ASK HN：为什么科技变得如此不可靠？
5 分•作者: prmph•2 个月前
尽管我是一名经验丰富的软件工程师，曾参与过严肃的项目，但如今我已对这一切感到非常失望。
抛开那些荒谬的人工智能炒作，抛开那些缺乏道德和良知的问题；现在让我感到困扰的是这一切的不可靠性。似乎一切都靠胶带勉强维系，而胶带正在脱落。
就在过去的几个月里，所有这些事情都发生了：
* 我的 Macbook Air M1 出了问题，充电不稳定。音频接口也坏了，因为似乎与充电电路有关。屏幕有时会随意地出现色偏。现在它完全无法充电了。诚然，到目前为止它一直是一台不错的机器，而且我曾不小心摔过它几次，但即便如此。我那台可靠的 2014 年 Macbook Pro 至今仍运行良好，而且我比它遭受的虐待要多得多。
* 我也无法很好地使用我旧的 Macbook Pro，因为我大约在 2020 年更换的 Transcend 256GB SSD 现在正在故障，导致机器不可预测地变得非常缓慢。此外，几年前我买的 HP 商务键盘现在突然发出虚假的按键信号，macOS（诅咒它过度依赖奇怪的按键组合和手势）将其解释为执行疯狂的操作，例如在我工作时反复显示桌面，或反复放大和缩小。
* 我以为我可以在此期间使用我旧的 iPad，但它无法连接到我的 iPhone 的 WiFi 热点，只能连接到普通的 WiFi。我以为 WiFi 就是 WiFi？
* 我几年前买的 Dell 旅行集线器在我尝试使用它在我的 Macbook 和我的三星显示器之间建立 HDMI 连接时，似乎会随意地失效。大约 50% 的时间，无论我怎么做，它就是不起作用。我尝试使用我的 Roku 盒子投屏，但 Roku 遥控器突然失灵了。我也尝试了我旧的 Apple TV；它的遥控器也工作不正常。在不知如何连接到 WiFi 后，Apple TV 也无法工作，并显示了一些神秘的错误消息。
* 几天前，我的 iPhone 12 mini 无论我怎么做，几个小时都无法用我的 USB-C 转闪电数据线充电。我从朋友那里借了一根类似的数据线，也无法工作。所以我的手机在我需要它的时候没电了。当我回到家时，我能够用 USB-A 转闪电数据线充电。
* 每当我插入几年前购买并分区好的 Crucial 外部 SSD 时，它在 macOS 的 Finder 中都显示不出来。我几乎总是需要进入磁盘工具来挂载分区。
* 我的索尼 Bravia 电视在使用了大约 7 年后突然坏了。我把它带去一些维修店；他们说整个屏幕都坏了。
所有这些事情都发生在过去三个月里。此时此刻，我准备放弃了；我计划在技术购买（包括苹果产品）方面非常节俭，只购买我主要用于工作所需的最基本的东西，并考虑到我购买的大部分东西都是一次性的，很可能在几年内就会停止工作，而且是在你最意想不到的时候。
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Even though I'm a software engineer with long experience with serious projects, I'm become so disillusioned with the whole thing nowadays.<p>Forget the ridiculous AI hype, forget about the lack of ethics and a moral compass; What's getting to me right now is the unreliability of it all. It seems like everything is held together with duct tape, and the tape is falling off.<p>Just in the last few months, all these have happened:<p>- My Macbook Air M1 has been acting up, refusing to charge in a stable manner. The audio jack is dead because apparently it is linked to the charging circuit. The screen sometimes shows a tint on a whim. Now it is dead and not charging at all. Granted, it has otherwise been a fine machine so far, and I've knocked it over a few times, but still. Even my old trusty 2014 Macbook Pro is still going strong, and I've abused that one much more.<p>- I also can't use my old Macbook Pro well, because the replacement Transcend 256GB SSD I put in it around 2020 is now failing, causing the machine to unpredictably become very slow. Also, the HP business keyboard I bought some years ago is suddenly now emitting spurious key signals, which MacOS (curse its over-reliance on weird key combinations and gestures) is interpreting to do wild things, like repeatedly showing the desktop while I'm working, or zooming in and out repeatedly.<p>- I thought I could use my old iPad in the meantime, but it can't connect to the WiFi hotspot on my iPhone, only a normal WiFi. I thought WiFi was just WiFi?<p>- The Dell travel hub I bought a few years ago seems to not work on a whim when I try to use it to make an HDMI connection between my Macbook and my Samsung monitor. About 50% of the time, it simply does not work, no matter what I do. I tried using my Roku ox to cast my screen, but the Roku remote suddenly does not work. I also tried my old Apple TV; its remote was also not working properly. After somehow getting to work to connect to WiFi, the Apple TV also does not work, giving some cryptic error messages.<p>- A few days ago, my iPhone 12 mini simply refused to charge from my USB-C to lightning cable, no matter what I did, for hours. I borrowed a similar cable from a friend, it also did not work. So my phone died when I needed it. When I got home, I was able to charge with a USB-A to lightning cable.<p>- Whenever I plug in the external Crucial SSD I bought a few years ago and partitioned, it does not show up in Finder on macOS. I almost always have to go in the Disk Utility to mount the partitions.<p>- My Sony Bravia TV died suddenly after like 7 years. I took it to some repairers; they said the entire screen is kaput.<p>All these have happened in the last three months. At this point I'm ready to give up; I plan to be very minimalist with my tech purchases (including Apple stuff), only getting the minimal stuff I need mostly for work, and keeping in mind that most of what I buy is throwaway, likely to stop working in a few years at most, and when you least expect that.