Bleah. Have an appointment to take my laptop in to the local authorized repair shop tomorrow and see if they can fix the laptop’s screen issues and for how much. Here’s hoping it’s not too expensive. (And that they can do in-shop repairs same-day, and dad can thus ransom the laptop on his way home from work.)

And whether or not that happens, I’m looking at getting a new computer. Which, considering that I do not have the spoons to learn a new operating system, is going to be a Mac, means I’m looking at a pretty chunk of change I don’t actually have. And I’m not getting another laptop, I’m getting a desktop, because for the most part, I don’t need the portability, and when I do, I have my phone for internet, and actual physical notebooks for writing long-hand. And if with mom, the iPad.

Still, I’m looking at $1200 for the computer + trackpad + keyboard, especially since I want solid-state hard drive, not spinning. My brother has extra monitors, so not adding another chunk of change on that. (And even if I did, I’d still be paying less than I would for a comparable laptop, the fuck.)

I’m going to look at Patreon, and see what I can do with that, because if I can get that running enough to pay down a balance on a credit card, I don’t have to worry about having the money up-front. Or crowd-funding options to get enough in my bank account to afford to pay the whole thing up-front. Something.

*sighs, and thumps head against the wall a moment*

It’s a five-year-old laptop. It’s not surprising I’m having issues (although the screen issue has been an intermittant thing for the last three years, really). It’s just really annoying, and replacing this is going to be a pain in the ass.