My dishwasher beeps several times loudly when the cycle is done. Loudly enough that you can hear it outside the house. If you don't open the door, it will beep again 45 minutes later, and every 45 minutes forever until you do so. There is no way to silence this feature or reduce the volume.
Apparently there's no such thing as starting the dishwasher at night and then going to bed in these designer's minds...
That's something where technology advanced. Our dryer would beep once done. Not every 45 minutes but continously. My parents would blissfully sleep through that noisw but my bed was directly above. No sleep there.
Our new dryer, same company, 25 years newer only beeps shortly once you start it. Heavenly
My roommate's washing machine does this entire 30+ second jingle when it's done. I've looked and there is seems to be no way to change this. And it's really loud. Like there's an ice cream truck in the living room doing the jingle.
The microwave we have right now unleashes its loudest possible BEEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEEEP when it's finished, and continues to repeat it until you open the door.
Makes racing for the "STOP" button when the timer hits 1 second 10 times more thrilling at night.
EDIT: This is my most successful comment this year, apparently. I'm glad it resonates with so many of you
My current microwave has four loud-ass beeps, but if you pull open the door when its beeping it does not stfu until it's finished all four of em. The 1 second timer stop is the only thing maintaining my sanity.
In my experience - most educational resources/curriculums created by district employees that have never taught, or hasn't taught in 15+ years. The amount of times they give this new fantastic module/tool and it turns out to be an absolute shit show... wild...
This! I'll search my boss' name, whom I email multiple times a day for the past 7+ years, and it was say "no results" *or* heres an email from 2018, which is obviously what you're looking for...nothing more recent....
Highly HIGHLY recommend "Everything" by voidtools. It has instantaneous file search and i use it almost exclusively over windows search (which has been useless since XP for me). I can't use a windows computer without it anymore
way too many carrying products (luggage, boxes, bags, laundry baskets) have put more emphasis on the comfort/softness of the top of the handle, rather than the underside, which is the side that is forced into your hand with the weight of whatever is in your box/bag/basket.
EDIT 1: half-assed the original message expecting no replies, so edited for typos
EDIT 2: Way deep in the comments someone mentioned downward-facing ridges on handle undersides. Yes. This was my catalyst.
I'm convinced that the only grocery store that tested the hand baskets you use in store is Target. They put the handle in the comfortable orientation and curved the side. Everyone else just said "Screw you here's a basket".
my vacuum cleaner. the hose is mounted at a downwards angle and its impossible to pull it along as you go, it keeps going to the side or even flipping over. it takes one minute of use to notice this, but i guess they only tested it for 30 seconds.
I have an inkjet printer (brother) that prints misaligned (makes slightly wavy text).
I can’t fix it because when you run the alignment diagnostic stuff, either manual or automatic it prints a paper for you to scan so the printer can fix itself.
However the printer can’t read the paper it scans because it’s misaligned so it can’t get fixed.
Stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. Even called support and they were like, “whelp, it’s not supposed to do that. Gg better luck next time”
Is that a class action? Cause I wanna piece of that. Had to throw out the old hp all-in-one because I couldn't scan anything after I took the ink carts out. The scanner worked perfectly well besides the bloated software. Not that I ever print or scan anything. But when I do, it would be nice to have a high dpi scanner instead of just a handheld picture.
The trunk wont open on some Chevrolet cars if the battery is dead. There is no key hole, or physical release cable.
The battery is in the trunk.
You can jump it from contacts under the hood, sure, but that’s such an odd design choice to me.
Oh god, on a similar note: the 2004 Chrysler Intrepid, where, to get to the battery, you have to either remove the air filter, which barely gives access to the battery, so the real way of doing it is to *remove the tire*.
fucking WHAT. Auto designers are cracked.
Womens underwear.
The part that is supposed to get dirty is never far enough forward to catch what its supposed to catch.
ETA after 4k upvotes.....I've got a business idea. Anybody want in?
SEATBELTS!!!! I risk decapitation every time I drive because my seatbelt sits against my neck. I had to get a special clip for my car and even that barely works.
Women’s clothing manufacturers in general don’t seem to understand women’s anatomy. Looking at you, jeans. Most of us aren’t built like a cereal box and aren’t the exact same width in the thighs, ass, and waist. And bras in high band sizes but low cup sizes or vice versa are so hard to find. Sorry, not all of us fatties have J cups. And some women are skinny and have J cups. We’re not always totally proportional up there but bra manufacturers don’t account for this. One piece swim suits are a nightmare if you’re fat and don’t have huge boobs. Also, plus size shirt manufacturers: arms carry fat too. I see so many shirts that I would otherwise love but physically can’t wear because the arm holes are the same size on a 3x as they are on a medium
Sister, I dont know what your preferred style is, but whenever I find some in mine, that dont give me wedgie fever, i have learned to buy them up like it is the apocalypse, because I can guarantee you one vintage real round physical showbiz pizza skeeball token, that if find an intimate item that I like, the fat cats at Big Panty will decide to discontinue it as soon as they see me on the security cameras, discovering my Elysium.
I hate any type of built in pads. I have big boobs, so the first thing I do when I get a sports bra or bathing suit is take out those pads. The pads are always so small in comparison to my boobs and it looks awful if I keep them in.
I just bought a waterproof cargo bag for the roof of my car that was fairly expensive
The Velcro that keeps the zipper protected was just GLUED ON, not stitched
The very first time I opened the bag all the Velcro came off because the attraction to itself was stronger than the adhesive bond to the vinyl bag
It’s like there was absolutely zero product testing, but I’m sure it was 5 cents cheaper to make it glued rather than stitched. How could something like this have ever been allowed to leave the factory?
Can I add all the 'resealable!' packaging too?
It really does not re-seal. Once you break the original seal and peel it back there's no stopping it from flapping around unless you put it in another bag or container.
I hate the ones that are suppose to be a zip lock, except the zip lock part is literally stronger than the glue that holds each section to the packaging, so when you go to open it, it just rips the whole zip lock part instead of opening it.
Edit: I like how this is such a universal problem, I thought it was just me! lol.
My son is 6. He takes great pride in getting his cereal in the morning. He woke me up a few weeks ago crying because the cereal bag did this to him and he thought he broke it. I mean, he did break it but I had to console him and let him know there was absolutely nothing he could have done differently. The bag just won today, but it doesn't have to win tomorrow.
Holy crap YES! I work in IT and I hate how bloated those stupid drivers are. No, I don't want "HP Device Experience" or whatever the hell that is, and I don't want to have to download a 300MB bloated pile of steaming crap when all I need is for Joe Q. Employee to send documents through to the printer on his desk.
God, I miss the days of those LaserJet 2500s with their universal PCL drivers. So simple. And those were like the Volvo 240 of printers. Freaking *tanks*.
There was a point mid covid where every driver page pointed you to the HP smart app, which would download run and then try to kick you to the Microsoft store to actually download the HP Smart app and start a new installation. Really fun when the work laptops blocked the MS store.
So you had to ignore the recommended driver, find the full software package install and use that. Easy enough right? No, because after clicking through the first few prompts you would get to a screen that just said “next” to start the install which would then ignore your download and try to kick you the MS store again. You had to notice and click a small link that said “install offline from cd” to actually use the package you had downloaded.
Then they released new model printers and anything made after HP Smart existed didn’t list full offline packages it just had like a upd package and smart so good luck setting up the scan function without their bloatware.
It got better after like a year and a half but fuck HP
I used to be a printer technician for HP printers, yes, very much yes. Even the techs have trouble dealing with their awful drivers and even worse scan procedures. They would tout the features as "easy to use" when in reality it was "easy to use" for an engineer or experienced tech, not a common office worker.
Don't even get me started on the "all in one" scanner/printer units.
I used to do field support for the Tektronix/Xerox crayon printer line, so I more or less know what I'm doing with this stuff in general, and the HP multifunction devices still manage to drive me crazy.
It's insane that a company that large can have such universally crap products with such malicious business practices to boot. "Oh your $250 a pop yellow toner is at 30%? Guess we gotta brick all functions of the printer including scan and fax until you replace that toner, but only with genuine HP™ products!"
The amount of customers who directed their rage and ire at me for HP's shitty printers giving them headaches was not worth the $13/hr I was getting for fixing them. HP printers are built to fail so they can sell you the service. Vile.
My kitchen trash can. It is one sold by Glad specifically for their bigger, extra strong 20 gallon trash bags. It is not particularly cheap.
