I need to share this horror story about buying a new laptop from Dell
This story is looking incredibly suspect.<p>The image SecretGamerGrrl aka Secret Gamer Girl provides for the &quot;broken screen&quot; here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;SecretGamerGrrl&#x2F;status&#x2F;1539540136102330369" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;SecretGamerGrrl&#x2F;status&#x2F;15395401361023303...</a><p>...is from this five year old russian article on how to do a screen replacement on a sony vaio laptop.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gadgetshelp.com&#x2F;diy&#x2F;busted-kak-spravitsia-so-slomannym-ekranom-na-noutbuke&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gadgetshelp.com&#x2F;diy&#x2F;busted-kak-spravitsia-so-slomann...</a><p>This person earns over $800&#x2F;month on Patreon and is either incredibly terrible at marketing their work, or hasn&#x27;t generated any work product in <i>five years.</i><p>Edit: since SGG has showed up: what&#x27;s fishy, SGG, is that you&#x2F;your partner have a massively defective laptop and neither of you have taken a single picture or video of it demonstrating these defects, and instead had to use a GIS-sourced image to show what the laptop is &#x27;like&#x27;. Most people would flood a tweet thread with pictures and video.<p>It&#x27;s also fishy that you didn&#x27;t return such an obviously defective machine within the return window.<p>It&#x27;s also fishy that your partner went from &quot;has a functional but old laptop&quot; to &quot;cannot work for six months.&quot; Their replacement laptop was very obviously broken but they sold or disposed of the old laptop?<p>Second edit: to head off the inevitable tweet deletions, archives: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;yVGGc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;yVGGc</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220623051934&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;SecretGamerGrrl&#x2F;status&#x2F;1539540136102330369" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220623051934&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.c...</a>