Over the past fifteen months, I've managed to save about 200 $. 
I think I'm going to use it to purchase a Chromebook that I found at a local retailer. It'll allow me to use Google Drive (my preferred writing platform), and it will free me from this ancient, loaner netbook that I'm currently using.
Just logged in for the first time in, like, forever. Apparently, Knighty rolled out a major upgrade of the site while I was away. Has anyone else been having issues viewing their stories in "card mode?" (see screenshot at bottom)
In other news, I haven't been writing for a few months, because I have no computer. :( Mine died, and I can't afford another one.
This is just a quick note to anyone unfortunate enough to be watching my account. 
The Flight of The Alicorn
Book One of the Adamant Triskelion trilogy
by Ponydora Prancypants
Just logged in for the first time in, like, forever. Apparently, Knighty rolled out a major upgrade of the site while I was away. Has anyone else been having issues viewing their stories in "card mode?" (see screenshot at bottom)
In other news, I haven't been writing for a few months, because I have no computer. :( Mine died, and I can't afford another one.
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Well, at least you're still alive.
...Is that ArchLinux?
It's good to hear from ya. Pity about the computer though. Need any spare parts?
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Close. The computer I'm using now is a very old netbook that I'm borrowing from a friend. He said I could load any OS I wanted onto it, since it was completely clean when he lent it to me. So, I went with Lubuntu Linux (Ubuntu with the LXDE interface) for three reasons: it's free, it has lots of community support, and it's one of the very few operating systems that will run on a machine this old. The downside: it can't load Google Drive, and hence, any of the tools I use to write. It can't even run Gedit without slowing to a crawl. It took three minutes to load FIMF, and as I type this, entire lines of text appear at a time.
But who am I to complain about it? It is a free loaner, and I can check my email with it until I manage to get a job that pays enough for me to acquire a new computer.
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No. What I need is a new computer, unfortunately. I can't mod the one I'm using, and the one that died was so old that most parts would be incompatible anyway.
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The problem persists. I can't see what any story is until I click on it and go to the actual story page. No searching, no previewing. No tooltips or popups. Just blank squares.
I sent a message to knighty, but he never responded.
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Ah, okay. I could definitely tell it was some sort of Linux shell, but the pic is tiny, and the menu button looked a lot like this:
kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/73938-1.jpg
Well, at least you've got your necessities running. I wish you the best of luck on finding a good job.