BEAT: laptop busto in a foreign land

[mlagoo]

x-posted from mttc [censored] thread

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i was supposed to get a massage at one of the best places at seoul today. left my hotel with the name of the place, cabby couldn't find it, i hadn't written down the number, i got out and wandered around for a while and i couldn't find it, came back to my hotel disappointed.

walk in my room, flip open my laptop to find a [censored] ugly, ugly, terrible blue screen with a bunch of words on it that i didn't understand. however, two phrases i did understand were "you should restart your computer immediately" (who knows how long it had been saying that) and "beginning physical memory dump"

WTF

restarted, it wont boot up. so im stuck in seoul at the very beginning of my trip with no laptop and no real idea of how to sort it out. also if i lose everything on that laptop... i had like a year and a half of good law school notes, tons of personal information, tons of pictures that i'm going to be really sad to lose. everyone was like "you should back up your HD dude" and i was all "sorry but what are you gonna do about it?" and now im kicking myself so hard.

the concierge said she'd try getting in touch with the dell srevice center tomorrow morning but i'm really not very hopeful. i imagine they'll just be like "we need to send it away for two weeks and maybe try to fix it or get you a new one," but in two weeks ill be in the middle of china with no way to retrieve it. this is all so [censored]. i'm probably gonna just buy a new one. does anyone know if laptops bought in korea work fine in america? gg another 2k, i dont even punt money at -ev games or cash or anything like that like most tourney donks, i just punt it by being a huge life fish.

also i had received a warning yesterday that there might be a virus on my computer, but it just said like "we've detected something weird, you should run your full virus scan," so i did, and it found nothing, and i felt like, [censored] it, i guess everything is ok. APPARENTLY NOT GAHHHHH.

BAD NEWS BEARS GUYS.

bad news bears.