this is why i cannot have nice things. ever.

[thisfishflies]

My laptop is held together by tape. In several places.

First, the spacebar. When trying to clean out the keyboard, I pried it up. The something broke off and now it does not stick. So, it's taped on. And now there is even more cat hair stuck under there to the tape.

Pretty much my keyboard telling me to go fuck myself, yes?

The next place it is held together- the screen. I'm not quite sure when it happened, but I noticed cracks on the top of my laptop, around the corners. So, like any smart person, I covered them with stickers and tape to hold it together. Shut up- that is my solution to everything. Lately I've had to pop the cracks back into place... You might see where this is going, yes?

I openedit today and stopped.Because the case was pulling away from the screen. This is not good.





The light area I'm pointing to? The inside screen that is being shown as the plastic be~nds away.

Okay, I say, let's look at the cracks and see what's going on.



Oh, not too much worse than before. More tape and maybe it can be salvaged--



-oh motherfucking ass weasels. shit shit shit.

That big crack, sorta under the dino? Only being held on my the sticky from the tape. Every time I move the screen it tries to jump apart.




Soooo, I'll be buying a new, cheap laptop next weekend after payday. Like, pretty much the same specs as this, but not broken. And then I'll have to somehow transfer everything over to the new one. I don't know how to do that. Can I do it so I don't have to reinstall software? Cause a lot of my graphics are kinda pirate. Like, all of them. And I don't know how I actually got them to work.

I've never had a working computer when I got a new one. I lost everything when my first laptop died. Nothing to transfer.


Ugh. Just fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Why can't laptops be unbreakable? I hardly even dropped this one!

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[bauble]

I actually recently transferred all my stuff from my working, but unbearably slow--old laptop to a shiny new one. What worked for me was creating a backup of all my documents on my external hard drive (which holds about... 400 gigs?) and then just copying that to my new computer. I also had saved some of the executable install files for the programs I wanted to use on my new computer on my external hard drive and transferred them over for easy installation as well.

And voila, seamless transition. Anything I forgot, I just downloaded off the internet again (like an updated version of X or Y program).

[apocalypsewoman.livejournal.com]

This is why I'm getting a desktop for this coming school year. :/ I have a craptop right now, but it's rapidly degrading into mash (despite having rarely been moved off the desk) and I don't want to lose 1023810928301923 novels/fics/art documentation etc. before getting something new. I'm lucky enough to have a USB storage device which is REALLY handy to help transfer stuff, but it's still a bitch. I curse thee, craptop!

[thisfishflies.livejournal.com]

all of my external hard drives have died on me. I've gone through three. it's really sad. ;.;

[apocalypsewoman.livejournal.com]

Whoah, that's talent! :D I've fried many a hard drive, but I haven't been able to roast any externals yet.