Tablets breaking in new and interesting ways

Behold! The band of unusability!

It's a vertical stripe in which the tablet picks up the location of the pen, but doesn't register it as touching.



It effectively makes it so I can only draw on the left half of the screen.
This thing's from 2006, so I suppose it's lasted a decent amount of time, but, ah, yeah.

I've mostly been drawing on paper because of this. With actual pencils! Those are still a thing. I know, I was as surprised as you are.

(Posting this journal lost me two followers. Neat!)