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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I purchased a razor branded Smartwatch, way back when. Thing could barely connect to my phone, it's battery life was atrocious when it did, and all it did was show the time and track steps. It didn't have any built-in notifications so you had to use a separate app. This was fairly early in smart watches though, it was pretty fad-esque.

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

Smart watches are still pretty useless for most

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

iPod shuffle, sometime around 2003 or 2004. Died in three weeks. Ordered a replacement. Died in two weeks

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My wife got the air pods pro 2 I think. Can't tell one from the other. She preferred the Samsungs so she got those and gave these to me because I liked them

And I do. It's the only piece of apple tech I have.

For me they fit REALLY well. And I want people to be happy like me so I'm thinking all of the usual things you've been asked or recommended before. Because I want you to like yours like I like mine.

You know: try different tips, go watch a YouTube to confirm it's fitted right, etc. All ye things you've done or thought of doing, try it again with an open mind. And then sell them off, but yeah.

I hope, since this is probably a ways ago, that your current earbuds are working well. Phones seem to be incapable of a headphone jack, despite my startac-7800 fitting one in, so it's got to be fucking radio earbuds all the way, so you gotta find some that fit and make you happy.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Printers i swear all of them hate me. I love it, but just cant deal with printers.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brother, have I got a solution for you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Happy cake day.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

Amazon kindle. It didnt let me plug it into my computer and upload books to use it without internet access. Everything needed sending through amazon. I should have expected this but it was so locked down and filled with ads to the point it was unusable. I attempted to jailbreak it and it bricked so i threw it away and went back to using calibre on my computer. I would really like an offline open source ebook reader.

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

Get a boox, runs android.

You can even install the Kindle app. But seriously, there are bunch of good ereader apps.

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

I love that you've set that boundary there and stick with it. Admirable.

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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] 7 points 4 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (7 children)

A smart egg tray. It was in fact quite stupid. Mainly purchased it because of how absurd it was.

Main issues:

  • it was constantly wrong about how many eggs were in the tray
  • it was wrong about the eggs age.
  • it took 6AA batteries that only lasted a month at best.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The egg that stays fresh for a few hundred years is kinda lame for an SCP

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

That really sounds absurd. Both the idea itself and the fact that they somehow screwed up the execution of such a simple thing that much.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Hahahahaha omg that is horrible

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