Tech you wouldn't reccomend to anyone

[Gale]

"Funny" story that this post reminded me of, actually.

 

My sister (as well as me) had just gotten a brand new Galaxy S4 and was playing on it while waiting for a bus. Some middle schooler charges down the sidewalk and slams into her, making her drop the phone corner-first onto the pavement. The body of the phone was bent, the glass at the impact site was reduced to a fine powder, and the entire screen was broken (we had to put a plastic screen protector over it because she kept cutting herself on the fractures). She was in tears because the phone was only just over a day old and now her warranty was voided, so there was no replacing the phone unless we paid full-price for a new one.

 

We managed to get the phone repaired, even though it cost us $90 because the place had to fix the body of the phone as well as the screen. After picking up the freshly repaired phone, my dad told my sister and I that we needed to pick out a case for our phones (I was already researching cases before this happened). I picked up a nice Otterbox, and after visiting every store in the mall that carried phone cases, my sister picked out... a super thin snap-on case. She complained that proper cases were "too bulky" and refused to even try them out on her phone.

 

 

People go around with naked phones? I don't think I've ever seen that.

[D13H4RD]

People go around with naked phones? I don't think I've ever seen that.

I do with my current phone.

 

Because leather is too good to cover up.

[D13H4RD]

 

This. It's some mouse called a Dragunov or whatever. Why? It's durability is poor.

 

I use it the same way I treat my other mice, gaming or non-gaming. Initially, this held up fine, then, one year later, it started disconnecting randomly. I pulled it out and back in again and it still wouldn't properly connect. Eventually, after so much troubleshooting, I gave up, ripped the cable off in pure frustration and got a Logitech G300, which is currently 2 years old and is still working as if it's brand-new.

[TacticlTwinkie]

Cats. Cats are the worst tech things one can buy. They think your tower is a place to perch, their hair just fills your pc, and your filters get filled so fast. They chew cables just to spite you. And best of all, they never want attention when you want to give it. But when you sit at your pc to play a game or do some work, they jump on the desk and lay down on the keyboard demanding your attention.

I fucking love my cat though

<3

[Lolbroccoli]

Wearable tech, its all overpriced when you look at the funcionality that you get from it(At least for me). I would wait atleast a few more years for it to become affordable before buying.

[cluelessgenius]

Toshiba (just about everything)

 

And for some reason my mother still thinks they are an acceptable laptop brand.  Even after the fact she had one that melted the motherboard, and then the replacement melted the motherboard, ruined the hard drive, as well as the video card.

 

My ex had a toshiba laptop that was decent... for about 6 months until the endless hardware problems started.

well i dont know about that i mean i wouldnt buy a notebook from them either but i picked a toshiba tv for my parents and seeing as they dont need smart features anyway its great so far good efficiency and picture quality for a really low price

[Minzo]

anything that is 10 and over years old because they are way outdated

Not calculators!

[cluelessgenius]

Samsung 840 Evo SSDs.

STAY AWAY FROM THEM AT ALL COSTS!

everybody loves them so why the big letters also you shout out a huge warning without any reasoning ? yould you at least explain why?

[zacRupnow]

everybody loves them so why the big letters also you shout out a huge warning without any reasoning ? yould you at least explain why?

The algorithm bug, there is not any permanent fix, is renders the drive useless it is in every single drive and affects users only based on how often they write data. Samsung has released multiple fixes all of which are only ever temporary. It is in all EVO series (excluding the new 850 Evo) and some -I don't know which- of their mSATA SSDs.

Basically the drive is a time bomb and you can't know if you'll get a paperweight or when it will become one.

[cluelessgenius]

The algorithm bug, there is not any permanent fix, is renders the drive useless it is in every single drive and affects users only based on how often they write data. Samsung has released multiple fixes all of which are only ever temporary. It is in all EVO series (excluding the new 850 Evo) and some -I don't know which- of their mSATA SSDs.

