“It took months to find appliances that didn’t need apps to function.”

The Ringer journalist Brian Phillips asked on Bluesky : I’m working on a column about the tech annoyances that drive us crazy, and I want it to be as universal as possible, so tell me yours! E.g. scanning a QR code to read a menu, never receiving the one-time passcode they supposedly texted you, “verify you’re human” by IDing tiny motorcycles, etc. There are already many responses. I am drafting behind Phillips before he even writes his essay, because I like occasionally checking in with people this way. No