This is an example of my stupidity:
A little backstory: I have a gaming laptop. A PC would've been a much better deal but my back and muscles in general are atrophied so for many years I've been just using a laptop and lying in bed all day long, it's much easier than in a chair, and you can't do that with a PC.
Anyway, this laptop was very expensive, but it's a third world shithole so by the time it gets to my hands it has all kinds of tax and markup added on. Every store in this god damn country sells what would be for example a $900 laptop gets to like $1500. And that's in a country where the average salary is like $300 a month but whatever. I don't do anything but rot in bed all day so I don't have expenses, I don't want anything else and I'm an only child, so my parents saved up and bought me (this isn't even my first one but that's another story of stupidity, god those may even be more stupid).
So, this laptop that is very expensive in my country but is actually an entry level gaming laptop by fucking Lenovo, this Chinese piece of crap has a good CPU but they cheaped out on the build quality, thing feels like it's made of fucking paper.
So there's a problem. The keys are wonky and shit gets beneath them constantly. You pop the cover off one and you see all kinds of hair, crumbs etc... And I take very good care of my laptop, I NEVER eat around it, I constantly wipe it etc... But this shit is like a magnet, every fucking possible piece of dust or lint or hair gets under the keys.
So eventually keys start sounding bad every time you press them, or they even get mushy or they even can't get pressed from all angles. And my OCD makes this unberable.
So what does my dumb ass do? A few times I popped the plastic cover off keys (I saw how to do it from an indian online) and I tried to clean them up. Worked a few times, made the OCD much better since the keys worked better and made less sound when I claned them out.
I did that a few times without many problems. And I was always very careful, knowing that they could break. Anyway, I guess I got cocky. Yesterday I pop a few off, clean them out. So much fucking hair and dust and lint. The first big scare was the space bar. It was bothering me so I popped it open. Was very careful and I still nearly broke it, but I popped it back in intact, no problems. This was a big scare so I swore to myself I'd stop and never do it again. Lo and behold, 5 minutes later my OCD is eating at me that a few keys feel wonky. It wasn't even a real problem, just a small extra sound when pressing and maybe it felt a tiny, tiny, tiny bit mushy. But I couldn't bear it. So I pop it open (a simple letter key, not the space bar).
And this is where I fucked up. The little plastic hinges popped off. These tiny little Chinese pieces of crap, they make them shitty on purpose so you spend hundreds of dollars on repairs, if one is broken sometimes it's easier to just change the whole keyboard than to hunt these pieces of shit down.
Anyway, I shit you not I've spent 4 hours yesterday and 6 hours today fixing this shit. It started with 1 fucking key and to use as examples I eventually popped other 2 off. Well, my fingers are raw and almost bloody from all the tinkering like a retard not knowing how to fix this shit. And I did fucking find a way to fix it in a few hours. But the other hours were spent carefully trying to put this shit into place since this fucking laptop was made extra tricky when it comes to these things, cause remember it's a Chinese piece of crap. They have different models of these little plastic shits for every laptop, and this one is extra fucky.
Managed to fix 1 fully, after hours of effort. 1 is totally broken, beyond repair, those little plastic hinges got ripped in 1 tiny little place, and the cover too, and that rendered it beyond repair, chinese piece of crap. And one other is kinda fixed but a part of the cover is broken so it's a bit unstable but it works fine, still probably will have to change it.
Anyway, in conclusion. Because my dumb ass couldn't live with a tiny little flaw that most people wouldn't even notice, I caused problems for myself. And if it wasn't enough that I broke 1 thing, I broke 2 others trying to fix the first and wasted ~10 hours in total trying to fix this shit, all for naught. This could all have been avoided if I weren't retarded. But I am, so I tried to "fix" shit I shouldn't have touched, and fucked it all up. Now I'm probably going to have to wait weeks for a fucking tech guy to order this shit from abroad, maybe even change the whole keyboard and it's going to cost me a fucking ton. All cause I am retarded. Why did I fucking spend so much money on a Lenovo piece of shit god damn. Just 1 year old this laptop and I already fucked it up. Can't even order shit off amazon or other sites myself cause this country is a piece of shit where barely anyone delivers, so gotta go to one of these repair shops that know who the fuck delivers in this country.
