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Hardware
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 12 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Hardware, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Dongles get lost or break, and security software blocks them2026-02-02
- Must tap key ten times each morning, popup gives no indication of request source2025-12-26
- Familiar HDL syntax misleads programmers; tooling is awful at every step2023-11-06
- Shoppers on Reddit say the navigation is clunky and confusing2022-06-11
- Datasheets are confusing and make the Gbe NVM region look undocumented2021-09-09
- Poorly documented and difficult to use; one mistake can destroy data2021-06-18
- UI is far slower with hardware acceleration on old GPUs, forcing manual disabling2021-05-12
- Simple KVM switching causes 5-10 second delay and display garbling on link loss2020-09-02
- Four arrows and two buttons do inconsistent things, so selection and confirmation are unpredictable2020-08-27
- Hardware DVRs are horrible and worthless to use, so the user gave up on them2019-03-29
- Pipelines run for hours then fail with unreadable messages; deep menus and wizards hide what's happening2017-06-19
- Unclear whether device is switched off or auto-powered-down, so unclear how to turn it on2015-09-23