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Writing
Poking at some WIPs that have been sitting for a while, but my heart's not really in it. Out of nowhere, I really want to work both on my original stuff again, and a couple of WIPs that I have forgotten about for literally years because they are trapped on my dead laptop and/or on a thumb drive that I'm not sure our server will take.
Laptop was Windows-based and has a key stuck in a way we cannot get fixed. It reads as jammed, but we removed it and can't find any actual noticeable issue, even as it still registers as stuck. Partner was trying, and couldn't get it and everything keeps shorting out because you seriously cannot get anything but error messages out of anything. She set it aside, and now we're not sure where the power cable is, so even if I take it in, I'm not sure I could turn it on. Not to mention I am now spoiled with the battery life of my iPad versus the two hours that sucker could hold a charge.
Thumb drives should, in theory work, save for two things: The first is that they are formatted to Windows and we only have Macs now save for the dead laptop. The last time my partner tried one (which thankfully only had one thing on it), it tried to erase and reformat the thing. The second thing is that I am terrified of using a computer at like a library or something and getting a virus and losing everything.
Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on this? Or a smack upside the head for being technologically inept when computers should totally be able to read a fricken word doc on any platform?
Laptop was Windows-based and has a key stuck in a way we cannot get fixed. It reads as jammed, but we removed it and can't find any actual noticeable issue, even as it still registers as stuck. Partner was trying, and couldn't get it and everything keeps shorting out because you seriously cannot get anything but error messages out of anything. She set it aside, and now we're not sure where the power cable is, so even if I take it in, I'm not sure I could turn it on. Not to mention I am now spoiled with the battery life of my iPad versus the two hours that sucker could hold a charge.
Thumb drives should, in theory work, save for two things: The first is that they are formatted to Windows and we only have Macs now save for the dead laptop. The last time my partner tried one (which thankfully only had one thing on it), it tried to erase and reformat the thing. The second thing is that I am terrified of using a computer at like a library or something and getting a virus and losing everything.
Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on this? Or a smack upside the head for being technologically inept when computers should totally be able to read a fricken word doc on any platform?