A little backstory: I have a gaming laptop. A PC would've been a much better deal but my back and muscles in general are atrophied so for many years I've been just using a laptop and lying in bed all day long, it's much easier than in a chair, and you can't do that with a PC.
Anyway, this laptop was very expensive, but it's a third world shithole so by the time it gets to my hands it has all kinds of tax and markup added on. Every store in this god damn country sells what would be for example a $900 laptop gets to like $1500. And that's in a country where the average salary is like $300 a month but whatever. I don't do anything but rot in bed all day so I don't have expenses, I don't want anything else and I'm an only child, so my parents saved up and bought me (this isn't even my first one but that's another story of stupidity, god those may even be more stupid).
So, this laptop that is very expensive in my country but is actually an entry level gaming laptop by fucking Lenovo, this Chinese piece of crap has a good CPU but they cheaped out on the build quality, thing feels like it's made of fucking paper.
So there's a problem. The keys are wonky and shit gets beneath them constantly. You pop the cover off one and you see all kinds of hair, crumbs etc... And I take very good care of my laptop, I NEVER eat around it, I constantly wipe it etc... But this shit is like a magnet, every fucking possible piece of dust or lint or hair gets under the keys.
So eventually keys start sounding bad every time you press them, or they even get mushy or they even can't get pressed from all angles. And my OCD makes this unberable.
So what does my dumb ass do? A few times I popped the plastic cover off keys (I saw how to do it from an indian online) and I tried to clean them up. Worked a few times, made the OCD much better since the keys worked better and made less sound when I claned them out.
I did that a few times without many problems. And I was always very careful, knowing that they could break. Anyway, I guess I got cocky. Yesterday I pop a few off, clean them out. So much fucking hair and dust and lint. The first big scare was the space bar. It was bothering me so I popped it open. Was very careful and I still nearly broke it, but I popped it back in intact, no problems. This was a big scare so I swore to myself I'd stop and never do it again. Lo and behold, 5 minutes later my OCD is eating at me that a few keys feel wonky. It wasn't even a real problem, just a small extra sound when pressing and maybe it felt a tiny, tiny, tiny bit mushy. But I couldn't bear it. So I pop it open (a simple letter key, not the space bar).
And this is where I fucked up. The little plastic hinges popped off. These tiny little Chinese pieces of crap, they make them shitty on purpose so you spend hundreds of dollars on repairs, if one is broken sometimes it's easier to just change the whole keyboard than to hunt these pieces of shit down.
Anyway, I shit you not I've spent 4 hours yesterday and 6 hours today fixing this shit. It started with 1 fucking key and to use as examples I eventually popped other 2 off. Well, my fingers are raw and almost bloody from all the tinkering like a retard not knowing how to fix this shit. And I did fucking find a way to fix it in a few hours. But the other hours were spent carefully trying to put this shit into place since this fucking laptop was made extra tricky when it comes to these things, cause remember it's a Chinese piece of crap. They have different models of these little plastic shits for every laptop, and this one is extra fucky.
Managed to fix 1 fully, after hours of effort. 1 is totally broken, beyond repair, those little plastic hinges got ripped in 1 tiny little place, and the cover too, and that rendered it beyond repair, chinese piece of crap. And one other is kinda fixed but a part of the cover is broken so it's a bit unstable but it works fine, still probably will have to change it.
Anyway, in conclusion. Because my dumb ass couldn't live with a tiny little flaw that most people wouldn't even notice, I caused problems for myself. And if it wasn't enough that I broke 1 thing, I broke 2 others trying to fix the first and wasted ~10 hours in total trying to fix this shit, all for naught. This could all have been avoided if I weren't retarded. But I am, so I tried to "fix" shit I shouldn't have touched, and fucked it all up. Now I'm probably going to have to wait weeks for a fucking tech guy to order this shit from abroad, maybe even change the whole keyboard and it's going to cost me a fucking ton. All cause I am retarded. Why did I fucking spend so much money on a Lenovo piece of shit god damn. Just 1 year old this laptop and I already fucked it up. Can't even order shit off amazon or other sites myself cause this country is a piece of shit where barely anyone delivers, so gotta go to one of these repair shops that know who the fuck delivers in this country.
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