What's your most annoying technology nuisance?

EASY!!! INDIA BASED TECH SUPPORT!!!

Printing. It seems every printer I have cannot give consistant quality prints without felling a forest and drinking gallons of ink.

Fax machines.
I know it sounds stupid, but I can’t stand them. I work in a lab, I am on a computer all day, I know how things work and (for the most part) how to fix them, but fax machines… why hasn’t this technology gotten any better?

PS. I know many people don’t fax anymore. But some still do. And I hate it.

Wanna invent something good? How about wireless power connections? Instead of a wire going from my device to a wall outlet, it would be wireless.

Oh! I’m not sure if these exist already, but a printer that does double-sided prints in one shot would be much appreciated by the newspaper team at my school. I’ve never seen so much manual flipping and folding in my life.

My most annoying technology nuisance is my lack of technological knowledge.

I guess that one is on me.

1) Battery technology. Where are those methanol fuel cells they were promising us for our cell phones and laptops? And why does almost every cell phone, music player, and PDA made take a different, proprietary battery? Oh, that goes for laptops, too.

car

Car alarms and outsourced call centers.

I hate the way tech support reps never listen to me. They go down a set script no matter what. For example, recently my high-speed internet connection became slow. The tech refused to believe it was not our computer.

Finally, my husband insisted he test the speed, which he did showing the connection was slow. He then told us how to reset the modem.

Time wasted: 1 hour!

What you do is, when they say “Do this”, wait a bit and say “OK! I did that! No change!”

Definitely customer service representatives who do not speak any language I understand.

Also, automatic phone systems – we needed to have a cable company guy out to the house. We set up the appointment and were told he would call us when he was on his way. Not so! We got an automated message at 3:45 saying he would be there between 3:30 and 4:30, press one to confirm, two to cancel, three to reschedule. I was around the corner when the call came and had absolutely no way to say “I’ll be there in a minute. Please wait.” Aaaarrrggghhhh!

Wires. I absolutely hate wires. They clutter the whole place. We need more wireless stuff PRONTO!

@Thujone Oh yes, the technology does exist. You just need to pay quite a bit more for it.

Leaf blowers.

I want technology to melt snow for me so that I don’t have to shovel. What’s so hard about melting ice?

And I want lightbulbs that never have to be replaced. In fact, I want them to be non-removable altogether.

Lack of power!

Trying to figure out how to reset a digital watch for daylight savings time when the little piece of thin paper printing in minute text has long gone missing. The last time I had to get a new watch I bought two and set one to Central Standard Time and one to Central Daylight Savings Time.

Now if I could only figure out how to turn off that cockamamie beeping alarm that goes off every day at 2:27 am!