• LordAmplifier
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    4 days ago

    I’ll try to fix it, but whether I fix it or buy a new motherboard, it’ll take time, and that’s what’s killing me. I’m literally the person in the “I love my puter, all my friends are in there” meme, I use it to play video games, browse social media, do livestreams, and an application for a job that I had to send out yesterday was on it, too. (It was too hot and I was too emotional to take the SSD from it and plug it into my laptop, so I just copy-pasted CV and cover letter from PDFs I fortunately had in cloud storage and then fixed the formatting and edited them.) I’ll be able to get it running again by Thursday, but I feel naked and sad without my puter, and this laptop isn’t a great replacement, either :c

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      2 days ago

      But couldn’t you plug the screen and peripherals into the laptop to get 90% of the functionality of the desktop?

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        2 days ago

        Technically, yes, but without the remaining 10%, I don’t want to sit in a scorching hot room at all. I think that was the worst part of it all. A broken mobo sucks, but 35C / 95F and humid air in a small room on the southern side of the house made me extremely irritable. It’ll cool down significantly on Thursday, though. I’m really excited about that.

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          22 hours ago

          but without the remaining 10%, I don’t want to sit in a scorching hot room at all.

          That is fair.

          but 35C / 95F and humid air in a small room on the southern side of the house made me extremely irritable.

          That sounds like hell, I would probably live in the basement if things ever got that hot here.

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            13 hours ago

            It is hell, and that’s why I did exactly what you would do, at least for a couple of days. Our basement has massive walls that keep the heat out. It was a real blessing this week. Learning Swedish and moving there has never been this tempting.