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What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
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Amazon Fire Tablet 7in. I bought it literally just to read PDFs, and it was so slow that it was basically unusable. I tried switching out the launcher to something more minimal (Niagara launcher I think), and I figured out how to disable the ads that were all over the place. It helped a bit, but not enough to overcome the hardware and Fire OS. (I think I needed ADB for both of those fixes; I had to put in some real work to unfuck that tablet.) Plus the screen was too small for my pathetic human eyeballs.
Was it worth $30? At the time, yeah, because I literally couldn't afford anything else, but I now have an $80 10in generic Android tablet that's wildly faster.
Have to add, I came across mine the other day in a drawer and the soft touch finish is sticky now, and the thing was so bad to begin with I feel like it's that way on purpose just to be a dick.
They are pieces of shit but for the price it's actually pretty decent. $30 is the price of a couple McDonalds meals. We used to buy them for the kid to use since it didn't really matter if it got destroyed. I also bought a new one to use as a smart home touch interface but I haven't quite finished that due to ADHD and too many projects.