It's relevant as a stressor. It's a device not used by the author previously, and does weird janky things, distracting them from otherwise being able to work.

It's relevant as a stressor. It's a device not used by the author previously, and does weird janky things, distracting them from otherwise being able to work. I've gotta say I was in a similar situation with regards to new unknown hardware last year. They hand me a new-ish Macbook Pro, wireless keyboard and mouse, and point me at a desk. It's not new hardware, and it never operated together so I spend way too long trying to figure out why the fuck there's no "Pair device" button, or anything like that on the Mac OS hardware. After struggling and trying various online tutorials which involve holding the mouse near the screen while you turn it on - I finally ask for help and someone points out that I can just plug the USB/Thunderbolt cable in. What USB/Thunderbolt cable? Oh the one that someone else stole to charge their iphone, I guess. Meanwhile I'm being bombarded with a ton of forms and shit I have to sign up with and people from all over messaging me to welcome me to the company and "Can you do x,y,z real quick..." As it was, I was a nervous wreck for the rest of the day second guessing everything that didn't quite work like I expected (weird OSX-isms), and worried about looking like some new overpaid idiot that doesn't even know how to operate a computer.