Finally, I give up on my mouse and my keyboard. "To give up" means to stop
trying to do something because it is so difficult or because it is taking a very long
time. I, for example, might want to become a professional singer, but if everyone
tells me that I'm a terrible singer - I'm a bad singer - I will probably give up after
trying for a few years. In this story, I tried to fix my computer problems on my
own, but it was just too difficult, so I gave up and called the computer tech.