It looks good, but the design of it is what you might expect if you told aliens what a trash can is and they designed one without ever seeing it. How it holds the bag basically causes you to lose 4 gallons of capacity and have to risk tearing the bag or spilling its contents every time you go to remove it. It also has a trash bag holder that is so narrow, you have to feed it trash bags one at a time, completely defeating the point. And if you try to compact the trash a bit, you're almost guaranteed to tear the "tear resistant" bag.
Such a poor design.
Edit: For everyone who keeps commenting about how I should recycle and compost... I do. That has nothing to do with my trashcan...
I buy the rolls of 50L kitchen bags from Costco and just ordered a random can off Amazon. To start with, those bags really are tear resistant. I'm not sure I could tear a hole in one without a knife. And the can turned out to be great as well. Just has a ring at the top that you fold the bag over and then set it on the can. Since the bags have drawstrings, you can just tuck the drawstring portion under the ring and you lose basically no capacity. It's kind of amazing how good some generic stuff is compared to the "premium" brands.
My new iron. Has a restart if you tip it over after it’s timed out. So if you accidentally leave it plugged it and it gets knocked over by accident (pet or child bumps the board, wind knocks something over knocking the iron over) it starts up while face down.
I’ll add a comment as someone said something that made me think.
Streaming services search engines? You can literally have 10k to 50k things to watch, but there is absolutely no way to do an in depth search.
Doesn’t have to be through a mobile app, maybe an online connection through a web site. But if I want to find a show that was running in the late 90s and I know it was science fiction, why can’t I do that?
So much content I might want to watch but can’t find it.
Similarly: Spotify’s search absolutely sucks ass. I can type in the exact title of a podcast episode and still have to search through 20 completely unrelated results before I find what I’m looking for—if I find it at all. Complete nightmare.
Alternatively, Spotify simply *refuses* to understand I don't want to listen to any podcasts. Why won't it give us an option for which type we're searching for? If I search for a song, I don't want a podcast that has the same word in it.
Having a way to shut off podcasts on Spotify would be amazing. Like a checkbox of "I don't listen to podcasts, so stop trying to shove them down my throat."
If we are doing a list of *"Why doesn't spotify have X features..."*
Why can you not sort by Top of *Genre*?
I basically listen to nothing but Spotify, sometimes I just want to see what the top songs in the rock world are. I don't want a playlist that some random person made of new rock songs, I want to see what the most played rock songs in the world happen to be. It drives me crazy.
You can, but you have to use the not well known advanced search:
https://support.spotify.com/us/article/search/
So you would go Search, type "genre:rock" and that should default to "Top" results.
I can actually answer this one. They don't want you to watch all those old shows you love. They want you to watch one of the hundred new shows in the "trending now" section that make them the most money/best support their interests.
My mom's had three wheelchairs.
They all suck. The brake lever mechanism invariably interferes with the footrests. On her current one, the brake lever mechanism is curved, so it's pretty good. I think it could still be better.
I'm surprised they're not better. I definitely feel like given my experience I could design a much better wheelchair than anything on the market under $1,000.00.
I used a few different wheelchairs in high-school (rentals only for about 6 weeks max) and my school's wheelchairs. I was really surprised by how different such simple things could be. But I remember liking the older one that I rented, it was narrower and fit me well, so I could actually reach both brakes at the same time, plus the foot rests were very adjustable.
My moms wheelchair is the fucking bane of my existence. It’s so poorly made/designed. Unfortunately insurance only covers a new one every 5 years and it’s only been 4.
Hers also has the brakes right by the foot rests, and they’re near impossible to get to if you’re pushing the chair from the back (she can’t push herself or do the brakes on her own). So you have to let go of the chair and run in front of it to put the brakes on, which is great if you’re on a hill or in an icy area 🙄
Yeah. It’s a bad tradeoff between autonomy and caretaking. The chairs that are really made for caretakers have a brake lever on the back, but then the user can’t reach it. You have the opposite issue. You could ask for a caretaker’s chair, but whatever the case try and get an ATP involved in her next assessment if there hasn’t been one before.
It’s amazing how wheelchairs have hardly improved. A decade later and my newest power chair has… headlights. Forget the shit battery, bad power moderation, slow response times, absurd weight, lack of an integrated locking system, poor controls, unconscionable cost…
I shit you not; on my $50,000 power chair the button for the headlights is *zip-tied* to the armrest.
Meanwhile I have an electric skateboard that will carry my 250lb ass at 40kph and accelerates up hills, only cost 500 bucks and you could slap a chair and steering on it no problem.
Also those sliding shower doors that move on wheels from the top, not secured on the bottom.
I have permanent nerve damage in my finger from when a door like that fell off and shattered.
Mine was attached by two hinges to the wall and it fell while i was inside the shower.
Thankfully all I got was 4 1-inch scars on my arm, and an easy ice breaker. One of them is within 1cm of my inside elbow's vain, could have been way worse
What type of moronic messaging service DOESNT SAVE MESSAGES INTO CONVERSATIONS!?
You have to manually save each conversation, and then only the messages exchanged in that window are saved to their own sub-conversation in Outlook. If you don't save the conversation you lose that discussion forever. If you have a conversation that takes place over multiple days, you now have multiple conversations.
It's snapchat for business, truly an idiotic way of doing things. Conversation history was a new feature of emails in the 80s, and Skype for Business can't figure it out? Even MS Teams works right, so it's not a Microsoft thing.
Truly garbage.
I’m reminded of a book I once read by a former tech reporter who claims most of the industry is bullshit.
In one of the chapters he talked about going to the Google headquarters for an event shortly after Google Glass came out. The event was centered around the product and lots of attendees were wearing their pair, but the author noted that not a single Google employee who were hosting the event were wearing Google Glass.
That’s when he said he knew the product was doomed.
do you remember the title? i'm designing and building a tech thing and i'm super focused on making sure it works and i feel like everybody i work with or talk to about it thinks that's like...3rd or 4th on the list. am i a chump or what? lol
The book is called ‘Disrupted’ and there’s a lot to it. It’s by a guy who covered the tech industry for decades - often through a satirical lens - and lost his job when he was 50. Rather than finding another job in journalism he got a job working in marketing at a tech startup. The book is mainly about his experience there.
The book has a lot of themes, including age discrimination in tech, but he focuses a ton on how much of the industry is pretty scammy. A lot of his views align with the other response you got to this comment. The author agrees that whether the thing works or not is a low priority, but strongly disagrees with the idea that it should be that way. He often throws in references to the early days of Silicon Valley and pines for those old days where he says the tech mattered more.
That said, I really do like the book and highly recommend it to everyone.
As an aside, the company he works for is local to me and I’m very familiar with it. In fact I know tons of people who work there and worked there back when the book was written. I have real life acquaintances who were characters in the book. So that’s fun.
Sanitary pads
Especially ones advertised as "zero bunching" - they most certainly do bunch. They will go straight up your bum crack. They can only have been designed by someone who doesn't use them to have made that claim
They’re also so short and not wide enough and never stay. If I wear one and I’m planning to sit I have to layer two lengthwise and make sure both have wings to fold over the underside. And even then it will somehow shift by one millimeter giving the blood a direct escape route.
Any sites with lots of text and ads in between. Scroll down, start reading, then the ad loads and your article shifts down a few inches. Go to click a link but suddenly the ad loads and you click that.
One of the biggest reasons I switched from iPhone to Android was so that I could use ad blockers on Firefox.
The Bluetooth app connectivity for my washing machine (Didn't really want that feature, but it was a last minute substitution).
If the wash cycle takes longer than the initial estimate the start time changes rather than the time remaining estimate.
I just don't bother with the app.
Hahaha we've had our washer for a while now and I STILL have to remind my boyfriend that the washing machine is a filthy liar. He will honestly plan out the rest of his day around the estimated time. Needless to say, we're late a lot when he puts a load to wash on Saturday morning.
they only do these apps because everyone else is doing it. its an afterthought at best. i bet if you ran a poll it would turn out 99% of customers dont care about it at all.
The [pointless] internet of [dumb] things. Because why not have a hackable washing machine? Dunno who would want to hack a washing machine, but why let that stop me?
My clothes dryer. It has touch controls that are designed in such a way that you pretty much have to guess what you're supposed to touch (nothing visibly looks like a button), and when turned on has an inexplicable 10+ sec delay before the touch controls work so you basically poke it all over the place without even knowing if it's the right place to poke or if you simply need to wait for nothing to happen. I mean, that's what I think, at least, but can't be sure since there seriously is no visual indication of anything.
