My crappy electric Philips toothbrush from the internet of shit era. If you press the single button it has slightly wrong it goes into some Bluetooth pairing mode or whatever that you can't take it out of until it gives up 2 minutes later.
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The fridge. If you close it too hard or too soft, it ends up not closed, but a fingers' width open.
I have a Samsung that I passionately despise. While it seems to cool fine, they designed an ice maker that either fails and leaks or jams itself with ice so it renders itself unusable.
If I paid a premium price, why can't I just get a modest functional ice maker?
There was a new fridge when I bought my house. Basic ass nothing fancy Frigidaire. No ice machine. I love it.
When I redo my kitchen this year, I'm buying a countertop ice making machine. I've heard too many horror stories about the ones in fridges.
Right now I'm still truckin with the ice trays. Not enough room in the kitchen currently
Yeah we turned ours off and do ice trays. But I wish we just got one without ice.
I might have to try a countertop maker. Good idea!
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Printer
Only 2D since bambulab came
The Oatmeal is correct, the answer is printers
And by extension, scanners
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Washing machines.
My washing machine 15 years ago would wash my clothes with...uhhhh...fucking water.
Now you can't buy washing machines that actually wash your clothes in water. They all spritz your clothes with a little water then jiggle around your damp clothes for a bit.
I don't live in a desert. I live in a place with access to plenty of water. I should be allowed to buy a washing machine that actually fills up with soapy water and washes my damn clothes.
I could buy a Speed Queen washer for $2,000 from a specialty store, but that's ridiculous. Why can't I just buy a washing machine that washes my clothes? They're ALL terrible now. All the washers in all the big box stores are just...bad.
Get your washers used from thrift stores, the older the better
Don't fall into the aesthetics trap, you don't need to swap your appliances out every five years for new
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My docking station. The screen sometimes goes black for a second or two randomly. I have had this problem with all kinds of docking stations.
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My egpu dock. It works great but I have to plug it in after boot or it won't be detected.
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My samsung galaxy S22 (my last sasmung phone). The camera sometimes doesn't work presumably because a ribbon cable inside is loose.
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Electric toothbrushes. They really are superior to regular old brushes, but they tend to break down after less than a year and aren't exactly cheap. Ironically, the last time mine broke I replaced it with the cheapest one and it's lasted longer than the ones before it. Go figure!
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My fridge's ice machine has never worked and instead just made my fridge piss itself on multiple occasions.
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I bought a cheap espresso maker off Amazon. It's so cheap that nothing can be adjusted, not the pressure, the drip, the heat, nothing. Every single shot I pull from that thing tastes like burnt ass. I even invested in some nice expensive espresso beans, and no luck. The cheap machine is in fact a piece of crap. I should have known better.
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Hm. Whoever made microwave ovens with an impossible to clean exposed resistance for broiling in the off chance you felt like making lasagna in a shoebox should be shot into space.
Everybody below pointing out that repeated beeping noises are unacceptable is also not wrong. It's gotten to the point where half a dozen different things may be beeping in my kitchen, nobody knows which one it is and everybody is in a reverse-race to ignore them to see if someone else goes to deal with it.
I once had a dishwasher that opened the door by itself using magnets instead of nagging you like a needy cat and I miss it every day.
Magnets are brilliant. I had to go really high up the range for mine to have a motor that opens the door at the end of each cycle. It has good energy ratings too but I'm not sure the extra cost will be worth it in its lifetime because the "eco" cycle is like the cheating on the homologation run of cars: it uses so little power and heat nothing gets clean enough if it's full.
I think mine got away with it because it was a small countertop model with a light plastic door. I don't know if you'd be able to do that for a large embedded family-sized one where you don't know how heavy the door is because it's attached to a cupboard cover. You probably do need a motor for that. If not to smoothly open the door at least to give it a little push with a push rod or something.
The point is we have the technology to push a flippy door open automatically, my dishwasher doesn't need to screech for attention every time it completes a task like a needy toddler.
I never know about "eco" cycles in dishwashers anyway. I mean, those things are efficient in the first place and if you use hot water to wash manually you may not be saving anything against a full cycle. I'm also surprised to hear people complain about them so much, presumably out of getting bad cleaning results. Mine is old and not that high end and I very rarely get a bad load out of it. If one thing was in a blind spot it's just a matter of leaving it in to go for another run.
I think maybe people don't know how to use a dishwasher? I'm torn about that one, because on the one hand well designed appliances should be impossible to use incorrectly, so it's technically the dishwasher's fault still, but at the same time dishwashers are awesome and having lived without one for a long time I'm never going back to that life. I would get one with an automatic door next time, though.
I really don't get all the shit microwaves and printers get. smart devices especially samsung and xiaomi phones are the worst, from privacy, ownership and control, and maintainability points
edit: fixed a typo. got a stroke when writing...
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