based on something that happened actually to someone other than me. Somebody who didn’t trust doctors in the past due to legitimate bad experiences more recently had issues discontinuing a medication at the same time as getting caught up in a misinformation vortex meant to discredit scientists so to funnel support toward republican political candidates with no regard for people who actually need help and aren’t ever going to vote for scumbags, now distrusts doctors harder than ever and keeps getting worse mentally due to not trusting doctors so to get help with the medication issue but then also cannot be guided out of that due to continually getting stuck with doctors who seem less than trustworthy. In fact it is rather an ongoing matter but i think, i hope, the worst is over with, so i can justify posting the comic strip in the absence of anything else remotely coherent.
Now I need to take this computer apart to try and replace the “thermal paste” within it due to my other ongoing crisis that people getting paid loads of money could have prevented and saved trouble for countless common folk but didn’t. If I succeed at this I still will only have scrappy website updates but will have a substantially reduced chance of blowing up the computer and setting my home on fire if I ever get back to attempting to create better updates.
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ah nope, worse than ever. i definitely have to pay somebody to fix it or buy another one now. which i partially expected but i was never psychologically prepared to deal with. taking that thing apart and especially putting it back together, then dismantling it and remantling it again and only getting this is more than i can do a third time and potentially STILL get… this. plenty of videos showing how to take everything out but you are mostly on your own when it comes to putting stuff back in.

most of your screws are just not in or the wrong place. one is wrong and ruined and unremovable and thus the power port will forever after be lopsided AND i didn’t even need to remove that one

the screws DO NOT WANT to go back in. they want to stick to my fingers. they want to fall into different places and roll around unvisibly. they want to get stuck sideways and then fly to oblivion when freed.

and after all that, when it simply shuts off after a few seconds, it gives no indication of what thing that i did wrong was the culprit. I have been doing things wrong my whole life, possibly even beans on toast, i can’t work with something that needs all things done correctly.

i have my data, but i can’t do anything with it on this crummy backup computer that i bought for my mother that my sister then commandeered. it has TWO (2) usb ports, and i need 3, for mouse, keyboard, and tablet, not counting the one connected to the

hard drive toaster thing. and i also “have to” go on a week long “vacation” and nothing is less relaxing to me than being stuck in some other place on someone else’s conditions and not about work on my personal stupid nonsense. there certainly isn’t time to order a new machine then and i don’t trust any place to fix this fast and not charge moreforfeoieroufreefropfrupidorfrupefrupefrupelope

was trying to use ptm 7950 instead of paste like reddit dorks insisted was better the problem? would it be working now if i had just used paste? is someone that i pay $200+ just going to use paste? I don’t know. any time i open it up another screw goes missing and every time i have to reconnect the blorks to the wifi card i think i lose a year off my life.

i swear this comic strip is not about me. I have ISSUES but they aren’t new or freshly medicated.

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ah! it lives! I had not screwed the fan in tightly enough. One of the guides I looked at warned against screwing the fan in too tightly and as usual i drew the wrong conclusion from advice that i probably would have been fine without receiving. Good thing i dared to look back inside; i almost had a nervous breakdown when i resigned myself to using GIMP on a backup computer for the next twoish weeks. How do I move a selection? I don’t know! I thought just KRITA made that stupid. I am glad it doesn’t have to be my problem.
I don’t know if i actually solved the INITIAL problem of overheating but i seem to have alleviated the apparently more serious problem of me touching the computer inappropriately. It has more screws outside of it than in and the keyboard is on my bed since I got tireder and tireder of hooking stuff like that back up just for nothing to happen. Ideally I will sort that out before getting on an airplane because this thing presently looks almost as dangerous as four ounces of water with its insides and wires exposed.

and my mind state is like I have been “away” from using the computer for a week or longer when it was just a single day. Maybe this is a sign of mental illness. I will add it to my collection