this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just stop buying their product. Issue fixed !

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You need to be fired... Out of a canon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The gunpowder is made by Epson and needs a payment update to catch fire

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

🥰 You're my bro too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

HP are on the top of my shitlist. Every day I hear a new reason to keep them there!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If only life were that simple. Whose laptops am I going to buy?

Dell: Marks up replacement SSD prices by 10x (including the predatory behaviour of embedding QR codes to these in the bios to be shown in error states) Apple: ... Lenovo: History of installing literal spyware Microsoft: Bad products

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marks up replacement SSD prices by 10x

You know you can just pop in a Crucial MX500, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And I did. The issue is they put in a QR code for their own $800 500 GB SSD in the bios error message for when your SSD breaks.

My non-technical friend had no idea it's an obscene price and may have bought it just to get his laptop working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The correct answer to that question is currently Framework.