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The first time using a zweihander.
I just thought of the zweihander and long swords in general in Rune Factory 4, and how slow and cumbersome they are lol, my least favorite weapon type
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.
- phone
- “smart” blackboard
- laptop
- tablet
edit: modern car
Not THE most cumbersome, but any time I’m at a friend’s place or visiting my little brother and we play on their Nintendo Switch consoles, I’m so surprised by how stupidly slow and shitty the OS is. Especially the store is so fucking bad.
I buy codes from Amazon if I’m buying digitally lol
Any smart TV. Please just let me have a TV without having to navigate spyware or the sluggish UIs.
I got some video goggles about 10 years ago. The picture on the box? A guy wearing cool shades. Me? It felt like 10 pounds strapped to my face in such a way I had to look straight up to sort of see a blurry, blocky video through a screen door. This had to be plugged into a DVD player or a VHS player (yes, really) with three separate cords, but still also ate four AAs more than once an hour, and had built in earbuds in exactly the wrong size. Also, there was a separate cord to a remote control that managed to get tangled up very easily despite being too short to fit in a pocket while the goggles were on your head, so I just kinda looped it over my shoulders. Claimed to have a 3D mode. Never found it. 300$ well spent.
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 I looked at getting the 4 and the hardware was all direct downgrades from the 2, including outdated processors from the generation before the 2 was released??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.
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.
I learned how to use it as a random attempt to make a hackintosh.
I succeeded in getting the hackintosh to boot and run, played with it for a few weeks and then got bored with it and now my computers all use Linux or Windows if I have to.
I now have an actual Apple computer from 2015 that I use just for Logic when I’m recording audio (I got a great deal on the computer and a Thunderbolt 2 audio interface), and I greatly prefer kubuntu over apple.
Feels so slow too, no matter what you’re doing, finder windows slow, opening closing apps, just moving the mouse around takes forever.
Uses the same commands as Linux
Maybe CMD, but not GUI and actually using it.
Soloing an Alaskan Chainsaw Mill. Bro didn’t show up one day and I had logs to cut.
Windows 11 in a corporate environment , Jesus wept, what a fucking disaster of a system. It just gets in your way.
A single-furrow plow that was built so that it had to be pulled by a horse.
We didn’t have a horse (it was about 50 years too late for that), but we did have a small tractor, and somehow hitched the thing to it. My father drove the tractor. And then I had to guide that plow with a very firm hand. We needed it to dig a drainage ditch on the already flooded plot. It was the only way to do that. Any other machines would have been too heavy on that wet ground. After a day of hard work with the feet deep in the water, it was done.
Scuba gear.
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 Red One, Red’s first camera/the first affordable (relatively speaking) 4K cinema camera. Talk about a heavy, temperamental machine
One of my friends tried to fix his car, but somehow made the steering wheel wiggly. Turned driving into a terrifying experience, like i was trying to convince this lump of metal and plastic to do what I wanted
