Comment on My writing laptop just died
aramis87@fedia.io 1 day ago
Ask your friends if they have an old laptop (or desktop, if that's acceptable) lying around. It's surprising how much old tech people have stuck away in their closets these days
Comment on My writing laptop just died
aramis87@fedia.io 1 day ago
Ask your friends if they have an old laptop (or desktop, if that's acceptable) lying around. It's surprising how much old tech people have stuck away in their closets these days
SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m going to have my wife ask around. I don’t do social media, but there’s bound to be someone with a used laptop I can buy. Good idea!
aramis87@fedia.io 1 day ago
Ask your friends and family as well. Someone has an old laptop/desktop from school or an old job stuck in a closet. A lot of people give up when their machines become too slow, but they don't bother with basic maintenance to see if that will speed it up: virus checks, uninstalling un-needed programs, clearing caches, defragging the hard drive, etc. I have one friend ditched a PC because it ran too slowly and when I checked it out they had two antivirus programs competing with each other, making it impossible to do anything else. Other people take the fact that the battery or charging cable died as a signal to get a replacement.