this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[โ€“] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This company went bankrupt btw ๐Ÿ’ฏ I can only hope whatever chain decided to try this shit got ostracized too.

[โ€“] Cattail@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the company that did smart coolers for gas station coolers. It cost thousands of dollars and required proprietary service for this display. Idk if anyone is bankrupt but the company that made them essentially stopped supporting them so has stations have worthless screens blocking the merchandise

[โ€“] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I saw a bunch of those cooler displays just showing errors/blue screens.

I refuse to look at them anyway and just stand there holding the door open while I browse/decide what I want. They can pay to cool and then re-heat the room ontop of the power costs for those displays.