@wizz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Well, that is that, my trusty laptop is officially dead. Thought it was maybe the battery, so I replaced it and tried all the fixes I could find when it wouldn't power on, but no luck. Something vital is most likely fried.
I am so frustrated but at the same time so resigned to it that I just sat there for like five minutes after closing everything back up.
Can't afford a new laptop right now, so I just straight up don't have a computer. Thus, can't take the coding courses I was hoping to take, can't study, etc etc etc.
It's just one more shitty thing this year on a pile of them so I can't even work up the energy to be truly upset about it.
So. I've been in this situation before. And it really, truly sucks.
What I can say, though, is that laptops can come extraordinarily cheaply.
I have this little guy that I take with me to work. It's by no means a powerhouse or anything, but I've never experienced any kind of serious performance issue with it unless I have a billion browser tabs open. I can use it to listen to spotify or something while running Atom, which is a memory beast, and modifying Ares stuff with a MU client in the background.
And, best of all, since it's through Walmart.com, you can use teh Paypal option and try to qualify for the Pay-In-4, where they split it up over your next 4 paychecks.
I know that it's not a great option when you're feeling strapped for cash, and it's certainly no gaming notebook or whatever. But just for work and school, I've found that it meets all of my needs and still lets me stream just fine right out of the box.
Might be worth looking into. Sorry that I can't be of more help than that right now, but I know that the gamers in this community, no matter how much we might be at each others' throats all the time, have each other's backs. Maybe you could set up a GoFundMe or something for donations toward something new? Even if just a temporary fix.
ETA: It will run Atom and Discord at the same time while doing those other things, which on my HP notebook will absolutely crash it, but it's a dinosaur.