My tech is so bad...

[dirkjently]

At the moment I've been going through a love-hate relationship with my computers and internet, partly because I really should upgrade, but I've been putting up with things as I can't quite decide what i want and partly because I'm too lazy to troubleshoot and fix the issues properly and partly I'm too stubborn to admit that my computer would be better off in a junkyard.

 

Now it has me curious. What sort of terrible technology are other people still willingly using on a daily basis? (Cheap and nasty or things designed as low spec don't count)

 

My Surface Pro was fantastic... until the battery died, now it instant powers off when ever the power cable is bumped.

So I use my Core i7... (920), for a 10 year old cpu, it aint bad... except one of the ram sticks is dodgy and the whole computer freezes up if I put too much load on the memory. 

Sometimes I don't notice, websites can look like they are frozen as they load, between the wireless network randomly disconnecting and "quality" australian dsl internet, i'm lucky to get 9 Mbps on a good day.

[aless83]

I still have a i5-3570, 8gb ram and a 10 year old 1080p benq TN monitor... 

[Pasi123]

21 minutes ago, dirkjently said:

So I use my Core i7... (920), for a 10 year old cpu, it aint bad... except one of the ram sticks is dodgy and the whole computer freezes up if I put too much load on the memory. 

Why don't you remove the RAM stick? DDR3 sticks are pretty cheap and easy to find so you probably could replace the stick with a working one for really cheap.

 

The i7-920 is still a pretty good CPU and there is really good cheap 6c/12t Xeons for the X58 platform.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

28 minutes ago, dirkjently said:

So I use my Core i7... (920), for a 10 year old cpu, it aint bad...

this is the expect life for a i7 to service- 10yrs!

[dirkjently]

4 minutes ago, Pasi123 said:

Why don't you remove the RAM stick? DDR3 sticks are pretty cheap and easy to find so you probably could replace the stick with a working one for really cheap.

 

The i7-920 is still a pretty good CPU and there is really good cheap 6c/12t Xeons for the X58 platform.

Oh I could, it would take a bit of time to pull apart the computer and go through all of the sticks to work out which one is bad, and there are other things i could do to improve my computer. However, I want to start over with a fresh build in a month or so anyway and that that wasn't really the point of this topic. 

 

Surely i'm not the only one that puts up with a bad system just because.

[Pasi123]

I still use a GTX 960 in my main PC. I've been thinking about upgrading it for a long time

[BigRom]

50 minutes ago, dirkjently said:

What sort of terrible technology are other people still willingly using on a daily basis?

I have a 2014 model year car that doesn't even have ABS/EBD (not that I need it, but its nice to have I guess?), but the air-conditioning is fantastic and it gets me where I need to go. Curiously it does have airbags though......

 

Also rocking a OnePlus 3 that I'm pretty certain the battery is degraded af, drains like a bitch but I'm too cheap to change the phone. Nor can I be bothered to change the battery yet.

 

[slippers_]

5 hours ago, Pasi123 said:

I still use a GTX 960 in my main PC. I've been thinking about upgrading it for a long time

960? cute. Im still using a 750Ti - it is definitely on the suffering side of things.

[Giganthrax]

I put up with my horribly bad X553MA ASUS notebook. Replacing its terrible mechanical hard drive with a SSD has helped it greatly, but it's still an objectively inferior laptop. 

 

I could probably afford a much better laptop (at least a Ryzen 2200g laptop, for example), but I don't use laptops often enough anymore to justify the purchase. So the crappy X553MA still gets used, and will keep getting used until it dies or I smash it with an axe. 

[Suppersupport]

hp pavilion g6

desktop with a core 2 duo e8500

desktop with a i5 2500

not as bad as some peoples but still not very good

[flibberdipper]

6 hours ago, BigRom said:

I have a 2014 model year car that doesn't even have ABS/EBD (not that I need it, but its nice to have I guess?), but the air-conditioning is fantastic and it gets me where I need to go. Curiously it does have airbags though......

