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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Red One, Red’s first camera/the first affordable (relatively speaking) 4K cinema camera. Talk about a heavy, temperamental machine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The storage 😵‍💫

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  • phone
  • "smart" blackboard
  • laptop
  • tablet

edit: modern car

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

All the various gardening equipment that was made for someone several inches taller than me. Things to edge lawns, shovels, rakes, just a lot of stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

One of the early Samsung Android phones. They dropped „support“ less than a year after release and even during that time refused to acknowledge serious bugs.

The community built Android versions managed to fix most bugs, and even made dual touch possible, but then again could only do so much without all sources. And usually they were not the most stable either.

On the one hand having a smartphone with touchscreen, apps etc. was amazing. On the other hand Samsungs bullshit meant I wasted a lot of time chasing a properly working software for my phone that it should have had from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pixel Slate by Google

I got it on a black Friday Sale and immediately regretted it.

For something that is supposed to "just work" nothing just works.

It's spent the last several years as a very expensive media player. Which it isn't even particularly good at...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I bought a Chromebook for uni (the only thing cheap enough I could afford) and it was so bad I ended up installing Linux and libre office. Years later I got a pixel 2 and it came with a free Google assistant.

Pixel 2 was a great phone until one day it just never turned back on. I looked at getting the 4 and the hardware was all direct downgrades from the 2, including outdated processors from the generation before the 2 was released??

The Google assistant was the most useless piece of shit I've ever used. Never bought another Google product again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Scuba gear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

A tape backup auto loader. It was two racks large and regular would have problems, mostly software related. Commvault was the software. Every month was a cage fight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The Ensoniq ASR-10. Fuck, that thing is heavy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Trying to find the item I want to fuse to an arrow in Tears of the Kingdom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

A smartphone... I barely even use it and never use it for social media. Maybe it's because I've grown accustomed to using a gaming desktop computer that still responds instantaneously even in its old age, but I find it very cumbersome to use a device where there's a 3-5 second input lag for everything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

What kind of phone are you using my guy?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

rock bar. It's a pole made entirely of metal with a little wedge at the end. You use it to pry rocks from the earth but because its so heavy you can't just slide it in and pull it up like a prybar. you kinda just puncture the dirt like a spear and lever straight through the soil to get the rock loose first then pry it out.

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