Computer disaster
May. 31st, 2021 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrSo...my personal computer melted down into slag yesterday. Literally—the techs at Best Buy put it into a bucket of sand to eliminate the possibility of fire. The hard drive cannot be salvaged—once the battery starts blowing up like a balloon (the laptop case was actually bulging), the hard drive and motherboard are toast. My new computer arrives in two weeks.
I have everything on backup—except email, because of the peculiar way Rob set it up years ago. I hereby declare email bankruptcy and will be starting from scratch when the nice person from Geek Squad comes to set it up. I am working on fostering an attitude of fatalistic peace about this. Not quite there yet.
Rob’s ex-manager at Best Buy was incredibly kind. They loved Rob and always take really good care of me when I come into the store. We shared a few memories, and the manager mentioned how much he missed Rob—he actually had tears in his eyes.
I had tears in my eyes, too, when I reflected that had Rob been alive, this probably wouldn’t have happened. He was always current on computer tech specs and buddies with his coworkers on Geek Squad (he tried to move to one of those positions before he got sick, so he was always studying current computer news/training). He would have taken note of the battery recall (this is a known issue with MacBooks) and would have hectored me to go in and get the battery swap done in response to the recall.
I ordered the exact same computer. The manager pointed out a lower-priced model, but no. Rob carefully researched and picked out this model especially for me.
Damn. I hadn’t planned to drop so much money this week.
I have everything on backup—except email, because of the peculiar way Rob set it up years ago. I hereby declare email bankruptcy and will be starting from scratch when the nice person from Geek Squad comes to set it up. I am working on fostering an attitude of fatalistic peace about this. Not quite there yet.
Rob’s ex-manager at Best Buy was incredibly kind. They loved Rob and always take really good care of me when I come into the store. We shared a few memories, and the manager mentioned how much he missed Rob—he actually had tears in his eyes.
I had tears in my eyes, too, when I reflected that had Rob been alive, this probably wouldn’t have happened. He was always current on computer tech specs and buddies with his coworkers on Geek Squad (he tried to move to one of those positions before he got sick, so he was always studying current computer news/training). He would have taken note of the battery recall (this is a known issue with MacBooks) and would have hectored me to go in and get the battery swap done in response to the recall.
I ordered the exact same computer. The manager pointed out a lower-priced model, but no. Rob carefully researched and picked out this model especially for me.
Damn. I hadn’t planned to drop so much money this week.