Posted on 08/09/2018 4:29:20 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
It seems like a lifetime in a dark cave, but I'm finally online from home again. My old computer (which was brand new at the beginning of last year) apparently couldn't be fixed. They sold me a used but better computer and put all my stuff on it besides.
It's so good to be back. Hopefully this time it will last a while.
Me too!
Welcome back! Yeah, it’s been a pretty tough time for us all since Hillary became President. We’re putting a brave face on it but we’re all pretty much working for the Russians now. ;-)
Glad to see you back.
Hope all’s well at home.
Hashem be with You and Yours.
I've been without a home computer for four weeks and one day (and a few hours). I don't know how I didn't lose my mind. This has been a horrible month. But it's so great to be back!
The old computer was a brand new Dell which I bought at Best Buy on 2/15 of last year. I have no idea in the world why it conked out, but nothing could fix it. They tried a new power source, a new motherboard, a new CPU . . . absolutely nothing would get it to turn back on. I sometimes think I'm a computer jinx, since I have more trouble with computers than practically anyone.
This computer is used, but it's supposed to be better. It's an old HP.
Thank you all for the kind words. I’ve missed you all so much!
I’m soon going for a refurbished desktop now that they are well under $100.
Glad to see you back!
May you be granted a perfect healing!
Welcome home
My old Win7 machine bit it a couple months ago - fortunately, I back everything up on a combination of external hard drive and USB drives so once I got the replacement it was a matter of getting ‘reconnected’ and spending a number of hours over a few days putting all the files back on.
Welcome back. You made the right choice of getting a used computer. Items like this have a "bathtub curve" failure rate. They have high early failures, then fall to a low failure rate for most of their lives, and then start a high failure rate again near the end of their lives. Mildly used ones can arrive after the early failures have ended.
I buy off lease Dells, and then replace them after a half dozen, or so years. They cost only about a hundred bucks each. The only hard disk crash I've ever had was just that, a physical crash. The headphone cable got caught on my chair as I rotated, and the computer crashed on the floor. Then the new replacement disk failed six months later. Other than that.....nothing else. You can buy a $1500 computer and use it for 6 years, and it will be obsolete for the last 5 years. Or you can buy a $100 computer and use it for 5 years, and it will also be obsolete for the last 5 years.
[No, the ambulance took us to nearby hospitals who had podiatrists on duty. Then they assigned us to two different nursing homes as well, because of insurance. We didn’t see each other for months and I missed my father-in-law’s funeral (he happened to pass away in my wife’s hospital) so it was a low point in my life.]
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