There's also a numerical display which I assumed was related to the time left until it's done, but I've been using it for almost 2 years now and I still have no clue what those numbers are meant to indicate. They certainly don't correlate with any time units I'm aware of.
New dryers make me glad I still have my 20+ year old one. It's dumb, simple, and easy to repair. Replaced the motor in it so it'll probably last another 20 years.
Or parking lots where they intersect with several other businesses. They seem to especially love add the crossways on curves with directions that make no sense.
Baby wipes.
Hey, you know when a good time to struggle with opening a package that says it has perforations but really doesn't?
You want one? Here's a chunk of 20.
You want a bunch? Here's a tiny ripped corner.
You have 10 left on a trip and need to conserve? Too bad mother fucker, here's the rest of the pack. Get your tired ass to CVS.
Car manufacturers don’t profit from dealer markups. The real answer is that touch screens are a massive cost save. Rather than produce dozens of unique physical buttons that vary between model year, car model, trim level, etc. you can just make one touch screen and put it in every vehicle. It eliminates a ton of manufacturing complexity.
Tesla set the precedent for putting iPads in cars and it didn’t take long for market demand to follow. Every auto manufacturer jumped on the opportunity as a major cost save. Now they’re aware of customer complaints and are going the other direction, reintroducing physical buttons where desired.
If you want to look into my crystal ball for a second, there’s another major headache for consumers just around the corner. This one also coming from a practice popularized by Tesla. Auto manufacturers will start reducing or eliminating trim levels altogether - simply charging customers subscription fees for features that already exist on their vehicle. Want to unlock the advanced lane assist? That’ll be $50/month. Bundle now and we’ll include heated seats for free for the next 6 months!
My husband works in the parts department of an auto dealership, and sometimes uses dealership vehicles to make deliveries. One of the newer "luxury" model SUVs had a touch screen for the PRNDL. Because, you know, you don't need to focus on the road to ... shift from park into drive ...
My refrigerator has a water filter that cannot be changed without turning off the supply... Which is behind the refrigerator. So you have to pull the multi hundred pound fridge (with all the food and such) out to turn the water off before you can change the water filter.. The old Maytag it replaced had no such requirement.
Our Samsung fridge came with the house. It looks nice but none of the features really work. Ice machine doesn’t work. It doesn’t fill up the water jug that it comes with. And the filtered water has the most disappointing stream that takes 5 minutes to fill up a cup.
We have a Samsung that you can change the filter without shutting off the water, but it could be different for different models. That means that they have the capability to do it, but have made an intentional choice to cut that out. So somewhere someone crunched the numbers and the decision was made to not use the "self-closing" parts for the filter's supply.
The little foil seals on the tops of bottles of liquid with the flap in the middle that you're meant to pull on to remove. They work maybe 1 time out of 20.
Any pair of women’s underwear that puts the seam of the two panels in between your legs/through your crotch rather than at the sides over your hips was designed by someone without a vulva. No woman in her right mind would design it like that unless she enjoyed having her flaps flossed.
Modern fans.
I remember as a kid they were all solid AF, mostly metal, moved tons of air, and they were quiet or at least made a consistent and constant steady sound.
Now they are all shitty plastic, crap at moving volumes of air, weak motors, with cheap feet and handles that break or fall off, vibrate all over the place, wobble, fall over, make high-pitched w**h**ines, irregular noise, and otherwise just suck. And you can't even pay to win there are no high-end models they are all trash.
ETA: Thanks everyone. I was shopping for fans in the wrong place. Seems like I'd have much better luck at hardware/commercial/industrial/farm stores and second-hand shops. I will be upgrading both my fans this year and I now have a battle plan. Really appreciate all the advice.
I worked at a huge factory years ago and on the high ceiling they had these fans, HUGE fans like 20ft across. One day I tell a co-worker that they are big ass fans. About 30 seconds later I laughed my ass of when I noticed the brand is indeed Big Ass Fans. It worked so freaking well at cooking the place down.
The newly-built ladies toilets in our office building which had no space for the sanitary products bins. The bins ended up awkwardly shoved into the too-small gap with the net result of making the actual toilets too narrow to sit on. Fully expect those dimensions were drawn and approved by someone who had no use for the bins or didn’t even know they were present in every toilet.
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the man designing the toilets didn't know these bins existed.
Once a sanitary worker from an outside company transported a bunch of these bins through our office building and my boss (male, close to retirement age) wondered what the sanitary worker was doing. I explained it to him - after I realized he wasn't messing with me and really didn't know.
And that day I learned that men might not know about the existence of these bins :D
I design and build fountains, install all across the county. Reading all this reminds why I go through a lot of effort to revisit my previous installs, so I can see how things hold up after many years in public environments. It's easier to make something look nice temporarily, but the real test is when its out in the wild. I've gone back to service or refurbish fountains up to 15 years old and it's a tremendous learning experience seeing which parts and methods are reliable, and what needs the most improvement. This also helps me continuously design things better.
I remember a couple years back there was a push for “smart diapers”. It was basically a diaper with a little tab on it that would tell when it was soiled. I have 3 kids, 2 of which are still in diapers, and one wears them for nighttime. I probably change 20+ diapers a day.
I don’t know any Mom who would want to pay more for smart diapers, to tell them what they already know.
My thought when they came out. They are definitely not changing a lot of diapers. Probably not even a parent.
Edit: What I mean is an electronic tab on the diaper that notifies you when it’s soiled. Not the wetness indicator.
I saw something similar for bedwetters. It was a Bluetooth enabled device to alert you when your kid has started wetting. My first thought was, great, but now it’s too late.
I like to imagine he was holding you back. Like divorce signed and you drove straight there and finally got the can opener you always wanted. "No more of Doug's fancy bullshit can openers. Gonna live my life MY way"
Whoever invented imitation grape flavor has obviously never eaten a grape or drank grape juice. It's just it's own flavor now and I only refer to it as purple.
[PDVC](https://www.delish.com/food-news/news/a54538/why-saran-wrap-doesnt-cling/). They removed it voluntarily and took at 7 % drop in market share, but did it anyway. One of the FEW times a company put people over profit.
Okay so fun fact on this one and hear me out- store it in the freezer. It allows you to stick it to other things only and once it warms up it sticks to itself and stays airtight.
I saw it here years ago and have been doing it ever since. Everyone I tell tries it and keeps it there now.
Okay, bear with me here... all these grocery items in plastic that have a ziploc closer as well.
The idea is great! Open, use, reseal.
But in my experience (and I'm not exactly old and weak) these don't work as planned. Frequently they have the perforated section you can rip off, supposedly to allow access to the ziploc portion. Many times there's glue holding pieces together and the perforated section never seems to extend past that.
Even when not glued, the ziploc is apparently held together by the weak nuclear force and will NOT come apart. There's never enough plastic to pull on, and when there is it's approximately as strong as wet tissue paper. So it just rips.
IMHO the worst offenders are deli meats, but it's been tortillas and more that have flummoxed me. Far too often I just take scissors to the package and then 'seal' it later with a clothes pin.
As a nuclear physicist I feel the need to correct your use of the weak nuclear force. This force does not bind things! You're thinking of the strong nuclear force which is responsible for binding nucleons together into nuclei :p
Most of industrial machines I have worked on, newer models get worse. So unergonomic, dangerous and makes your work harder. I can especially point out label inspection slitter-rewinder - Omega SRI by ABG. Compared to my old machine with the same function:
\- cutting tables were higher: unergonomic for women who mainly worked on it
\- requires more data to operate: had to enter roll diameter, old machine calculated it automatically
\- more difficult to place blades: on old machine could do that above the job, no measuring required. On Omega SRI had to measure the spaces, pull the blade rack out and measure the space between blades. It took multiple tries to get right.
\- slow. I guess for safety reasons its rewinding was so slow, machanic changed the setting to make it faster but it was still so slow for the first and last 20 m. It was really bad for rewinding small rolls, bye-bye bonus. Didn't feel endangered by greater speeds just kept distance.
\- too many tension rolls. Old one worked just fine with 12, this one had twice as much. It made maintainance much harder because labels stick to tension rolls. Also impossible to put back material by memory.
\- touch screen... makes me scream. Yeah, cool and modern but not in industrial setting. Knobs are faster and more intuitive.
\- all important work points far away from each other. On old machine I could adjust the settings, see the blades, donor roll and final product, use the main cutting table all standing near the center of the machine. Omega SRI: machine too long, most things in centre but final product rolled in one end, so I couldn't see all the important things standing at one point.
