Any smart TV. Please just let me have a TV without having to navigate spyware or the sluggish UIs.
Any smart TV can do that if you don’t connect it to the internet.
If it works at all without internet.
A single-furrow plow that was built so that it had to be pulled by a horse.
We didn’t have a horse (it was about 50 years too late for that), but we did have a small tractor, and somehow hitched the thing to it. My father drove the tractor. And then I had to guide that plow with a very firm hand. We needed it to dig a drainage ditch on the already flooded plot. It was the only way to do that. Any other machines would have been too heavy on that wet ground. After a day of hard work with the feet deep in the water, it was done.
I truly don’t understand how to use an apple computer. It’s terrible to use.
How do you screw up the most basic fundamental things like window management and a basic file explorer, I’ll honestly never understand.
I learned how to use it as a random attempt to make a hackintosh.
I succeeded in getting the hackintosh to boot and run, played with it for a few weeks and then got bored with it and now my computers all use Linux or Windows if I have to.
I now have an actual Apple computer from 2015 that I use just for Logic when I’m recording audio (I got a great deal on the computer and a Thunderbolt 2 audio interface), and I greatly prefer kubuntu over apple.
Feels so slow too, no matter what you’re doing, finder windows slow, opening closing apps, just moving the mouse around takes forever.
@SLVRDRGN @TokenEffort I feel the same when handed an iThing these days. I don’t think it helps that the ones I’m handed have had everything on them moved around and whatnot by children.
Designed by a stupid hippy that died to a somewhat survivable cancer because he was a fuckin moron.
He had some good ideas for sure, but the man himself was just manipulative twat. His products are insufferable to use. Even as an apple certified repair technician for years I despise everything about apple and it’s many products.
Uses the same commands as Linux
Maybe CMD, but not GUI and actually using it.
Probably the iPad
Got it for free from a relative who had bought a newer model (he always has the latest iShit)
Played around with it for a week
Sure. It’s smooth. That screen was drop dead gorgeous.
… And yet everything I tried to do on the thing felt like I was fighting against it. Everything was restrained and needlessly clunky. It made me think “golly gee, windows cooperates more”
Windows 11 in a corporate environment , Jesus wept, what a fucking disaster of a system. It just gets in your way.
They’re slowly upgrading our work machines and I’m not looking forward to finally being forced to use it.
Just did mine last week, I hate it so much
Not THE most cumbersome, but any time I’m at a friend’s place or visiting my little brother and we play on their Nintendo Switch consoles, I’m so surprised by how stupidly slow and shitty the OS is. Especially the store is so fucking bad.
It’s pretty bad, though I do like the console and game library otherwise (and in spite of Nintendos shenanigans). Trying to play two player minecraft with my kid is a sure-fire way to get it to freeze completely.
I buy codes from Amazon if I’m buying digitally lol
Soloing an Alaskan Chainsaw Mill. Bro didn’t show up one day and I had logs to cut.
My label printer. Horrible UI. How do I switch to capital letters? How to numbers? It can print two small lines instead of one, but how? It also has bold, italics, underline, but getting there is a game of trial and error.
And the display is not WYSIWYG, but just five or eight characters. You never know what you will get when hit the print button. And you cannot save labels you successfully designed - it just remembers the one in the system when you switched it off.
One of the original Windows CE-based PDAs. Fuck that thing was a nightmare to use and even worse to sync to your PC. Early mobile technology was a lesson in frustration and disappointment.
In that era PalmOS was expertly designed for the form factor of the devices. WinCE was like trying to run an F-1 car on a go kart track
Thank goodness PocketPC and later Windows Mobile 5/6 were much better designed. I still prefer my Palm device, tho.
Macbook pro
The aluminum chassis is stupid and has sharp edges so if you use the laptop on the go it’s likely to cut your wrists. The screen is so glary you can’t use the thing outside at all. The keyboard is really bad and I had one of those with a touchbar which is the dumbest laptop idea ever that would constantly get activated by slight brush or water droplet. And macos is such a terrible operating system full of legacy restrictions and commands you can’t customize or animations you can’t remove.
I had to use one for a contract I had with an US firm for security auditing and it dropped my productivity in half tho it was fun to explore the apple world on someone else’s dime knowing it’s temporary but I’m not going back ever.
My pixel 6a…
Bought new 2 years ago through Google Fi, camera stopped working after 2 weeks. Literal hardware failure. Used warranty and was sent another which was refurbished. (Bullshit by the way, I paid in full for the damn phone new 2 weeks prior.)
About 1 month after that one showed up Wi-Fi and Bluetooth began randomly turning off then on. Then it just flat out failed to even find any Wi-Fi networks unless I rebooted it multiple times. Bluetooth would randomly cut in and out while connected to my car. Reboot multiple times would occasionally fix it. The real problem here is I have unlimited (see -limited to 35 gigs) data. Watching YouTube in bed and falling asleep the phone would say fuck Wi-Fi and stream all night on 5g eating my data in days limiting me to 2g speeds for the rest of the month.
