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Ways modern technology can be more inconvenient

  • 04-10-2016 09:24PM
    #1
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭


    I'm beginning to see a pattern with new things I buy - like a kettle, PC mouse or TV. You buy the item, and there's always something inconvenient about it that you didn't account for. And all the little inconveniences they bring about aren't good for my blood pressure. I guess there's sort of nothing left to invent so all they can do is make things worse.

    For example, I hate the way the modern kettles continue to boil to completion after you're finished with it. And I'm just glad that I don't have one of those smartphones - they look so ridiculous bulging out through people's pants! I can only imagine the amount of unnecessary hassle there is involved with them. The guys that design them must be fair stupid for how smart they are!

    And I would way prefer if electric car windows only moved when you're actually touching the button. I preferred the old kettles, that when you'd put it back on it's cradle, you'd have to re-press the button to have it boil again. And to think insurance companies in this country won't take on new clients if they've a car over ten years old! What's the purpose of having an NCT at all so?!

    At least the illuminati can't force me to get a smartphone phone!


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  • #2
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    sounds like someone needs a new phone :)


  • #3
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    sounds like someone needs a new phone :)
    You could be banned for your sarcasm. You've now been warned.


  • #4
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    You seem oddly proud that you don't have a smartphone, odd.


  • #5
    Crazyteacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭Crazyteacher


    iPads and in particular reading books on iPads. Waiting for them to charge when you just want to finish your book. I like reading a book straight through until completion. I've gone back to buying physical books. It's the only way.


  • #6
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,895 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    paralysed wrote: »

    I hate the way the modern kettles continue to boil to completion after you're finished with it.

    Somebody needs to learn about the off button.


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  • #7
    Crazyteacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭Crazyteacher


    Crazyteacher wrote: »
    iPads and in particular reading books on iPads. Waiting for them to charge when you just want to finish your book. I like reading a book straight through until completion. I've gone back to buying physical books. It's the only way.

    Oh and the modern dishwasher. Why can't it just finish quietly. There's no need for the big song and dance to let people know it's finished.


  • #8
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,982 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Crazyteacher wrote: »
    Oh and the modern dishwasher. Why can't it just finish quietly. There's no need for the big song and dance to let people know it's finished.

    Washing machine and dryer in this house. Alarms so loud that you could hear them a mile away. I don't care if you're finished.


  • #9
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,402 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    I doubt anyone has a smartphone that boils to completion after they are finished with it.

    If your smartphone is shaped like a kettle it's going to stick out in your pants. Get a normal phone and put it in your trouser pocket.

    Why the f*ck are you putting a boiled kettle in your pants?


  • #10
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,116 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Trousers.


  • #11
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    I doubt anyone has a smartphone that boils to completion after they are finished with it.
    Note 7


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  • #12
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,776 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Crazyteacher wrote: »
    Oh and the modern dishwasher. Why can't it just finish quietly. There's no need for the big song and dance to let people know it's finished.

    Same with the washing machine.

    Shut yer stupid hole, washing machine.


  • #13
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    paralysed wrote: »
    I'm beginning to see a pattern with new things I buy - like a kettle, PC mouse or TV. You buy the item, and there's always something inconvenient about it that you didn't account for.

    Yeah I see your point. Like if you own a car. All a car will do will get you from one place to the other. What else would you wan't a car for.

    But to own the thing you have to spend thousands on it. Tax. Car Insurance. You keep having to put petrol in it. Top it up with oil. Have a place to put it when you not using it. Bring it to the garage for maintenance from time to time. All of that inconvenience just to bring you from one place to another. Such a pain owning things.


  • #14
    Andrewf20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    Windows 10. Reinventing the wheel and making life more complicated and downright infuriating at times.


  • #15
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,753 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Self-checkout at supermarkets.

    Why can't they just idiot-proof them fully?


  • #16
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,776 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Self-checkout at supermarkets.

    Why can't they just idiot-proof them fully?

    What about the sh*tty ones in the airport that make you root out you boarding pass?


  • #17
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Senna wrote: »
    You seem oddly proud that you don't have a smartphone, odd.

    How do you know when someone doesn't have a smartphone?

    They fuckin' tell you...


  • #18
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,753 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    What about the sh*tty ones in the airport that make you root out you boarding pass?

