the original Microsoft surface. no, not the laptop, the 60" touch sensitive table. they had these great demos of nfc-enabled DnD miniatures getting stat overlays when you put them down on the map shown by the table, but trying to actually build stuff for the device was nightmarish and the input latency was frequently more than half a second. the worst part that it ran stock windows 7, which is not made for touch interactions.
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All the various gardening equipment that was made for someone several inches taller than me. Things to edge lawns, shovels, rakes, just a lot of stuff.
I'll trade you as mine all seem to be made for someone several inches shorter than me.
I would, but I suspect they'd still be too big for me! And if I do ever find stuff my height, it's for children and cheap shitty plastic that breaks in a day of use!
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A carpet cleaner. I had to prepare a previous apartment for showing (it's a long story) & there was quite a bit of dust on the carpet
Could just be I'm stupid, but I was not prepared for how involved such a machine is... to be fair it is meant for professional use, so I was probably just not properly trained for it
Macbook pro
The aluminum chassis is stupid and has sharp edges so if you use the laptop on the go it's likely to cut your wrists. The screen is so glary you can't use the thing outside at all. The keyboard is really bad and I had one of those with a touchbar which is the dumbest laptop idea ever that would constantly get activated by slight brush or water droplet. And macos is such a terrible operating system full of legacy restrictions and commands you can't customize or animations you can't remove.
I had to use one for a contract I had with an US firm for security auditing and it dropped my productivity in half tho it was fun to explore the apple world on someone else's dime knowing it's temporary but I'm not going back ever.
Pixel Slate by Google
I got it on a black Friday Sale and immediately regretted it.
For something that is supposed to "just work" nothing just works.
It's spent the last several years as a very expensive media player. Which it isn't even particularly good at...
I bought a Chromebook for uni (the only thing cheap enough I could afford) and it was so bad I ended up installing Linux and libre office. Years later I got a pixel 2 and it came with a free Google assistant.
Pixel 2 was a great phone until one day it just never turned back on. I looked at getting the 4 and the hardware was all direct downgrades from the 2, including outdated processors from the generation before the 2 was released??
The Google assistant was the most useless piece of shit I've ever used. Never bought another Google product again.
A tape backup auto loader. It was two racks large and regular would have problems, mostly software related. Commvault was the software. Every month was a cage fight.
Trying to find the item I want to fuse to an arrow in Tears of the Kingdom
- phone
- "smart" blackboard
- laptop
- tablet
edit: modern car
Scuba gear.
A smartphone... I barely even use it and never use it for social media. Maybe it's because I've grown accustomed to using a gaming desktop computer that still responds instantaneously even in its old age, but I find it very cumbersome to use a device where there's a 3-5 second input lag for everything.
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rock bar. It's a pole made entirely of metal with a little wedge at the end. You use it to pry rocks from the earth but because its so heavy you can't just slide it in and pull it up like a prybar. you kinda just puncture the dirt like a spear and lever straight through the soil to get the rock loose first then pry it out.
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