Airbags are required by law (at least in first-world countries) as far as i know.

 

Also, 210K mile '04 gang

[FuzzyLogic]

20 minutes ago, Mr. horse said:

I think that started in 1990 here in the US.

I know the 1990 escort GT did not have air bags. but after that they all did.

My 92 Toyota Paseo doesn't have any airbags, and according to the internet, airbags were only required on cars after 1998. 1989 was when passive restraints were required, such as a seatbelt.

[NineEyeRon]

I would probably still be gaming on my i7 920 if I hadn’t had an AIO leak all over the MoBo. It took half the system with it...

 

It was more than good enough for my gaming needs, even in 2019. Only had my new rig since October last year.

 

Bit it of TLC and it could still run 1080p games from 2017 and earlier happily.

[Curious Pineapple]

Daily drive a 1999 Reliant Robin, daily PC is a HP z800 that just spent a week out of action due to a failed PSU capacitor, Core2Duo Advent laptop and still use an Iconia W500 tablet.

 

Got a fair amount of other old gear too

[TempestCatto]

18 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

Airbags are required by law (at least in first-world countries) as far as i know.

 

Also, 210K mile '04 gang

18 hours ago, Mr. horse said:

I think that started in 1990 here in the US.

I know the 1990 escort GT did not have air bags. but after that they all did.

18 hours ago, thegreengamers said:

My 92 Toyota Paseo doesn't have any airbags, and according to the internet, airbags were only required on cars after 1998. 1989 was when passive restraints were required, such as a seatbelt.

 

My '96 GMC Pickup doesn't have air bags. Then again, AM/FM stereo and A/C were optional extras (and I'm very glad the township decided to buy them too!). It also has ABS and auto-locking diffs.

[BigRom]

2 hours ago, Curious Pineapple said:

Daily drive a 1999 Reliant Robin

Mr Bean somewhere punching the air right now

[flibberdipper]

4 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

 

My '96 GMC Pickup doesn't have air bags. Then again, AM/FM stereo and A/C were optional extras (and I'm very glad the township decided to buy them too!). It also has ABS and auto-locking diffs.

I want to say they became a requirement sometime in 98 so that'd make sense.

[TempestCatto]

10 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

I want to say they became a requirement sometime in 98 so that'd make sense.

My '97 Explorer Limited has airbags though.

[flibberdipper]

10 minutes ago, TempestCatto said:

My '97 Explorer Limited has airbags though.

Almost like they were optional for auto makers before they were a requirement, huh?

[dDave64]

Worst tech I use on a daily basis?

 

Definitely wireless hot spot. I’m supposed to get 0.5mbps after I use 20gb of data at 10mbps. Because T-Mobile sucks I only get maximum of 0.02mbps at any time if it works at all. It’s absurdly and unusable slow. On my phone I can get upwards of 10-12mbps at my house but not when I use the hot spot. If I go to the north side of town I can get over 90mbps download on my phone.

 

I don’t have internet service so I have to rely on that god forsaken hot spot

 

I’ve tried all kinds of troubleshooting and it hasn’t yielded good results.

 

up until a few days ago it was my car radio which had a nearly dead tape deck in it. I’ve now replaced that because it died and would only play static with any 3.5mm device connected. The thing was so janky though, it would pick up very loud radio interference constantly and broadcast it through my speakers. (Due to unshielded cable on cassette adapter.)

[TempestCatto]

40 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Almost like they were optional for auto makers before they were a requirement, huh?

I guess so, huh?

[dizmo]

The only remotely old tech I have is a 6th gen iPod Nano, which does it's job admirably well. Though I do have a HiBy R3 now, and a Shanling m0 on the way to replace it.

My laptop is pretty old; Samsung Series 9 with a 4th gen processor. It works fine, but it too is being replaced by something with a numberpad.