HOUSE FIRE (UPDATE)
3 years ago
General
Managed to shamble a small camper together, leaking everywhere, been patching it up everywhere I can, so at least have a roof over my head, feels like I’m in a damn fallout setting and not in a fun way. Managed to find one of my guns, so far the only survivor has been a rock island 1911 pistol. And my cast iron skillet I loved. Both will need a lot of love. But it’s something from my previous life. Going to try and find an affordable labtop so I can at least try and get back in touch with you guys on my discord and telegram. I’m going to start clearing my property of the ruins Saturday with some help thankfully. Then if all goes well get a new home....yay life debt again. If anyone can recommend a good but affordable labtop please inform me.
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If you want an actual laptop in the $300->$500 range, I'd look on ebay for Lenovo X1 Carbon. They're a business grade laptop and are fairly beefy.
For laptops, I was able to pick up a refurbished one off eBay recently for only like $200ish and it runs my art programs just fine so it should work fine for things like discord and internet. Nothing fancy, but it should work fine. I’ve had no issues or complaints with mine.
Here is similar to what I got
https://www.ebay.com/itm/165411599189?epid=18027568020&hash=item26834cb355:g:7pQAAOSwsmdiVwFJ