frustration - again!

[vulgarweed]

And, once again, the wireless internet is causing me trouble in my apartment.

Honestly, a big part of it is that I know my computer is very old and out of date. It's a mac G3, 900 MHz Power PC.

It was several years old when I bought it 2nd hand in '07 for roughly $350 -- which was a huge amount of money to me at the time, and is still huge to me now.

It's the best I can do! I can't throw my computer out; it still works. I don't have a spare amount of hundreds of dollars to buy the next-used model. There is NOTHING wrong with my laptop--except that it won't accept the latest updates for the wireless network that all my roommates take for granted.

I'll be honest - I'm crying right now. I just feel so humiliated. I am not "poor" in the sense of chronic food insecurity (yet), but I am definitely feeling "poor" in a sense that I feel judged for being unable to afford a computer that's up to The Latest Network Standards, so I always often wind up where I am right now, with an ethernet cord plugged into the router downstairs. I can't have Internet in my 3rd floor room, obviously. :(

Comments

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

I've been there and it's so frustrating. But please don't feel humiliated. You do more wonderful things with your $350 computer than most people do with fancy ones.


(Also, did you mean to make this a public post?)