I see posts talking about good BIFL items but I don’t hear much about the other side of products that are bad or products you bought but don’t even use.
It was years ago, but it was an unbranded, generic portable CD player. It was awful. It kept skipping forward and backward on the track whenever it wasn’t still, so basically “portable” was false advertising because it was only usable when sat still on a table. Since then, whatever I buy, I make sure it’s from a recognised brand that has some reputation to lose.
A Leap-Motion
ooooohhhh isn’t that the cool hand sensor that sits on your desk and was supposed to change the way we interact with our computers ?
Yup. Thing is, touch less interaction is very awkward, anything with any kind of feedback is much better (including touchscreen). It never stood a chance
PSVR - fun for a week but otherwise useless.
Console VR is useless, Sony’s first party stuff is not better than any indie.
I think the story of VR in general. Fun for a few weeks, then great dust collectors
Great for sport though, !beatsaber@lemmy.ml
I heard the psvr2 is getting pc compatibility. I might get it then because the price is lower than the index and supposedly has good enough outside-in tracking vs outside-in tracking and the features sure do look nice.
Love mine, but a few hundred hours into GT7 and I’m kinda bored. But I think that has a lot to do with the terrible UI more than the gameplay.
FYI - it might get PC support
The PSVR2, not the first.
My Steam library
Have I got some good news for you then.
One cannot buy digital content with DRM, only rent it.
It’s impossible to regret acquisitions you’ve never made.
Point in case. You can sell on your physical games. Not so much the digital ones.
All that said, I too use Steam, just not mainly anymore.
You know, indie devs want to eat and be rewarded for their work
Where in my comment does it state that I don’t pay indie devs?
I spend money on Steam, but I have no allusions that I’m not owning the things I get there.
I’d much rather have a title on GOG than Steam. At least there I get to keep it.
Than sell an actual product DRM free or something, I’m not renting shit anymore.
Then buy on gog.com
I do.
This used to be true, but not anymore (if you live in the EU)! https://www.eurogamer.net/eu-rules-publishers-cannot-stop-you-reselling-your-downloaded-games
That said I know what you’re saying and this change doesn’t make it so you own the games, they’re just allowing you to resell the right to download and play on Steam, blabla. But it’s better than it used to be.
That’s amazing. How do I sell my steam games ? is there a way ?
Have you tried selling physical PC games lately?
DRM has nothing to do with how you buy your content (DVDs and Blurays also have DRM, for example).Also some Steam games have no DRM.
I was thinking of sites like GOG when I wrote my comment.
I have never heard of a Steam game you could run without having Steam installed
Or buying them, for that matter?
PS5 remote. It’s kind of useless as it doesn’t even have the Source selection button, so I need to keep using a regular remote too anyway. Doesn’t have other buttons for TV either, except volume. The apps buttons are hardcoded and cannot be customized. Any accidently pressed button starts up the console. I kind of still use it for video apps but I regret the purchase.
Games on Steam sales.
I bought so many games on sale after I got my first grown-up job, that just ended up sitting in my library while I played the same 3 games. I bought a Steam Deck 6 months ago and it’s been great for clearing out my backlog. I love being able to play games sitting in the recliner instead of at a desk.
Using the Steam refund system more actively has helped me a lot in this regard. At this point I refund about 80% of my purchases - simply because a lot of the games do not engage me after the first 40 minutes.
I bought a new netbook last year to watch stuff on as my old one from like 10 years ago finally fell apart.
I fucking hate the new Windows so much and I’m not techy enough to change the operating system to something better, so I barely use it as watching stuff on my phone is easier.
I bought an immersion blender on like prime day or black Friday with grandiose plans of using it for all kinds of things. 3 years later, and it’s still in the box
Split pea soup
Refried beans, or short burst to thicken bean pot
Protein shakes
The Slap Chop was a huge disappointment after the slam dunk that the Sham Wow ended up being. It was the same pain as buying the rushed and terrible Megaman Battle Network 4 after playing and loving the classic masterpiece that came before it.