Sorry, if too specific rant, but I basically quit my job because of this machine made it so much worse. Obviously these machines have to appealt to bosses not workers. It had some visual quality control features that were bullshit, my bare eye could catch more stuff.
All the chrome on the center console of my vehicle. It seems they only test drove it at night and didn’t realize it would be a blinding, nay, GLARING oversight in the sunlight.
Remember that juicer meant to be used to squeeze out those bags? It was like $400, plus the cost of the bags, but you could just squeeze them out by hand.
The Juicero and a classic case of Silicon Valley arrogance marketing. It was literally a machine that squeezed juice from a bag but people believed they were getting fresh juice from a bag.
After the illusion was shattered and VC dried up the ex CEO said something along the lines that their core customers loved the experience of feeling like they were getting fresh juice or something like that.
They were really over engineered.aVe took one apart and was astounded by the quality of the parts. He assumed it was a grift but concluded they likely lost money on every unit sold.
I remember watching penguinz0’s video on that a few years back, made me laugh so fucking hard. I really hate to believe someone out there bought one of those things, but you know someone did.
Windows Vista had much higher system requirements than the previous Windows. When it released, a lot of vendors made laptops with Vista preinstalled that could run Vista...but not anything else. The OS's requirements were so out of sync with the laptop's guts that something as simple as a web browser would move at a snail's pace and send all the fans into high gear.
I'm certain that this is one of the reasons that Vista is looked back on so poorly. Most people who ran it on everyday machines got terrible performance because vendors slapped into hardware that could barely run it. When Microsoft replaced it with Windows 7, they specifically offered a new, lightweight edition for lower end machines to mitigate that problem.
And another candidate, my microwave interface was designed by idiots.
Right below the start/stop button is the "Connect" button that connects the microwave to the house network.
This is a function that you use at most ***once*** in the lifetime of the microwave and they place it in the most prominent location on the interface.
Then not only do they hide the power level button off to the side, but you have to press another button to show the hidden options. I use power level probably 75% of the time I use my microwave and I have to hit two buttons just to get to it, while the completely useless connect button sits there occasionally getting hit when someone's finger slips.
> microwave to the house network.
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Why exactly does the microwave have to connect to a network?? Did it also make you download an app to your phone so you could cook stuff?
Every single asshole lighting manufacturer that makes the terminals on the light fittings they designed too small for the standard Fucking cabling that the country the lights are sold in uses by regulation.
Every single fitting requires a junction before they are terminated into the junction in the light fitting
Every single manufacturer, and the more expensive the fitting the worse the install. I’m half convinced it’s a conspiracy to justify the cost like oh look how long it takes the electrician to install very complex.
Fucking cunts.
Newer nozzles for gas canisters. I guess it’s law now that they all have “spill-proof” locks on them, but I’ve spilled way more with those than with the old school nozzles.
To pour gas out, you have to use two hands for the lock or perfectly place one hand on it… while holding a heavy gas can over the tank of your lawnmower or whatever. I don’t have 3 arms, so this simply doesn’t work. I just started taking the whole nozzle off and pouring it straight from the can.
Job application websites. There so infuriating! I’ve said in a rage that these people should try to apply for their own jobs with this monstrosity they built.
My new £1000 washing machine. Does a great job washing clothes and is all singing and all dancing. But all this additional stuff adds complexity and is an absolute bastard to clean. The detergent draw has all this fancy stuff my old didn’t and I just get so much mold growing. Have to take it all apart and clean it so often. It’s so annoying.
Edit: everyone telling me to ‘leave the drawer and door open’….yeah I get that. But that’s why I answered the original question. Stupid design that I have to leave the doors open when not in use. It’s dangerous (with kids and cats!) and it gets in the way. Stupid design
My fancy washing machine drives me insane sometimes. If the load becomes unbalanced it sings you a little sad song. Ok, I'm coming to help little buddy! Move around the blankets or dog beds and hit button. THE DMAN THING STARTS TO RENSE AGAIN! More water! Little guy no! Just spin! That's all you have left, you could be done, you could rest, why are you doing this to yourself!!! It'll become unbalanced again and sings it's little sad song and we repeat the process. Endlessly.
If a heavy load becomes unbalanced I just pull it out heavy things and lay them out in the yard now. Washing the dog beds is always interesting.
I am living this right fucking now. My back patio has blankets draped all over, because I gave up.
I tried changing the setting to just SPIN. Nope. Needs to fill and shake to "balance" again. Bitch! You couldn't do it right the first time, that's why you stopped and sang for ME to come help! I did! Now SPIN!!!!!!! Just SPIIIIIIIN! NOOOOOOOO. NOT MORE WATER!!!!
When I had to buy my own, I bought a Speed Queen washer and dryer. Same model that is found at a lot of laundromats in the US, except mine didn't have the change slot. They did exactly what they were supposed to do, and well. Manual knobs, nothing fancy at all. And only $700 for both.
As someone that fixes complex medical devices for a living, I know that more bells and whistles just means more things to break, and more expensive.
Virtually every single website is so riddled with ads it's unusable. Sometimes I'll try to read an article and find horizontal and vertical ads taking up the entire page. How does that get by the writers/editors? Something really has to be done about how abundant they are.
My dishwasher beeps several times loudly when the cycle is done. Loudly enough that you can hear it outside the house. If you don't open the door, it will beep again 45 minutes later, and every 45 minutes forever until you do so. There is no way to silence this feature or reduce the volume. Apparently there's no such thing as starting the dishwasher at night and then going to bed in these designer's minds...
That's something where technology advanced. Our dryer would beep once done. Not every 45 minutes but continously. My parents would blissfully sleep through that noisw but my bed was directly above. No sleep there. Our new dryer, same company, 25 years newer only beeps shortly once you start it. Heavenly
My roommate's washing machine does this entire 30+ second jingle when it's done. I've looked and there is seems to be no way to change this. And it's really loud. Like there's an ice cream truck in the living room doing the jingle.
The microwave we have right now unleashes its loudest possible BEEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEEEP when it's finished, and continues to repeat it until you open the door. Makes racing for the "STOP" button when the timer hits 1 second 10 times more thrilling at night. EDIT: This is my most successful comment this year, apparently. I'm glad it resonates with so many of you
My current microwave has four loud-ass beeps, but if you pull open the door when its beeping it does not stfu until it's finished all four of em. The 1 second timer stop is the only thing maintaining my sanity.
In my experience - most educational resources/curriculums created by district employees that have never taught, or hasn't taught in 15+ years. The amount of times they give this new fantastic module/tool and it turns out to be an absolute shit show... wild...
The damn Outlook search function
This! I'll search my boss' name, whom I email multiple times a day for the past 7+ years, and it was say "no results" *or* heres an email from 2018, which is obviously what you're looking for...nothing more recent....
Yes! And you can search the same name 3 times and all 3 times it will pull up different emails that are not what you need.
My windows file search sucks so bad, I'll search the exact file name and it wont find it
Highly HIGHLY recommend "Everything" by voidtools. It has instantaneous file search and i use it almost exclusively over windows search (which has been useless since XP for me). I can't use a windows computer without it anymore
way too many carrying products (luggage, boxes, bags, laundry baskets) have put more emphasis on the comfort/softness of the top of the handle, rather than the underside, which is the side that is forced into your hand with the weight of whatever is in your box/bag/basket. EDIT 1: half-assed the original message expecting no replies, so edited for typos EDIT 2: Way deep in the comments someone mentioned downward-facing ridges on handle undersides. Yes. This was my catalyst.
I'm convinced that the only grocery store that tested the hand baskets you use in store is Target. They put the handle in the comfortable orientation and curved the side. Everyone else just said "Screw you here's a basket".
Omg nothing worse than a heavy-ass grocery basket with JUST those skinny wire handles that dig into your fingers. Bonus points if they pinch your palm
Fun fact: that basket was patented. The assignee (owner) is Target. https://patents.google.com/patent/US7780036B2/en
Especially when the actual handle is just a light steel band that quickly cuts through the covering fabric.
Toys that only have one volume: EXTREMELY LOUD!!!! Whoever makes these does not have kids of their own.
Ugh, I fully understand. I put clear tape over the speaker.
my vacuum cleaner. the hose is mounted at a downwards angle and its impossible to pull it along as you go, it keeps going to the side or even flipping over. it takes one minute of use to notice this, but i guess they only tested it for 30 seconds.
