I saw a video where a guy tested wifi dead zones in his apartment and decided to do the same thing. Turns out my living room is a dead zone for 5GHz and I've been blaming my phone for slow loading this whole time. Anyone else find out their fancy router settings don't matter because of one wall?
Picked up one of those cheap aux-to-bluetooth dongles from a gas station near Denver. Figured it would take 5 minutes tops. Three hours later I am sitting in a hot car at 11 PM watching YouTube tutorials because the thing kept pairing to my neighbor's speaker instead. Finally got it working by holding the button for 12 seconds instead of 8 like the manual said. Who writes these instructions? Has anyone else had a simple gadget turn into a whole afternoon project?
A buddy of mine saw some photos I took at a job site and straight up said "dude turn off HDR on your phone, everything looks fake." So I dug into my camera settings on my Samsung and turned off the auto HDR and motion smoothing. Now the wood grain on decks and the color of wet concrete actually look real instead of that weird oversharpened look. Has anyone else had better luck just dialing back the automated camera features?
I bought a TCL Roku TV 3 years ago and it worked great at first. Now it takes a full 45 seconds just to open Netflix. My friend told me to just buy a new one, but I spent $450 on this thing. Shouldn't a TV last longer than a pair of shoes? Anyone else dealing with their TV getting laggy after a couple years?
Was at my buddy Mark's house in Chicago last Saturday watching the game. He kept complaining his remote had too many buttons he never uses. I told him mine has a dedicated Netflix button that sits right where I naturally rest my thumb. Every time I reach for the volume I accidentally launch Netflix. He laughed and showed me his remote has four streaming service buttons. We both sat there wondering who actually asked for these things. Why can't they just give us a simple remote with volume and channel? Has anyone else accidentally started a show during a tense sports moment?
I read a thread where a guy said his wifi light switch took 8 seconds to turn on because it had to phone home to a cloud server. That's just insane to me. My dumb switch works instantly every time, and it didn't cost $40. Has anyone else given up on smart home stuff for basic features?
Tbh I thought paying more meant better quality, but this braided cable from a big brand just stopped working after 21 days. It was supposed to handle 100W fast charging and everything, but now my laptop won't even recognize it. Ngl I shoulda just bought three $10 ones from Amazon instead. Has anyone else had a premium cable die on them way too fast?
The salesman at Best Buy told me plugging a surge protector into a UPS is pointless and can cause issues, but I thought he was just trying to upsell me, so I did it anyway and after 3 months my whole setup got knocked out during a storm, has anyone else had this backfire on them?
I used this $30 Logitech webcam for like 3 years and it worked fine. Then I heard everyone raving about the new 4K models so I dropped $150 on one from a different brand last month. First Zoom call my boss said I looked like a blurry ghost. The autofocus kept hunting and the colors were all washed out. Swapped back to my old one and suddenly I'm crystal clear again. Has anyone else found that spending more on tech actually made things worse?
I was getting so mad at my WiFi printer yesterday because my laptop couldn't find it on the network. I restarted the router, reinstalled the drivers, even yelled at the thing a little. After 45 minutes of pure rage, I noticed the power cord had come loose from the back and the printer wasn't even on. Has anyone else had a tech fix that was so stupidly simple it made you feel like a total goof?
I timed it last night while making popcorn and the microwave beeped before the Netflix menu even showed up. My old Roku stick from 2018 opens the same app in maybe 5 seconds flat. How is a brand new TV slower than a $30 stick from six years ago?
I know everyone hates waking up to a phone that's been restarted and has new layouts or settings. But last month my phone did that overnight update thing and it fixed this weird battery drain I'd been dealing with for weeks. Also it patched some security thing my IT friend mentioned. So yeah I'm the weirdo who doesn't mind the popup. Anyone else secretly fine with forced updates?
I used to just hammer the temperature up and down like 10 times a day because the schedule never made sense. Last week I sat down with the manual for 20 minutes and realized I had the vacation mode turned on the whole time. Now it actually drops the temp when I'm at work and warms up before I get home. Has anyone else dealt with a feature that was right there but you just never noticed?
I tried two Anker chargers on my Samsung phone last week, a 20W and a 45W, and the 45W actually charged slower because it had a different voltage profile. Turns out the phone's chip decides the speed, not just the number on the box. Has anyone else found a charger that claims high watts but doesn't deliver for your specific device?
Wasted that cash plus had to pay a locksmith $85 to drill the thing off my door because the bolt got stuck halfway, so just stick with a regular deadbolt if you ask me.
Back around 2005, I'd spend an hour picking songs and burning a CD for a drive to my cousin's place in Phoenix. Now I just plug my phone into the car and hit shuffle on a playlist. I miss the ritual of pulling out that little disc and seeing my bad handwriting on it. Does anyone else feel like we traded something good for convenience, or is it just me?
I bought a 6-pack of those super thin flat Cat6 cables off Amazon for my home office, thinking theyd look cleaner along the baseboards. After 3 days, my internet kept cutting out randomly and I traced it to two of the cables just failing to maintain a connection. Should I just go back to regular round cables or is there actually a brand of flat ones that doesn't crap out on you?
I counted 16 dog barks, 2 microwave dings, and 3 toilet flushes in that meeting alone. Why did we all learn this lesson in 2020 just to forget it by 2024?
I was driving home from work last week and asked Siri to call my wife, but she kept hearing 'call my life' instead. I said it maybe 5 times before I just gave up and pulled over to dial manually. It's wild how Apple's voice recognition can't handle anything outside that perfect American accent. Has anyone else with a different accent just stopped using voice assistants altogether?
I was typing out a long email on my phone last week and kept getting annoyed at having to switch to the symbols keyboard just for a period. My coworker saw me doing it and laughed. She showed me the double space bar trick. Took me 30 seconds to learn and now I'm mad at myself for not knowing it for 5 years. Has anyone else been doing this the hard way?
Spent 6 months blaming my router for spotty connection in the kitchen, until a Best Buy kid asked if I configured the extender through their app. Just assumed you plug it in and it works like magic. Has anyone else been stuck with a tech thing that was user error the whole time?