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0.10.3 for Dossier+

As I mentioned a month or so ago, my laptop (where I do all of my writing) has been giving me a lot of end-of-life grief. It's meant these past couple weeks have been a slog in attempting to get anything into VSC (where I code).

Black lines on the screen; mousepad intermittently working when I don't want it to and not working when I would prefer it; random sudden 'clicks' jumping me into different twine passages or previous portions of code; memory suddenly hitting a limit and crashing me out of VSC...

Hell, even writing this was a painstaking process.

I'd been trying to hold off on getting new equipment to replace the dying laptop and setting it up again, but it seems like that's the only sane option at this point -- especially to get out content at the reliable rate that we've been able to do for the last three years.

So I appreciate your patience as I do the heavy lift of revamping my workstation.

Comments

PickerPatron

I've never read anything like this before. It sounds like a complete laptop meltdown 😔. Are you sure it never got even a little wet? 💧. It's a shame, but the good news is that any PC will suffice for writing purposes. You don't need the latest GPU with lots of VRAM 😉.

BlueSwallow

No water, just a graphics card known to overheat doing slow damage over time. Had the thing since 2021, right around the time I started Blue Swallow.