Posted on 11/28/2019 8:28:38 AM PST by Swordmaker
If talking politics at Thanksgiving is not enough to get you removed from the guest list for holidays in December, here's some gift ideas that will ensure you won't get invited back next year.
Ever find yourself in a position to need to buy a gift for someone you just don't like? Perhaps an in-law, or obstinate niece or nephew? Or, just looking to avoid terrible gifts? TechRepublic assembled the worst possible gift ideas—products that you can give to people that serve as the holiday equivalent of "Here, it's your problem now." In other words, the digital equivalent of buying a drum set for your nephew to irritate your brother.
1. Wired 3.5mm headphones
2. Android tablets
3. The wrong smart assistant device (or, realistically, any)
4. The Facebook Portal
5. Basically any Fitbit or WearOS smartwatch
6. Apple Watch for Android users
7. Expired Chromebooks
8. The Xbox One X All-Digital Edition
(Excerpt) Read more at techrepublic.com ...
Nose Hair Trimmer
Yeah. Whatever. I’m not interested in such things. I’m an Apple guy. Want it to work...not interested how. Want to play the stuff I want to play not be a computer mechanic. I can rebuild engines and test for problems with a code reader. Don’t need to know how the code reader works. .
See 62.
Anything that eats expensive batteries fast. . .
Wow. . . Some people on here obviously did not bother to go read the actual article. If they had, they would NOT be slamming Apple. TechRepublic is NOT an Apple centric website by a long shot, nor is this article an Apple centric article, nor is it really mean spirited. If they had bothered to read the article, they’d have found it’s actually good advice for the tech-non-friendly on what NOT to buy for Christmas when they are shopping for friends, with its tongue sticking through its cheek.
These guys have absolutely NO sense of humor. . .
Many people could go out and buy something they think their friends would love and stick them with an albatross around their neck due to not knowing tech problems they might be creating. This article actually explains why it would NOT be a good idea to buy some of these products, by turning the issue on its head.
For example, most buyers have no idea that Chromebooks have a limit on how long they are upgradeable after they are introduced and that that five year old model bargain basement Chromebook, while it looks like it might be a great present for Uncle Joe, could be a gift that results in his bank account being drained due to his identity being stolen because its security cannot be upgraded. Not a good gift at all. That is explained in the article. But the Anti-Apple Brigade only sees it as a slam against Chromebooks somehow favoring Apple. . . Because that’s what they want to see. . . And because they DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE!
Good rant.
Indeed, the list is not Apple-biased at all - but just because an Apple fan posted it, they have to bring the hate.
It’s funny.
Laugh, Apple haters.
I LAUGH,
there fore
I Am.
.
Life has played plenty
of Jokes on us All.
Turnabout
Is Fair Play.
Why is it called
a Drumstick?
I was hammered for
Playing
“Ina Godda Davida!”
My wife's 16GB Ipad works perfectly. Well, ... pretty good. Does anybody have a solution for Amazon Prime Video using up 6 GB of memory that can only be reclaimed by deleting and reloading the app?
Is there a way to move some of the 128GB in my Ipad to hers?
I recall transistor radios
Just becoming “the Thing.”
I turned Grandpa’s Radio on
and hid it under
some presents beneath the
Tree.
Grandma came out hollering
that “I was In the Dog House!”,she was Mad.
I went outside and literally
got In The dogs House!
Turns out they thought I’d
Got into the Gifts
and Opened My present.
.
True story.
I never played drums
With the Drumsticks.
.
Now I wished I Had,
What a Strange Story!
Good one, excellent.
Nope, it’s a single chip on each board. But you can save space on both by saving photos on the iCloud. Then they’re not kept on the device.
“Wired headphones have uses and appeal”
I prefer wired headphones — and wired mouses/mice.
Android tablets are fine. Using one now.
Personally, I prefer wired headphones.
A vt100.
You got something against 8-tracks Badger?
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