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What technical issues did you ignore for an extended period of time? (leminal.space)

submitted 7 months ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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On my old phone I had an issue with the proximity sensor and front facing camera. This led me to holding my phone backwards to take photos and being unable to hang up phone calls.

I think I put up with this for a year and a half.

I did end up figuring out the issue with the proximity sensor but opening up my phone to reconnect the camera module was too much effort for me.

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[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My family's first computer baxk in the 90s was a hand-me-down power Mac from a relative. Between whatever they had done with it before we got it, and what we managed to screw up as inexperienced computer users playing around with it, it had it's share of little quirks.

At some point we managed to turn on some screen reading function, and set the voice profile to something singsongy. It also had an error that popped up every time you started it up. The result of this is that almost 3 decades later I still have this ridiculous little tune seared into my brain after hearing my computer literally sing it who knows how many hundreds, maybe thousands of times

The globalfax software has successfully installed, however, since no fax device control panels were loaded, faxing has been disabled

Put up with it for several years, none of us knew or really cared enough to figure out how to get rid of that error or turn off the text-to-speech.

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Dang I kinda wanna hear it 🙋‍♂️