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What are some of your worst purchasing regrets? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 3 days ago by venotic@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine was yesterday, I bought a papa john's pizza of medium size and some garlic knots. I was feeling like shit because my job and store is very good at that, so I stress ate. I contemplated in the car which would've been more valuable for my buck to dine with. I picked pizza.

$20 (more like $27 but I took away the price of the knots) was what it cost for a meats-based medium sized pizza from there. The problem I had with the pizza was that it didn't look like a medium, it looked like the smaller-end of a medium. Secondly, the person cutting the slices did a shit job, because I had two smaller slices than the rest. And I felt there wasn't enough meats spread evenly.

I honestly should've picked a chinese buffet because at least I would have variety and I could eat as much as I wanted. Plus saving a few dollars.

This is the first and last time I'm ordering something out of my comfort budget.

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[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Samsung A03.

After years of buying the cheapest phones possible, i got really tired of it and spent more money to get a better one, hoping to finally be free of all the bullshit.

It's the worst phone i've ever owned.

Cost me 100€ second hand instead of the ususal 50€. I am so disgusted

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you still are using it, try this:

Disable RAM Plus under Battery and device care > Memory
Reduce transparency and blur under Accessibility > visibility enhancements
Disable the home screen media page, if it's there
Use 3-button navigation instead of gestures

Got just a bit more performance out of a friend's A03s that way.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Oh wow, i wasn't expecting helpful advice for that specific model. Thanks!

[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I sympathize. The A0 line of Samsung phones, holy shit they suck. I have an A02s but it's not my main phone, thank god. It's sluggish, takes 3 whole minutes to finally boot up, everything on it runs slow, the keyboard interface takes 10 seconds to finally pull up. It's technically not even that old when I got it and a year after, it did this.

Oh and it's battery goes from 100% to 94% in a few minutes with NOTHING running.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The fingerprint scanner never worked properly, i had to register the same finger 3 times to make it kinda usable. Now a few months later it doesn't work at all.