by Sometimes new technology is great. In other cases, I only want my old flip phone with 500 texts per month and I am not alone. Redditor Bisinno9004 recently asked the R/Askreddit community to share the “modern convenience” that made their lives more difficult, and they did not hold back. Here are some of the inventions that they believe are actually quite impractical.
1.“Just let me use the website! I hate to download a damn app for everything.”
– Slithherfang98
2.“Why do I need an account to use your website? It’s just a unique service. I also called customer service because your website is not user -friendly and does not have the services I call.
—9Atesorben
“I refuse to use websites that register me for an account to see what is on them. Fuck yourself, Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook (and probably Tiktok, but I have never tried this page.
– Cicadasinmyears
3.“Touch screen devices everywhere. Many people with tremors (like me with two) can hardly be used or they cannot use at all.”
– Dooky15
“This is particularly annoying for cars. After driving a friend’s car with a touchscreen for radio and volume controls, I decided that I would never buy a car that does not use physical buttons for volume control.
When I drive 60 miles an hour on the highway, I don’t have time to fumble with a touchscreen to adapt the volume. “
–Scvgoodt0gosir
4.“Subscription -based payments.”
—INNocent_pig
“These should never be comfortable or better. They were always only to make a lot more money.”
– Foxywheels
5.“Scan on QR code to access the menu and order the food.”
– Nodisch1669
“I don’t wear my cell phone with myself and some places are so flummox of this. How, brow, even the phones of the youth sometimes no longer have a battery. Why is it strange that I, an old one on the phone without a phone?
– Quendweeb
6.“Everything is ‘smart’. Things have become so smart that they have closed the circle and are now only stupid and unusable.”
– Brownhornet1000
“Devices that are so clever that the use of the app for setting up is mandatory, and then the app will be on habitual. As a rule, I do not buy products with an obligatory app to use them. Smart Lights and a Google Home Mini used to be my only exception, but they are outdated and rush again with the rule with the rule than the problems occur.”
– DachieftaFofthirsk
7.“My Tumble dryer has a dozen default settings for any kind of clothing, but absolutely nothing on the machine or in the manual shows the temperature, which is literally a universal pictogram that is written on every object to tell you how to dry it.”
– Honorary Canadian
“Our ‘intelligent dryer’ measures the dryness of the clothes and stops when they are dry, except in which cycle they choose, stops when they are still a bit wet. It is best to only put it dry on the time -controlled.”
–Themarko60
8.“Today I had to go for urgent care. I was the only one. You could only have taken out my ID and my insurance company and let me see a practitioner. The only way to claim an appointment, even by entering a QR to scan a QR to register.
“But they couldn’t charge my insurance because their system was below.
And then they knew that they had to send my recipe to Walgreens, but they couldn’t because their system was below. So they called the next Walgreens that they could find for my recipe, but it was actually 30 minutes away because their system was no longer.
So I asked for a prescription paper command and went to the Walgreens next door, which had to contact a Walgreens for 30 minutes to transfer the recipe because the system was at the bottom.
But they could not check the recipe to be transmitted, since the system was no longer in urgent care. “
– Dangerswan33
9.“The entire online application for jobs.
– Kushqt420
“To be honest, I think that this has a serious effect on the state of employment. There is such a separation between employers and job seekers.”
—Drmoneybeard
10.“Social media. The (dis) information and entertainment overfilling is dangerous and draw in our brain. It has an immense potential for good, but as always spoiled the whole thing.”
– pagira
“I used Facebook for years to stay in touch with friends. But many falls in love with the disinformation and stopped talking to me when I tried to argue with them. Now it has worried as if nobody had seen a great life event recently, and I do not see that many of the similar contributions from my old friends without going to their profiles.
I delete Facebook after I have ensured that I have the phone numbers of old friends with whom I want to stay in touch. “
–Valuable_recording85
11.“Parking apps. Just let me pay without downloading an app, creating an account and finding out which code this parking lot is. And no, I will not have it used with my location.”
—Abasicissueredditor
“So many of them are only direct fraud. They try to collect their email address and information on sale to marketers.”
– season positive6771
12.“Pay automated invoice if you have to control a labyrinth from pages to update your credit card number or e -mail.”
—Doppledbramble3725
“Pay automatic invoice if you cannot select the payment date before the due date. So you have to remember to enter into every month and pay it, or you will have the additional money for a week with the possibility to be spent.”
–Lybychick
13.“Cloud services. I have my own portable drives. Not every free version of a cloud service has a limited cloud memory, so that you can fill out and force you to pay. Less technically experienced people simply bite the ball often. But I had iCloud to say that my solution was to copy it on my PC and I go to my cell phone.
—Yossithewizard
14.“Bluetooth headphones -they took our headphones.”
—Sc0ttishdude
“I’m still so bitter.
I think Bluetooth has to work better for other people if they literally only have a telephone pairing for a device or something. “
—SW429
15.“No longer being able to physically own a copy of a video game. Even if you have the CD, you still have to download the game. You pay for the privilege of playing the game, not the actual game itself.”
—Ganiclfmilk
16.“Ai. No, I don’t want what your environmentally dirty disinformation machine” thinks “, the information should be. I want the actual information. Get your face out of my face and leave me alone, you have a checked autocorrect function.”
—Rottenpeachmell
“Thank you for burning down a small rainforest to give me the wrong answer, Google Ai. I scroll past you mentally. Hell, now you have to add to Google to the end of your search ‘Reddit’ to read something on the first page of a person.”
– Ninjabreeadmanoo
17.“Two-factor authentication.”
– Katmahof
“I understand why it became necessary, but I wish it would not be. I have three layers of two-factor authentication to get into my work computer in my job applications.”
– Hawaiian’s shirts
18.“Dating apps. You made my life significantly more difficult in so many more species and give me so much more fear than just thinking about someone in the shop, etc.”
– BGP70X7
“I would rather die alone than use a dating app again.”
– Doctorgregoryfart
19.“Keurig or other coffee machines with single-care machines. Absolutely not more convenient, and the coffee is no better than normal cheap drops coffee machines. It also creates a lot more waste, and the reusable pods make the shook coffee and are a bitch to clean. My cheap, programmable coffee machine is more convenient. I am so happy that I went back.”
—Doctor Whoobgyn
“I have never been tried to do after some fundamental math. I drink two to three cups of coffee every morning. I can get 24 k cups or make 24 pots of coffee at the same price. No competition.”
—Piercedgeek
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