Basically the drive is a time bomb and you can't know if you'll get a paperweight or when it will become one.

f*ck i got 2 of those babys . so the 850 evo is save? then at least the drive i recommended my biddy will not be a failure puhh. but still how have i missed this. was this big news?

[YT2002]

The cheap NZXT led strips

the control switch started failing after a few months

I went through 3 of these strips and on all of them the switch was crap

 

NZXT Hue was a far better quality product

Mine still work fine

[REX.exe]

Pretty much any headset with a cable that isn't made of fucking metal.

 

Seriously, every audio cable begins to have issues in just weeks of use. Bullshit...

[You_are_a_cunt]

Pretty much any headset with a cable that isn't made of fucking metal.

 

Seriously, every audio cable begins to have issues in just weeks of use. Bullshit...

 

Stop chewing on them then.

 

The last wired headset that died on me got cannibalized for.. the cable. The headband broke <_<

[79wjd]

The algorithm bug, there is not any permanent fix, is renders the drive useless it is in every single drive and affects users only based on how often they write data. Samsung has released multiple fixes all of which are only ever temporary. It is in all EVO series (excluding the new 850 Evo) and some -I don't know which- of their mSATA SSDs.

Basically the drive is a time bomb and you can't know if you'll get a paperweight or when it will become one.

f*ck i got 2 of those babys . so the 850 evo is save? then at least the drive i recommended my biddy will not be a failure puhh. but still how have i missed this. was this big news?

It doesn't fail, the read speeds for older data just drops dramatically -- which is easily fixed by a fresh install.

Also, I thought the firmware update they released a few months back solved it.

[ShadowCaptain]

It's not tech, but I wouldn't recommend this thread to anyone

 

 

 

*Looks at 300R* It's okay, little case, you've been good to me all these years.

 

Hey we have the same case , 300r master race, my friend who recently built his PC bought one too, he didnt even know we had the same case

 

 

People go around with naked phones? I don't think I've ever seen that.

 

Never owned a phone case in my life (except for the battery case I take for my iPhone when I go on holiday for emergencies)

 

 

Pretty much any headset with a cable that isn't made of fucking metal.

 

Seriously, every audio cable begins to have issues in just weeks of use. Bullshit...

 

 

WTF do you do to your headphones? never had a cable break, from free included headphones, cheapo £30 senheissers to £200 headphones

 

 

 

EDIT: I can see this thread is going to anger me so much

[SeriouslyMikey]

Pretty much any headset with a cable that isn't made of fucking metal.

 

Seriously, every audio cable begins to have issues in just weeks of use. Bullshit...

 

Metal cable. Sounds impractical. 

And take better care of your stuff then. Still rocking the same headphones for over two years, the ear pads are now the issue on mine. 

[ManWithBeard1990]

In all honesty I wouldn't recommend 3d printers of any kind unless you like tinkering with stuff. The technology has some way to go until good quality comes to consumer hardware.

AMD CPUs aren't that great as some people said, but they're priced accordingly so I think it's unfair to give them flak for that.

[79wjd]

In all honesty I wouldn't recommend 3d printers of any kind unless you like tinkering with stuff. The technology has some way to go until good quality comes to consumer hardware.

AMD CPUs aren't that great as some people said, but they're priced accordingly so I think it's unfair to give them flak for that.

Except they're not all that competitive. In terms of pricing Intel is no more expensive than the fx series (for rendering/virtualization the fx6300 is a good choice on an extremely tight budget where one couldn't afford an i5). An fx8 system ends up being about the same amount as an i5 system, while an i3 is cheaper than an fx6. And for slightly more than an fx8 you can go with an e3 Xeon (w/HT). So really the only market and has is their APUs (which If Intel ever released iris pro in full scale would get smashed), the 860k (which isn't all that much cheaper than an i3 -- and once you get hardware capable of overclocking it to i3 levels you're more expensive), and the fx6300 for an extremely tight budget rendering machine.

