But as I said before, I think hardware manufacturers hate you 
Yes which is a back handed way of saying you feel these things are only happening to me and so I am somehow at fault. Which is also insulting to me!
I have no problems with hardware or software. I have worked with and designed both for over 30 years so I generally know what I am talking about when something is not working properly.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675