My laptop is officially…well, pretty much unusable. It turns off randomly. I’m running linux, so its not a virus/adware problem. The problem is it overheats and I don’t know why. The fans are working, but I think this problem has been since they replaced my fried graphics card. I don’t have a dell service plan anymore and its like $300 to renew so theres no way I can get this fixed…

Though I have come up with a plan. I’m asking the folks on YC news to help me out. Hopefully that will go well cause my family really can’t afford to get me a new laptop, not when I can make do with my stupid satellite with the cracked LCD which makes it useless and essentially a desktop with 256mb of ram…

Anyway I’ve started a tipjar with tipjoy and put a paypal link there. Maybe I’ll be able to get the gear I need to push on…or maybe I’ll have to wait to save up after my job (probably using this piece of crap and just sucking up the hourly shutdown) and then blow all my money on a laptop. Which would suck cause I have to pay for running shoes and school stuff.. geez.

Well, at work I use my boss’s cooling pad which seems to work mostly okay. A shutdown every hour or so. But the problem is just getting worse and I dont know how much longer I can take this…random shut downs are retarded.

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