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Might sound weird but it was the PSP I imported at launch. 

Great device but that was when I realized I don't like handheld gaming. 

A Samsung smartwatch, it's almost useless.

Vr Headset.

Worth it to play Half Life Alyx and 3D Skyrim.

But was it worth $400?

A Sony Minidisc recorder / player in the early 2000s. So much DRM. So many bugs. I'll never buy Sony again.

~$800 headphone setup. My then-employer paid for more than half of it, so I splurged a bit. Got refurbished planar magnetic headphones for ~$500 and an amp for ~$300. I later bought a balanced audio cable (I don't remember the price, maybe $20—50).

It sounds good, but I've also been down the Chi-Fi IEM rabbit hole before. I think I could get similar results from $150—250 Chinese IEMs.

I bought a fucking Xioami Poco F4 GT near the launch date because I wanted a gaming phone and back in the time I was naive to think mobile games were a thing. It came with a top of the line chipset from the time I bought it (Snapdragon 8 Gen 1), and this shit overheats as fuck and eats your battery even on average use.

I was able to unlock the bootloader around 2023 and so far used only LineageOS, but this year I had to relock the bootloader for a specific usage, and guess what Xiaomi is making nearly impossible to unlock the bootloader again, I didn't know about that and now I'm stuck on Xiaomi stock ROM with 24/7 spyware (I know because I can see the requests log with an app, the fucking package installer app is reaching the facebook domain every few hours).

Such regret OMG. Suck unfortunate series of events. I'm not even using my phone, just basic stuff.

Good thing: I just bought a second hand Redmi Note 10 Pro in a pretty reasonable state and cheap, there are dozens of ROMs to this phone and easy to unlock the bootloader (actually I already started the process just need to wait more 160h). Not just that but the phone supports jack connector and micro SD. A truly piece of technology.

Learned a lesson don't buy any phone launched after 2022. Unless it's Linux phone or pro-consumer brands like Murena and Fairphone.

This worst purchase but entirely my fault. I bought a thrust master t3000 kit off of a website I had found because it was like 200 bucks cheaper than anywhere else. I get the thing in the mail and it’s the EU plug so I had to order another servo motor that was for US outlets

Switch. My Nintendo acc got hacked which turned the thing into a brick basically, but Nintendo didn’t give a flying fuck

iPads. The first one was a hand-me-down only a few years old, but no longer getting iOS updates, so no apps would run anymore. Safari would crash on most web sites. Gmail worked, but holy hell was the keyboard beyond terrible. I used it to read textbooks in PDF. Couldn't revive it with an alternate OS. The next one was a gift; I thought I'd use it for NOAA navigation charts on my boat. Nope, the PDF reader crashed out on ~1MB files. (I had to use my budget Android phone instead.) Now it's no longer supported, and not even useful as a Home Assistant dashboard, because of the old OS. It's a (fully-functional) piece of e-waste now.

Locked hardware? Just say no!

Back in 2014, I bought a non-pro white MacBook for one Bitcoin.

Asus video cards.

I've owned 3 of them.

one caught fire, one failed in a spectacular flash of light, and one just quietly died.

Every single one of them managed to take rest of the system with them.

No I did not overclock/overvolt them, and yes I had good airflow/cooling.

Samsung washer and dryer. The bane of my existence. I just moved and left them behind, so happy!

gaming motherboard that is too new for my system and has this stupid bug on some driver that my internet cuts off randomly

I bought a router that had 5-10% package loss, it was basically trash, returned it of course.

My old Wemo smart plugs. Constantly lost connection and the app was so useless for resolving issues.

When they announced they were stopping support this year, I was wondering what they considered support beforehand. Also, there's a class action lawsuit because of that.

Thinkpad L390 Yoga. They crammed a 4.6 GHz CPU into a cooling system that was not designed for it, so the machine ran hot and throttled all of the time. The keyboard keys rubbed off after a few months of use. The Thinkpad logo was just a sticker that one day decided to stick to my hand because Lenovo used really cheap glue. It had a MicroEthernet port with a passive adapter that did nothing but break it out to a regular ethernet jack. The adapter cost 30€ and its cable turned into oil after a year.

I was able to undervolt the CPU and make it barely passable, then Microsoft released a Windows update that prevented undervolting. Gave it to a friend afterwards and got myself a GPD Win Max 2.

I once bought one of these weird gaming 'keyboards' where you only have the keys around WASD on it. Used it once, thought it sucked and never looked at it again

Audio set up, microphone, DAC and headset, a friend recommended for me during covid. My, now, husband was in disbelief on how crappy it actually is and well now i have studio quality for almost the same (just 100€ extra) what i paid back in covid times