What is a technology/gadget you refuse to use and why?

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Voice commands on anything. It just feels silly.
- Voice typing long messages is IMO faster than using a phone keyboard, even with gesture typing.
  
  Voice typing is a game changer if you break a hand. I did a semester of college writing several essays a week with 99% voice typing.
- I have only very recently come around on that. When voice commands first came out, they were absolute garbage. I am still conditioned to never expect them to work, and am always pleasantly surprised when they do.
  To be fair, I largely only use them for things like setting my alarm, because I still have an engrained expectation that they won't work otherwise.
  
  Genuine question, so they actually work better now?
  I mostly use it to set timers and alarms, but once in a while i set reminders but they often come out like i need to buy "dead foot", when I'm out of cat food for example
  
  Things I use it for with almost 100% accuracy: Timers, Alarms, Lights, Pausing/Playing TV.
  Things I use it for with like 70% accuracy: Weather and anything interfacing with maps. To be entirely fair to it though, I live in a non-English speaking country and use voice assistants in English usually, so city/place names REALLY throw it. If I change the voice assistant to my local language and use it, it works a lot better.
  I have honestly never tried setting a reminder because my brain is still rooted in early voice control tech where something like that would never conceivably work.
- I'm fine with voice command if it can be done locally. The only pipe dream is that some day, maybe some of them will support my near extinct native language. So I don't have to speak foreign languages at home.
- Depends....
  Patent of a Baby?
  Voice command is ya friend
  Having a smart home?
  Voice command is awesome for being lazy (unfrotunatally i love my privacy so i cannot use Stuff like that right now...)
  Cooking something and both Hands are gross as f***?
  Hell Yeah Voice command to Set a Timer :D
  
  I think it's the one area I'm a Luddite. I really should use voice commands on my smart home stuff because the apps are trash. But it still feels weird. Silly mental block.

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