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.
Or of the laptop has a serious hardware fault and is beyond repair, then pick up a keyboard from a thrift shop for a couple of bucks and type on your phone.
Or if it is just for the purpose of using a word processor, then any ancient laptop can be picked up on Facebook marketplace. I can see plenty of decent options listed in my area for <£50 (I appreciate this may be a lot to spend for some though).