What tech do you find.... Annoying?

[Beerzerker]

Thought about this last night when I ran into (Once again) a particular piece of tech that's just annoying.
I'm talking about the gas pumps that while pumping, also want to throw ads and just assorted crap at you while filling up or topping off. I don't mind it too much on TV and other places because well... It's expected.

I understand advertising is part of business.....
But at the pump itself?

Ads and vids from Cheddar, KFC, Wendy's and other's blasting (loudly) from the pump that are a real distraction and franky gets on my nerves - Makes me NOT want to patronize the places they feature instead of generating interest in them.

That's one piece of annoying tech I don't like at all. 
What tech is annoying to you?

[Andreas Lilja]

Faxes still being a thing in 2021.

 

4-5 unskippable logos when you start a game. e.g. nVIDIA, Intel, Unreal, etc.

[AMD A10-9600P]

America much? I really do love the strict advertising regulations in my country. I can't say I've ever been hit by a TV blasting ads whilst filling up the car, all we have are a few promo stickers for the petrol station or supermarket you're at, but that's it. One of the main things that's always struck me the most when in the US are the ads. Everywhere. Sometimes when watching US TV programmes here back home, you can clearly tell where they planned to slot in extra adverts.

 

I can bring another car related tech into the discussion though. Sometimes whilst driving, the touch display in the centre of our VW Polo will glitch out and forget there's any other devices connected to it. It forgets any diagnostic features, the radio antenna, any Bluetooth devices; all gone until you take out the ignition, lock the car and come back the next day to give it another chance. Thankfully the digital speedo isn't connected to that display and it doesn't actually affect the drive.

[Beerzerker]

I mean it's one thing to advertise but these things have the volume cranked to the point it's just LOUD - Like the damn thing is screaming at you.
I was just going into the store and I could hear the pump at the outer row of the station clearly, just imagine how loud that is while standing there.

[Fasauceome]

7 minutes ago, Beerzerker said:

Ads and vids from Cheddar, KFC, Wendy's and other's blasting (loudly) from the pump that are a real distraction and franky gets on my nerves - Makes me NOT want to patronize the places they feature instead of generating interest in them.

You may well be in the minority. All kinds of market research points to "more eyes on + more time = more sales" so I guess some people like being annoyed.

[minibois]

Printers and scanners.. Just ugh! While pushing in as many 'cool tech!' into these things, they forgot the most important part; just pressing print/scan and getting a sheet of printed A4 paper/a scanned image.

 

Another annoying thing is TV's and setup boxes for TV's. Especially Smart TV's, which all seem to be slow as molasses. 

[Beerzerker]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

You may well be in the minority. All kinds of market research points to "more eyes on + more time = more sales" so I guess some people like being annoyed.

I'm not aware of anyone that "Likes" these things and I can tell by looking at the ones pumping they get annoyed too.

[AMD A10-9600P]

3 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Modern phones. WTF do phone manufacturers think when making phones that the user is not allowed to control as he wishes.

You are a grumpy old man. You do have a point though. I hate knowing that my phone is listening in to everything I say, only to throw "relevant" ads at me when I next open a Google app

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Beerzerker said:

I'm not aware of anyone that "Likes" these things and I can tell by looking at the ones pumping they get annoyed too.

It is strange that it correlates to higher sales though.

 

On the flip side, 80% of a company's revenue comes from 20% of their clients (approximately) so perhaps it just invigorates the fans of the product more than it annoys other consumers

[Beerzerker]

My wife's tablet while we've been talking, more than once has suddenly thrown an ad about something we had mentioned and I mean right on the spot with it too.

[AMD A10-9600P]

3 minutes ago, Beerzerker said:

My wife's tablet while we've been talking, more than once has suddenly thrown an ad about something we had mentioned and I mean right on the spot with it too.

Some of these tactics should be illegal

[8tg]

Windows 10 and it’s lack of user control. It holds your hand and smacks you when you try to do anything fun.

For a younger generation who’s almost exclusively used windows 10 this is just the norm for them, but anyone who used XP or 2000, Windows 9x, etc knows that your operating system used to respect you and let you do what you want.

 

Disabling windows update in windows 7 is as easy as ticking a single box, you can disable the service easily too if you want.

Disabling windows update in 10 requires the group policy editor because the regular tools available for you don’t allow you to disable it so much as temporarily pause it, and you only get the group policy editor with professional or ltsc. If you try to disable it normally as you would think you would, it just turns itself back on.

Same thing with windows defender or the anti malware services, firewall, etc. Windows 7 if you say turn off, it turns off. And if you say stop telling me it’s off on the system tray, it stops telling you it’s off.

With windows 10 if it’s off, it’ll turn back on on its own at some point, but until then it gives you pop ups off the system tray and if you click them they vanish, but that also turns the service back on when clicked.

