Latest posts tagged with #badtech on Bluesky
Screenshot of email from amazon.co.uk saying they "are discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 of earlier..."
#amazon have just emailed me to say they are turning my perfectly functional #kindle into a brick next month. This isn't the most aggressive example of #forcedobsolescence - and at least they gave me notice - but it's still Very Not Cool for users or the planet. #badtech #enshittification
@notion.com android app opens external links itself rather than in my chosen browser - ignoring the in-app setting. I've even removed its permission to open supported links in my device's settings, just in case - no luck.
Why?
Please, I just want to control my own stuff. #badtech #enshittification
Ok so who's idea was it to install flashing blue lights and high-pitch beepers in #migraine treatment devices like #Cefaly and the #lloydspharmacy alternative? Blue lights, flashing lights, and high pitched noises are textbook migraine triggers 🤦🏻 #badtech #badmedicine
Every time I get in my car, it connects to my phone and starts navigating to an InPost locker I went to once a few weeks back. Doesn't matter how many times I exit navigation or navigate somewhere else in between... Why does the universe want me there again so bad?! 🤔 #badtech #cartech
I have all "deals and recommendations" notifications disabled in the #amazon shopping app. Does Amazon respect that? Absolutely the fuck not. I still get push notifications recommending me products. ffs. Will uninstall soon - as I should have done years ago. #badtech #enshittification
My #volkswagen car does not let me turn off the headlights. I can be parked, handbrake on, engine switched off, and it insists on keeping the headlights switched on. Even when I move the switch to the "off" setting. Please, just let me control my own car. #badtech #cartech #enshittification
Sharing a @microsoft.com #PowerBI report by link in Teams chat generates a warning that the message will grant Power BI access to new people... even if the link is created only for people with existing access.
What gives? Is Teams wrong, or is PBI lying about link permissions? #badtech #badux
Can't get the essential medicines I need to treat my various health conditions because my pharmacy's app (yep, you read that right) has hidden the "order" button behind my phone's 3-button navigation. #welcometothefuture #badux #badtech #badmedicine
@microsoft.com Teams "reset status after" does not work (and possibly never has?). The status you choose simply doesn't get set - it's your *previous* status that is fixed until the time you specify. #badtech #badux
Who calibrated the contact-free taps in my office? They've arranged things perfectly to make hand washing impossible. Surely the motion sensor should be pointing at the place the water goes?! #badtech #badplumbing
My (work) #apple #iPhone updated overnight and the @microsoft.com Outlook search function no longer returns any results from deleted items. ffs #badtech
My #HP printer and #macbook *always* get two-sided printing wrong. If I select two-sided, the document prints single-sided. But the next document I print will always be two-sided regardless of what I choose! It's like the printer never registers the settings until *after* the print job #badtech
A few updates ago, @microsoft.com Outlook for Android stopped respecting users' swipe options in the junk folder. Which means it permanently deletes items I tell it to move, and marks as "safe" the items I tell it to permanently delete. Will they bother to fix it? Probably not. #badtech
Superb pod from @techwontsave.us and @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social last week.
Do I hate tech? No way. I'm a nerd for tech, data and automation in my life and job. What I hate is always being forced to use tech that doesn't serve my needs or - more and more commonly - simply Does. Not. Work. #badtech
All my Amazon smart home devices now continue listening/processing for ~10 mins whenever I give an instruction that can be executed locally (volume, stop, etc). Same for everyone else I've asked. Nty. Watch me accelerate the de-Amazonification of my life. #badtech #enshittification
Sooo I updated @malwarebytes.com android app recently and started getting non-consensual email marketing from them... to email addresses I don't use anymore and definitely never gave to malwarebytes. Is there a way to explain this that doesn't make malwarebytes look like bad spyware?! #badtech
When I'm saving a file or photo to @microsoft.com OneDrive on my Android phone, it helpfully lets me create a new folder to save to. Unhelpfully, it then takes me right back to my top level OneDrive folder - so I have to click all the way back through to save. Maximum inconvenience. #badtech
The great Courses plus seriously needs to work on UI/UX. This is stupid. Scrolling 1 episode at a time with a huge banner at the bottom displaying other courses I may like? I'm in MY COURSE! None of those are courses I'm subscribed to.
#ux #ui #badtech #greatcoursesplus
Dear Smart TV makers, avoid Vidaa OS like cancer unless you hate your customers. The only thing more obnoxious than forcing ads as part of the home screen is pushing an update that makes those ads unhidable and take up most of the home screen. #badtech
🚩 Teliportme’s is shady. Inferior to Matterport. Won’t let me cancel. Refused to refund. This is deception. Tech’s future doesn’t need bait-and-charge tactics. Last cent = last chance.
#TeliportmeScam #RefundRefused #Proptech #ConsumerProtection #Matterport #BadTech #UnethicalBilling #DigitalEthics
Translating Thune: I'd love it if this would just go away because I really don't have the guts or dna to do the right thing myself.
#BadTech
The #irony isn't lost on me that I'm in the process of #printing game cards for an #InteractionDesign class I'm running tomorrow to help designers understand the frustrations of #BadTech... And every interaction I have is painful #academicsky #slowtech #IndustrialDesign
If you ever suffer from imposter syndrome just remember that one of the biggest tech companies in the world still hasn’t figured out how to play music properly on a mobile device
#apple #badtech #fail
discussions.apple.com/thread/25381...
Why can't #Apple manage settings? Seriously. It's 2025 and they're meant to have some grasp of how software works by now. Not a serious company.
#fail #badtech
discussions.apple.com/thread/68541...
We are living in the age of finding out why our mothers told us just because we *could* do something that doesn't mean we *should*
Need I list all the #BadTech that's turned us into zombie tools of the bros in Silicon Valley?
