A mechanical keyboard with too many fancy switches and lights. I thought it would make coding feel better, but it just ended up being noisy and distracting. I went back to a simple, quiet one and realized comfort matters way more than looks.
Ask HN: What's a Purchase You Regret?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a Purchase You Regret?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Fridges and televisions for sure. They also preload phones with third party bloatware.
Re: Ask HN: What's a Purchase You Regret?
#43I regret buying an okay-ish car. I should have bought a cheap rubbish car, or paid the price for a good car. After 3 years of owning it, I'm stuck paying and repairing a car I want to dump.
This is what I recommend to all my friends. Go cheap ("bangernomics" is what we used to call it in the UK, from "an old banger" car), or go newer (It's incredibly hard to convince them though.