• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Samsung appliances. Fridges. Washing machines.

    Got them as part of the rental unit. They’re very new looking. But every month is some new mess up.

    God I would replace them if I owned this place.

      • Damage@feddit.it
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        10 days ago

        I don’t understand fridges with ice makers. You can just make ice in the freezer without any further complex machinery.

    • Evrala@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I used to be a big fan of Samsung, but over the past couple years it has become a do not buy brand for me. They keep doing anticompetitive stuff with their phones so my next phone won’t be one.

      Start of 2024 my Samsung TV that wasn’t that old up and died. And my less than a year old Samsung monitor is flickering.

      My watch 6 classic is my favorite smart watch I’ve ever had, but in order to get it working well on a non Samsung watch you need to go through a bunch of bullshit hassle.

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Either an hp ink jet printer.

    Or my apple watch. The apple watch step counter is just plain broken. I can say hey siri a dozen times it may or may not respond.

  • letsgo@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    A Sony mobile phone that couldn’t remember the time when it was switched off.

    True it’s going back a while. But not so far that battery backed clock chips were uncommon.

  • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Pioneer ddj400

    Where do I start first off it comes with record box, for better effects or features you have to buy a subscription . The knobs come off in your hand and are made out of plastic crossfader sucks made out of plastic buttons stick, pads stick. It’s just horrible

    Years ago I owned a pioneer dgm 1000 the thing was built like a tank and held its value well. I sold it for something else about 3 years 4 years later and got the same price I paid for it…

    I expected the pioneer 400 to at least be manufactured somewhat sturdy, and not feel like a Fisher Price toy…

    Ended up finding a numark ns7Ii for a decent price.

    Made out of metal, more buttons than you can shake a stick at very high quality. It’s almost 10 years old and nothing’s wrong with it…

    The cheap pioneer mixerswill be E-Waste within a few years

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko

    The Cybiko. Got it for Christmas and my father threw out the box before I could get the rebate for the mp3 player attachment. Didn’t know any other kid with on, so the wireless communication was useless. The games all sucked anyway. Gaming on rubber buttons was always a terrible idea

    • Dinsmore@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      Yoo a lot of nostalgia for the Cybiko! My mom wouldn’t let me get a gameboy but my sister managed to find one of these somewhere. That was my only way to do handheld gaming for years! The games sucked but it was better than homework =)

  • Shape4985@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    Amazon kindle. It didnt let me plug it into my computer and upload books to use it without internet access. Everything needed sending through amazon. I should have expected this but it was so locked down and filled with ads to the point it was unusable. I attempted to jailbreak it and it bricked so i threw it away and went back to using calibre on my computer. I would really like an offline open source ebook reader.

  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    HTC Vive. Not necessarily this specific tech itself, but VR gaming more broadly. My friend and I were ginning ourselves up for years before it came out. I dropped a lot of money on a gaming rig for it. And when I put the googles on… I fucking hated it. I didn’t like standing and gaming. I didn’t like being so isolated from everyone else in the house. And the games were glorified tech demos slapped together with unity assets. By the time Half Life Alex came out, I had no more fucks to give.

    The porn was fun though.

    • duffman@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I liked it. Unfortunately aside from valve, no serious studio has put any resources into making a good vr game.

      Sitting games could be big on vr. Flight/space sims could be awesome.

        • faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          10 days ago

          Yeah you can. Although it’s hard on the computer, and depending on the type of plane, it might not be really playable in terms of controls (an airliner for instance)

          Games like Elite Dangerous or Star Wars Squadron are really fun in VR though

          • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee
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            10 days ago

            I played a lot of Elite Dangerous until I realized there was not much to do besides “do the profitable thing over and over before it gets nerfed.” And by the time Squadrons came out, I also ran out of fucks to give.

      • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
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        10 days ago

        VR is too expensive and too rich white boy centric. Let me tell you something; if your business is gaming and the teenager children in China and India can’t afford it, your market will NEVER be able to compete with mobile gaming and PC (M&K) gaming

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I had an ouya.

    That was pretty terrible.

    The games were actually really fun…but the console was basically a really slow phone. And the controllers had sticky buttons. But worst of all, all games lagged badly. Like half a second or more on some games.

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Ive never seen this, thanks! This made my day.

        I tried making it work for a month! I even tried to hack it to put retro stuff on it. My tiny gaming pc at the time had better capabilities and was easier to work with…so I gave up on that too. Tried to use the controllers (they were Bluetooth, they could technically work with other machines) but they lagged and felt terrible.

  • LemmyHead@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    I might be exaggerating a but I’ve never been a real fan of Bluetooth headphones or earphones. Sound quality never matched cabled ones (I also have the popular Sony one) and battery life sucks for the time I want to use it

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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      10 days ago

      I always wanted to be the cool hipster with cabled headphones and getting mad about phones without audio jack.