But did you love his nuts? https://youtu.be/iIgEWRb61IQ?si=9SOOO0YNj0JVl3qL
No that thing sucked both his left nuts.
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Insurance
Ah, sweet summer child.
My headphone pads on a pair of Sony MD7506 were fraying apart, so I bought a pair of $3 replacement pads online. While I was buying those, I noticed a nice looking $30 pair made of sheepskin leather. I bought those, too and figured I’d just use the $3 pair until they inevitably wore out, and then switch to the nice ones. Well, it’s been some time now and the $3 pair are apparently far more robust than their forebears. The sheepskin remain in their packaging untouched. One day…
I kinda regret buying my 3d printer. Not because it sucks, it’s more because it reminds me I don’t have any free time to do something this time consuming.
Another one is the cast iron wok. I love my cast iron pans, but the wok is just to damn heavy and it you can’t really use it like one would use a normal lightweight wok.
I think most traditional woks are carbon steel, seasoned similarly to a cast iron but much lighter. You could give that a try?
I thought about that a few times, but my wife doesn’t want another wok that’s taking space. So would need to fine a new home for old one, which doesn’t seem to easy.
Thrift store. It’d be an absolute find to someone who loves buying weird kitchen shit there
I recently got a glazed ceramic pizza stone for $2 at my weird kitchen stuff thrift store and have been having a blast with it.
Yeah I asked my family for a wok a few years ago and got this beautiful one that was cast iron and way too heavy. I ended up getting a carbon steel one which was about a third the weight
I have a 3d printer. It used to be a big hobby of mine, but now its just a tool like anything else. I print out practical stuff that i need when i need it, and when the printer is having issues i swear and curse at it like any regular paper printer.
Most recently ive been using it to print out new belts out of flexible filament for my rock tumbler.
I already fail at investing the time to level the bad and such stuff. I really would love to use it. But next to work, trying to bootstrap and family time there is not really time left.
I always wanted to print stuff for build small robot parts for Arduino and raspberry pi. Maybe one day when the kids are older…
I love my 3d printer…when it works. I have a major bed leveling problem from when I was cleaning the bed and forgot to put the plate on so the extruder came down and ripped off the magnetic sheet underneath. Been having problems ever since. I also can’t get the damn thing to print petg.
You could look into a carbon steel wok: You can season them like cast iron but they’re much lighter.
My $500 laptop I panic bought after an employee started talking to me
It’s incapable of anything and stutters when I start Firefox. I have a freebie laptop I got from Telus 10+ years ago that runs better than this off-the shelf laptop.
I couldn’t in good-conscience sell this to make my money back either… sigh… at least it keeps me focused on work…?
Could linux revive it?
Eww, removing Windows was the first thing I did. It’s running Manjaro and was my first jump into Linux actually.
Revive? No, but it’s the life support it needed.
Maybe turn it into a Chromebook?
That sounds fun, but I was (and still am) an idiot and locked myself out on the bios. I’ve reset locks on bios before, but as I’ve discovered recently, Acer found out you can charge people for the privilege instead.
At that point, I’ll simply use this as a learning experience and continue exploring Arch. Another bevi of copium for me, please.
Acer
This is how i know that purchase was ill-advised.
Livin’ the fool’s journey :')
Are there upgrades that would make it usable - more RAM, switch to an SSD?
May I understand what panic buying is? And how it leads to a $500 purchase?
Most of the stuff I regret buying can be sold as second-hand. My biggest miss is to buy a good laptop for high too early, now I want an OLED display on laptop but I am stuck with my expensive model with LCD😅
A cellphone in like 1995. Had if for a few days before realizing I didn’t have anyone to call. Returned it not long after.
Same time plus minus one for me. Not only did nobody have a reason to call me (at school). Literally nobody else had a mobile phone.
