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Jide Remix Ultratablet.
Kinda glitchy from the start. Got one minor software update before the company decided to focus first only on their mini-desktops and soon after, B2B; dropping the consumer support entirely.
Which wouldn't have been so bad is the released the proprietary blobs for others to use to keep up support. The hardware was nice, and the concept was one of the first to try an "Android version of a Surface". But to my knowledge, no ROMs have ever been made for it.
An Eink smartphone from a Chinese company: Bigme Hibreak pro. It never worked, I sent I back for repair and they shipped it back to me in the same buggy conditions... Now it lies in a drawer completely frozen and unresponsive...
I bought a 2nd hand MacBook Air with an Intel chip to put Linux on it. Forgot about the T2 chip being a bitch.
An early Purism laptop. That was the most lemony lemon that ever lemoned. Components failing, keyboard was shit, the case just fell apart. I think I had to replace it after 6 months because I was tired of its shit.
A Sony Minidisc recorder / player in the early 2000s. So much DRM. So many bugs. I'll never buy Sony again.
My old Wemo smart plugs. Constantly lost connection and the app was so useless for resolving issues.
When they announced they were stopping support this year, I was wondering what they considered support beforehand. Also, there's a class action lawsuit because of that.
I’m in the same boat
Micro usb to hdmi that I didn't know wasn't compatible with my phone
I bought a MacBook Pro for iOS development. It was alright until Apple decided to exclude it from future OS updates, preventing me from using it for it's sole purpose, and forcing me to either buy a new one or stop developing iOS apps. Guess which one I chose. There is nothing wrong with the hardware, it's still got a 2TB SSD, 16GB of RAM and 16-core CPU but apparently Apple thought they could make more money off of me by intentionally barring it from updates to force me to buy a new one, rather than simply allowing me to install MacOS updates. They were wrong.
There is a patch to update macOS when it’s not compatible. One I have used before is from dosdude1.
You can also put Linux on it, or dual boot. Older Intel Macs I remember being really wasy, the T2 Mac’s need special drivers but it’s not too hard, and the new Mac’s have ashai Linux.
should just install Linux and be done with it.
I thought Mac development had to come signed from one of their OSs though? Maybe I'm wrong. Have never owned one.
And unsurprisingly, this is one of the less cunty things Apple does.
What even model and year is it? They support the things for a very long time. I’ve got a 2011 that still works great but it’s getting Linux on it cuz they’ll run better in it than any version of Windows or OXS. 500GB SSD, 16GB RAM, i7 of some sort. Love it.
Back in 2014, I bought a non-pro white MacBook for one Bitcoin.
2014 Pro user here, it's really awesome. What's wrong with non-Pro exactly?
It's not the MacBook that is the problem...
I bought an HD DVD player as a youth. I don’t think I need to explain further
Samsung washer and dryer. The bane of my existence. I just moved and left them behind, so happy!
I have heard similar stories from all other Samsung appliances.
My partner bought a Skylight screen a month ago. I put it up, but it’s basically been unused since.
For me, there was this very early health tracking watch I got, which was so fragile that it would reset and lose all data if I did anything more active than walking.
Some Google TV that was well reviewed, but at some point shortly after I got it had a software update that made the UI unusablly slow. Like, 5-10 seconds to respond to every button click.
Easily 1000% my Samsung TV.
Each update somehow makes it slower, it always loads up whatever the Samsung TV app thing is before it will do anything with a menu so you can get out of it, I believe it requires a Samsung account before it will allows you to do anything, and every now and then it locks up so hard that I have to factory reset it to get it to work again.
I refuse to buy anything from Samsung ever again.
We have one of the Samsung frame TVs, it's a nice TV, it fits a specific need for us in a bit of a weird spot in a bedroom where a regular TV would look out of place.
But man is the software trash. It's laggy, a lot of the apps seem really poorly-optimized, and half the settings are just randomly unavailable for no apparent reason.
And since I had to install a box in the wall to hide the one connect box behind it, I kind of don't want to use it with another streaming device, something about putting too much stuff in that box kind of rubs me the wrong way.
Ah, there’s the problem — you connected it to the internet. I’ve had decent experiences with Samsung TVs, but I just plug them into an apple tv and let the box do the work. I’ve had to see their UI on a couple occasions though and yeah it’s trash.
Every consumer TV is subsidized by the advertisements they (plan to) put on it and your data they'll sell. I bought a mid-range Samsung TV last year, used it for TV, movies, gaming, and I love it. But I haven't connected it to the internet, I use a separate device I can easily discard if need be. Not blaming you because it's counter-intuitive, but you can't update consumer TVs. They know it will live in your... living... room for several years and want to make money off displaying ads. Do you really think they'll update it to be less intrusive and show fewer ads so they make less money!?? Obviously, I just guessed right; I'm not a genius, nor do I have precognition. I've even heard stories about TVs connecting themselves to open networks, but I'm not sure sure I believe them...
If you haven't already done this: wipe all the apps and run the cache-cleaning or whatever it is in the system menu. That should get it back down to where the memory and storage aren't at 100% and fixes most of the problems. I've kept my 2017 Samsung usable that way. Also, if you have a pi-hole you can set it to use that as the DNS and block the advertising domains, retaining most of the smart functionality without all the crap.
