Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: my friend had an unused laptop which he had stopped using because the fan fired up too often and was too noisy. as i am a student who is looking to study engineering, he asked me to help him fix it.

i eagerly accepted, thinking that it would be a piece of cake. thinking that the problem was dust clogging the fan, i expected to be able to take the bottom off the laptop then blow or wipe the dust out of the fan and heatsink. i had dismantled electronic items before, surely a laptop was just a bigger equivalent of a torch.

however, i hadn't anticipated the complexity of the frame of most devices. the laptop had hidden screws under stickers and bits of the motherboard were attached to the keyboard, the back of the laptop and several sections of frame inside the case. i, being enthusiastic but not very methodical, had dived right in without checking a disassembly guide and therefore missed some of these screws. not knowing how hard i had to pull to lever the cover off, i yanked it far too hard and broke the mounts for the hinge, some of the plastic parts holding the cover on, and a selection of delicate ribbon cables strung between the parts of the frame.

at this point i was quite panicked because i knew that it was a valuable laptop, although old, and i couldn't afford to pay him back for breaking it. i spent the rest of the afternoon, initially meant to be spent relaxing and gaming, hunched over the laptop trying to make the best repairs i could with a pair of tweezers he had found.

at the end of the day, i had reassembled the case but still struggled to reseat all the ribbon cables in the tight space i was trying to work in. my friend was very generous and offered to have it fixed himself at a shop with no expense for me, but i felt guilty and took it home with me to try to repair it with my own tools and using a guide i found on youtube.

so here i am now. i have the laptop opened properly in front of me with superglue drying on the parts i broke. i hope that i can fix all the damage i did because otherwise i will feel obliged to pay my friend the £2,000 that he paid for it originally.

 

always do proper research and use proper tools when dealing with valuable items.

edit : it works!

TIFU by trying to repair a friend's laptop.