Then I came over to the couch and plugged my full sized keyboard into the phone using an, up to now handy adapter...
It's pecking away one finger tap at a time, for me.
The Lenovo Thinkpad that hung in there for like 9 years, the last 4 of which without ever being turned off, has finally crapped out with, I believe, a power supply issue being the straw that broke the back of an already burdened camel.
It fails before even loading the operating system, which rules out everything else but the power supply, in my opinion (forged through about 2 years of working as a "computer" technician).
It's kinda like if you were given the task of finding one thing that might be making a certain place uninhabitable.
Then you show up there, and flip the light switch on, ready to have a good look around; but the lights don't go on...
Problem diagnosed in milliseconds...
So my brainstorm is to buy a "brand new" refurbished Thinkpad, and just pop the hard drive out of the old one into it, turn it on and resume computing as if nothing happened....
Except, if I can find one with 16 gigs of ram (up from the 4 that I'm used to) and one that is reduced in price because it's missing a hard drive, well, that is what I give God thanks for -just for creating the possibility that such a machine might be found....
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