What's a Purchase You Regret?

Question

Hello there!I was thinking... In an era where we're constantly into buying this and that, why don't we have a thread where we just talk about stuff we bought but regret buying?I'll start:- I got a 34" ultrawide curved display. Philips, 34B2U5600C (3440x1440, 120Hz, USB-c and a lot of bells and whistles). It's just enormous, it takes half of my desk in depth and ~90% of my desk (130 cm) in width. Paid 400 Euros for that (new, off Amazon). It was cool at first but after a while it was feeling "heavy" on my desk. I kinda put it away and now I'm doing most of my work on "just" my 16-inches laptop display. It didn't really improve my life. Maybe I should have avoided the curved display. I'm torn between selling it and getting another one or selling it and keeping using just my laptop display.- My ThinkPad X13G1. It just doesn't feel right. I bought it to replace my rusty X270. Supposedly it's much better (8c/16t+32GB ram vs 2c/8t+16gb ram on the X270) but it doesn't feel much snappier (same OS/Software) and battery life isn't that great either (the battery was in very good conditions when I received it). Also, when suspended the battery will drain incredibly quickly, sometimes overnight. Compared to my work macbook, it really feels like an inferior machine. Paid 400 Euros for that as well (used).

billconan · Accepted Answer

Also a thinkpad, macbook is way better.Two guitars, never got to learn them.iPads and surface, pads don't seem to be that useful to me.

ben_w · Answer

Apple Watch.Got a cheap early model second hand to see if they were worth it, eventually the battery failed and popped the screen out. Got a brand new one to treat myself after the pandemic and&hellip; the only part of the UX that doesn't feel bad is the main screen.It's, at best, a laggy remote control for apps running on my phone, and I haven't even charged it in over a year now, let alone worn it.

unnamed76ri · Answer

I bought an XP-pen drawing tablet. I had it on my Amazon wishlist for years and had never pulled the trigger because I feared I wouldn&rsquo;t use it. Well, I was right&hellip;Also, pretty much any board game expansion. They usually add complexity without improving the fun of a board game.

Bender · Answer

All 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 I add supplemental cooling which they all benefit from.

dc396 · Answer

Any hardware from Google. Never again.

devilbunny · Answer

On your X13G1:My X1 Carbon gen 7 used to do that too. Go into your EFI setup and change the sleep mode to be Linux-compatible (or at least not Windows-specific), regardless of the OS on the machine.I would like to give credit where due, but while I'm fairly certain that I read this solution here, I can't recall exactly who pointed it to me.

nicbou · Answer

The Surface Go 2.I wanted to combine my MacBook, my notebook and my books to reduce my pack size, since I travel a lot.It spent a full 24 hours doing software updates. Then I realised that nothing kills the joy of sketching like the file save dialog when you want to close the app. It was also a lousy laptop and a bad ebook reader. I returned it on day 2.I got an iPad Mini instead. It's one of my favourite objects.

al_borland · Answer

The Daylight DC-1 tablet. I&rsquo;m in the Apple ecosystem, so it&rsquo;s on an island. I wasn&rsquo;t a fan of the default launcher, so I replaced it, and now it just feels like a silly Android tablet with a black and white screen that I don&rsquo;t really have a use for. One of the big things (gimmicky) things that sold me on the pre-order was the fabric case in almost all the marketing photos. I thought it would be nice to have tech that wasn&rsquo;t all plastic, metal, or glass&hellip; then it showed up as a plastic and glass slab and that case didn&rsquo;t actually exist for sale. I was upset and should have retuned it, but thought I&rsquo;d give it a chance since it is a new company. That was a mistake. It was something like $700, and I feel like it should be around $249. It&rsquo;s got a bunch of buttons that don&rsquo;t even do anything. I do like that the stylus doesn&rsquo;t need to be charged, but that&rsquo;s about it. I really wish Apple went this route on the Apple Pencil.

german_dong · Answer

a house in altadena

poly_morphis · Answer

iPad Pro M1. I use it rarely. Anything I can&rsquo;t do on my phone I use my MacBook or pc. Consuming media is better on my laptop display, and easier to type/navigate. It just doesn&rsquo;t really serve a purpose.

Corvus · Answer

Google Pixel watch. I had a Garmin fitness tracker and a Pixel phone, and had difficulty transferring my fitness metrics to Sheets. So why not combine the two?I'll tell you why; the Pixel watch manages to combine all the disadvantages of a fitness tracker and a smartphone. Now I have to log in to my watch, the display is too small to read anything on, and I can't increase the font size. The Android fitness app is a walled garden inside a walled garden, and I still can't transfer my metrics to Sheets.

Gooblebrai · Answer

Meta Quest 3s

mkbkn · Answer

Anything by Microsoft

Seb-C · Answer

I liked my X1 carbon gen 7, but the motherboard died after 2 years and was not repairable, so it's my biggest regret recently.

mejutoco · Answer

Chromecast: only streams chrome within same wifi connection (no vpn) snd only streams some video formats. I should have researched more.