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尽管我是一名拥有丰富经验的软件工程师，参与过许多重要项目，但如今我对这一切感到非常失望。忘掉那些荒谬的人工智能炒作吧，忘掉缺乏伦理和道德指南针的问题；现在让我感到困扰的是这一切的可靠性。似乎所有东西都是用胶带粘合在一起的，而胶带正在脱落。在过去几个月里，发生了以下事情： - 我的Macbook Air M1出现了问题，充电不稳定。音频插孔坏了，因为它显然与充电电路有关。屏幕有时会莫名其妙地出现色调变化。现在它完全死机，根本无法充电。虽然到目前为止这台机器表现还不错，我也摔过几次，但仍然如此。即使是我那台老旧的2014年款Macbook Pro现在依然运转良好，而我对它的折腾可比这台多得多。 - 我也无法好好使用我的老Macbook Pro，因为我在2020年更换的Transcend 256GB SSD现在出现故障，导致机器变得非常缓慢。此外，我几年前买的HP商务键盘突然开始发出错误的按键信号，而MacOS（可恶的过度依赖奇怪的按键组合和手势）对此的反应则是做出一些疯狂的行为，比如在我工作时反复显示桌面，或者不停地放大和缩小。 - 我原以为可以暂时使用我的老iPad，但它无法连接到我iPhone的WiFi热点，只能连接普通WiFi。我还以为WiFi就是WiFi呢？ - 我几年前买的戴尔旅行集线器在我尝试用它在Macbook和三星显示器之间建立HDMI连接时，似乎总是随机失效。大约50%的时间，它根本无法工作，无论我怎么尝试。我试着用我的Roku设备投屏，但Roku遥控器突然失灵。我还试过我的老Apple TV；它的遥控器也无法正常工作。在勉强连接到WiFi后，Apple TV也无法正常使用，显示一些难以理解的错误信息。 - 几天前，我的iPhone 12 mini无论我怎么做，都拒绝通过USB-C转Lightning线充电，持续了几个小时。我向朋友借了一根类似的线，结果也不行。所以我的手机在我需要的时候没电了。回到家后，我用USB-A转Lightning线成功充电。 - 每当我插入几年前购买并分区的Crucial外置SSD时，它在macOS的Finder中都不会显示。我几乎总是需要进入磁盘工具去挂载分区。 - 我的Sony Bravia电视在使用了大约7年后突然坏掉了。我把它带去修理，修理师说整个屏幕都坏了。这些事情在过去三个月里接连发生。此时此刻，我已经准备放弃了；我计划在技术产品（包括苹果产品）的购买上采取极简主义，只购买我工作所需的基本设备，并意识到我买的大多数东西都是一次性的，最多在几年内就会停止工作，而且往往是在你最不期待的时候。

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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.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.Just in the last few months, all these have happened:- 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.- 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.- 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?- 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.- 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.- 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.- My Sony Bravia TV died suddenly after like 7 years. I took it to some repairers; they said the entire screen is kaput.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.

问HN：为什么技术变得如此不可靠？