Concave1142
@Concave1142@lemmy.world
- Comment on My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out. 6 days ago:
I gave it a very short search back when it broke last year. I went with the cheapest way to get it back up and running which was just convert it to a desktop. She never goes anywhere with a laptop in the first place so there was no need to make it portable again.
She’s retired and just used it to surf the web. A Chromebook would work perfectly for her if she was not dead set of having Excel for her recipes and bill tracking.
- Comment on My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out. 6 days ago:
I did not want to deal with the remote IT support of it all, so I plugged in a mouse/keyboard and a second monitor to make it more like a desktop PC setup, lol.
- Comment on My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out. 6 days ago:
This happened on a decent spec’d HP laptop I bought my mom a couple years back. No easy way to repair without ordering new hinges that were impossible to find and the PC repair shop quoted over $500 repair on a $700 laptop when it was new.
Now she just leaves the laptop open in the 180 degree position with the laptop being held into a stand & bungie cord strapped to it to prevent it from falling foward. It is now a desktop PC and no longer a laptop.
- Comment on Lil Yachty with the HARDEST walk out EVER - YouTube 1 month ago:
Looks like he’s doing some sort of a rain dance. Bad ass either way.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
I have also noticed it seems harder to find stuff on Google now. My pet theory is that it is the building in of AI to search (Bing Chat anyone?) that is affecting Google search results. Lately, I have been going to Bard & ChatGPT to do searches but treat it more as a jumping off point to help point the direction of where or how to search.
Not perfect, but just a method I’ve been playing with for the past month off & on.