Fuck Toasters: The Complaining About Electronics Thread

[curiousTerminal]

Macs have a right click, you just have to press a key on the keyboard to get to it.

Speaking of macs, my school distributes Mac laptops to each student for use in class.
God damn, I am never, EVER buying one of my own.

In my Freshman year, the screen decided to randomly make high-pitched noises and flicker when it was cold, and half the lights at the bottom don't work, so now there's a weird spotlight pattern down at the bottom.
In Sophomore year, hoo boy.
First the charger broke due to consistently overheating after being plugged in for an HOUR. AN HOUR. My mom leaves her Dell charger in perpetually and it barely gets lukewarm. The Help desk blamed me for "winding the wires too tightly, and kinking the inside of it" For one, no, I wound it the way I was supposed to. For two, the wires inside are made of metal. Unless knotting the inside snaps the wire in two separate pieces, that would do nothing.
Then, the click broke. The trackpad just decided to stop clicking for some reason. Except for when it came back on and started preforming every click I'd try to do, at once, while randomly moving the mouse across the screen.
This is when I started taking my laptop to the school help desk. Big, BIG mistake.
It decided to shut down and not come back on, on a full charge. Took it to them, they neglected to fix the click, and somehow shut off the only fan. By the way, the bottom looks like this:

And the fan is on the very bottom of the computer, the vent is at the top, between the speakers and THROUGH IMPORTANT MACHINERY. So then it started overheating every single day. They fixed the fan, but the heat problem remains, since I can't turn up the brightness all the way for more than 5 minutes without being in the danger zone.

I take good care of this laptop, never eating or drinking near it, and never moving it outside the case. I haven't dropped it once, and it has more than triple the amount of problems than my mom's 3 year old laptop.
And Apple gives these computers to our school at an 80% discount in order to potentially convert PC users. It doesn't work.

[keepster33]

I have to hit an alt button just to access my f1-f12 keys. Meaning I can't alt+f4.

[jrlans]

MY school has a few lab rooms filled with macs. Took me forever to log on, and whenever I tried starting firefox, it just froze.
Probably just old machines, but did not help my opinion on macs

[curiousTerminal]

MY school has a few lab rooms filled with macs. Took me forever to log on, and whenever I tried starting firefox, it just froze.
Probably just old machines, but did not help my opinion on macs

The laptops from the seniors get passed down into the Middle School as a tech cart, and when those get pushed out by more laptops, they get put int the Elementary schools.
So when I was 10 I was using macbooks that were already 7 years old.
You couldn't close them when they were on, or they'd just stop working

[pirrou]

Internet has been down in my apartment for nearly three days. I am currently sitting outside across the street getting wireless until either my laptop runs out of energy, or I get too cold to stay out here. Probably not the latter, since I have a badass cape.

[BRPXQZME]

Macs have a right click, you just have to press a key on the keyboard to get to it.

I find using two fingers on the trackpad is much faster!

[Nopeakiin]

Fire alarms are made of inexcusable levels of cock. The one in my apartment goes off if you burn toast and evacuates the whole building. The one at my old home went off with steam. My friend's one literally went off on nothing several times, and last time I saw him he smashed it with a hammer, radioactive discharge be damned.
We once had a fire that burned part of the kitchen wall off as well as the stove. The piece of shit didn't go off, and it was on the ceiling about 3 feet away in the same, mostly closed up room.

[LordBlumiere]

Fire alarms are made of inexcusable levels of cock. The one in my apartment goes off if you burn toast and evacuates the whole building. The one at my old home went off with steam. My friend's one literally went off on nothing several times, and last time I saw him he smashed it with a hammer, radioactive discharge be damned.
We once had a fire that burned part of the kitchen wall off as well as the stove. The piece of shit didn't go off, and it was on the ceiling about 3 feet away in the same, mostly closed up room.

Accurate for my current situation at university. The freaking fire alarm went off for burned popcorn, through the whole building, and went off for at least ten-twenty minutes at a low pace (which means 'please do not evacuate, this is a warning'). Fuck fire alarms.

[unbridledExüberance]

My university has some Linux labs and one Mac lab in the Math and Computers building. The Linux labs are used for basically everything, and the Mac lab is pretty much useless.

Guess which one get redone and which ones are crappy.
Yep, the ones that everyone uses are all set up wrong, and the Macs that are used like 1/20th as much as the Linux labs were upgraded. WAT.

