As far as phones go, the Razor Phone 2. It hurts to hold for too long.
Probably the iPad
Got it for free from a relative who had bought a newer model (he always has the latest iShit)
Played around with it for a week
Sure. It’s smooth. That screen was drop dead gorgeous.
… And yet everything I tried to do on the thing felt like I was fighting against it. Everything was restrained and needlessly clunky. It made me think “golly gee, windows cooperates more”
When I hear stories like these I’m always curious: what were you trying to do?
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.
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.
I truly don’t understand how to use an apple computer. It’s terrible to use.
How do you screw up the most basic fundamental things like window management and a basic file explorer, I’ll honestly never understand.
Feels so slow too, no matter what you’re doing, finder windows slow, opening closing apps, just moving the mouse around takes forever.
My label printer. Horrible UI. How do I switch to capital letters? How to numbers? It can print two small lines instead of one, but how? It also has bold, italics, underline, but getting there is a game of trial and error.
And the display is not WYSIWYG, but just five or eight characters. You never know what you will get when hit the print button. And you cannot save labels you successfully designed - it just remembers the one in the system when you switched it off.
Any phone larger than my 2016 iphone SE. I have a fairphone and it’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a phone but it’s SO BIG. It has a one handed mode, but that turns itself off whenever you tap the back button, which is so annoying it’s making me aggressive. I used to lie in bed, chilling, looking at memes with one hand while the other arm was cosily under the blanket. That’s a thing of the past. I also can’t rest the hand I have chronic pain in because I always need to use both hands to not keep dropping my phone and reach all of the screen.
I went from original iPhone SE to 13 mini. I kept using the SE until it was no longer updated, although it still gets security updates from time to time. The 13 mini is a little larger, but not 6.5“ larger. I’m dreading the day that they stop supporting it, modern phones are so huge. I did read about a guy that doesn’t have a phone, just an Apple Watch, I might think about that.
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It didn’t stop with the camera either. In the early days, wrangling the files and setting up a functional workflow was a nightmare as well.
4K raw video before hardware acceleration was no joke!
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Any smart TV. Please just let me have a TV without having to navigate spyware or the sluggish UIs.
I’m left handed. What’s the character limit around here, 'cause I have much to add.
Did you love those college desks? Lmao when I was in college ironically they only had left handed ones. If only we had full desks that were for whichever.
Maybe I’m lucky, but at the community college I attend I have never had to sit at a desk. Only tables. As a left handed person, I am pretty happy about that, even though I have not had to write much because computers/laptops.
