Just because you have a broken laptop screen doesn't mean that all hope is lost. You may just have to get a little creative.

A defective pixel on an LCD screen. Bad pixels are often transistors that are permanently dead and appear as black dots or permanently energized and show up as white or colored dots ("hot pixels").

Recently, my Pixel 8 developed a hardware fault. A line of pixels went dead, and the screen would occasionally become unusable as it flickered between a confusing mess of duplicated UI elements and ...

Recently, my Pixel 8 developed a hardware fault. A line of pixels went dead, and the screen would occasionally become unusable as it flickered between a confusing mess of duplicated UI elements ...