What are your worst tech purchases?

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What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?

I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.

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I actually had the opposite experience.

It was the perfect device for going through university for me. I mostly used it for note taking and homework with OneNote. For something like proving my work with matrices I could just copy the last matrix, paste it, then replace the one column/row that I was working on and repeat. In that case, work that took other students an hour or more would only take me a few minutes.

Additionally, since it wasn’t just a tablet, I could run whatever software I needed on it for completing projects.

Of course a somewhat recent update from Windows bricked the device, and I haven’t gotten around to switching it over to Linux (like I have with my other devices). It does look like there’s a great group helping to support that transition though: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

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I had the original Surface in college and it was excellent at the time.

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