Things that are meant to be better but are not better

Though it is a great excuse for lateness, to be fair.

I have an Alexa built into my TV. Never used it and have no intention of doing so.
I've existed successfully on this earth for 62 years without it and it won't enhance my life in any way, yet some people can't live without theirs.

Siri.
“Hey Siri. Text Pat I’m on my way running 5 minutes late”
”Texting Pam. I’m on a wave 50 Minotaurs”
Er. Ok.

I have these.
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They seem to have a good battery life, and I have very thick hair but they're not too tight.

I sleep on my side and eventually the little sound buttons inside get irritating, but I don't sleep in them all night. Lying on your back you don't feel them.

I've had numerous emails and phone calls from OVO telling me I MUST change to a smart meter. I won't and all their calls will be ignored and their emails shredded.

Oh, and it's a complete lie if they say your Meyer is obsolute/ too old/ dangerous.
Again, they say this to get their figures up.
Ignore them

I agree. I got the new version of Apple ear buds and I really don’t like them. On the older series you could double tap the ear bud and it would skip a song. Now you have to press a button and it’s awkward to find. To me, it’s a complete downgrade.

But they infuriate me becuase, for a start, they are MORE expensive often. Why? To park at school, it's 20p if you use the machine, and 80p if you use the app. Why? It should be CHEAPER?

Convenience fee don't ya know - or service charge. What a load of tosh.
I think physical machines must take more servicing than an electronic app.

You don't HAVE to change meters.
Legally they have no right to they just make out its compulsory as they have their target to meet.
Just ignore a communication about it.
My supplier phones every now and then and I just say no thank you and ring off.
Just say no!!

Apps for car parking. Thankfully most of our car parks locally still take cash but why, oh why can't you just buy X amount of hours' parking by using contactless?

We were nearly late for a concert as my daughter couldn't get the app to install on her phone in the underground car park, then once she finally did, it wouldn't work.

Utter shite

I can only manage the kind of earbuds you hook around your ear. I use those at the gym but headphones everywhere else.

Thankyou ! I’m even more keen now , a little confused because there are so many to chose from thanks for reply .

The Android Emergency SOS function has to be the stupidest feature ever added to mobile phones.

Press the side button five times and it automatically calls the emergency services. The first I knew of it was when my phone went off like an air raid siren in my pocket - while I was driving - because they enabled it by default and didn't tell anybody about it. In fact you can't disable it, I've set it to ring my own number so all it will do is get an engaged tone rather than accidentally block a genuine 999 call.

@TheeNotoriousPIG what does this relate to please? I’m so intrigued about the ‘very difficult to tell anyone where I'd been at the weekend!’ line. Please put me out of my misery, I can’t figure it out!

When we moved in to our place a few years back these "smart appliances" were being peddled at us.
I said to DH, a washing machine is only smart if it can load and unload washing, same for a dishwasher and a tumbler dryer imo. We got dumb appliances.

Phone irritate me generally. I have an old Samsung, so long as I can read MN and plug in my old school earphones who cares!

However I confess to having a robot hoover. That does genuinely help!

I don’t mind messy hair especially if it means I could wear something comfortable while listening to my stories , do you have any recommendations or are they all pretty much the same ? Thanks for the reply it’s swayed me even more .

Wouldn’t mind the parking app if it was the same one everywhere. Each town you visit seems to have a different one grrrrrrr

Leave the adapter (3.5mm jack to usb c) attached to the headphones, wired ones with no flashing light.

Or buy usb c wired headphones.

I love parking apps... in theory. I never have coins, I hate queuing to use the machine so a parking app should be my nirvana.

But they infuriate me becuase, for a start, they are MORE expensive often. Why? To park at school, it's 20p if you use the machine, and 80p if you use the app. Why? It should be CHEAPER?

And then there's the fact that reception in these places is so often shit. So I want to pay by app... but I have to waituntil I have signal and the reality is that sometimes I then forget, because I'm wrangling children and shopping and all the rest.

I've got one and can confirm they are great (if you don't mind your hair being a mess!)

Never had any headphones that have been comfortable before.

I highly recommend the hand band head phones.

Scanning a QR code instead of talking to a waitress.
Self-checkout.
Having to log on to the GP website and submit a form at exactly 8am instead of calling and organising an appointment.
Sweets available everywhere and marketed at your kids wherever you go, all the time.
Needing to set up an "account" for EVERYTHING and trying to remember all the passwords.
Having 400 different subscriptions for various TV services and things and all of them going up in price every other week.

Yes, you can get ones that allow you to charge and listen at the same time

Sorry , wrong thread

Yes! I do get why it is needed but wow it is a PITA

I lost my phone a few weeks ago, I couldn't get into anything, bank/ nursery payment/ revenue etc. I contacted Vodafone ordered a new phone and at the end when everything was agreed he said he needed the 6 digit code he had just texted me to confirm...... I had lost the phone, which he knew!!

Got it sorted, got a new phone, found the old one down the back of the toddlers drawers