When the screen on my daughter's hand-me-down laptop dimmed, flickered and finally died, I hooked it up to a secondary monitor that had been gathering dust in a closet. My take: Problem solved without a repair bill or a new laptop. Her take: "So I can only use my computer if I'm sitting at a desk?" It wasn't so much that she was complaining, it was just a foreign concept she was trying to comprehend.
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