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My laptop is dying. It's been dying very slowly for a good few years now. First it decided it didn't like sharing WiFi with other laptops and would freeze or shut itself off after two minutes online (I've never found out why this is, it's done it on a dozen different private networks). Then the screen died and I had to get an internal part replaced. Then it died entirely and a nerd magicked it back to life. Then the power cord died. Then the screen started going black when tilted at certain angles. Then all the white space stopped being white at all but two very specific and precise angles of the screen, one of which only exists fifty per cent of the time and the other of which requires the laptop to be practically shut. I haven't replaced it, because it turns out laptops are bastard expensive.

My boyfriend has been offering for months to lend me his old laptop. Which is a Mac.

Me: But I don't get Macs. There aren't any buttons and you scroll the wrong way and dragging and dropping is impossible.
Him: It's fine. They're just computers. They're very easy to use once you get used to the couple of differences.

He scrubbed all his stuff off the old Mac and gave it to me yesterday. Today I tried to do some work on it. Tried.

Me: Uh... help.
Him: What's up?
Me: It went blue.
Him: Huh?
Me: I tried to save it and it went blue.
Him: It went blue?
Me: And all the words have gone.

[he investigates laptop]

Him: Yep, that's gone blue. I've no idea what you did there.
Me: I thought you said Macs were easy to use.
Him: Oh, fuck off.