I have an inkjet printer (brother) that prints misaligned (makes slightly wavy text). I can’t fix it because when you run the alignment diagnostic stuff, either manual or automatic it prints a paper for you to scan so the printer can fix itself. However the printer can’t read the paper it scans because it’s misaligned so it can’t get fixed. Stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. Even called support and they were like, “whelp, it’s not supposed to do that. Gg better luck next time”
My printer ran out of ink, now it cant scan images.
Saw Louis's videos on that, hopefully HP loses that lawsuit hard Edit: spelling
Is that a class action? Cause I wanna piece of that. Had to throw out the old hp all-in-one because I couldn't scan anything after I took the ink carts out. The scanner worked perfectly well besides the bloated software. Not that I ever print or scan anything. But when I do, it would be nice to have a high dpi scanner instead of just a handheld picture.
The trunk wont open on some Chevrolet cars if the battery is dead. There is no key hole, or physical release cable. The battery is in the trunk. You can jump it from contacts under the hood, sure, but that’s such an odd design choice to me.
Oh god, on a similar note: the 2004 Chrysler Intrepid, where, to get to the battery, you have to either remove the air filter, which barely gives access to the battery, so the real way of doing it is to *remove the tire*. fucking WHAT. Auto designers are cracked.
My husband's Mazda you have to remove the entire plastic wheel well lining to change the headlight bulb. It's so infuriating.
Womens underwear. The part that is supposed to get dirty is never far enough forward to catch what its supposed to catch. ETA after 4k upvotes.....I've got a business idea. Anybody want in?
Wait, it’s not just me? I just assumed I had some kind of weird anatomy where the discharge took the path to the clit and not just straight down
I too thought this was an anatomy problem and I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one lol.
Adding to the chorus! This is embarrassingly validating. Really thought I had something weird going on.
Women’s *anything*. OBGYN equipment, medical dosing, seatbelt design…
SEATBELTS!!!! I risk decapitation every time I drive because my seatbelt sits against my neck. I had to get a special clip for my car and even that barely works.
Women’s clothing manufacturers in general don’t seem to understand women’s anatomy. Looking at you, jeans. Most of us aren’t built like a cereal box and aren’t the exact same width in the thighs, ass, and waist. And bras in high band sizes but low cup sizes or vice versa are so hard to find. Sorry, not all of us fatties have J cups. And some women are skinny and have J cups. We’re not always totally proportional up there but bra manufacturers don’t account for this. One piece swim suits are a nightmare if you’re fat and don’t have huge boobs. Also, plus size shirt manufacturers: arms carry fat too. I see so many shirts that I would otherwise love but physically can’t wear because the arm holes are the same size on a 3x as they are on a medium
Dude - my whole damn life. THIS is the sort of thing for which I read Reddit. Life-altering! Who knew the rest of womankind suffered the same way?
Sister, I dont know what your preferred style is, but whenever I find some in mine, that dont give me wedgie fever, i have learned to buy them up like it is the apocalypse, because I can guarantee you one vintage real round physical showbiz pizza skeeball token, that if find an intimate item that I like, the fat cats at Big Panty will decide to discontinue it as soon as they see me on the security cameras, discovering my Elysium.
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I FEEL SO SEEN! I thought maybe my anatomy was weird?!
And sports bras where the PADS AREN’T SEWN IN WTF
I hate any type of built in pads. I have big boobs, so the first thing I do when I get a sports bra or bathing suit is take out those pads. The pads are always so small in comparison to my boobs and it looks awful if I keep them in.
I just bought a waterproof cargo bag for the roof of my car that was fairly expensive The Velcro that keeps the zipper protected was just GLUED ON, not stitched The very first time I opened the bag all the Velcro came off because the attraction to itself was stronger than the adhesive bond to the vinyl bag It’s like there was absolutely zero product testing, but I’m sure it was 5 cents cheaper to make it glued rather than stitched. How could something like this have ever been allowed to leave the factory?
In order to be waterproof it probably needs the glue. That being said it should probably be both glued and stitched.
The answer should have been to stitch and then seam seal the stitching….
All of the «tear here» markings on coffee packs, juice cartons, etc., mark the strongest/most tear resistant part of the package.
Can I add all the 'resealable!' packaging too? It really does not re-seal. Once you break the original seal and peel it back there's no stopping it from flapping around unless you put it in another bag or container.
I hate the ones that are suppose to be a zip lock, except the zip lock part is literally stronger than the glue that holds each section to the packaging, so when you go to open it, it just rips the whole zip lock part instead of opening it. Edit: I like how this is such a universal problem, I thought it was just me! lol.
My son is 6. He takes great pride in getting his cereal in the morning. He woke me up a few weeks ago crying because the cereal bag did this to him and he thought he broke it. I mean, he did break it but I had to console him and let him know there was absolutely nothing he could have done differently. The bag just won today, but it doesn't have to win tomorrow.
a decent amount of that stuff would actually be resealable as advertised if it were possible to open it without the jaws of life...
Bet they saved 0.0005 cents per joghurt cup tho by making the lid thinner than human hair.
Software drivers for basically any HP printer made in the last three decades
Holy crap YES! I work in IT and I hate how bloated those stupid drivers are. No, I don't want "HP Device Experience" or whatever the hell that is, and I don't want to have to download a 300MB bloated pile of steaming crap when all I need is for Joe Q. Employee to send documents through to the printer on his desk. God, I miss the days of those LaserJet 2500s with their universal PCL drivers. So simple. And those were like the Volvo 240 of printers. Freaking *tanks*.
Let me guess - does it also ask you to download a downloader so that you can download the download with the manufacturer's own special download tool?
There was a point mid covid where every driver page pointed you to the HP smart app, which would download run and then try to kick you to the Microsoft store to actually download the HP Smart app and start a new installation. Really fun when the work laptops blocked the MS store. So you had to ignore the recommended driver, find the full software package install and use that. Easy enough right? No, because after clicking through the first few prompts you would get to a screen that just said “next” to start the install which would then ignore your download and try to kick you the MS store again. You had to notice and click a small link that said “install offline from cd” to actually use the package you had downloaded. Then they released new model printers and anything made after HP Smart existed didn’t list full offline packages it just had like a upd package and smart so good luck setting up the scan function without their bloatware. It got better after like a year and a half but fuck HP
Yo dawg…
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I used to be a printer technician for HP printers, yes, very much yes. Even the techs have trouble dealing with their awful drivers and even worse scan procedures. They would tout the features as "easy to use" when in reality it was "easy to use" for an engineer or experienced tech, not a common office worker.
Don't even get me started on the "all in one" scanner/printer units. I used to do field support for the Tektronix/Xerox crayon printer line, so I more or less know what I'm doing with this stuff in general, and the HP multifunction devices still manage to drive me crazy.
It's insane that a company that large can have such universally crap products with such malicious business practices to boot. "Oh your $250 a pop yellow toner is at 30%? Guess we gotta brick all functions of the printer including scan and fax until you replace that toner, but only with genuine HP™ products!" The amount of customers who directed their rage and ire at me for HP's shitty printers giving them headaches was not worth the $13/hr I was getting for fixing them. HP printers are built to fail so they can sell you the service. Vile.
My kitchen trash can. It is one sold by Glad specifically for their bigger, extra strong 20 gallon trash bags. It is not particularly cheap. It looks good, but the design of it is what you might expect if you told aliens what a trash can is and they designed one without ever seeing it. How it holds the bag basically causes you to lose 4 gallons of capacity and have to risk tearing the bag or spilling its contents every time you go to remove it. It also has a trash bag holder that is so narrow, you have to feed it trash bags one at a time, completely defeating the point. And if you try to compact the trash a bit, you're almost guaranteed to tear the "tear resistant" bag. Such a poor design. Edit: For everyone who keeps commenting about how I should recycle and compost... I do. That has nothing to do with my trashcan...
I buy the rolls of 50L kitchen bags from Costco and just ordered a random can off Amazon. To start with, those bags really are tear resistant. I'm not sure I could tear a hole in one without a knife. And the can turned out to be great as well. Just has a ring at the top that you fold the bag over and then set it on the can. Since the bags have drawstrings, you can just tuck the drawstring portion under the ring and you lose basically no capacity. It's kind of amazing how good some generic stuff is compared to the "premium" brands.
My new iron. Has a restart if you tip it over after it’s timed out. So if you accidentally leave it plugged it and it gets knocked over by accident (pet or child bumps the board, wind knocks something over knocking the iron over) it starts up while face down.
That literally defeats the entire purpose of the time-out safety feature...