Why oh why is your Samsung TV still connected to the WiFi? I kicked mine off WiFi within three months of getting the device and I’ve used it for four years now and it works like a charm!
Switch. My Nintendo acc got hacked which turned the thing into a brick basically, but Nintendo didn’t give a flying fuck
Friendly reminder that you should purchase Nintendo products secondhand if you absolutely cannot emulate and pay to get that bad boy modded cause fuck Nintendo
Fuck Nintendo.
iPads. The first one was a hand-me-down only a few years old, but no longer getting iOS updates, so no apps would run anymore. Safari would crash on most web sites. Gmail worked, but holy hell was the keyboard beyond terrible. I used it to read textbooks in PDF. Couldn't revive it with an alternate OS. The next one was a gift; I thought I'd use it for NOAA navigation charts on my boat. Nope, the PDF reader crashed out on ~1MB files. (I had to use my budget Android phone instead.) Now it's no longer supported, and not even useful as a Home Assistant dashboard, because of the old OS. It's a (fully-functional) piece of e-waste now.
Locked hardware? Just say no!
I bought an after-market touchscreen entertainment/navigation unit for my 2008 car from some online place selling cheap Chinese gear.
It was so slow it was nigh on useless. I'd be halfway home before the maps would finally start, and Spotify would just crash. I pulled it out after a few weeks and went back to the stock unit.
Hey I did the same! Thought hey I know tech, I know car audio, this will be great. It wasn't. Some bottom of the barrel android tablet that barely run a music player let alone navigation. Ended up putting back the stock and getting a 15 dollar phone mount instead. Worked way better.
That BlackBerry tablet. It honestly wasn’t a bad device on some levels. It had features that weren’t as easy on other devices for some time. Like the fact it automatically got internet from my phone seamlessly.
But support for apps was garbage and the hardware the dumb. If you let the battery fully discharge you had to spend like 15 minutes plugging and unplugging the power to force it to trickle charge to get enough battery for it to start the system that ran the battery management.
I was a tech-manager at Staples when those launched and it was an absolute shit-storm right from the start with returns and complaints.
The only thing crazier from that time was an HP WebOS tablet (I can't remember the name) that launched with pretty big fanfare with HP trying to take a marketing page out of Apples playbook, only to have it fail so completely that they announced a week later that support was being dropped and any remaining stock was offered to anyone who wanted at 99 bucks.
Wild days indeed.
I got a cheap dash cam off Temu a few years ago. I’m sure I don’t have to explain beyond that.
Yes. I’m an idiot. I know. I’ve always known.
So just out of curiosity, did the dash cam not work for dash cam purposes?
As in, did you end up getting into an accident and have no usable footage?
Or was it just a piece of shit that didn't work?
I bought a fucking Xioami Poco F4 GT near the launch date because I wanted a gaming phone and back in the time I was naive to think mobile games were a thing. It came with a top of the line chipset from the time I bought it (Snapdragon 8 Gen 1), and this shit overheats as fuck and eats your battery even on average use.
I was able to unlock the bootloader around 2023 and so far used only LineageOS, but this year I had to relock the bootloader for a specific usage, and guess what Xiaomi is making nearly impossible to unlock the bootloader again, I didn't know about that and now I'm stuck on Xiaomi stock ROM with 24/7 spyware (I know because I can see the requests log with an app, the fucking package installer app is reaching the facebook domain every few hours).
Such regret OMG. Suck unfortunate series of events. I'm not even using my phone, just basic stuff.
Good thing: I just bought a second hand Redmi Note 10 Pro in a pretty reasonable state and cheap, there are dozens of ROMs to this phone and easy to unlock the bootloader (actually I already started the process just need to wait more 160h). Not just that but the phone supports jack connector and micro SD. A truly piece of technology.
Learned a lesson don't buy any phone launched after 2022. Unless it's Linux phone or pro-consumer brands like Murena and Fairphone.
What happened about the bootloader? Afaik there's "only" a 7 days waiting time but that is to be done only once, if the serial number is tied to the Xiaomi account that makes the request, the next bootloader unlock has no waiting time.
And devices that run a ROM for the Chinese market only accept a bootloader unlock request from a Chinese IP address
What app are you using to log the requests?
RethinkDNS
I got an ouya.
The controllers keys stuck.
You had to give them your credit card in order to get an account.
The games were ok if you could get over the 1/2 second of lag between button press and game.
One of my gaming buddies is in Thailand, but plays on the American server with us. His ping is regularly 2000-3000ms. When he hits a button, he doesn't actually "do the thing" for 2-3 seconds. But dude is a fucking genius, and he's mastered the timing. He regularly outperforms folks with a 28ms ping (It's me, I'm "folks").
I supported them on kickstarter unfortunately
Barnes and Noble Nook HD+
I was all in on a 1080p tablet with micro sd card in 2012. And then it just shut off and never turned on again a few months out of warranty.
Then there was a Lenovo yoga tablet in 2014 with windows 8. The Intel atom processor was such a dog it just ended up being a solitaire screen and about nothing else.
Recently bought another cheap tablet for a different specific use case. We'll see if this one is a POS.
