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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

An early Samsung phone my spouse bullied me into taking over from him. I don't know how anyone likes those. I went to Google phones and they're the only good thing about Google.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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 one, so the wireless communication was useless. The games all sucked anyway. Gaming on rubber buttons was always a terrible idea

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

In ear earbuds. I blimmin' hate them but my Audio Technica over ears are too bulky for the gym.

Bit off topic, though if anyone could recommend cheap but decent wireless headphones, for the gym, that are not in ear I would appreciate it a lot (I'm in the UK).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Handheld sewing machine. Not sure if all are like this or just the cheapo one i bought, it can't sew anything thick else it will get stuck often and can't make the loop. End up shelving it and never use it since then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The WD TV Media Player was pure garbage.

Also hated the Macbook Pro with the Butterfly Keyboard.

And probably a lot of smaller tech that I forgot about.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Microsoft surfacebook (or whatever the fuck that thing was called) that died after like 13 months. Motherboard went to shit and MS offered me a $100 discount on a new one. Yeah fuck that, I bought a MacBook Pro.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Manual lawnmower.

The surface RT and windows ME e-machine computer were both a close second.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Airpods 3, i got these as a gift. basically, you put them in, and they hurt like hell, they are meant to inflict damage BY DESIGN.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

My Seat Leon car. VW really shat the bed with their latest gen cars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

My son picked up a refurbished Ipad mini that we were going to use as a screen for our quadcopters. Well, you can't load any software on it so it's just a worthless piece of shit. Way to go apple.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Not sure if it is was the worst but I had a Ngage Q. You know the taco shaped gaming phone? Only that it was the less taco shaped version. And it was in 2009, several years after those things failed. It was a decent phone actually and it had tony hawk pro skater, very playable.

But yeah ugly as fuck and hard to hold as a phone plus lack of colours on the screen unless it was a game.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My last ever Nokia phone, a half way house between old Nokias and smartphones circa 2008.

No touch screen, but could play music, videos, had a calendar etc.

Absolute piece of garbage. Got super hot at times doing who-knows what, and had a software bug where the audio would completely stop working until you rebooted it… which meant that multiple times my morning alarm went off completely silently and I was late for work.

Bought an iPhone 3GS as soon as my 1 year contract was up, Nokia were never relevant again after that era.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The joycons that came with the Nintendo Switch, both failed within 3 months of owning it, and might as well include the entire console cause all the cheap plastic bits are falling apart.

I’d replace it with a Steam Deck, but the Switch’s biggest strength is being such a piece of junk I wouldn’t care if it gets stolen or destroyed

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Anything that accesses Expedia.com

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

A Dell Inspiron laptop.

It just kept dying. Typing a Word document one moment, black screen the next. I bought this thing in August because I was going back to school and I needed a new laptop. By December I finally convinced them to replace the machine outright. I got a different model that lacked a lot of the features I had ordered.

I'm no longer a Dell customer.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Rechargeable beard trimmer. They last six months , then the charge is less than 5 minutes.

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