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Hey /g/ what technology related choices made you regret your entire existence?
> Me: buying an Hi-Fi stereo compatible with MiniDisc back in 2000's.... fuck I still regret it
>>53639683
>>53639683
I fucking bought a pc with Windows 10
>>53639776
dayum nigga
>>53639792
Don't call me nigga, please
>>53639865
Ok, kiddo
>>53639865
sorry my jolly african american negroid
>>53639928
>>>53639865 (You)
>sorry my jolly african american negroid
I like when people call me using politically correct names
I want to change Black Friday to Afro-American Friday so I can really say racism has been defeated
>>53639683
a friend of mine did the same thing and when I visited him back then he gave me a speech about how mini disks are the future and I should get them too.
still makes me laugh how hard they failed.
Buying an i7 2600k instead of an equivalent Xeon with ECC support -.-*
>>53639683
learning java
thankfully I've almost forgotten it
>>53639683
Why do you regret that? MiniDiscs were sure to replace CDs.
>>53640314
cause you know, mp3 players were invented and Hi-fi stereos could read usb drives...
hence fuck off you and (my) MiniDisck
>>53639683
>That video.
Nice transmisogyny.
I bought a graphics card from Zotec
>>53640017
Weakest bait there ever was, Tyrone. :^)
H2O Mop
Gemini g4v controller instead of a player/controller with a display
Dell XPS 17 l702x with a i5 instead of the one with a i7
Xbone 720p instead of the PS4
>>53642324
why?
>>53642772
I was stupid and wanted to cheap out.
I quickly find out that you get what you pay for
I'd give BJ a BJ 8==D (^:
Buying my first thinkpad in 2016
>>53642786
What is the problem with Zotac? My 8800GT was so based desu. They are bad now? because the reviews are decent...
>>53639683
Why is bruce willis wearing that wig?
>>53639683
One of my biggest regrets was buying my girlfriend a brand new Mackbook pro when I discovered that her father had the same idea fir her birthday (yesterday).
Fuck off, I spent so much for such shitty product, I just wanted to have anal....
>>53643134
Good goy
>>53639683
Ever getting a shitty Android
Buying AMD CPU
Buying AMD GPU
Buying another AMD GPU and trying to use crossfire.
>>53643134
Can't you return it?
Put mini disc is so comfy.
Cheaping out and going for the Phenom II 6 years ago.
Buying sub-par cards numerous times because no money, but too impatient to save up.
>>53643961
I haven't checked yet, but I hope so....
At least she feels kinda guilty so she promised me her ass tonight
Not starting my website 10 years earlier.
>>53644046
While poppin your nut in a butt feels pretty great, I'm not sure going to that extent is worth it. I hope you can return it anon. God speed.
I purchased an external floppy drive because I could not believe that I could survive without them.
I got a laptop when non the internet can chatted some traps
Fucked them and now im also a trap
So yeah
>>53644686
Life finds a way
Buying a Cybiko in 2000
>>53645210
the fuck is that shit nigga
>>53645210
Oh god, I don't know if it can be defined beautiful or ugly as fuck...
>>53644046
Thats a win, bro.
>>53645210
>cybiko extreme
Not cybiko
>>53645398
>>53645210
What the hell are those things?
>>53645260
>>53645853
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvbQubCXMgo
Not killing myself at 14
>>53647585
This tbqh.
Brace yourself, wall of text and rant.
My very first computer, I decided to buy a 2007 MBP, because of the intel chip and bootcamp. I figured, hey I'd get the best of both worlds and a portability, I got exactly what I wanted. The screen was fantastic, I was able to do homework and play games. I found software alternatives for anything windows had. I spent $2600 on a 15" MBP 160gb. Also spent $150? on extended warranty. By 2008 I accidentally cracked the screen, that cost me $750.
By 2009 the entire system was beginning to slow down. I suppose because of various software updates and OS upgrades. The battery was STEAMING, you could burn your hands if you touched anywhere near the hinge of the laptop. In the same year the battery cycle got fucked up, and the charging wire frayed, the cost of the battery was free(covered under extended warranty), but I had to buy a charger for $100 or $150. Also by this point playing new games was a pipe dream.
