My laptop died mid-zoom call in a Bangkok cafe

Was wrapping up a client meeting last Thursday. Screen goes black. Poof. Nothing. I'm sitting there with a dead machine and a half-finished project. Turns out the power brick finally gave out after 3 years of abuse. Had to scramble and find a local repair shop that same afternoon. Cost me 1500 baht for a new charger. Anyone else keep backups of critical stuff in the cloud or am I just lazy?

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lisak2612d ago

Used to think cloud backups were just for paranoid people or folks with way too much time on their hands. Then my laptop screen went black mid-zoom in a coffee shop and I realized everything I hadn't backed up was gone forever. Lost a whole week of notes because I never set up Google Drive on that machine. Now I pay the 2 bucks a month for extra storage and it feels like a steal compared to that scramble.

rileynelson12d ago

Cloud saves saved my butt last year when my old laptop just died completely. Had pretty much everything on Google Drive and Dropbox, so when I got a new machine everything was right there. Took maybe an hour to get back to work after the initial panic. The kicker was that I didn't think I'd ever need it, but that one time it mattered more than I expected. Just set it and forget it, honestly.

mark36112d ago

Everything digital these days rewards a little forethought but most folks don't bother until they get burned.