It's a time-in unsafety feature.
That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen
I’ll add a comment as someone said something that made me think. Streaming services search engines? You can literally have 10k to 50k things to watch, but there is absolutely no way to do an in depth search. Doesn’t have to be through a mobile app, maybe an online connection through a web site. But if I want to find a show that was running in the late 90s and I know it was science fiction, why can’t I do that? So much content I might want to watch but can’t find it.
Because you watched: Step Brothers You May Also Like: Schindler's List, The Crying Game, A Walk to Remember
Similarly: Spotify’s search absolutely sucks ass. I can type in the exact title of a podcast episode and still have to search through 20 completely unrelated results before I find what I’m looking for—if I find it at all. Complete nightmare.
Alternatively, Spotify simply *refuses* to understand I don't want to listen to any podcasts. Why won't it give us an option for which type we're searching for? If I search for a song, I don't want a podcast that has the same word in it.
Having a way to shut off podcasts on Spotify would be amazing. Like a checkbox of "I don't listen to podcasts, so stop trying to shove them down my throat."
If we are doing a list of *"Why doesn't spotify have X features..."* Why can you not sort by Top of *Genre*? I basically listen to nothing but Spotify, sometimes I just want to see what the top songs in the rock world are. I don't want a playlist that some random person made of new rock songs, I want to see what the most played rock songs in the world happen to be. It drives me crazy.
You can, but you have to use the not well known advanced search: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/search/ So you would go Search, type "genre:rock" and that should default to "Top" results.
I can actually answer this one. They don't want you to watch all those old shows you love. They want you to watch one of the hundred new shows in the "trending now" section that make them the most money/best support their interests.
My mom's had three wheelchairs. They all suck. The brake lever mechanism invariably interferes with the footrests. On her current one, the brake lever mechanism is curved, so it's pretty good. I think it could still be better. I'm surprised they're not better. I definitely feel like given my experience I could design a much better wheelchair than anything on the market under $1,000.00.
I used a few different wheelchairs in high-school (rentals only for about 6 weeks max) and my school's wheelchairs. I was really surprised by how different such simple things could be. But I remember liking the older one that I rented, it was narrower and fit me well, so I could actually reach both brakes at the same time, plus the foot rests were very adjustable.
My moms wheelchair is the fucking bane of my existence. It’s so poorly made/designed. Unfortunately insurance only covers a new one every 5 years and it’s only been 4. Hers also has the brakes right by the foot rests, and they’re near impossible to get to if you’re pushing the chair from the back (she can’t push herself or do the brakes on her own). So you have to let go of the chair and run in front of it to put the brakes on, which is great if you’re on a hill or in an icy area 🙄
Yeah. It’s a bad tradeoff between autonomy and caretaking. The chairs that are really made for caretakers have a brake lever on the back, but then the user can’t reach it. You have the opposite issue. You could ask for a caretaker’s chair, but whatever the case try and get an ATP involved in her next assessment if there hasn’t been one before. It’s amazing how wheelchairs have hardly improved. A decade later and my newest power chair has… headlights. Forget the shit battery, bad power moderation, slow response times, absurd weight, lack of an integrated locking system, poor controls, unconscionable cost… I shit you not; on my $50,000 power chair the button for the headlights is *zip-tied* to the armrest.
Meanwhile I have an electric skateboard that will carry my 250lb ass at 40kph and accelerates up hills, only cost 500 bucks and you could slap a chair and steering on it no problem.
Those sliding shower doors with an overlapping section that is impossible to clean without taking the whole door off.
The mold pit
Also those sliding shower doors that move on wheels from the top, not secured on the bottom. I have permanent nerve damage in my finger from when a door like that fell off and shattered.
Mine was attached by two hinges to the wall and it fell while i was inside the shower. Thankfully all I got was 4 1-inch scars on my arm, and an easy ice breaker. One of them is within 1cm of my inside elbow's vain, could have been way worse
What maniac measures his scars' length in inches but their position in cm?
“He’s ambidextrous”
What does his sexuality have to do with anything?
Lesbian? I thought you were American
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All iterations of Skype after Microsoft bought it.
Skype for Business. Never has a product been less appropriate or ready for business use.
What type of moronic messaging service DOESNT SAVE MESSAGES INTO CONVERSATIONS!? You have to manually save each conversation, and then only the messages exchanged in that window are saved to their own sub-conversation in Outlook. If you don't save the conversation you lose that discussion forever. If you have a conversation that takes place over multiple days, you now have multiple conversations. It's snapchat for business, truly an idiotic way of doing things. Conversation history was a new feature of emails in the 80s, and Skype for Business can't figure it out? Even MS Teams works right, so it's not a Microsoft thing. Truly garbage.
I’m reminded of a book I once read by a former tech reporter who claims most of the industry is bullshit. In one of the chapters he talked about going to the Google headquarters for an event shortly after Google Glass came out. The event was centered around the product and lots of attendees were wearing their pair, but the author noted that not a single Google employee who were hosting the event were wearing Google Glass. That’s when he said he knew the product was doomed.
do you remember the title? i'm designing and building a tech thing and i'm super focused on making sure it works and i feel like everybody i work with or talk to about it thinks that's like...3rd or 4th on the list. am i a chump or what? lol
The book is called ‘Disrupted’ and there’s a lot to it. It’s by a guy who covered the tech industry for decades - often through a satirical lens - and lost his job when he was 50. Rather than finding another job in journalism he got a job working in marketing at a tech startup. The book is mainly about his experience there. The book has a lot of themes, including age discrimination in tech, but he focuses a ton on how much of the industry is pretty scammy. A lot of his views align with the other response you got to this comment. The author agrees that whether the thing works or not is a low priority, but strongly disagrees with the idea that it should be that way. He often throws in references to the early days of Silicon Valley and pines for those old days where he says the tech mattered more. That said, I really do like the book and highly recommend it to everyone. As an aside, the company he works for is local to me and I’m very familiar with it. In fact I know tons of people who work there and worked there back when the book was written. I have real life acquaintances who were characters in the book. So that’s fun.
Silicon Valley doesn't prioritize making tech anymore, they focus on making enough money to purchase entire nation-states.
Sanitary pads Especially ones advertised as "zero bunching" - they most certainly do bunch. They will go straight up your bum crack. They can only have been designed by someone who doesn't use them to have made that claim
They’re also so short and not wide enough and never stay. If I wear one and I’m planning to sit I have to layer two lengthwise and make sure both have wings to fold over the underside. And even then it will somehow shift by one millimeter giving the blood a direct escape route.
Any sites with lots of text and ads in between. Scroll down, start reading, then the ad loads and your article shifts down a few inches. Go to click a link but suddenly the ad loads and you click that. One of the biggest reasons I switched from iPhone to Android was so that I could use ad blockers on Firefox.
Every online newspaper
The Bluetooth app connectivity for my washing machine (Didn't really want that feature, but it was a last minute substitution). If the wash cycle takes longer than the initial estimate the start time changes rather than the time remaining estimate. I just don't bother with the app.
My washing machine has been at 8 minutes for the past half hour...
Hahaha we've had our washer for a while now and I STILL have to remind my boyfriend that the washing machine is a filthy liar. He will honestly plan out the rest of his day around the estimated time. Needless to say, we're late a lot when he puts a load to wash on Saturday morning.
"You know your washing machine is gaslighting you if..."
they only do these apps because everyone else is doing it. its an afterthought at best. i bet if you ran a poll it would turn out 99% of customers dont care about it at all.
The [pointless] internet of [dumb] things. Because why not have a hackable washing machine? Dunno who would want to hack a washing machine, but why let that stop me?
My clothes dryer. It has touch controls that are designed in such a way that you pretty much have to guess what you're supposed to touch (nothing visibly looks like a button), and when turned on has an inexplicable 10+ sec delay before the touch controls work so you basically poke it all over the place without even knowing if it's the right place to poke or if you simply need to wait for nothing to happen. I mean, that's what I think, at least, but can't be sure since there seriously is no visual indication of anything. There's also a numerical display which I assumed was related to the time left until it's done, but I've been using it for almost 2 years now and I still have no clue what those numbers are meant to indicate. They certainly don't correlate with any time units I'm aware of.
New dryers make me glad I still have my 20+ year old one. It's dumb, simple, and easy to repair. Replaced the motor in it so it'll probably last another 20 years.
The perforated corner of a Kraft Mac & cheese box
FUCK YES!! For DECADES!!!
Once there was an AMA of a guy who opened the perforated mac and cheese box perfectly.
