So, I’ve been writing a 175k word One Piece fanfic for about 6 months. Most of my writing is done on a 10 year-old laptop I dug out of the closet while I wait for my kid to finish sports practice. Today, the hard-drive died. (Thankfully I have a cloud backup.)

Now, without a laptop, I have nothing to continue working on. I can’t afford a new laptop. Just glad I didn’t lose all my work.

    • terminhell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Ikr. I would be mediumley furiated if my laptop suffered any issues that caused substantial downtime. OP states cloud backups, so they’re good for data. But you can’t use that data without a device.

      • the_weez@midwest.socialEnglish
        42·
        2 days ago

        I mean, how long should a laptop work? OP said it was pretty old, these things happen. I totally understand wanting to keep what you have going as long as you can, but hard drives have a lifespan and it’s usually around 3 years of constant use. SSD are a little better but flash still ages. Not ideal but at a certain point you kinda gotta accept that it’s not long for this world if you don’t do maintenance.