Those two vertical lines on the right side aren't part of the meme. They're faults on my TV that I keep forgetting about the moment I stop consciously noticing them. And on the rare occasion that I'm moved to try and do something about it, I'm stopped from getting it fixed by 3 things
1: I would need to fill out a shitload of paperwork for the warranty to cover the repair
2: I would need to have the faintest idea what date each fault started (there was several months between, but I don't know anything more specific than that..)
3: I'd have to bring it in for repair myself, I don't have a car and I don't know anyone with a big enough car that I feel comfortable asking
4: thought of another hurdle as I was typing it all out but forgot again before I got to the end to add it.
Maybe I should call the store I bought it at and explain the situation, see if there's anything they can do to help. Which of course is super for my social anxiety comorbidity ๐คฆ๐ฎโ๐จ
Damn. Stuff like this makes me thankful for the consumer protections we have in Australia. They're not the best, and certainly don't measure up to EU level protections, but if there's a fault you can return your product to where you bought it from, or do a warranty request. Warranty requests are usually faster because if you return it to the store and it isn't a major fault, they will most likely just send it back to the manufacturer anyway, but the option is still there.
I had my laptop hard drive die on me once and I went down the warranty route. It was quite easy. I just went to the warranty page, entered the serial number, described the problem and uploaded a photo of the receipt and they emailed the next day to say a courtier had been booked for 2 days later. I did have to provide my own box (I just reused the box it came in), but that was pretty much it. Repaired in 3 days and delivered a few days after that. It wasn't even a high end laptop, it was a fairly cheap Asus crapbook