products you hate

[dannyf]

"think we're seeing a trend. Like many others I dislike: tobacco stuff, Windows, printers, and cheapo tools."

A far bigger pattern seems to be liberals dislike for other human beings.

But they love put animals very much.

[Jwalling]

Itty bitty 4 cylinder cars with fart pipes.
http://www.ridelust.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/FartPipes1.jpg

Taken to the extreme:
http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/jpg/201007/should-you-buy-an-af-4.jpg

Sheesh, what an idiot.

[GreyWoolfe]

I'm surprised to see so much hate for printers. Never had much trouble with them myself. I see other people having trouble, but it is usually down to lack of understanding of how to use them.

I always found the idea of printing, and the machines used for printing to be quite fascinating .

I do rather dislike touch screens.

I also find the disdain surprising.  I spent 5 years being a Lexmark certified tech for mono lasers and repaired a ton of them.  I have a Brother laser and an Epson inkjet multi function device and they work without issues.  I don't mind the touch screen on the Epson.

I don't print 500 pages a month but I have printed that many at 1 time.  If I needed to do so, I would have an HP LaserJet 4000, reliable as all get out and easy to repair.

[GreyWoolfe]

People who knock on my door/ call every phone I have trying to sell me stuff......

Good opportunity to troll them. If someone offer you perfect tariff for electricity, ask him how many volts offer they ?
"Well ... we supply standard 230V"
"Ou, but I have 220V electronics in my house !"
....or
"How many amperes you offer ?"

I can't be bothered to troll them.  I make like I am having trouble holding back my German Sheppard mix and Doberman mix from getting out, they beat feet.

[zapta]

Taken to the extreme:
http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/jpg/201007/should-you-buy-an-af-4.jpg

Sheesh, what an idiot.

That's art.

[Halcyon]

Speaking of printers, I remember at my old company we had a stack of the old HP Laserjet 4 printers. The neat trick with them (and some other models of HP Laserjets) was that you could sent a telnet command or specific data to port 9100 to change the "ready" message to anything you liked.

Hours of fun!

[Jwalling]

Taken to the extreme:
http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/jpg/201007/should-you-buy-an-af-4.jpg

Sheesh, what an idiot.

That's art.

You're missing one letter there. 

[Circlotron]

Cars with three names e.g. Suzuki Swift Cino when the manufacturer only makes one or two different models.

[Circlotron]

New housing estates with pretentious names.

[b_force]

I really hate when things have potential (especially software), but just have a few little but very important flaws whereby the whole is completely useless.

I really hate it even more when companies ask rediculous pricess for it or for buggy software.

But what really drives me insane is when there are no good (free) alternatives for it or when for some mystical reason most people use the shittiest program possible for its nice gimmicks, and therefore i need to learn such terrible programs because clients ask for it.

Another thing I hate, especially in the scientific/engineering field, is when people can't have or give arguments/discussions. Mostly when they're really talking bullsh*t.
But that's not a product.

[Kilrah]

I really hate when things have potential (especially software), but just have a few little but very important flaws whereby the whole is completely useless.

Oh yes, forgot that. And even worse, companies that make product A and product B where product A does 95% of what I need but lacks important function X, and product B does 95% of what I need including important function X, but lacks important function Y. 

[alexanderbrevig]

Audiophool products (on the other hand I also get angry at people who seem to believe any prosumer product is a phools product)
Over unity crazyman-inventions
Apple stuff (as a developer I get sick even thinking about taking their bullshit up the a**, unfortunately work sometimes forces me and leave me sore for weeks)
I also get annoyed by all of the various paracetamol/ibuprofen/ASA that is supposed to work for extremely specific pains. It seems you need one for your feet, you back, shoulders and knees Luckily placebo probably makes their promises true.

[Red Squirrel]

- Cloud based stuff.  I hate that it's taking over to the point that it's often hard to find a non cloud solution for something. I often just make my own stuff, because even stuff you would not think is cloud based (ex: thermostat) ends up being.  There's usually zero reason for this, they could easily be made stand alone and only go on the internet for things that are actually on the internet.

- All the current smart phones - it's a love/hate thing, I like what they can do and I'd feel off going without one but I hate that they are cloud based and there does not seem to be any solutions that arn't.  They don't HAVE to be cloud based.  They could simply be a computer that also happens to have a touch screen and many sensors, but still a proper locally controlled OS.   The fact that nobody seems to care about privacy anymore means there is not enough of a market for products to not be cloud based.

- The latest Microsoft products.  In the windows 2000/XP Era things were decent, then stuff just started to suck more and more... except for win7 that one is decent.  Office is a bloated POS now and it's hard to find stuff because of how screwed up the interface is.  Windows 8/10 is pretty gross too, have not played much with their server stuff but after seeing Metro in the server OS, I imagine it's quite gross as well.  Just what I need, to manage an exchange server on a tablet OS.   I just can't stand anything MS anymore.   I switched to Linux around then time 8 came out, I just figured I'd jump ship while it's still early.

[bitslice]

The most annoying problems were printer-related

Same experience,
sitting at home with a Brother laser is fine, but troubleshooting Unix glitches on huge IBM band printers was a daily chore. Likewise for HP gear, things start wearing when you print in high volumes, so pickup wheels would need constant replacement. Add in a variety of print queues for different flavours of server OS and ERP, nightmare.

Personal hate is the new daylight running lights on Audis, they are brighter than a thousand suns and manage to be distracting in daylight, never mind when clowns leave them on at night.
I find them dangerous too - at night I can judge distance to a well lit object, but if I'm dazzled by it my ability to judge its distance goes right down.

