Every laptop I’ve ever owned has been at the 500USD or less price point, and every laptop I’ve ever owned has had some kind of catastrophic structural failure in the chassis that causes the entire thing to gradually disintegrate after about two years, like clockwork.
Like, that must absolutely be something they do as an explicit design goal that forces you to buy a new disposable laptop just after the standard warranty expires, right? It’s not just me being bad at computer or something?
Maybe try to get repair parts on ebay? Don’t have too much experience with plastic components braking down, but I understand the planned obsolescence frustration. Mostly around phones, in my case.
But yes, I hate all of this planned obsolescence. I have an ASUS C100P that reached end of life several years ago, so I need a new operating system. It was cheap and has a good aluminum chassis and good other hardware, but I need an up to date OS. I think maybe with enough effort Arch Linux ARM might be able to work, but would like a more polished OS.