I back a running trainer on Kickstarter called Vi. When I got it is was insanely uncomfortable, drained my phone battery on an hour via the companion app and did not work for runs longer than 10 minutes. It was absolutely dog shit.
Should have used Vim
Watch out, you might upset the emacs crowd.
Košs KPH30i headphones. Those fuckers are an actual health hazard. They will make your ears suffer for the crime of putting them on.
Really sad cause Porta Pros are incredible. And I usually see people suggest getting the KPH30i instead. Don’t do that.
Anything KOSS or PYLE is straight dog shit. Been that way for at least 25 years. I bought many of their products as a broke teenager.
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.
Have to add, I came across mine the other day in a drawer and the soft touch finish is sticky now, and the thing was so bad to begin with I feel like it’s that way on purpose just to be a dick.
They are pieces of shit but for the price it’s actually pretty decent. $30 is the price of a couple McDonalds meals. We used to buy them for the kid to use since it didn’t really matter if it got destroyed. I also bought a new one to use as a smart home touch interface but I haven’t quite finished that due to ADHD and too many projects.
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.
Anything that relies on mini/micro USB for charging. With enough repeated use, they eventually cause an early failure of the device.
Mini’s are fairly durable, but the spring in built into the device. With Micro, the spring is part of the cable and is cheaper to replace.
This stogie sized covert camera. The photos looked like a screenshot of the game snake.
Really? Despite how much of a flop it was, if I owned one I feel like I’d find it fun?
Though now that I think about it…did it even have many games?
It wasn’t really fun, and I could never see properly in it.
Hmm, good point. I have an astigmatism and slightly different vision in both eyes so now I’m questioning if it would even work for me.
Yeah I have the world’s smallest astigmatism in my left eye and even that was annoying for me as a kid using it.
When I was a child in the 90s I somehow scored a voice role in a hotdog commercial for the radio. I was paid a king’s ransom for this, half of which my parents made me put in savings (wise), and half of which I spent on a brand new Sega CD (not wise).
The magic of postage stamp-sized full motion video took about three days to wear off, at which point all that was left was basically pure shit. They jacked me. At least I learned that lesson early.
You know what’s funny? Nintendo put expansion slots on the bottom of all of their consoles prior to the Wii. In Japan, they were used for the Famicom Disk System, the Satellaview, the N64DD and the Gameboy Player. The latter was the only one that made it to the West. They never released an expansion for a console outside of Asia. They even had to retool several games that were released on Famicom diskettes for cartridges in the West, including inventing on-cartridge save files via battery-backed RAM for The Legend of Zelda in order to release them in the West.
Given Sega’s track record with console expansions, Nintendo might have been just as well off. Well, except for how the SNES optical drive add-on played out.
More directly. The playstation was developed as an expansion for supernes. Then nintendo changed their mind and sony decided to keep developing it as their own device
Created their successor in following generations
That’s exactly what I was referencing. They pissed off Sony by working with Phillips on the CD-i. Hilarious.
FM radio receivers for the car.
Never could find a radio station that would work. When you did, it only worked for about 1/4 mile down the road and then had to find another station.
Where do you live? I don’t listen to the radio anymore but when I did, I could get my favorite station 50 miles away no problem.
It’s not the radio that didn’t work. These were fm transmitter/receivers you used to play mp3 players/cd players back in the day when vehicles didn’t use aux cables. It sent the signal over short range fm signal to your radio.
The alternative was the cassette adapter, but some vehicles had swapped to cd
You were supposed to have an antenna.
If your car is old enough to have a tape deck, they have cassettes that connect via Bluetooth. Just about perfect sound quality since there is no interference.
I remember when those things first came out and used a headphone jack so you could plug in your CD player. (those were the days…)
I was actually kinda pissed when I had to switch to a car with a CD player and couldn’t use it anymore.
Yeah those worked way better than the fm transmitters. Only problem was my car introduced a humming sound into the signal that got worse with speed lol.
It’s probably interference from your engine’s ignition system. A better quality setup might have built in protection from that.
I changed cars in January and the car I previously drove, an 05, Jetta had a tape deck. I bought this to connect my phone. Surprised that it handled calls as well.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The only game I really liked in VR was Euro Truck Simulator 2 which wasn’t even a VR game.
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
Can’t you already fly with VR in MS flight sim?
Also I believe Asseto has VR support.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
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.
iPad can’t open anything, keeps crashing. (relatively new)
You mean files? Or apps? Or mails? …
all of it, well mail works. I know I mainly used it for VLC which atleast 2/3 times I tried opening a file, my ipad would just restart, same with some apps.
Your iPad sounds pretty broken, that’s not normal.
That or the files he has are badly corrupted…
they’re not, work fine on any non-apple device, (iPhone had a similar problem, although not as bad.) those devils devices have been collecting dust for a while now.