[ManWithBeard1990]

Except they're not all that competitive. In terms of pricing Intel is no more expensive than the fx series (for rendering/virtualization the fx6300 is a good choice on an extremely tight budget where one couldn't afford an i5). An fx8 system ends up being about the same amount as an i5 system, while an i3 is cheaper than an fx6. And for slightly more than an fx8 you can go with an e3 Xeon (w/HT). So really the only market and has is their APUs (which If Intel ever released iris pro in full scale would get smashed), the 860k (which isn't all that much cheaper than an i3 -- and once you get hardware capable of overclocking it to i3 levels you're more expensive), and the fx6300 for an extremely tight budget rendering machine.

Intel may not be more expensive, but not cheaper either. But AMD are going bust soon so it doesn't really matter.

[farhanorakzai]

The nissan leaf. *cringes* (el-cars are all a bit sucky in general, lower than adwertised range, most of them cant be charged in the norwegian winters and the advantages you ge

t in traffic are totaly BS!)

(El-cars are tech?)

Tesla?

[linuxfan66]

I don't know if a laptop is worth an absurd price premium for zero upgradeability amongst other things. I also don't know if I can call them "jacks of all trades". Most gaming notebooks I see are just subpar at doing so.

But you say it like someone has to carry around two full tower cases. They literally leave their rig at home and carry around a featherweight notebook. I can't imagine people wanna carry around a 17" 11lb all-in-one notebook either. Kind of goes two ways there.

Jack of all trades, master of none

To a lot of people simply it's jobs reasonably that's fine. And they don't mind paying the premium(I would). Also most go prebuilts even on desktops because they buy them and do what's asked and a lot of people say prebuilts are an evil that does not need to exist nor do they understand the need for it. I'd suggest looking at gaming laptops from the average joe wants to do game, YouTube, etc in one single portable machine.(look at most apple buyers if you don't believe me)

All I ask looking at things from non techie perspectives...

[PeggersXtreme]

The Asus MG279Q a lot of people will probably disagree but I bought this recently and it had severe backlight bleed it wouldn't stay on 144hz and kept resetting it's self and had loads and I mean loads of dead pixels. When I contacted Asus about it they said I would have to pay to get it replaced / repaired even though it was only 2 days old when I contacted them. Don't get me wrong the Specs on this monitor are amazing but Asus Quality Control and Customer Service has put me off buying anything from them ever again.

[D13H4RD]

Another product I wouldn't recommend.

 

Any headphones made by Beats.

 

I own a limited-edition Solo HD, and man, for $249, I wished I have gotten a much better pair of headphones. They sound okay but doesn't sound like $200+ and frankly, the build quality is poor. Really poor to the point where the rubber headband separated from the plastic frame, and that's from 5 months of not using it. It's covered with tape now and I'm just hoping for the one day it dies so I can buy a proper pair of headphones.

 

Makes me question why did I even fall for their marketing hype.

 

Another product I wouldn't recommend? The Pono Player. 

 

Why? It does not live up to its claims, and its overpriced for what it is.

[PeggersXtreme]

Another product I wouldn't recommend.

 

Any headphones made by Beats.

 

I own a limited-edition Solo HD, and man, for $249, I wished I have gotten a much better pair of headphones. They sound okay but doesn't sound like $200+ and frankly, the build quality is poor. Really poor to the point where the rubber headband separated from the plastic frame, and that's from 5 months of not using it. It's covered with tape now and I'm just hoping for the one day it dies so I can buy a proper pair of headphones.

 

Makes me question why did I even fall for their marketing hype.

 

Another product I wouldn't recommend? The Pono Player. 

 

Why? It does not live up to its claims.

Agree Beats are cheap rubbish that they think they can charge $150+ for I had the solo 2's and they broke after 7 month like litrally stopped playing music and they have way too much bass.

[D13H4RD]

Agree Beats are cheap rubbish that they think they can charge $150+ for I had the solo 2's and they broke after 7 month like litrally stopped playing music and they have way too much bass.

They cost about $14 to make.

 

That alone should explain why the build quality is garbage.