $1,500 panel the same way it looked on the store shelf and that's the worst possible way to watch it."

He said a properly calibrated TV doesn't look "better." It looks like a completely different television.

He changed 9 settings on my TV in 15 minutes.

The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. Skin tones stopped looking plastic.

Dark scenes became visible. The TV stopped spying on me. And a movie finally looked like a movie instead of a daytime talk show.

"TV manufacturers ship every set optimized for a showroom, not a living room. Then they bury the settings that fix it inside 6 menus nobody opens."

Here are the 9 things he changed:

[The Lummox @BadCoachRiley]

@MidwestGolfJake Send me your Red Rock score

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@THEnebpreps 5 time Lincoln East teams under Coach Zentic come to mind

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@Mike_kim714 162

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@Mike_kim714 72

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@nick_sehnert SDSU beat Nebraska the past 2 years. Don't over look them.

[Monday Q Info @acaseofthegolf1]

The best story at the @ShopRiteLPGA and it’s not close.

That is @KimKaufmanGolf and 18 months ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In that 18 months she went thru a lumpectomy, chemo and radiation.

On Friday she will tee it up in her first LPGA event since before her diagnosis.

She had played a full Epson Tour schedule this year and has made 6 of 7 cuts.

The best news is she is feeling great and is cancer free.

[The Lummox @BadCoachRiley]

@acaseofthegolf1 @ShopRiteLPGA @KimKaufmanGolf A great South Dakotan and an even better person. I will be scoreboard watching this weekend. Keep up the good fight.

[Steve Inman @SteveInmanClips]

Ball Meets Balls

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@ChipnBogey @LandmandG What was your walk up song?

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@PaulStankowski

[PGA TOUR Champions @ChampionsTour]

Kids at heart 😂

See what happens when the pros try to play with a junior driver.

[PGA TOUR Champions @ChampionsTour]

Kids at heart 😂

See what happens when the pros try to play with a junior driver.

[The Lummox @BadCoachRiley]

@Amie_Just Thank you for not addressing the massive problems in the North Endzone. At least we get to keep our troughs.

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@Mike_kim714 Your memory has to be so good and precise to remember everything. You can only write so much in your book for the week. And you have to recall it in real time. A players best tool is their swing. You can refine that anywhere. Love following you.

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@Amie_Just Welcome to Sioux Falls

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

Taking "around the horn" to another level: it's the first 5-6-4-3 double play in over 30 years

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@Sean_Callahan 2024 year numbers

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@samhoiberg @mikejschaefer Enjoyed watching you grow as a Husker. GBR.

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@wakeupbarstool @stoolpresidente I can't explain it to you, and you wouldn't understand it.

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@JackMitchellLNK Fly out of Sioux falls. 3.5 hour drive. Tickets with bags running around $650