As far as phones go, the Razor Phone 2. It hurts to hold for too long.
Any smart TV. Please just let me have a TV without having to navigate spyware or the sluggish UIs.
Any smart TV can do that if you don’t connect it to the internet.
If it works at all without internet.
I truly don’t understand how to use an apple computer. It’s terrible to use.
How do you screw up the most basic fundamental things like window management and a basic file explorer, I’ll honestly never understand.
Designed by a stupid hippy that died to a somewhat survivable cancer because he was a fuckin moron.
He had some good ideas for sure, but the man himself was just manipulative twat. His products are insufferable to use. Even as an apple certified repair technician for years I despise everything about apple and it’s many products.
Feels so slow too, no matter what you’re doing, finder windows slow, opening closing apps, just moving the mouse around takes forever.
Uses the same commands as Linux
Maybe CMD, but not GUI and actually using it.
I learned how to use it as a random attempt to make a hackintosh.
I succeeded in getting the hackintosh to boot and run, played with it for a few weeks and then got bored with it and now my computers all use Linux or Windows if I have to.
I now have an actual Apple computer from 2015 that I use just for Logic when I’m recording audio (I got a great deal on the computer and a Thunderbolt 2 audio interface), and I greatly prefer kubuntu over apple.
Probably the iPad
Got it for free from a relative who had bought a newer model (he always has the latest iShit)
Played around with it for a week
Sure. It’s smooth. That screen was drop dead gorgeous.
… And yet everything I tried to do on the thing felt like I was fighting against it. Everything was restrained and needlessly clunky. It made me think “golly gee, windows cooperates more”
When I hear stories like these I’m always curious: what were you trying to do?
For me it was accessing media on my file server. I ended up having to buy an app and it still sucked. Someone told me apple products let you do that now though so maybe it’s not an issue anymore.
Man it wasn’t even anything crazy. It’s just.
All my android devices have a syncthing service that… Syncs. Things. Between them and my PC/Homeserver.
Now, the only app for Syncthing I could find on the Apple App store was a paid app, but I was actually fine with that: It seems Apple stuff is made for rich people, and I had accepted that everything would be paid for.
Except.
When you use Syncthing on Android it just. Drops things into folders. Like a normal program on a normal computer. And other applications can just access that.
But nope, not here. Everything is in its own cage, and the user has exactly ZERO control over this (unlike, say, the likes of Flatpak on Linux, where it’s just a matter of granting permission manually)
My comic book folder? I had to go through a cumbersome process to manually import all the cbr files into the comic reader app. Same for my video files.
Plus like. Just the lack of options in general. It felt like I was in an airport – Stuck in an, admittedly nice, environment and only having access to whatever overpriced products existed inside that environment.
Your airport analogy is hitting on the nose. I’m going to
stealborrow that.When using an iPad (or an iPhone) the one thing to keep in mind is it’s NOT a computer. You cannot treat it like a PC, or expect it to behave like one. You cannot apply your decades of experience with PC operating systems, you need to forget what you know.
The iPad is an appliance. It is designed for consuming apps from the App Store. That’s all.
Android has been trying to do the same for years, but the benefit with Android is it’s Linux based, so we can always install a terminal emulator, and a file manager, and other admin tools that allow us to use the familiar PC patterns we’ve become accustomed to.
You can jailbreak it and own it also
I understand.
I even respect the general idea.
… But I will literally never willingly pay for an appliance-like piece of technology. I even sold off the one I got for free.
Android at least lets me sideload stuff and/or install it from F-Droid.
I agree. I’ve never bought an iPhone or iPad myself, but I’ve had old ones given to me.
Not really relevant for an iPad, but it’s a good example:
Have you ever tried putting a custom ringtone on an iPhone?
In Android you just put an audio file in the ringtones folder, either by plugging it into a pc or with an on-device file manager.For an iPhone you need to either buy the ringtone from the store or put it on the device through iTunes (🤮). Also it can’t be just any format. It needs to be a specific profile of AAC (if I remember correctly), then rename the file to have a specific extension. There is no way you could do all that without reading a guide.
i can’t think of a use for these other than jerking off to porn in bed at 7am to wake yourself up. cum
I don’t even think it’s good for gooning – It’s much heavier than a phone, so you can’t hold it in one hand (unless you have unnaturally strong and dextrous fingers?)
Like sure, that screen is big and pretty, but without something to hold the device up it’s not a comfy experience.
My label printer. Horrible UI. How do I switch to capital letters? How to numbers? It can print two small lines instead of one, but how? It also has bold, italics, underline, but getting there is a game of trial and error.