      Truth is, my cables always got tangled up, especially at work. It was getting really annoying. I bought some open ear headphones from aftershokz because i often listen to music wherever and i don’t want to be isolated. These things absolutely fuck. Battery life is fantastic. Even if they are empty, i can throw them into the pocket charger for 15 minutes and they go for hours again. The sound is good. It’s not full blown headphone quality, obviously. But they are so comfortable and you don’t have to stick anything into your ears. I saw that bose has a similar product and i kinda wanna try them.

      • olafurp@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        There’s a method to put headphones into your pocket without them tangling. Fold them in half always instead of coiling them up.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I learned ‘cable macrame’ from my networking mentor. I can wrap a cable so fast, and it’s not gonna tangle.

      • LemmyHead@lemmy.ml
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        10 days ago

        I understand it’s a very subjective experience. And tbh, one thing that bothers me about cabled ones is the cable noise when moving. Or accidentally pulling off the headphones from my head, although that’s not a common issue,but for sitting experience they’re perfect. Aside from that, my music preference is very eclectic, so e.g. the level of bass really needs to adapt properly to the genre I’m listening to atm, so the boosted bass Bluetooth headphones just don’t work for me. I’ve never experienced a Bluetooth pair that doesn’t have too much bass.

        • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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          10 days ago

          Ya, bass is always the downside of these things, but i’m not super into that. Also i don’t really like to listen to music very loud. I really don’t like when i feel the cable brushing my arms or something. And i rip them out every time i stand up. It’s so bad. A huge plus for me is also that i can leave my phone somewhere and i can still listen to music.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I always wanted to be the cool hipster with cabled headphones and getting mad about phones without audio jack.

        I’m triggered for I think I’m in this comment. But I’m less ‘cool hipster’ and more ‘cantankerous nerd’. But allllll the rest is true.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 days ago

      All true. All good points.

      I’m running out of places to buy a phone that offers a jack, though.

      But my home rig is a USB sound dongle to wired earbuds usually. Occasionally a set of ANC buds for the bad days.

    • Evrala@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I have $20 wired IEMS that sound better than my most expensive Bluetooth tws sets. I’ve taken to just listing to podcasts and YouTube videos with my Bluetooth sets at work.

  • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
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    10 days ago

    portable swamp cooler. it leaked and makes your carpet a swamp and maybe cooler. also luggable.

    roller-type kitchen knife sharpener. the finer edge sharpener actually dulls the knife more.

    tile tracker. it was so big, I didn’t lose it. I also hate the concept because it works like insurance does.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Amazon Fire Tablet 7in. I bought it literally just to read PDFs, and it was so slow that it was basically unusable. I tried switching out the launcher to something more minimal (Niagara launcher I think), and I figured out how to disable the ads that were all over the place. It helped a bit, but not enough to overcome the hardware and Fire OS. (I think I needed ADB for both of those fixes; I had to put in some real work to unfuck that tablet.) Plus the screen was too small for my pathetic human eyeballs.

    Was it worth $30? At the time, yeah, because I literally couldn’t afford anything else, but I now have an $80 10in generic Android tablet that’s wildly faster.

      • Polysics@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Pretty much the worse “console” ever made. Any video on it will tell you all you need to know. I wouldn’t buy it for a penny today if someone offered.

      • forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml
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        9 days ago

        It was nothing more than an off the shelf ARM SBC inside. Some third party designed and made the board. Nobody had the bootloader keys to unlock the units. It was easily bricked. No keys to recover it. They had sold it as a device for “hackers” but nobody could really hack it. The whole concept was dead on arrival.

        Several years later people discovered weaknesses in Nvidias bootloader code. The Ouya is vulnerable. So they’re finally wide open hackable. But nobody cares anymore.

  • Affidavit@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    I went from a cheap mp3 player that I could just plug in to my computer and drag in music to an iPod which forced me to download the iTunes bloatware create an account and then took 100x longer to transfer music because of the pointless conversion each file had to undergo. This was my first and last experience with a personal Apple device. Ended up putting some old pop music onto it and giving it to my grandmother after 2 days. Uninstalled iTunes and went back to using my cheap mp3 player until I replaced it with a smartphone.

    Coming in as a close second place, an all-in-one Sony Vaoi computer that cost a fortune and had shit performance. Took daily nags to Sony before they took it back and gave me a refund. I find that Sony’s hit and miss though. My favourite smartphone (Xperia Play) was Sony, and I love my Sony Bluetooth earbuds. The Sony Smartwatch was shit.

  • tupcakes@midwest.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    A smart egg tray. It was in fact quite stupid. Mainly purchased it because of how absurd it was.

    Main issues:

    • it was constantly wrong about how many eggs were in the tray
    • it was wrong about the eggs age.
    • it took 6AA batteries that only lasted a month at best.