[Galenbo]

Especially the last 5-years: Everything with "public"

Public swimming pools
Public transportation like Metro and flights
Public cinema
Public housing
Public libraries
Public Schools
Public Beach
...

And people trackers, radar speed systems

[rdl]

Today I was reminded of a couple of more things.

One is Linux distributions that cause me extra trouble and wasted time due to some strange fear of what they call "non-free software". Hello there. I just want my stuff to work. As long as I don't have to pay money for it, it's free enough.

Also, that revolting snot green color that pervades the entire default Linux Mint user interface.

[Cyberdragon]

-anything with unnecessary proprietary shit. (Why I hate Apple)
-all of those copycat and kickstarter microcontroller crap. I mean, arduino is totally overhyped, but at least they make many different modules for it, unlike all those special little flowers that go "bing bong" when you turn them on. Raspberry Pi might be ok but I've never tried it.
-scam/useless products on TV, mainly health related (weightloss crap, excercise belts, water pumps for your nose, fitbits, UV/infrared pain relievers). Theres other crap products too, but they're harmless. Its when they might do weird stuff to your body...
-video advertisements in supermarkets, especially motion sensor ones, annoying waste of electronics that startle you. (It's fun to find their power button or memory chip and kill them just leave the chip in the aisle somewhere) I preffer plain automatic coupon dispensors with a simple blinking light.
-electronic price tags (little LCD panels on the shelves), we have one clothing store here (peebles?) that has them on everything. They are disgusting because alot of them have broken screens (from people smacking into them with carts and stuff) or dead batteries, so you don't know the prices of things, or even if it's on sale.

[Galenbo]

Free software (made useless with x limitations, that lets you pay afterwards, that will lock you into their hardware, that...)

[TerraHertz]

With all contemporary cars with electric window winders, that the driver window behaves differently to the other windows. All the others work like 'the window moves while you hold the button." This is perfectly simple and fine.

So why does the driver window have to be "The window starts moving when you hold or tap the button, and will keep moving until it hits the end or you tap the opposite button, but maybe at that point it will start continuously moving in the opposite direction if your tap was too long, and by the way just give up trying to adjust the window position only a little bit up or down."

This is so stupid it has to be the result of legislation forcing design. Is it universal to all cars?
Every time I have to drive a car with this imbecilic bit of code in the window controls, it's infuriating. Both because it's so hard to adjust the driver window position, and also because it shoves in your face the whole disgusting paradigm: 'this broken design is in the management computer software, coded by imbeciles, and there's *nothing* you can do to fix it. Plus for some reason all cars are like this, so you can't escape it either.'

I assume some idiot somewhere decided that it would be safer for drivers not to be 'distracted' by having to hold the window button down for a few seconds. Instead let's infuriate them, as they battle with the stupid software, attempting to make a slight adjustment to the window position but having the window alternately slide up and down a lot. Because infuriating people as they drive is never going to cause distraction and accidents.

[Cyberdragon]

You have a sticky switch or relay, that does not seem normal.

[tautech]

With all contemporary cars with electric window winders, that the driver window behaves differently to the other windows. All the others work like 'the window moves while you hold the button." This is perfectly simple and fine.

So why does the driver window have to be "The window starts moving when you hold or tap the button, and will keep moving until it hits the end or you tap the opposite button, but maybe at that point it will start continuously moving in the opposite direction if your tap was too long, and by the way just give up trying to adjust the window position only a little bit up or down."

This is so stupid it has to be the result of legislation forcing design. Is it universal to all cars?
Every time I have to drive a car with this imbecilic bit of code in the window controls, it's infuriating. Both because it's so hard to adjust the driver window position, and also because it shoves in your face the whole disgusting paradigm: 'this broken design is in the management computer software, coded by imbeciles, and there's *nothing* you can do to fix it. Plus for some reason all cars are like this, so you can't escape it either.'

I assume some idiot somewhere decided that it would be safer for drivers not to be 'distracted' by having to hold the window button down for a few seconds. Instead let's infuriate them, as they battle with the stupid software, attempting to make a slight adjustment to the window position but having the window alternately slide up and down a lot. Because infuriating people as they drive is never going to cause distraction and accidents.

Everyone to their own.
I much prefer an Auto button for the drivers window and it infuriates me that the same manufacturer omits/includes it in successive models types within their range. 

But it does seem that they are being phased out however once used to them they are perfect for purpose.....until you hit a bump in the road and knock them onto Auto. 

[Circlotron]

I hate the fact that in bright sunlight my poverty-stricken iPhone 4S takes sharper movies than my $1500 Canon Legria HF-G10. 😠😠😠

[zapta]

Taken to the extreme:
http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/jpg/201007/should-you-buy-an-af-4.jpg

Sheesh, what an idiot.

That's art.

You're missing one letter there. 

Yes, nice kart.   

[rdl]

I always figured that driver's window auto-down was a convenience thing. My truck windows are similar, it's two position though. A light press works normally, but you can push it all the way and let go for auto-down. It won't auto-up though, probably for safety reasons.

[Halcyon]

I always figured that driver's window auto-down was a convenience thing. My truck windows are similar, it's two position though. A light press works normally, but you can push it all the way and let go for auto-down. It won't auto-up though, probably for safety reasons.

I've found it depends on the car. Cheaper cars like your Hyundai's etc... tend not to "auto-up" for whatever reason but most European cars do (Volvo, Mercedes etc...).