No TV since 2013, but some YouTube highlights might be viewed.
@zenmudprod
What kinds of things have you done w/the extra time?
I've had no tv since 2019. I've used that time to:
•Increase knowledge of Astrophysics
•Improve my sewing skills
•Master Asian cooking
•Tried learnin Python a 2nd time
•Learned & mastered Astrology over 5yrs
•Renovated my Kitchen, bath & closet
•Researched my ancestry to the 1700's in Western Europe on 1 ancestral line, and to the 1700's in the Caribbean on 2 other lines.
•Did 1 yr of learning German which covid interrupted.
@Bliss
Cycling (although much less since 2020), because a hip replacement in December 2020 was after 1.5 years of waiting (for Medicare to kick in).
Your list is very impressive! I'm just enjoying "free thought" without bombardment of advertising and news distortions.
@zenmudprod
I envy you!
If I didn't have an ADHD brain that's probably what I would do. Since COVID meditation has been near impossible.
@Bliss
It evolved in this way: after being without a TV in Switzerland for several years, I finally bought one from a colleague, and brought it home.
Swiss TV channels only run commercials between shows (4 to 5 minutes); shows aren't interrupted. Movies usually get an intermission with ads.
When I returned, I didn't buy a TV for two years; when I did, it remained on TCM >95% of the times I used it.
Since about 2015, I haven't hooked it up; I only watch YouTube and Tubi content.