I sear that's one of the biggest reasons I still have junk in my house, because I don't know what to do with it.

Looks like there are some e-cycling services locally where I can drop off the TV for a fee. Probably cheaper to go that route instead of having someone come pick it up.

Around here, you can donate old TVs, working or not, to Goodwill.

Vonnie, I'm in PA too. Yes it's cheaper. Check with your county as well. Some of them have arrangements with e-cyclers or dedicate a few days a year to accepting electronics.

Some of them have arrangements with e-cyclers or dedicate a few days a year to accepting electronics.

Turns out my city has something called "Hard to Recycle Collection Event" every few months and the next one is in 3 weeks! They charge $30 fee for TV, which sounds quite reasonable. I might toss my super-old microwave oven at the same time....

... wait a minute. I'm out of town that weekend on a conference. Rats. Good to know that they have such events regularly though.

Plot twist: Turns out that my old TV isn't broken after all. I unplugged it for 10 minutes then replugged it, and presto! Picture is back on. D'oh.

By the time I realized this, Amazon had already shipped the new TV I impulsively ordered. And when it got there, instead of returning it like a sensible person, I unboxed it and set it up in the living room because it is a shiny shiny new toy. *hangs head* It's a 55" Sony 4K TV and the screen is beautiful and crisp and has all the streaming apps right there on the home page. I love it, wahh.

So, now I have a perfectly fine 8 year old flatscreen TV, which I guess I could try to sell or donate. Or I can plunk it down on the dresser on my bedroom. Say that I wanted to do that... what would be the best way to get speedy internet connection to that second TV? I have FIOS for internet + TV. I just want to stream stuff, and not interested in getting actual cable channels on the second TV (which I think needs an additional box and more per-month pay). I guess I could have a FIOS technician come and have the fiber optic cable split so that I could have a physical Ethernet connection to TV (probably the most reliable way of streaming). Or should I try to stream contents wirelessly to the bedroom TV? The wifi signal in my bedroom is not great. Good enough for web browsing but not sure if it could handle streaming Netflix or Amazon Prime. I've been nosing around, and there is something called powerline adapters that can, I don' know, boost signals? I am not super tech savvy so not sure what the best way to do things. Advice appreciated!

I'm no expert, but I would either put a splitter on the fiber-optic cable, or buy a wifi booster. I have a booster in my kitchen that boosts my signal enough to get strong internet on the other side of the house from my router. It's easy to set up.

I'm just here to whine - I factory reset my phone to see if it would resolve the battery issues I've been having since the Android 8.0 update (SPOILER ALERT IT DID NOT), and in the process, lost access to the Pebble app. Which I maybe should have anticipated since Pebble went out of business over a year ago, but now my smartwatch is just a dumb watch (like, even the Timer and Stopwatch "apps" won't work without a connection to the main app on the phone), and I can't find anything on the market that looks really appealing as a replacement.

Things I liked about the Pebble that nobody making smartwatches now seems to care about:

-weeklong battery life (the screen is e-ink rather than LCD or OLED)
-actually waterproof - I've taken this watch in the pool and to the beach

All other smartwatches out there that claim to be waterproof have scads of reviews saying actually, no, don't swim with this watch, I took it in the pool once and it stopped working and the manufacturer won't honor the warranty if you return it with water damage even though there is literally a picture of someone swimming with this watch on the fucking box and a Swim Mode for tracking laps.

And nobody is making watches with e-ink displays, so bye bye battery life.

GODDAMNIT PEBBLE WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SELL YOURSELF TO FITBIT? WHYYYYYYY?

t /end rant

Jessica, not sure what all you need to be smart about it but the Garlin Forerunner 35 might work? It's more a running watch than a smart watch, but if you're not using the constant god while running, the battery lasts a week or more.

I use the Garmin 35 as a running watch (aka baby Garmin) and really like it. There might be some decent prices ($100 off?) on them for Holiday sales (there were some good Black Friday prices, but y'know).