As far as phones go, the Razor Phone 2. It hurts to hold for too long.
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Any smart TV. Please just let me have a TV without having to navigate spyware or the sluggish UIs.
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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.
Feels so slow too, no matter what you're doing, finder windows slow, opening closing apps, just moving the mouse around takes forever.
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.
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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.
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"
When I hear stories like these I'm always curious: what were you trying to do?
Man it wasn't even anything crazy. It's just.
All my android devices have a syncthing service that... Syncs. Things. Between them and my PC/Homeserver.
Now, the only app for Syncthing I could find on the Apple App store was a paid app, but I was actually fine with that: It seems Apple stuff is made for rich people, and I had accepted that everything would be paid for.
Except.
When you use Syncthing on Android it just. Drops things into folders. Like a normal program on a normal computer. And other applications can just access that.
But nope, not here. Everything is in its own cage, and the user has exactly ZERO control over this (unlike, say, the likes of Flatpak on Linux, where it's just a matter of granting permission manually)
My comic book folder? I had to go through a cumbersome process to manually import all the cbr files into the comic reader app. Same for my video files.
Plus like. Just the lack of options in general. It felt like I was in an airport -- Stuck in an, admittedly nice, environment and only having access to whatever overpriced products existed inside that environment.
When using an iPad (or an iPhone) the one thing to keep in mind is it's NOT a computer. You cannot treat it like a PC, or expect it to behave like one. You cannot apply your decades of experience with PC operating systems, you need to forget what you know.
The iPad is an appliance. It is designed for consuming apps from the App Store. That's all.
Android has been trying to do the same for years, but the benefit with Android is it's Linux based, so we can always install a terminal emulator, and a file manager, and other admin tools that allow us to use the familiar PC patterns we've become accustomed to.
I understand.
I even respect the general idea.
.... But I will literally never willingly pay for an appliance-like piece of technology. I even sold off the one I got for free.
Android at least lets me sideload stuff and/or install it from F-Droid.
I agree. I've never bought an iPhone or iPad myself, but I've had old ones given to me.
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For me it was accessing media on my file server. I ended up having to buy an app and it still sucked. Someone told me apple products let you do that now though so maybe it's not an issue anymore.
Not really relevant for an iPad, but it's a good example:
Have you ever tried putting a custom ringtone on an iPhone?
In Android you just put an audio file in the ringtones folder, either by plugging it into a pc or with an on-device file manager.
For an iPhone you need to either buy the ringtone from the store or put it on the device through iTunes (🤮). Also it can't be just any format. It needs to be a specific profile of AAC (if I remember correctly), then rename the file to have a specific extension. There is no way you could do all that without reading a guide.
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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.
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One of my friends tried to fix his car, but somehow made the steering wheel wiggly. Turned driving into a terrifying experience, like i was trying to convince this lump of metal and plastic to do what I wanted
That's just user error. Some people should not be allowed to handle a wrench.
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.
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.
My daughter has a Motorola, the "chop chop" flashlight gesture is one of her favorite party tricks.
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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.
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Soloing an Alaskan Chainsaw Mill. Bro didn't show up one day and I had logs to cut.
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
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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.
This had to be plugged into a DVD player or a VHS player (yes, really) with three separate cords
Sounds like RCA inputs? Not sure what's so cumbersome about that. It was an improvement over the TV antenna method.
Everything else though, yeah, fuck that thing.
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!
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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.
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.
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.
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the original Microsoft surface. no, not the laptop, the 60" touch sensitive table. they had these great demos of nfc-enabled DnD miniatures getting stat overlays when you put them down on the map shown by the table, but trying to actually build stuff for the device was nightmarish and the input latency was frequently more than half a second. the worst part that it ran stock windows 7, which is not made for touch interactions.
Any phone larger than my 2016 iphone SE. I have a fairphone and it's everything I've ever wanted in a phone but it's SO BIG. It has a one handed mode, but that turns itself off whenever you tap the back button, which is so annoying it's making me aggressive. I used to lie in bed, chilling, looking at memes with one hand while the other arm was cosily under the blanket. That's a thing of the past. I also can't rest the hand I have chronic pain in because I always need to use both hands to not keep dropping my phone and reach all of the screen.
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Pixel Slate by Google
I got it on a black Friday Sale and immediately regretted it.
For something that is supposed to "just work" nothing just works.
It's spent the last several years as a very expensive media player. Which it isn't even particularly good at...
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I'm left handed. What's the character limit around here, 'cause I have much to add.
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Scuba gear.
- phone
- "smart" blackboard
- laptop
- tablet
edit: modern car
Probably a forklift, those things are heavy af.
A carpet cleaner. I had to prepare a previous apartment for showing (it's a long story) & there was quite a bit of dust on the carpet
Could just be I'm stupid, but I was not prepared for how involved such a machine is... to be fair it is meant for professional use, so I was probably just not properly trained for it
Trying to find the item I want to fuse to an arrow in Tears of the Kingdom
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