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New Laptop!
Sep. 22nd, 2022 09:37 pmI finally had to get a shiny new (to me) computer! I managed to find a very cheap refurbished MacBook Pro... still a decade old, but it's newer than my old one, with a better hard drive, 4 gigs of RAM (instead of 1), and the ability to run a much newer OS. It even came with a higher OS than I was anticipating, which means that it can do just about everything my old laptop no longer could!
So far, so good, though I've only had it running for about a day. I hope there's no sudden issues lurking, but already it's pretty exciting to have a functioning computer!
It was really pretty sad how much weird cobbling together I had to do just for my relatively minor computer activities... If I wanted to post images to DW, I had to use my phone to create the embed links and put them into the draft post, and switch back and forth between editing the post on my phone and on the laptop.
To post to AO3, I had to use a laptop from work so that I could use google docs (because my ancient copy of word wouldn't preserve formatting when copy-pasting directly, but would do so if I imported the doc file to google) except my laptop couldn't access google docs, so I had to put the files on a thumb drive, and use a different computer to upload them and post to AO3.
So... being able to do things all from my computer is pretty neat. There's some OS differences, and I'll have to get used to Libreoffice instead of Word (because I don't want to buy a copy). Importing my music was a mild headache, and there may be some files that I need to replace.
But so far, I'm quite pleased.
So far, so good, though I've only had it running for about a day. I hope there's no sudden issues lurking, but already it's pretty exciting to have a functioning computer!
It was really pretty sad how much weird cobbling together I had to do just for my relatively minor computer activities... If I wanted to post images to DW, I had to use my phone to create the embed links and put them into the draft post, and switch back and forth between editing the post on my phone and on the laptop.
To post to AO3, I had to use a laptop from work so that I could use google docs (because my ancient copy of word wouldn't preserve formatting when copy-pasting directly, but would do so if I imported the doc file to google) except my laptop couldn't access google docs, so I had to put the files on a thumb drive, and use a different computer to upload them and post to AO3.
So... being able to do things all from my computer is pretty neat. There's some OS differences, and I'll have to get used to Libreoffice instead of Word (because I don't want to buy a copy). Importing my music was a mild headache, and there may be some files that I need to replace.
But so far, I'm quite pleased.