Also, the lounge in the Math building that has really comfy chairs: there is 1 outlet. This outlet flips a breaker if a laptop and microwave are running at the same time. Yeah. Of course, there's tons of outlets everywhere else where there aren't comfy chairs though. :/



Oh, and speaking of fire alarms:

7 years ago when I was in my first year of High School (grade 9), guess how many times some douchebag pulled the fire alarm for no reason (not fire drills- but people pulling it as a joke because they're retarted)

NINE. FRIGGIN. TIMES.

[sporb]

Ugh, I got a netbook with a broken screen hooked up to a giant monitor. It can't even run minecraft...IT CAN'T EVEN RUN MINECRAFT! *sob* *sob*

[Nopeakiin]

Also, who the fuck does a fire drill in a dorm or whatever at 7 in the morning?
Just to add to more reasons the alarms can go climb a wall of flaming dicks, and probably fail to detect them.

[not christine]

I used to have TWO MICROWAVES.

Now I only have one and my 5 year old brother keeps pushing a chair up to it and pushing buttons just because they make noise.

I have a laptop that once belonged to my sister. In order for it not to overheat, you must have at least 3 fans pointed at it. However, lately it refuses to start up.

That's all I can think of now.

[cesiumTea]

Staying here in the dorm over break, the hot water's not working

Option 1: take freezing shower, sob like a little girl
Option 2: boil up some water and sponge-bath
Option 3: become dirtier than ke$ha
Option 4: try to find someone to beg to not only give me a ride to their house, but use their shower

Once it's working again, I am going to take The Longest Shower

[FatNastyTrash420]

Printers? Why the hell do we even still HAVE those? When will computers have those things BUILT IN, instead of those boxes created by the devil.

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR R. VRMP. VRMP. VRMP. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNN NNNN SHHHHHP. SHHHHHHHHHHP.

[Nopeakiin]

Printers? Why the hell do we even still HAVE those? When will computers have those things BUILT IN, instead of those boxes created by the devil.

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR R. VRMP. VRMP. VRMP. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNN NNNN SHHHHHP. SHHHHHHHHHHP.

I bought mine just before I started school.
The ink is out already. I've printed maybe 30 pages, mostly pretty plain. Replacement ink costs most than the printer.
Printers are true evil. Not only are they stubborn and malfunction like shit, but the ink is actually engineered not to last.
I have no money but I need to print my essays. Fuck you, HP.

[KnittingHamster]

I swear to gog if I didn't need my printer for work I would throw it off the fucking roof.

[ArmsAreLoud]

So I was doing a stop motion photography thing for my e-music class.

I put all my photos and my music on a USB drive at home where I have a PC and took it to class where we use Macs.

The school's Mac didn't recognize my USB drive.

So now I am at one of the PC's at the school library, e-mailing all of my photos to myself so I can use them on the school's fucking Macs.

I. Hate. Apple.

[Nopeakiin]

I swear to gog if I didn't need my printer for work I would throw it off the fucking roof.

I have some old ones I want to beat the ink out of when I get home.

[curiousTerminal]

This printer likes to puncture the ink cartridges after a month or so, staining the desk a weird magenta-black, and forcing us to replace them far too often.
I actually take them out of the printer when not printing now.

[Nopeakiin]

The ink costs more than a new printer in many cases. In fact mine's a scanner/printer and cost less than a replacement colour/ink set and came with a set in it. Maybe look for deals quick-like soon?

[curiousTerminal]

Nah, our printer was pretty expensive actually, the cartridges aren't too bad. It's just easier to take them out when I'm not printing.

[KnittingHamster]

I swear to gog if I didn't need my printer for work I would throw it off the fucking roof.

I have some old ones I want to beat the ink out of when I get home.

We can have a party. CRANK THE TUNES.

[curiousTerminal]

I don't always press "play" on iTunes after I restart my laptop from its third crash this hour, but when I do, it has decided to turn my headphone's volume all the way up

[Andrew Ryan]

I spent over 3 months working on a final creative project for my core class. Wouldn't you know it, it turns out that I've been using an older version of PowerPoint, meaning I couldn't actually present it to anyone since the computers in the Writing Center (on which my 60 slide comic story was supposed to be presented) run a newer version.

THREE. HOURS. EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. FOR. THREE. MONTHS. WASTED.

I could strangle Bill Gates right about now.

[EnigmaticD]

Hey guys. I didn't feel the need to post in this thread until earlier this week, when my computer died. Until I can get a new hard drive and operating system, I have to borrow other people's computers, and have pretty much lost all of my WIP stories, sprites, and my most major connection with the outside world. I'm on my sister's computer, which runs about as smooth as molasses, has annoying ads popping up on all the text, and has a weird problem where you have to plug the charger in JUST RIGHT or else it craps out.
So yeah, screw technology.