I see posts talking about good BIFL items but I don’t hear much about the other side of products that are bad or products you bought but don’t even use.

  • @sunbeam60
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    4 months ago

    My Seat Leon. I had been warned about VW Group’s new platform but holy hell, even the most dire warnings didn’t tell the truth.

    The car crashes every day. Nothing works. Even basic functions, like keyless entry on the door handles. If it rains, nope doesn’t work. How about the speakers switching into centre speaker only? How about a reversing beeper stuck until the car is not just turned off, but left turned off for 10 minutes? How about Apple CarPlay which doesn’t work? The list is endless. It’s so so poor. After one update, the car sensors got confused about being in a left hand driving country, so cruise control wouldn’t overtake cars in the slow lane.

    And I can’t afford to switch to another one.

    • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      New appliances make me genuinely tremble. I haven’t bought a TV in a decade or two, but I might need to buy one soon and the “options available” right now sound nightmarish, similar to your car situation.

      I’m all for smart devices, as long as I can flash them. If it needs software I don’t control – no thank you

      • @Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Don’t let the TV see a network and use a Chromecast. It makes life so much easier than any of the integrated trash

        • @red_pigeon@lemm.ee
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          And if you have to go the other way, please only buy pure Android TVs and not those fancy Web OS craps. There are lots of side loaded app freedom on pure Android TVs.