a feeling I get a lot these days is "I would pay extra money not to have this feature in my device" maybe I am old now but I don't think it's just me
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Updated my phone today and Samsung and Google installed both their AI apps without asking. Immediately deleted/disable but it annoyed me a lot.
may 23, 2025, 11:15 pm • 2 0 • view
God we will need to replace both our washer/dryer combo and our fridge at some point in the next few years and I'm already dreading how much more money I'm going to need to pay to get one that doesn't want to talk to my wifi
may 23, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I have seriously considered getting one of those throwback flip phones they can only text and call.
may 23, 2025, 10:56 pm • 4 0 • view
I would pay extra for Turbo Tax to stop upselling unwanted services repeatedly when I do my taxes. Easily worth five dollars more, but will that ever be an option?
may 23, 2025, 11:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Direct File (different from Free File) was a nice simple interface. Worked great. DOGE killed it.
may 24, 2025, 12:02 am • 1 0 • view
I would pay good money to get them to stop moving things around. When I'm used to a button being in one place, I would like it to stay in that place. I don't want to have to retrain muscle memory just because someone needed to push an "update".
may 23, 2025, 11:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Moving UI around, changing how they actually work, altering the breadcrumb hierarchy to find different options/settings, doing a facelift for every icon and widget so unrecognizable it would leave John Travolta and Nic Cage scratching their heads…
may 24, 2025, 1:19 am • 1 0 • view
fr i do not need face id, tap to pay, or any of that junk
may 23, 2025, 11:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I am looking at typewriters, I am looking at film cameras, I am looking at fucking Garmin.
may 23, 2025, 11:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Same on Garmin.
may 23, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
The main reason for that would be that the features are meant for THEM, not you...
may 23, 2025, 10:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Nope
may 23, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Recently started researching mobile phone hardware that runs Linux. I'm thinking that move might be my sweet spot between fuckitall-flip-phone and simmering resentment.
may 23, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I used to buy newer versions of my phone or whatever tech when the old one stopped working/broke. Now I'm thinking about radically scaling back my use of tech and/or changing to less enshittified brands.
may 24, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
it's really not, though tbh i'm probably older than you are so maybe i'm not the best comparison
may 23, 2025, 11:05 pm • 2 0 • view
There was a point in the not so distant past when technology didn't exist to dominate every waking moment of our lives I yearn for a return to the days of single purpose devices
may 23, 2025, 11:23 pm • 2 0 • view
This is the case for anything where AI is being forced on me, and I feel like it's always being forced on me. If it didn't suck ass, they probably wouldn't need to force it on me.
may 23, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sure I'm not the only one noticing inconsistent functioning and random dysfunction of basic features on software I've used for over a decade that used to work flawlessly. What changed? They bolted on unwanted AI "features" no one asked for. Yes I'm looking at you Adobe and Microsoft.
may 23, 2025, 11:01 pm • 2 0 • view
I still think it's wild that some people can afford to have their kids not drowned in ads and some can't
may 23, 2025, 11:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Having sold my car and esentially given up driving, it's moot, but there's no way in hell I would buy any car with a big-ass infotainment screen right in the middle of the dashboard. And get off my lawn.
may 24, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
When I use a piece of tech, I would prefer to be the customer and not the product being sold to someone else.
may 23, 2025, 11:11 pm • 28 5 • view
I feel like it started when Steve Jobs more-or-less correctly realized that most people don't know what the want in a product, so might as well decide *some* features on their behalf. Then SV decided to take that to its logical conclusion and bombard the consumer with bloat.
may 23, 2025, 11:00 pm • 5 0 • view
It's classic "solution looking for a problem to fix" thinking that's common to this set.
may 23, 2025, 11:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Instead of doom scrolling lately I’ve been going through and deleting all the apps I don’t use or want and its actually fulfilling.
may 24, 2025, 5:44 am • 0 0 • view
Put off new phone because I want no part of iOS 18 and “apple intelligence”
may 23, 2025, 11:51 pm • 1 0 • view