8 Apr
2024
8 Apr
'24
3:13 p.m.
On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 20:43, Van Snyder via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I know the main focus of the list.
No, you don't, because then you say:
The Vostro 1700 is almost old enough
to be a semi-antique.
And it isn't.
I don't know another list where people might know
why the display flashes once and then goes black.
Then you should go join more communities and not complain about this
one -- or upset it.
If you shine a very bright light at the display, you
can dimly see what
it's trying to show. So the display works, but the backlight doesn't.
So you have identified the problem and did not say so?
It's my brother's only computer. He's
destitute and lives in a room
slightly bigger than a postage stamp.
Sorry to hear that.
He can't afford a new laptop, and
he is picky about where the USB connectors are.
He doesn't get to be picky if he's that poor. That's how life is.
(His hobby is complaining that most stuff other people
would say is
good enough isn't perfect.)
That is a privilege that comes with being able to afford better.
TBH, ISTM that you actively want to annoy people here. It's working on
me, I can tell you that.
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