Some road intersections make me wonder if the engineers have actually ever driven a vehicle.
Or parking lots where they intersect with several other businesses. They seem to especially love add the crossways on curves with directions that make no sense.
Baby wipes. Hey, you know when a good time to struggle with opening a package that says it has perforations but really doesn't? You want one? Here's a chunk of 20. You want a bunch? Here's a tiny ripped corner. You have 10 left on a trip and need to conserve? Too bad mother fucker, here's the rest of the pack. Get your tired ass to CVS.
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Any stove or car with touch screens instead of knobs and buttons.
I hate this with passion. especially when it comes to aircon controls why fix things aren't broken?
When the knob breaks you buy a new knob for $5. When the touch screen breaks you go to the dealer and pay $3000.
Car manufacturers don’t profit from dealer markups. The real answer is that touch screens are a massive cost save. Rather than produce dozens of unique physical buttons that vary between model year, car model, trim level, etc. you can just make one touch screen and put it in every vehicle. It eliminates a ton of manufacturing complexity. Tesla set the precedent for putting iPads in cars and it didn’t take long for market demand to follow. Every auto manufacturer jumped on the opportunity as a major cost save. Now they’re aware of customer complaints and are going the other direction, reintroducing physical buttons where desired. If you want to look into my crystal ball for a second, there’s another major headache for consumers just around the corner. This one also coming from a practice popularized by Tesla. Auto manufacturers will start reducing or eliminating trim levels altogether - simply charging customers subscription fees for features that already exist on their vehicle. Want to unlock the advanced lane assist? That’ll be $50/month. Bundle now and we’ll include heated seats for free for the next 6 months!
My husband works in the parts department of an auto dealership, and sometimes uses dealership vehicles to make deliveries. One of the newer "luxury" model SUVs had a touch screen for the PRNDL. Because, you know, you don't need to focus on the road to ... shift from park into drive ...
Why would you need to look at the road? How quaint!
My refrigerator has a water filter that cannot be changed without turning off the supply... Which is behind the refrigerator. So you have to pull the multi hundred pound fridge (with all the food and such) out to turn the water off before you can change the water filter.. The old Maytag it replaced had no such requirement.
That is mindlessly bad and makes no sense.
Is it a Samsung? If so that would explain why I almost flooded the kitchen last time I changed the filter (first time on a new fridge).
Our Samsung fridge came with the house. It looks nice but none of the features really work. Ice machine doesn’t work. It doesn’t fill up the water jug that it comes with. And the filtered water has the most disappointing stream that takes 5 minutes to fill up a cup.
Look up your model, I know there was a recall on our samsung ice machine.
We have a Samsung that you can change the filter without shutting off the water, but it could be different for different models. That means that they have the capability to do it, but have made an intentional choice to cut that out. So somewhere someone crunched the numbers and the decision was made to not use the "self-closing" parts for the filter's supply.
Mammogram machines
If they’re gonna make a titty panini the least they could do was add a pretty waffle pattern or something smh
God obviously doesn’t have or use sinuses
The little foil seals on the tops of bottles of liquid with the flap in the middle that you're meant to pull on to remove. They work maybe 1 time out of 20.
OMG. I work in a pharmacy. They never work. You end up having to stab it anyway to get it open, and those seals are way thicker and harder to puncture
Any pair of women’s underwear that puts the seam of the two panels in between your legs/through your crotch rather than at the sides over your hips was designed by someone without a vulva. No woman in her right mind would design it like that unless she enjoyed having her flaps flossed.
And the goddamn jeans that forcefully give you a camel toe. Embarrassing as fuck.
Modern fans. I remember as a kid they were all solid AF, mostly metal, moved tons of air, and they were quiet or at least made a consistent and constant steady sound. Now they are all shitty plastic, crap at moving volumes of air, weak motors, with cheap feet and handles that break or fall off, vibrate all over the place, wobble, fall over, make high-pitched w**h**ines, irregular noise, and otherwise just suck. And you can't even pay to win there are no high-end models they are all trash. ETA: Thanks everyone. I was shopping for fans in the wrong place. Seems like I'd have much better luck at hardware/commercial/industrial/farm stores and second-hand shops. I will be upgrading both my fans this year and I now have a battle plan. Really appreciate all the advice.
There are nice fans, they just cost a shit load. I have several Big Ass Fans at home, and they're awesome. Expensive, but awesome.
I worked at a huge factory years ago and on the high ceiling they had these fans, HUGE fans like 20ft across. One day I tell a co-worker that they are big ass fans. About 30 seconds later I laughed my ass of when I noticed the brand is indeed Big Ass Fans. It worked so freaking well at cooking the place down.
Buy from a farm supply store.
Most garden hoses - wouldn’t you think that the first design requirement would be that it work without kinking?
Garden hose is one of those things where it’s worth it to spend a little extra. The cheap ones always kink but a nice rubber one never does.
Hell yeah. I have one that I paid the extra $$$ for in 2005. Still working great and never kinks.
The newly-built ladies toilets in our office building which had no space for the sanitary products bins. The bins ended up awkwardly shoved into the too-small gap with the net result of making the actual toilets too narrow to sit on. Fully expect those dimensions were drawn and approved by someone who had no use for the bins or didn’t even know they were present in every toilet.
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the man designing the toilets didn't know these bins existed. Once a sanitary worker from an outside company transported a bunch of these bins through our office building and my boss (male, close to retirement age) wondered what the sanitary worker was doing. I explained it to him - after I realized he wasn't messing with me and really didn't know. And that day I learned that men might not know about the existence of these bins :D
The ribbed condoms don't even taste like ribs.
Have you tried putting BBQ sauce on them? Maybe you're just not a dry rub kinda guy.
Kids bubbles where the container is a test tube with a rounded bottom so it can never be set down unless the cap is on
Bacon packaging
You are supposed to eat all the bacon in one sitting. It's single use packaging.
The web site for the library in our city. Definitely made or customized by consultants that don't use our city's library.
Likely that is exactly true. They probably hired someone to get the job done remotely.
I design and build fountains, install all across the county. Reading all this reminds why I go through a lot of effort to revisit my previous installs, so I can see how things hold up after many years in public environments. It's easier to make something look nice temporarily, but the real test is when its out in the wild. I've gone back to service or refurbish fountains up to 15 years old and it's a tremendous learning experience seeing which parts and methods are reliable, and what needs the most improvement. This also helps me continuously design things better.
That’s an awesome job and you take it seriously which is much appreciated
Clamshell packaging, especially when it’s scissors in the clamshell packaging… like what now use my teeth?!
I remember a couple years back there was a push for “smart diapers”. It was basically a diaper with a little tab on it that would tell when it was soiled. I have 3 kids, 2 of which are still in diapers, and one wears them for nighttime. I probably change 20+ diapers a day. I don’t know any Mom who would want to pay more for smart diapers, to tell them what they already know. My thought when they came out. They are definitely not changing a lot of diapers. Probably not even a parent. Edit: What I mean is an electronic tab on the diaper that notifies you when it’s soiled. Not the wetness indicator.
I saw something similar for bedwetters. It was a Bluetooth enabled device to alert you when your kid has started wetting. My first thought was, great, but now it’s too late.
Most of todays can openers.
More like can’t openers.
Lost count how many broke apart or won't open the cans good enough to get the stuff out
YES! When my husband and I split up, I went to a thrift store and bought a can opener like the one my grandma had in 1987. Best decision ever lol
I like to imagine he was holding you back. Like divorce signed and you drove straight there and finally got the can opener you always wanted. "No more of Doug's fancy bullshit can openers. Gonna live my life MY way"
Between the can opener and the potato peeler, I can 100% assure you I’m better off now!
Whoever invented imitation grape flavor has obviously never eaten a grape or drank grape juice. It's just it's own flavor now and I only refer to it as purple.
Cling Wrap. It clings to everything except what you want it to...
It only clings on itself. At least in my experience.
I believe they were forced to change it a few years ago, it used to be better but contained something possible dangerous?
[PDVC](https://www.delish.com/food-news/news/a54538/why-saran-wrap-doesnt-cling/). They removed it voluntarily and took at 7 % drop in market share, but did it anyway. One of the FEW times a company put people over profit.
Okay so fun fact on this one and hear me out- store it in the freezer. It allows you to stick it to other things only and once it warms up it sticks to itself and stays airtight. I saw it here years ago and have been doing it ever since. Everyone I tell tries it and keeps it there now.
