A Personal Computer

This may seem silly.

I spent $300 on a personal laptop. I have a work laptop I've also used for home, but I've found myself avoiding it so as to get away from work. That's kept me from personal correspondence and writing, two big losses.

There's a Framework laptop I love, but it costs $1,500. I can't get behind that.

I watched this Becca Farsace video in which she suggests buying refurbished, a good frugal idea. I found a ThinkPad T14 on Back Market, a writing machine with a great keyboard. So far, I'm with Becca.

I wiped Windows and installed Linux, so the machine can go on pretty much indefinitely. Linux is more fun and is a small barrier to doing office work on it. I could do office work, but Linux is a good reminder not to. It makes it inconvenient.

Running Linux when almost everyone is running Windows or Mac OS is the definition of inconvenience. It's choosing not to go with the current. And that, my friends, is a good way to go.

So too is getting back to writing and being frugal about it.