This is ridiculous. The correct way to handle this is to put the boring TV show on, play Pokemon on your Switch, have your phone there for chat and looking up stuff about your game and doomscrolling-breaks, and only pay full attention to the TV at most 5% of the time.
ya mean to say TV is going the way of music? that is t say, it's becoming an adjunct source of perceptible data to fill in those small potential gaps where we might unwillingly brush up against the desert of the real?
A lot of people have always liked to turn the TV on as background. If anything I would think that would be less common today if you don't have live TV. Personally, it drives me crazy. Back when I would sometimes have a shared hotel room on a group trip, something that would drive me crazy was the person who, first thing upon entering the room, would be to head straight for the TV and turn in on.
