Title: I am from Brazil, that is having a economic hard time right now, also I don&#x27;t have a regular income for almost an year (and my last real job was many years ago).<p>I got some small freelancing work to do, I was going to deliver a milestone tomorrow, I was using my startup old workstation that was left on my house (after the startup ran out of rent money) to work on that, but the HDD failed about one hour and a half ago, and the diagnostic tools that come with OSX say that it is impossible to salvage.<p>I am broke, almost literally, in Brazil you cannot ask for bankruptcy as individual, if I could I would ask, I am in debt, have no income and I am struggling to pay rent and food.<p>And the work I had to do requires an OSX, I also own a laptop in its last throes (several parts of it already failed or are randomly working only sometimes) but it is one of those that came with a stupid bios locked to Windows 8, I tried very hard to install Linux on it and failed, I doubt I can install OSX (Hackintosh) on it.<p>Also my personal health is failing too and interfering with my work.<p>I am very, very unsure of what to do now... I feel like if I was cornered and physically threatened, if I fail to deliver tomorrow probably the contract will be cancelled (my health already me deliver some earlier milestones late and the client is already upset with me), but even if I DO deliver this milestone and the next ones, the payment won&#x27;t be enough to repay my most urgent debts (like late rent payments) and replace the failing laptop, much less an OSX machine (beside being already expensive in US, in Brazil they are outrageously expensive, because of excessive taxation and currently unfavourable currency exchange rate)
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