When backing up your data isn't the only backup you need
New hardware has been acquired.
It's an HP Streambook -- not the most impressive hardware, but it's lightweight with good battery life, the keyboard seems decent for a modern machine, and you couldn't beat the price. If it was meant to be a primary machine, I'd want a lot more under the hood, but as an emergency back-up/travel computer, it should be fine for my needs. Also, and I fully admit to embracing the shallow here, it's a lovely shade of blue.
I haven't had time to set it up yet; what with car follies and NaNo, I've barely had time to plug it in and let the battery charge up. I'm not looking forward to dealing with Windows 10, but again, not primary machine. I'm attempting to cultivate a sense of humor about it.
Amusingly, the "work" laptop has decided to behave itself again. It only failed to have a keyboard once (after the system stand-by on battery kicked in, and I've lengthened the time for that now), and it only typed one "e" when I wasn't looking. Okay, so that's a definition of "behaved" that wouldn't work for everybody, but I can deal with it.
This entry was originally posted at https://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/187990.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. Comment whereever.
It's an HP Streambook -- not the most impressive hardware, but it's lightweight with good battery life, the keyboard seems decent for a modern machine, and you couldn't beat the price. If it was meant to be a primary machine, I'd want a lot more under the hood, but as an emergency back-up/travel computer, it should be fine for my needs. Also, and I fully admit to embracing the shallow here, it's a lovely shade of blue.
I haven't had time to set it up yet; what with car follies and NaNo, I've barely had time to plug it in and let the battery charge up. I'm not looking forward to dealing with Windows 10, but again, not primary machine. I'm attempting to cultivate a sense of humor about it.
Amusingly, the "work" laptop has decided to behave itself again. It only failed to have a keyboard once (after the system stand-by on battery kicked in, and I've lengthened the time for that now), and it only typed one "e" when I wasn't looking. Okay, so that's a definition of "behaved" that wouldn't work for everybody, but I can deal with it.
This entry was originally posted at https://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/187990.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. Comment whereever.