I think by 2011 the OSX side of the computer was CRAWLING. The windows side performed way better. It was a chore to use OSX. My buddy wanted me to play the upcoming Diablo3. I suspected it wouldn't work at all. He showed me where I could get some compatible ram($100), I went from 2gb to 6gb and I upgraded to a 250gb hdd for free. Wasn't much noticeable difference, felt like a waste. He also showed me I could try doing an external graphics card using the express card slot. I never did it, because by now I realized the laptop became a money sink. I'm also tired of craning my neck to look down at a 15inch screen, so I spent $200 on a good Asus monitor. One of my favorite expenses, I'm still using it today. It's holding up strong.
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>>53648418
2012 comes, I buy Diablo3 at launch price, my friends get pissed I am moving across my screen like peanut butter. They are PISSED at me. I wasted my fucking money. I try to play other steam games with them and I just can't, they dropped me as a playing buddy. And I became the "conversational buddy" they feel like talking to on a boring non-gaming day. I deserve it, but I'm super bitter about that. Mountain Lion was released, and in an article it showed that my computer was NOT compatible for an update. I said what the fuck why can't I? Couple this, with the ENDLESS trashing about macbooks and being a hipster ALL this time. And the ipods/itouches I bought were all breaking cracking, the hard-drives were clicking, software becoming outdated. It wreaked havoc on my mind. I'm like "that's it i'm just going to build a PC, I'm tired of this shit." It finally got some kind of error, heat related? It doesn't boot up anymore.
Sure the flaming shit said basically the same thing, but this one dude really broke it down for me on one of these forums, and the dude was like "It's a vicious cycle! Apple products are for people that are well off, because they make them incompatible every 2 years." Basically, yeah it's targeted for yuppies, upper eschalon individuals. Even if you aren't they try to make it seem like the apple stuff is for everybody. But you do need to have some money to maintain or buy a new product every so often. I had no business touching an apple product. So I did build the machine in 2012 for 1400$, I had a monitor, and I got a free dell ips monitor a keyboard and mouse. I'm still using it til now. Very very happy with it. Would I buy an apple product again? It was still a good experience, despite the expenses and limits. the iphones I had still run great. I'd consider it as a gamble where I feel like throwing my money away. Still, one of the biggest regrets in my life.
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>>53648418
>>53648434
nice blog, macfag
you should use a tripcode so I can filter your faggot ass
>>53648502
thanks for reading anon, it was very therapeutic.
>ctrl+f raspberry (phrase not found)
maybe it will be my next regret. i wanna buy it.
>>53649874
i regret it
>>53649874
I forgot I have one
I totally regret it, it's been collecting dust for years
Razer fucking mouse
Why did i even do that
>>53650064
did you get a meme mmo mouse, my deathadder has no issues after 4 years
>>53639683
buying any android device
>>53639683
buying a shitty chinese tablet, quite expensive as well for how shit it was
>>53650128
Never played mmos, nor any online gaymes for that matter.
It was called lachesis and it's thin, loud, chinky buttons stopped working after a month.
Deathadder may be the single decent product in their entire history and even that depends on which revision you use.
I regret buying an AMD GPU from Sapphire. They really accept no responsibility.
>>53639683
selling my sandy bridge shittop for a t61, then a t401 and a t420 when i didnt really needed it.
>>53642324
I work at Staples and most people who buy Zotec graphics cards are autistic pensioners.
Wii U
My sister loves it, but I haven't touched it in like a year.
>>53650484
You mean sapphire*
me fallinf dor the gtx 970 3.5gb meme when i knew about the r9 390...me not waiting till amd released its polaris cards and having something that could actualy run in 4k at decent fps
Buying into the Microsoft Windows bullshit back in the mid-90s instead of staying with OS/2 which I was using until I moved to GNU in the late 90s.
>>53639683
selling my pehon II x6
>>53652811
>970/390
>you a 4k
Nice story Roy
razer hydras
2x AMD 290 with stock cooling. Sounds like a vacuum cleaner and raises room temperature to 29 degrees Celsius. No joke!
I vaguely regret buying a Phenom II X4 that was on sale at Microcenter for $50 in 2012. The reason I regretted it was because I never used it really, not because of the measly $50. I still use an Athlon II X2 because it is lower power. The Phenom is in storage and now worthless on ebay and worthless for modern games. Overpowered for what I use the Athlon for so I have no use for it.
