What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?
I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.
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Anything Samsung. The appliances fail fast and the smartphones are constantly getting more and more enshittified.
This worst purchase but entirely my fault. I bought a thrust master t3000 kit off of a website I had found because it was like 200 bucks cheaper than anywhere else. I get the thing in the mail and it’s the EU plug so I had to order another servo motor that was for US outlets
I bought a Wii U. It had some good games at the time, but Nintendo’s strategy over the last 10 years has just been to rerelease those games with better performance and new content. I wish I’d just waited.
Those HD fans they had didn’t cool anything but the vibration wrecked the HD.
I bought an Xbox One to play D3. Nobody else did and then the rest of the episodes got cancelled.
I bought a System76 laptop once. Poop_OS! was fucking awful and when I owned it their updating application especially was and had been left buggy and broken for years. So I put Fedora on it instead which then stopped working shortly after. The kernel just wouldn’t load past a certain version and I gave up waiting for a fix and just e-wasted that miserable piece of shit with tinny speakers and bruise inflicting pointy metal casing. I have no faith these guys can make Cosmic not blow ass when they struggled to make a basic update GUI function for YEARS.
I owned a MindDrive. It did not help me get better at CS like I had expected. 😔
Movies for my PSP. A lot of them.
I once bought one of these weird gaming ‘keyboards’ where you only have the keys around WASD on it. Used it once, thought it sucked and never looked at it again
fuck samsung!
Their appliances are garage. They aren’t even overpriced, they shouldn’t exist because of how big of pieces of shit they are.
Interesting! Our washing machine is turning 10 this year, hasn’t skipped a beat, yet.
They should be parked on the street for how garage they are!
you park your garage on the street?
I’m not sure if they count is a “tech purchase”, but I bought all new Samsung appliances in my previous home (washer, dryer, refrigerator, and dishwasher). The washer and dryer failed catastrophically within 6 months, the dryer drum cracked and shredded a whole load of clothing into confetti and the washing flooded my kitchen and ruined my cabinets (it was a weird house layout). The refrigerator just had random parts dying over and over (water dispenser, lights, sensors, ice maker) until it finally died at the year mark. The dishwasher made it nearly to year two before the control panel died and the replacement part was more expensive than an entire new unit. Never again Samsung!
Samsung used to be awesome up until, say, 10-15 years ago? Then they just got so big and quality just went off a cliff
I have a Samsung flat screen from 15 years ago, the thing is a tank and won’t die. A new Samsung flat screen is lucky to make it 5 years tops
I came in here expecting Samsung hate, and I am not disappointed. They’re like 13% of South Korea’s GDP, they should make shit that lasts longer than a year!!
Windows Surface Pro 3
Worst purchase of my entire life. Every update broke some function of the tablet. At one point no stylus would pair with it so i had to use have gestures, then another time the detachable keyboard wouldn’t work so i had to use a USB keyboard. The final straw was that the tablet updated, rebooted, and powered off and wouldn’t turn back on for like 3 months… Until randomly in the middle of The night it finally woke up.
Any Razer product ever. Shit company, laptop battery fucked itself, keyboard doesn’t work, mouse falling apart
Even the Razer Skibidi?
Tbh I’ve had great experiences with Razer mice, although that’s the only product I’ve ever purchased from them
Razer, in my (very dated by now tbh) experience has really bad quality control but if you get a good one it’ll last for a long time. My mouse is 15 years old now and still working. Conversely my keyboard from them stopped working a little after the one year mark.
Idk seems that way for a lot of companies nowadays. Cheap out on QC and parts, hope people don’t bother contacting your support and if they do it’s cheaper to just replace some stuff and use a cheap 3rd party support center vs actually making sure the product is not a lemon.
I never had a Razer mouse last longer than 6 months since they moved over to optical/laser mice (yeah, I’m old). Their products are flimsy crap for the most part.
A Samsung smartwatch, it’s almost useless.
God, I love my watch 7
I use it as a clock a lot, as well as tracking on runs via Strava, then I patch my HA through to it for local control. Can watch my son sleep in his crib from my watxh
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Might sound weird but it was the PSP I imported at launch.
Great device but that was when I realized I don’t like handheld gaming.
This is exactly why I haven’t bought a steam deck, I’m not convinced I actually like handheld gaming still.
I love my Steam Deck, but I rarely use it. At home, I have a PC and I’d rather sit in a comfortable chair with ample screen space with a full keyboard and mouse. I only bring it with me when I’m expecting to be away from home for more than 24 hours with enough downtime to actually use it.
