Post Mortem

[_kent]

The monitor being dead, and well outside any warranty, I thought I'd open it up and see if there was anything to be done. Take it apart, and follow the smell of charred electronics

Comments

[captain_squid]

Odd to think just how tiny a component makes the rest of it basically scrap.

I often think similar thoughts when my ankle isn't right, or when my head fills with mucus. I suppose I should be happy that Lemur doesn't consider me disposable.

[_kent]

Heh. I had almost the precise biological equivalent with my back. A disk burst, poking debris into my nerves. Complete paralysing agony, over a matter of about a gram of congealed jelly. Fortunately, I was judged worth the repair bill.

[melanied]

I know you don't have an Action Computer down the street from you, but I buy my monitors used for $25. Then, when they die, as they always do, I go buy another one for $25. It's magical.

[_kent]

Well, I suppose we do have the functional equivalent of an Action Computer, in CEX. I've never bought a monitor from them, but I suppose it might be the sensible move. I don't know that they'd sell me one for $25. I don't know what that'd get you, given our inflated prices and the current exchange rate. A Coke maybe.

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Just looked at their website. 17" monitors for £5!

[editor]

Depending on your disposable income, you can get a nice monitor for depressingly little (depressing because I paid £550 for roughly the same monitor just two years ago).

[vardebedian]

You paid £550? Yes, that's how I remember it too.

[missing_words]

My sympathies on the broken monitor - I just recently had my normal one, as well as my three spares, all go up in (I kid you not) smoke within the last three days. Others might take it as a sign that I need to spend less time on the computer. I, on the other hand, am now looking at backup monitors and a laptop.