So my Mom just confiscated my laptop I borrowed from a friend. Why? Because I'm not allowed to use it in my room, and I have to stay in hers to use it. Great! That ruins the whole point of the portability of laptops!
Yes, I have a desktop computer, but I'm sharing it with three other people: my sister who is in her final year in High, my brother, in his final year in college, and my Mom, of course. All of us equally need the computer for academic needs or otherwise, and I can't finish anything effectively if everyone else is trying to finish theirs.
Not to mention the specs of my computer haven't been top-of-the-line or at least decent to get Photoshop running since 2005. Yep, 1GB RAM, 1.66 GHz processor, 120GB hard drive capacity (for all of us, i should add), and no video card except for the one that's integrated. Plus it's really noisy.
Consider that the standard for decent desktops now are around two or three times those numbers. Consider that my mother makes us all do demanding Photoshop and video editing tasks for her. Consider it takes around 10 minutes for the computer to boot!
I borrowed the laptop for better productivity, for less distraction (i kept it in my room). But my mom ruined the opportunity to finish my works ahead of time and have some decent nights sleep because of her luddite theories.
This is similar to the time I asked for a bike (which she was kind enough to give me one eventually), but not to be allowed to bike to school and back, which ruins the whole point of a transportation vehicle. I wanted to help cut down costs for gas, and to be less dependent of my brother to drive me there, but every time the opportunity arises to help out, she takes me down.
What to do.