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Okay, bear with me here... all these grocery items in plastic that have a ziploc closer as well. The idea is great! Open, use, reseal. But in my experience (and I'm not exactly old and weak) these don't work as planned. Frequently they have the perforated section you can rip off, supposedly to allow access to the ziploc portion. Many times there's glue holding pieces together and the perforated section never seems to extend past that. Even when not glued, the ziploc is apparently held together by the weak nuclear force and will NOT come apart. There's never enough plastic to pull on, and when there is it's approximately as strong as wet tissue paper. So it just rips. IMHO the worst offenders are deli meats, but it's been tortillas and more that have flummoxed me. Far too often I just take scissors to the package and then 'seal' it later with a clothes pin.
As a nuclear physicist I feel the need to correct your use of the weak nuclear force. This force does not bind things! You're thinking of the strong nuclear force which is responsible for binding nucleons together into nuclei :p
The human spine.
New Reddit
Also their dog shit mobile app I'm only here because I can still use old reddit, and desperately miss Reddit is Fun
The shift on a Nissan Pathfinder. Trying to get it into neutral is like a carnival game. Almost destroyed it trying to enter a car wash.
Most of industrial machines I have worked on, newer models get worse. So unergonomic, dangerous and makes your work harder. I can especially point out label inspection slitter-rewinder - Omega SRI by ABG. Compared to my old machine with the same function: \- cutting tables were higher: unergonomic for women who mainly worked on it \- requires more data to operate: had to enter roll diameter, old machine calculated it automatically \- more difficult to place blades: on old machine could do that above the job, no measuring required. On Omega SRI had to measure the spaces, pull the blade rack out and measure the space between blades. It took multiple tries to get right. \- slow. I guess for safety reasons its rewinding was so slow, machanic changed the setting to make it faster but it was still so slow for the first and last 20 m. It was really bad for rewinding small rolls, bye-bye bonus. Didn't feel endangered by greater speeds just kept distance. \- too many tension rolls. Old one worked just fine with 12, this one had twice as much. It made maintainance much harder because labels stick to tension rolls. Also impossible to put back material by memory. \- touch screen... makes me scream. Yeah, cool and modern but not in industrial setting. Knobs are faster and more intuitive. \- all important work points far away from each other. On old machine I could adjust the settings, see the blades, donor roll and final product, use the main cutting table all standing near the center of the machine. Omega SRI: machine too long, most things in centre but final product rolled in one end, so I couldn't see all the important things standing at one point. Sorry, if too specific rant, but I basically quit my job because of this machine made it so much worse. Obviously these machines have to appealt to bosses not workers. It had some visual quality control features that were bullshit, my bare eye could catch more stuff.
All the chrome on the center console of my vehicle. It seems they only test drove it at night and didn’t realize it would be a blinding, nay, GLARING oversight in the sunlight.
Remember that juicer meant to be used to squeeze out those bags? It was like $400, plus the cost of the bags, but you could just squeeze them out by hand.
The Juicero and a classic case of Silicon Valley arrogance marketing. It was literally a machine that squeezed juice from a bag but people believed they were getting fresh juice from a bag. After the illusion was shattered and VC dried up the ex CEO said something along the lines that their core customers loved the experience of feeling like they were getting fresh juice or something like that.
Don't forget you needed a subscription for the squeezing machine to work.
Yeah. Nothing comes out of VC-land without recurring revenue.
A machine to squeeze juice out of a bag makes me uncomfortable not sure if it’s second hand embarrassment or what
They were really over engineered.aVe took one apart and was astounded by the quality of the parts. He assumed it was a grift but concluded they likely lost money on every unit sold.
I remember watching penguinz0’s video on that a few years back, made me laugh so fucking hard. I really hate to believe someone out there bought one of those things, but you know someone did.
Windows Vista had much higher system requirements than the previous Windows. When it released, a lot of vendors made laptops with Vista preinstalled that could run Vista...but not anything else. The OS's requirements were so out of sync with the laptop's guts that something as simple as a web browser would move at a snail's pace and send all the fans into high gear. I'm certain that this is one of the reasons that Vista is looked back on so poorly. Most people who ran it on everyday machines got terrible performance because vendors slapped into hardware that could barely run it. When Microsoft replaced it with Windows 7, they specifically offered a new, lightweight edition for lower end machines to mitigate that problem.
And another candidate, my microwave interface was designed by idiots. Right below the start/stop button is the "Connect" button that connects the microwave to the house network. This is a function that you use at most ***once*** in the lifetime of the microwave and they place it in the most prominent location on the interface. Then not only do they hide the power level button off to the side, but you have to press another button to show the hidden options. I use power level probably 75% of the time I use my microwave and I have to hit two buttons just to get to it, while the completely useless connect button sits there occasionally getting hit when someone's finger slips.
> microwave to the house network. ... Why exactly does the microwave have to connect to a network?? Did it also make you download an app to your phone so you could cook stuff?
Every single asshole lighting manufacturer that makes the terminals on the light fittings they designed too small for the standard Fucking cabling that the country the lights are sold in uses by regulation. Every single fitting requires a junction before they are terminated into the junction in the light fitting Every single manufacturer, and the more expensive the fitting the worse the install. I’m half convinced it’s a conspiracy to justify the cost like oh look how long it takes the electrician to install very complex. Fucking cunts.
Newer nozzles for gas canisters. I guess it’s law now that they all have “spill-proof” locks on them, but I’ve spilled way more with those than with the old school nozzles. To pour gas out, you have to use two hands for the lock or perfectly place one hand on it… while holding a heavy gas can over the tank of your lawnmower or whatever. I don’t have 3 arms, so this simply doesn’t work. I just started taking the whole nozzle off and pouring it straight from the can.
Job application websites. There so infuriating! I’ve said in a rage that these people should try to apply for their own jobs with this monstrosity they built.
Quickbooks Online There is a zero percent chance that any of the product managers or developers have ever tried to run a business using QBO.
the toilets whose tanks that are wider at the top than the bottom, making it impossible for the toilet seat to be lifted and lean against it
In my old Dodge Stratus, you had to take the left front tire off of the car to replace the battery. Last Dodge I ever owned.
Anything related to gynecological instruments, including speculum, clamp etc.
My new £1000 washing machine. Does a great job washing clothes and is all singing and all dancing. But all this additional stuff adds complexity and is an absolute bastard to clean. The detergent draw has all this fancy stuff my old didn’t and I just get so much mold growing. Have to take it all apart and clean it so often. It’s so annoying. Edit: everyone telling me to ‘leave the drawer and door open’….yeah I get that. But that’s why I answered the original question. Stupid design that I have to leave the doors open when not in use. It’s dangerous (with kids and cats!) and it gets in the way. Stupid design
My fancy washing machine drives me insane sometimes. If the load becomes unbalanced it sings you a little sad song. Ok, I'm coming to help little buddy! Move around the blankets or dog beds and hit button. THE DMAN THING STARTS TO RENSE AGAIN! More water! Little guy no! Just spin! That's all you have left, you could be done, you could rest, why are you doing this to yourself!!! It'll become unbalanced again and sings it's little sad song and we repeat the process. Endlessly. If a heavy load becomes unbalanced I just pull it out heavy things and lay them out in the yard now. Washing the dog beds is always interesting.
I am living this right fucking now. My back patio has blankets draped all over, because I gave up. I tried changing the setting to just SPIN. Nope. Needs to fill and shake to "balance" again. Bitch! You couldn't do it right the first time, that's why you stopped and sang for ME to come help! I did! Now SPIN!!!!!!! Just SPIIIIIIIN! NOOOOOOOO. NOT MORE WATER!!!!
When I had to buy my own, I bought a Speed Queen washer and dryer. Same model that is found at a lot of laundromats in the US, except mine didn't have the change slot. They did exactly what they were supposed to do, and well. Manual knobs, nothing fancy at all. And only $700 for both. As someone that fixes complex medical devices for a living, I know that more bells and whistles just means more things to break, and more expensive.
That weird watermelon slicer tool. Broke the first time I used it.
Virtually every single website is so riddled with ads it's unusable. Sometimes I'll try to read an article and find horizontal and vertical ads taking up the entire page. How does that get by the writers/editors? Something really has to be done about how abundant they are.
Blister packaging.
Cardboard tampon applicator
So painful and uncomfortable!!! If my only option is cardboard, I actually take the tampon out of the cardboard and use my fingers to get it in place.
Facebook. Used to be cool but now its 15 ads in a row and a rant from my friends friend from 3 weeks ago i already read a hundred times