What Tech or Gadget Purchase Have You Made Recently That You Regret

[Sienna74]

The boards here cover a lot of aspirational technology discussion. What to build, what to buy, what to upgrade. This is the other thread: the thing you bought that turned out to be worse than expected, unnecessary, or just not what you needed.

No brands required if you would rather not name them. Just what went wrong and what you learned, if anything.

[Dom_24]

A smart home hub that required me to replace or upgrade every other smart device I had because it did not support the protocols they used. The ecosystem trap is real and I walked into it fully aware that it was a trap

[MickFoley]

A premium mechanical keyboard that I convinced myself I needed for productivity reasons. It is objectively better in every measurable way than what I had before and I am no more productive. The keyboard was not the variable