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Ask HN: What technologies have made your life worse?
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Re: Ask HN: What technologies have made your life worse?
#122Modern thermometers to take my temperature (fever). I bought already a couple of them, and somehow none of them seems to work well, or they are too sensitive and I can't figure out where to measure my temperature and what counts as fever. I finally found some thermometers that I used when I was younger, and now I can reliably measure my temperature and I can tell what counts as fever. They didn't actually made my lif…
Had to go through 3 recently but finally found a digital one that fits the bill. Super fast and accurate. Shop around they are cheap so you can try a few before getting that good one.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies have made your life worse?
#123Automatic vehicle climate control. If the ambient temperature is hotter than the setting I get blasted with frozen air and if it's colder I have to sit in an oven until the car decides it's the correct temperature. I much preferred twisting a knob until the air hitting my face was comfortable. What is comfortable is altered by how active I've been, the time of day, the temperature I've been in before getting into the…
In my 1979 BMW, there was a dial for the fan speed, a dial for the temperature, and a slider to control how much outside air came in. It was the best climate control ever. In the snow I could blast the heat at full fan speed with max temp at my feet while allowing the icy air from outside to blow at my face at the same time to keep me awake.
Don't cars with climate control still have the manual option? You can turn off climate control and just adjust fan and temperature.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies have made your life worse?
#124Automatic vehicle climate control. If the ambient temperature is hotter than the setting I get blasted with frozen air and if it's colder I have to sit in an oven until the car decides it's the correct temperature. I much preferred twisting a knob until the air hitting my face was comfortable. What is comfortable is altered by how active I've been, the time of day, the temperature I've been in before getting into the…
Odd. My car has digital climate controls and all I have to do is set the temp I want. If it too cold, it will keep the fan low while the air coming into the cabin is cold and as it warms up, the fan speeds up until the cabin is at the temp I set. It also knows to blow hot air at my feet and the windshield (to melt frost) and blow cool air out the dash directly at me. I keep it set at 23C year round and since it's a heat pump, I don't even need to switch it between heat and cool mode. It's perfect. The settings can be overridden but there is no need.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies have made your life worse?
#125E-tickets for concerts: - need to fumble through awful apps/sites to find them and hope you have signal - phone dead? no ticket for you - went with other people? all the tickets are on one phone. good luck getting back to your seat without that phone - worst of all? no ticket stub to look back at years later
Check out stubforge.com, it's a site I made to print replica ticket stubs so you can keep adding to your collection.