    You know the drill in the airport, Donie


  • #19
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,776 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    You know the drill in the airport, Donie

    What? Get in a scorp and leave the stupid magazine?


  • #20
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    McGaggs wrote: »
    Somebody needs to learn about the off button.
    It's not that I dont know where the button is, but the fact that I have to hit it each time.


  • #21
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    learn_more wrote: »
    Yeah I see your point. Like if you own a car. All a car will do will get you from one place to the other. What else would you wan't a car for.

    But to own the thing you have to spend thousands on it. Tax. Car Insurance. You keep having to put petrol in it. Top it up with oil. Have a place to put it when you not using it. Bring it to the garage for maintenance from time to time. All of that inconvenience just to bring you from one place to another. Such a pain owning things.
    Misplaced sarcasm! Those are things that a normal person would account for.

    You might eventually learn more about sarcasm!


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  • #22
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,402 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Kettles that don't automatically switch on every time I want water boiled. I know where the button is, but having to press it every time...


  • #23
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    RayM wrote: »
    How do you know when someone doesn't have a smartphone?

    They fuckin' tell you...

    Of course they tell you...people who don't have smart phones look at those they are talking to.


  • #24
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,829 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    AVAST VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED! blaring out of your PC speakers without any warning, fcuk to hell off. :(

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #25
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Modern cars are stuffed with new tech and built with fancy composites in whole or part and as a consequence cost a ****ing fortune to fix - inconvenient for one's pocket.


  • #26
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,725 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    AVAST VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED! blaring out of your PC speakers without any warning, fcuk to hell off. :(

    avoid avast then. I use Sophos :)
    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Kettles that don't automatically switch on every time I want water boiled. I know where the button is, but having to press it every time...

    If you use something like the amazon echo or the new google Home it'd be easy to rig up. I know it stinks of laziness but it'd be handy to wake up and tell the kettle to boil before you're out of bed.
    Crazyteacher wrote: »
    iPads and in particular reading books on iPads. Waiting for them to charge when you just want to finish your book. I like reading a book straight through until completion. I've gone back to buying physical books. It's the only way.

    I'm a complete nerd. I have tablets. Couldn't use them as a book. I read the news and magazines on them but there's no replacing a book.


  • #27
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    learn_more wrote: »
    Yeah I see your point. Like if you own a car. All a car will do will get you from one place to the other. What else would you wan't a car for.

    But to own the thing you have to spend thousands on it. Tax. Car Insurance. You keep having to put petrol in it. Top it up with oil. Have a place to put it when you not using it. Bring it to the garage for maintenance from time to time. All of that inconvenience just to bring you from one place to another. Such a pain owning things.

    paralysed wrote: »
    Misplaced sarcasm! Those are things that a normal person would account for.

    You might eventually learn more about sarcasm!

    Well hows about this for sarcasm.

    Your the one that made this point !

    About cars !

    Haha.
    paralysed wrote: »

    And I would way prefer if electric car windows only moved when you're actually touching the button.


  • #28
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    Same with the washing machine.

    Shut yer stupid hole, washing machine.
    Easy fix:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f05Y_rTQVg0
    Different machines may have the buzzer in different locations, but a buzzer is relatively big (~coin-sized) and distincive looking, and disabling it is easy.


  • #29
    seagull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭seagull


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Self-checkout at supermarkets.

    Why can't they just idiot-proof them fully?

    Because the universe is winning.

    Based on what Rick Cook said - "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

    I think it can be applied to anything, with the relevant tweaks. The universe is definitely winning.


  • #30
    intheclouds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    Grayson wrote: »
    I'm a complete nerd. I have tablets. Couldn't use them as a book. I read the news and magazines on them but there's no replacing a book.

    Thats what I thought til I went on hols and didnt have to pay extra for the weight of the books I usually bring.

    A 2 week holiday could be kilos of books!

    Now I bring a kobo, an ipad and 1 physical book. The ipad isnt great in sunshine but its a good backup plus all my ebooks are on it and I havent gotten round to putting them all on my kobo. The 1 physical book is last resort backup.


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  • #31
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    McGaggs wrote: »
    Somebody needs to learn about the off button.

    The button clicks off automatically when you lift the kettle from the base unless he's still using one of those neolithic ones that there IS in fact an off button (usually on the socket).


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