And the display is not WYSIWYG, but just five or eight characters. You never know what you will get when hit the print button. And you cannot save labels you successfully designed - it just remembers the one in the system when you switched it off.
Windows 11 in a corporate environment , Jesus wept, what a fucking disaster of a system. It just gets in your way.
They’re slowly upgrading our work machines and I’m not looking forward to finally being forced to use it.
Just did mine last week, I hate it so much
Any phone larger than my 2016 iphone SE. I have a fairphone and it’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a phone but it’s SO BIG. It has a one handed mode, but that turns itself off whenever you tap the back button, which is so annoying it’s making me aggressive. I used to lie in bed, chilling, looking at memes with one hand while the other arm was cosily under the blanket. That’s a thing of the past. I also can’t rest the hand I have chronic pain in because I always need to use both hands to not keep dropping my phone and reach all of the screen.
I’m the opposite as my hands are big af
It’d be nice to have variety to choose from so you can suit your needs. But I guess fulfilling everyone’s needs isn’t profitable.
I dread when people ask me to help them with their phone because they’re usually tiny as hell 🤣
for your bedtime browsing, you might be able to solve your problem with some form of gooseneck phone mount.
Thanks for the tip, I hadn’t heard of that! Would only solve part of the problem though, since I still won’t be able to reach even half of the screen.
Macbook pro
The aluminum chassis is stupid and has sharp edges so if you use the laptop on the go it’s likely to cut your wrists. The screen is so glary you can’t use the thing outside at all. The keyboard is really bad and I had one of those with a touchbar which is the dumbest laptop idea ever that would constantly get activated by slight brush or water droplet. And macos is such a terrible operating system full of legacy restrictions and commands you can’t customize or animations you can’t remove.
I had to use one for a contract I had with an US firm for security auditing and it dropped my productivity in half tho it was fun to explore the apple world on someone else’s dime knowing it’s temporary but I’m not going back ever.
Not THE most cumbersome, but any time I’m at a friend’s place or visiting my little brother and we play on their Nintendo Switch consoles, I’m so surprised by how stupidly slow and shitty the OS is. Especially the store is so fucking bad.
It’s pretty bad, though I do like the console and game library otherwise (and in spite of Nintendos shenanigans). Trying to play two player minecraft with my kid is a sure-fire way to get it to freeze completely.
I buy codes from Amazon if I’m buying digitally lol
Windows on my family members’ devices.
I’ve been in Linux land for so long now that I’ve forgotten windows’ idiosyncrasies… rather they’ve changed since XP.
Everything is hidden/obscured/cryptic. Just recently I needed to my account on my child’s laptop, no way on the login screen to do that. Just their account visible. Turns out that is a feature and requires three different registry settings to disable according to MS’s appalling community support.
I’m left handed. What’s the character limit around here, 'cause I have much to add.
Did you love those college desks? Lmao when I was in college ironically they only had left handed ones. If only we had full desks that were for whichever.
Maybe I’m lucky, but at the community college I attend I have never had to sit at a desk. Only tables. As a left handed person, I am pretty happy about that, even though I have not had to write much because computers/laptops.
Off the top of my head a Fuji FinePix S5700 I had borrowed from a friend for some time (that was more than 10 years ago). That thing was doing continuous focus while on and idle, and it would lock focus when you half-press the shutter button - so completely backwards to what you’d normally expect from a camera.
Soloing an Alaskan Chainsaw Mill. Bro didn’t show up one day and I had logs to cut.
I got some video goggles about 10 years ago. The picture on the box? A guy wearing cool shades. Me? It felt like 10 pounds strapped to my face in such a way I had to look straight up to sort of see a blurry, blocky video through a screen door. This had to be plugged into a DVD player or a VHS player (yes, really) with three separate cords, but still also ate four AAs more than once an hour, and had built in earbuds in exactly the wrong size. Also, there was a separate cord to a remote control that managed to get tangled up very easily despite being too short to fit in a pocket while the goggles were on your head, so I just kinda looped it over my shoulders. Claimed to have a 3D mode. Never found it. 300$ well spent.
This had to be plugged into a DVD player or a VHS player (yes, really) with three separate cords
Sounds like RCA inputs? Not sure what’s so cumbersome about that. It was an improvement over the TV antenna method.
Everything else though, yeah, fuck that thing.
The Red One, Red’s first camera/the first affordable (relatively speaking) 4K cinema camera. Talk about a heavy, temperamental machine
It didn’t stop with the camera either. In the early days, wrangling the files and setting up a functional workflow was a nightmare as well.
4K raw video before hardware acceleration was no joke!
The storage 😵💫
