The true life hack is not to optimize your TV watching, but rather to stop watching TV. By itself, TV is a huge waste of time. It’s passive, it gets nothing done, it seeds the values of others into your mind.

This is all zero sum. A race to the bottom. When the boomer generation are gone, that it for broadcast tv....

If they’d stop making the commercials being so damned BLARING LOUD, I might be more inclined to watch them instead of making efforts to record stuff and speed through them. It’s so damned annoying.

I don’t know if this also happens in American TV, but here in Brazil, is annoying as fuck when, in the middle of a goddamn action scene - a car chase, a big fight, etc. - the network interrupts the movie to bring commercials on! Jesus Christ...