I stuck with my Maemo N900 far longer than I should have
>I had such high hopes for the N9
>>53639683
buying Acer
The specs were decent, but holy shit their build quality is rock bottom. All I wanted was an 11in laptop that was speedy enough to use Chrome and maybe build something in Visual Studio without it taking forever.
and for a while, all was good
one of the machines is taped together (it fell? like, I never dropped it, but the hinges weren't there anymore, so it probably got knocked around at some point) and the other is stone dead and I pulled the drive and RAM out of it (and this one just out and out started failing, had the original HDD fail slowly, the clickpad just died and didn't click anymore, the machine stopped charging properly, and it doesn't even come up with a full battery in it now)
and my current laptop, despite taking the same level of abuse (mostly just being carried around a bunch, no drops or shit like that) and whatever has no dents or dings or anything
Never had anything like this in my life. Abused the shit out of a Dell Latitude from like 2002-2008, had a semi-crappy Dell laptop that has power port trouble from 2009-2011 (I still have it, but it's pretty slow, even with fresh installs of Win7 and Xubuntu), and then I got an Acer 11in laptop for portability in 2012 or so, and then another different one with an i5 like 3 years later
>>53652847
>staying with OS/2
when I used OS/2, it ended up being me running a bunch of 16-bit Windows programs and like one or two native OS/2 programs
and hardware support on OS/2 was awful for like no reason, even with IBM-made machines
Windows was pretty dumb (the stability of Windows 95 drops to zero within like a day of prolonged use, and NT had completely obnoxious sysreqs -- particularly regarding RAM, but also needed some CPU heft behind it), but the UI was nice (although before 95 was awful, and after it was MS making things worse instead of better), hardware support was good, and it had the lion's share of software support.
>>53649874
I programmed mine to be a emulator for old games but I never use it
>>53639683
Worksafe board.
Could you not post trap gifs? Thanks.
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Xperia Z3C, half a year later the headphone jack is dying and still no update to Marshmallow. Also having the great cam cucked by Sony software is just sad.
this, around 1999
>>53639683
buying amd graphics cards
i regret it to this day, worst purchase of my life. The GTX 1080's can't come any sooner.
>>53639683
Buying the 750ti and 400w PSU to match it
buying yet another laptop with 1366x768 resolution
buying a smartphone on a 2 year contract
only now do I realize the need for an SD card
>>53658296
what's wrong about that? did you intend to use it for gaming? is the PSU not enough? please tell me because I was considering that combination for a "work" pc, not for gaming
>>53658349
I'm thinking about upgrading now and the PSU will be to weak for the gpus I'm looking at.
In your case it will be fine
>>53639683
Bought a xbox360 instead of a ps3
>>53639683
Upgraded from galaxy s4 to Droid turbo 2 on the device payment plan
>inb4 "not just buying your phone"
There really isn't a difference in this case. I just wish I would have stuck with the s4 so I could get off Verizon cheaper.
>>53658540
>>>/v/
Falling for this piece of shit mini pc.
Not starting to study programming sooner
Ativ Tab 3.
Works great for the first 5 minutes.
Then it dies. It's slow as fuck. I try Windows 10, not any better than 8.1 on it and I have to fiddle with stupid driver issues. I try linux and-- oh wait it's not supported at all because it's a clover trail tablet.
God.
Having used a Phenom 9600 2 GB RAM HD2400 PC until 2012.
>Vista x32 always recommend me to turn mouse shadows off to save GPU performance
I "gamed" on that thing
Could have spent € 50 to have even more fun
>2012
>Buy GT 530 and another 2 GB for 30 €
>Maxes out every 2007 game and bootup reduced to 2 from 6 minutes
I still keep that shitbox, bought another 940 X4 Phenom II for 20 €, runs as a good media box.
first generation nexus 7 tablet. It was 200 bucks for a reason... slow micron memory that created a lot of latency issues. should've just kept my money.
>>53661802
>First Nexus 7
>Regret
Can't imagine, I recommend this thing for my father and he still uses it every day. Best buy over anything in that price range. Almost no lag in a 2012 device.
>>53639683
>cmd-f
>bitcoin
>no results
SRSLY? Literally my biggest technology regret.
>>53658082
why? did you get without anti-skip? or did you regret not waiting for ones with mp3 support?
I don't even know what it means "an Hi-Fi stereo compatible with MiniDisc" since all you have to do is unplug the MiniDisc cable and plug in any other device.
OP is an imbecile.
Pic related.
Bought a cheap HTC phone, upgraded to equally cheap Nokia phone. Both sucked and I spent about 3 years stuck with bad phones. Then again before 2013 I was technologically disabled, more so than I am now.
>>53642302
Sorry dear, you seem to have typed "tumblr" wrong in the url bar.
>>53640375
Don't mad you're incompatible of making wise buying decisions. Be mad at you're incompatibility to make a good retort, here's your (you).