Eventually doing the reboot to fix this shit it would just start randomly boot looping for hours. Had to hold down volume to enter the setup mode or whatever, power off, snack the phone a couple times, restart, and if I was lucky it would start up, and I was really lucky the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth might work.
This led to eventually the phone just randomly restarting itself. Especially if the Bluetooth was working and I was using headphones and someone called me. It would just turn off then boot loop again lol. If and sometimes if I powered it off it would just be stuck on the powering off screen for an hour.
I had insurance and warranty and Google did their fucking damnedest to fuck me around. I called them (Fi) multiple times and had the issue eventually escalated to management or something. Was promised a new phone was being sent out. Never showed up. This happened twice. I filed a complaint and it was eventually (see months) followed up with a call to inform me I was officially out of the warranty period (of course I was, by the time you actually reached out) however they would ship me one if I sent mine back. They would put a hold FOR THE FULL PRICE of the NEW phone on my bank account until they received my faulty device. OR I could just send it in and they would send me a new after it has been received leaving me without a phone for up to 2 weeks. Effectively paying again for the phone I already purchased in full.
I finally broke down last week and just got a Moto stylus 5g which has been great so far. However, I got it through Fi of course because they’re simply the cheapest option for me as I’ve had it since it came out and I am grandfathered in with 3 lines “unlimited” for $65/month. When I ordered the moto I noticed they have a trade in offer… :D I of course choose yes, followed by questions to see if I was eligible…
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Does the phone have any cracks or damage? A - No! 👍 (A miracle honestly with how often I slammed this thing out of frustration)
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Does the phone power on? A - Yes! (Technically it does…)
You’re eligible for the trade in offer! You will receive a $76 bill credit once we receive your device!
Awesome! Google will be receiving the biggest, most useless piece of shit device I have EVER had the displeasure of owning and I’ll receive a credit essentially making my new phone free!
It took 2 years and I suspect they’ll try to fuck me out of the credit unless I get lucky and the device actually starts up normally when they receive it. But, in my own very small and admittedly petty way I feel like I’m getting revenge on these fuckers.
Tldr - pixel 6a is worthless. My wife has the same phone and hers is flawless but I was delivered 2 that were both fucked in some way. Google did nothing to fix it.
I love my 6a, but Google’s practice of replacing bad phones with refurbished bad phones is just horrible.
My last two phones have been the Motorola 5G stylus models and I have honestly not had any issues with them.
I buy them second hand because why not? And then I get like two years’ worth of use out of it for an average cost of ownership of like a hundred dollars a year.
Moto makes good quality inexpensive phones.
Moto makes good quality inexpensive phones.
Agreed. I’ve been using moto for about 5 years now.
The best thing though? Shake your phone to put on the flashlight, roll your hand twice to open the camera.
Especially the flashlight thing would make it hard for me to buy another phone.
I had the original and now the 5. My kid got the same (5) and the battery was swelling. But the process to get a new one was smooth as silk, I had bought the insurance because that kid is hard on phones (they bought the phone but I am covering the insurance).
What was funny to me was we said “the battery is slowly exploding” and they said “mail it back in the packaging the new one arrives in” which was just a cardboard box. That can’t possibly be safe!
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I got some video goggles about 10 years ago. The picture on the box? A guy wearing cool shades. Me? It felt like 10 pounds strapped to my face in such a way I had to look straight up to sort of see a blurry, blocky video through a screen door. This had to be plugged into a DVD player or a VHS player (yes, really) with three separate cords, but still also ate four AAs more than once an hour, and had built in earbuds in exactly the wrong size. Also, there was a separate cord to a remote control that managed to get tangled up very easily despite being too short to fit in a pocket while the goggles were on your head, so I just kinda looped it over my shoulders. Claimed to have a 3D mode. Never found it. 300$ well spent.
The Red One, Red’s first camera/the first affordable (relatively speaking) 4K cinema camera. Talk about a heavy, temperamental machine
It didn’t stop with the camera either. In the early days, wrangling the files and setting up a functional workflow was a nightmare as well.
4K raw video before hardware acceleration was no joke!
The storage 😵💫
The first time using a zweihander.
You gotta level strength and dexterity with the Firekeeper first. What did you pick as your starting class?
The only one. Deprived. But yeah. I guess there’s some investment before it’s good. Especially getting it fully ranked with chaos.
I just thought of the zweihander and long swords in general in Rune Factory 4, and how slow and cumbersome they are lol, my least favorite weapon type
All the various gardening equipment that was made for someone several inches taller than me. Things to edge lawns, shovels, rakes, just a lot of stuff.
I’ll trade you as mine all seem to be made for someone several inches shorter than me.
I would, but I suspect they’d still be too big for me! And if I do ever find stuff my height, it’s for children and cheap shitty plastic that breaks in a day of use!
Couldn’t you cut the handles down to be suitable for you?
They generally get unbalanced then, or splinter because cheaply made.