 

It’s deceptive and disrespectful of the user. It’s why I refuse to use it and why many others I know refuse to use it. A lot of people who absolutely must end up cutting down LTSC heavily just to get a system that respects what they want it to do.

[Murasaki]

Modern phones and their increasing sizes. Our hands aren't getting bigger and our eyes arent getting worse. MAKE SMALLER PHONES PLEASE.

[Moonzy]

Printers: never works when you need it to

 

Mobile phones: planned obsolescence, and it's more buggy than windows and idk how that's possible

 

Air conditioning: 24c = freeze to death, 25c = heat wave

 

Latest GPU that only have one HDMI port: really? The most commonly used port?

 

AMD CPU socket: it's shit when your CPU isn't secured in the socket enough that it follows the cooler up, get your shit together

 

Radeon software: you just had to copy Nvidia, yet you failed so hard

 

Pcie 6+2: they always want to be apart so plugging them in is hard

 

30-series Nvidia GPU length: why tf are you so long?

[8tg]

1 minute ago, Murasaki said:

Modern phones and their increasing sizes. Our hands aren't getting bigger and our eyes arent getting worse. MAKE SMALLER PHONES PLEASE.

[ProjectBox153]

Printers. I actually have two of them - 1 for scanning and one for printing. They each fail at the opposite task, so I've got to have both. 

[Murasaki]

1 minute ago, 8tg said:

an iPhone

ADDITION: ALSO THAT IS NOT AN IPHONE!

[da na]

Things I hate:

-Everything made by Apple after 2010

-Prebuilts/OEM builders! There's nothing really wrong with the hardware, if they were half the price they would be worth it. Minimum configurations are waaay too overpriced... 

-Proprietary hardware. Trust me, I use a HP workstation and everything is proprietary and not replaceable, even the fans!

[AMD A10-9600P]

3 minutes ago, SGT-AMD said:

I have never seen ads on my S7edge. Youtube, yes

I refuse to believe you've never seen an ad on your phone, you must be living in some sort of utopia. My phone itself doesn't throw ads at me, Apple would never allow that, but the YouTube app definitely does.

[Zusafek]

32 minutes ago, AMD A10-9600P said:

I refuse to believe you've never seen an ad on your phone, you must be living in some sort of utopia. My phone itself doesn't throw ads at me, Apple would never allow that, but the YouTube app definitely does.

Never seen an ad thrown at my phone. Not even on youtube.  I don't get any ads on youtube at all.

 

But as for tech I find annoying, it is cell phones and tablets.  I'm a truck driver. Do you know how many people I see a day watching videos while driving 70 mph down the highway?  I've lost count. 

[Jtalk4456]

6 hours ago, Zusafek said:

But as for tech I find annoying, it is cell phones and tablets.  I'm a truck driver. Do you know how many people I see a day watching videos while driving 70 mph down the highway?  I've lost count. 

that's not annoyance with the tech but with bad drivers...

 

voicemail
1. Why can spam calls still leave me voicemails??
2. I can have 256 gb of file storage in a device that fits in my hand, but you're telling me I can't get more than 12-15 messages before my voicemail is full?! You do realize I get like 10-15 spam voicemails a day, right??

Edited March 21, 2021 by SansVarnic
Merged Comments

[Beerzerker]

16 minutes ago, SGT-AMD said:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/stop-google-tracking-device-163435205.html

That is one way to have it stop tracking you

 

I'll pass it along and thanks!

[WhitetailAni]

1. Bluetooth. Never works right the first time, and requires a lot of button-mashing on Windows.

2. HP printers that can connect to the Internet. They require you to use HP Smart to do basically everything.

[Arika]

IOT: why does everything need to be connected to the internet now. What purpose does a fridge have to be connected to the internet when I have a phone in my pocket

 

Printers: when buying a new printer is cheaper than buying new ink to print off that 1 or 2 pages you need once every few years, you know something has gone wrong. 

 

Game launchers: (steam, origin, egs etc) once I've downloaded a game, let me just run it without having to open up its corresponding launcher. The only time it should be required is for online games where the account is created by your launcher account. For single player offline games, there is no reason for it. 

 

Apps: why does everything need its own App? I want to go to a website and have full access to the content without a stupid popup saying "download our app" and having certain things just stop working if you dont

[gloop]

4 minutes ago, Arika S said:

Game launchers: (steam, origin, egs etc) once I've downloaded a game, let me just run it without having to open up its corresponding launcher. The only time it should be required is for online games where the account is created by your launcher account. For single player offline games, there is no reason for it. 

 

What annoys me even more about this is when you buy a game on Steam, then have to connect Uplay/Origin, then boot the game from Steam only for it to open Uplay/Origin to boot off of. Ridiculous that it got to this.