November catch-up
Dec. 4th, 2019 05:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatSo you know how it seems like every year during nanowrimo, someone's computer experiences a disaster? That was me this year! My trusty macbook pro from ye olden days (aka 2010) crashed and refused to restart. Tried all the tricks, tried to reinstall the OS, all the usual stuff -- finally called tech support. (A PHONE CALL! I KNOW!)
Tech support walked me through doing all the same steps again (understandable! I also do not believe me when I claim to have done something technology related!) And then our conversation went something like this:
Tech support (with the hesitation that comes when many people have not liked this answer): "How would you feel about erasing your hard drive?"
Me (with enormous relief): "Great! Haha, I thought you were going to say the only thing left to do was buy a new computer!"
Tech support: "...Well. This is the last step before that one." (Except they said it in a nicer, customer-service kind of way. They were really very helpful!)
Me: "Ah."
Anyway, it turns out that when your computer can no longer find the hard drive, that's bad. But thanks to immense family support and assistance, nanowrimo-ing continued (thank goodness I was writing in the cloud!), and now I have a new computer. (If anyone was wondering if the butterfly keyboard keys were as loud as all those reviews said, I can confirm the answer is YES, VERY. I mean, I love it, but it's probably good that the cat isn't bothered by noise.)
Tech support walked me through doing all the same steps again (understandable! I also do not believe me when I claim to have done something technology related!) And then our conversation went something like this:
Tech support (with the hesitation that comes when many people have not liked this answer): "How would you feel about erasing your hard drive?"
Me (with enormous relief): "Great! Haha, I thought you were going to say the only thing left to do was buy a new computer!"
Tech support: "...Well. This is the last step before that one." (Except they said it in a nicer, customer-service kind of way. They were really very helpful!)
Me: "Ah."
Anyway, it turns out that when your computer can no longer find the hard drive, that's bad. But thanks to immense family support and assistance, nanowrimo-ing continued (thank goodness I was writing in the cloud!), and now I have a new computer. (If anyone was wondering if the butterfly keyboard keys were as loud as all those reviews said, I can confirm the answer is YES, VERY. I mean, I love it, but it's probably good that the cat isn't bothered by noise.)
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Date: 2019-12-04 06:07 pm (UTC)…this is in fact a new laptop.
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Date: 2019-12-04 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-04 08:05 pm (UTC)(My anxiety over NaNo did that all on its own, before my laptop decided to join the party.)
Congrats on winning btw
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Date: 2019-12-04 08:40 pm (UTC)