In my day job, I'm constantly contacted by tech salespeople trying to sell me their new wiz-bangs (or wiz-bangs as a service).

Not once, but several times in recent months, I've gotten emails thanking me for attending a webinar (which I never signed up for or attended) and could they follow up?

This is worse the the "negging" lead generation software from a few years ago that would send you increasingly passive aggressive emails if you didn't respond.

#techsucks

The #Plex app on Apple TV is so brain-dead it doesn’t disable the screensaver while playing music, so the ATV sleeps and stops playing every five minutes.

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I’m working in our new office for two days this week. We have special electronic taps in the kitchen areas, with LEDs and touch controls to dispense hot or filtered cold water. There’s even a safety lock so you don’t dispense hot water accidentally.

This morning, all the LEDs are blinking yellow, and the taps have “Out of order” post-it notes on them.

The taps. Are out of order. Maybe they need a firmware update. 🤦

#Technology #TechSucks #TechWontSaveUs

Fired up Find My on #iOS to see where wifey was. It told me where she was 11 months ago and refused to update. 🙄

#TechWontSaveUs #TechSucks

“Technology is our lives now. We wake up, we use our phone, we check our texts (three spam calls, two spam texts), we look at our bank balance (two-factor authentication check), we read the news (a quarter of the page is blocked by an advertisement asking for our email that's deliberately built to hide the button to get rid of it, or a login screen because we got logged out somehow), we check social media (after being shown an ad every two clicks), and then we log onto Slack (and feel a pang of anxiety as 15 different notifications appear).”

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