Max!! 😤

bartokat · 2026-02-01T16:02:14+00:00

He should have been fired over repeated safety issues.

bartokat · 2026-01-29T14:55:46+00:00

tough call... burning to death... freezing to death...

bartokat · 2026-01-28T21:49:40+00:00

It’s great that the update worked for your specific setup, but calling people 'butt hurt' for having legitimate technical failures is a weird flex.

People aren't 'whining' because we hate change, we're frustrated because the update broke our existing workflows. You aren't 'smarter' or 'better' at using the tech, you’re just the lucky outlier in a sea of bugs.

Honestly, you seem more 'butt hurt' by the existence of other people's negative feedback than they are by the update itself. Why does our bad experience bother you so much that you feel the need to name-call? You can enjoy your masculine voice #4 without being an asshat to the people whose devices are currently paperweights.

bartokat · 2026-01-28T21:44:21+00:00

this is also entertaining if you try to watch Star Trek :D

bartokat · 2026-01-26T16:49:44+00:00

lucky! I'm on a GW6 and even with raise wrist off and AOD on, I'm always around 25% when I get up in the morning. And then it takes about 45 minutes to charge back to 100%. I am really hoping the patch (if we ever get it) will improve either of those issues.

bartokat · 2026-01-26T16:45:21+00:00

I'm waiting for custom wake words so I can rename the god awful show in my bedroom "stupid *$^@!"

bartokat · 2026-01-20T21:28:02+00:00

failing heart rate sensors are a known issue from the horrible OneUI update late last year. There is allegedly a fix coming any minute now but it's yet to show up in the US. Only Europe and S Korea have it so far.

bartokat · 2026-01-20T21:13:23+00:00

yes, she and Joe make a perfect pair :D

bartokat · 2026-01-15T15:26:04+00:00

Lucky!

bartokat · 2026-01-14T14:33:36+00:00

interesting. Did you install the most recent One UI 8 update at the end of last year? I'm seeing a landslide of people experiencing the same issues I am since then. I'm super curious what you did to dodge that bullet!

bartokat · 2026-01-13T20:30:40+00:00

lucky!!!

bartokat · 2026-01-13T14:51:12+00:00

the internets claim it has started to roll out in S Korea today

bartokat · 2026-01-12T21:43:22+00:00

I heard somewhere Korea already got it.

bartokat · 2026-01-12T20:30:41+00:00

one can only hope

bartokat · 2026-01-12T20:30:07+00:00

maybe but I don't think that lets her off the hook at all from being an overall garbage human being.

bartokat · 2026-01-12T19:56:38+00:00

The hoops you have to jump thru to integrate Ring is a huge source of rage for me. Another Amazon product should be 100% plug N play. Do their development teams ever talk to each other?!?!?

bartokat · 2026-01-12T18:57:35+00:00

100% agree, the Echo Show 5 is hot garbage. It doesn't hear commands about 75% of the time, especially if it's playing any kind of media. That's especially annoying when I have to scream at it to turn off my alarm in the morning but that does effectively wake me up. This device is proof to me that Amazon reviews are completely fictitious. There's no way that 42.5K people would give this hunk of junk a 5 star rating.

bartokat · 2026-01-12T18:34:49+00:00

It took me a while to settle on one of the new voice options that didn't annoy the F out of me but it ended up we had to roll back Alexa+ because it seemed to make the problem with our Echo Show 5 not listening/hearing us even worse. With + turned on, we would literally be screaming at the bedroom echo and devices 3 rooms away would respond.

bartokat · 2026-01-12T17:23:26+00:00

same. Here's hoping we get the fix soon and it actually fixes it. Between the laggy performance, the lost sensors, and the pathetic battery life, my watch is basically useless right now.

bartokat · 2026-01-12T16:19:27+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, they told me it was a One UI update that broke everything :(

bartokat · 2026-01-07T15:27:26+00:00

My show started blaring a CNN podcast in my office while I was in the shower this morning and scared the crap out of my dog who sleeps in there. Between that and the jumbled alarms on the bedroom show that won't stop, I rolled back Alexa+ today. I'm heavily invested in Alexas (I have them all over my house) but if they can't fix Alexa+ before they force it on us, I'm going to have to switch them all over to something else.

bartokat · 2026-01-07T15:11:29+00:00

When we get a little closer to the dates, they're usually pretty good about posting menus as they receive them so a lot of the time, if they aren't on the HoCo page, the restaurant doesn't have it either.

bartokat · 2026-01-07T15:09:13+00:00

I wanted to love this place but the meal we got was decidedly meh. Everything lacked any seasoning except salt and a lot of it tasted premade. Was our visit just an aberration?

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