Anything by Microsoft
Ask HN: What's a Purchase You Regret?
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#22I liked my X1 carbon gen 7, but the motherboard died after 2 years and was not repairable, so it's my biggest regret recently.
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#24Chromecast: only streams chrome within same wifi connection (no vpn) snd only streams some video formats. I should have researched more.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
And any hardware from Samsung, for entirely different reasons.
Could you elaborate more on this? I have a plan to replace my 5 year Samsung phone to the newer one. The reason is that no internal storage left.
Samsung is notorious for adding ads to products you have already purchased, and for many egregious privacy violations. Their appliances are also very unreliable.
In general, it's just not a trustworthy company.
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#26100 euros claude subscription
not nearly useful enough
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you elaborate more on this? I have a plan to replace my 5 year Samsung phone to the newer one. The reason is that no internal storage left.
Samsung is notorious for adding ads to products you have already purchased, and for many egregious privacy violations. Their appliances are also very unreliable. In general, it's just not a trustworthy company.
They inject ads in other products? Almost everyone I know has a samsung phone and I've never heard about that
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#28iPhone 16 Pro. Good hardware but mediocre software. Coming from a cheap $180 Android phone there is a lot of culture shock.
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#29All computer devices on Amazon. My hot take is this is where all the high failure rate electronics are sold that could never be sold in a brick and mortar computer store given the customers would return irate and the store would eventually go out of business whereas Amazon is too big to fail . A partial exception are some mini PC's. Many are pre-loaded with old malware but I throw away the 1TB NVME they come with and…
What mini PCs do you like, and which cooling system have you found nice to have?
For daily driver for me anything with good ventilation and for gaming the acemagic but one absolutely must format the provided NVME or replace it as there is old malware and the windows image has been customized to mute and cripple windows defender. On windows the CPU mitigations must be disabled or the integrated GPU runs hot. Usage before: 83%, after 13%. I still use win11 for some games for the anti-cheat crap.
The mini-PCs are vulnerable to graphics errors in some video games that can perma-brick them. Many people ran into this issue with Starfield and one specific multi-beam gun turning their mini-PC into a paper-weight.
For cooling I get a desktop sized HEPA filter unit and remove the panel on the mini-pc that permits access to memory/nvme. Enough air will get past the memory/storage sockets to cool the CPU.
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#30GoPro Hero 5. The main reason I bought it was for taking wide photos and for capturing stuff when it rains. But the device was terrible for photos from a photography point of view.