FUCK
Okay, sorry, but I'm angry. Incredibly angry.
I mostly use my laptop as my everyday computer these days, but I do still have a desktop computer, too. With that desktop computer comes a monitor. I mostly use the desktop and the monitor for watching stuff with guests when I have someone staying over. It's a good monitor for that. It's either four or six years old; I think six, but I'm not sure. I know that's old in the brave new world of electronics, but... fuck.
I just tried to move it aside a bit - and people who know me know that I'm not someone who handles computer components without care - AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE MONITOR CAME LOOSE FROM ITS STAND. So there I stood, with a fairly heavy monitor in my hands - it was on, mind you! - trying to find a way to shut down the computer while still holding the monitor upright. I finally managed, and unplugged the cables, and took a closer look at the stand and the monitor itself. Turns out that some small metal (or plastic?) piece that apparently holds the entire weight of the monitor had broken off.
So now I have a fully functional monitor, but I can't use it anymore because I can't put it on its stand anymore because that stupid. piece. of metal/plastic. broke off.
How did it even break? I'm not the Hulk, I didn't throw the monitor around or do anything else with it that could conceivably have caused damage like that. It just came off in my hands, without any sense of force/resistance. HOW???
I don't really want to have to buy a new monitor for an utterly stupid reason like this.
But I'm not very optimistic about finding replacement parts.
I mostly use my laptop as my everyday computer these days, but I do still have a desktop computer, too. With that desktop computer comes a monitor. I mostly use the desktop and the monitor for watching stuff with guests when I have someone staying over. It's a good monitor for that. It's either four or six years old; I think six, but I'm not sure. I know that's old in the brave new world of electronics, but... fuck.
I just tried to move it aside a bit - and people who know me know that I'm not someone who handles computer components without care - AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE MONITOR CAME LOOSE FROM ITS STAND. So there I stood, with a fairly heavy monitor in my hands - it was on, mind you! - trying to find a way to shut down the computer while still holding the monitor upright. I finally managed, and unplugged the cables, and took a closer look at the stand and the monitor itself. Turns out that some small metal (or plastic?) piece that apparently holds the entire weight of the monitor had broken off.
So now I have a fully functional monitor, but I can't use it anymore because I can't put it on its stand anymore because that stupid. piece. of metal/plastic. broke off.
How did it even break? I'm not the Hulk, I didn't throw the monitor around or do anything else with it that could conceivably have caused damage like that. It just came off in my hands, without any sense of force/resistance. HOW???
I don't really want to have to buy a new monitor for an utterly stupid reason like this.
But I'm not very optimistic about finding replacement parts.