Murphy must not have wanted me to complain about Lufthansa. A minute after I posted the previous comment something went worryingly wrong with my computer. All of a sudden the screen was showing a series of red lines. Nothing would appear. Yanking out the battery and restarting produced the same.
I hope it’s just some minor video problem (is anything on a computer minor?), but this looks like the third complete disaster with my laptop this year. Thankfully most (but not all) important things are in my Gmail storage.
It really is time to get a Mac again.
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