How long could you go without your PC?

Couple of days now, or well, my pc was borked for a couple of days only built a new one today.

Luckily my SGS2 filled in for emails/work scedules/calendar/etc...
 
Probably not long, my PC is used for all my music, video, photo editing, gaming etc. That's not even counting the stuff I have to do for uni.
 
Forever tbh, you get used to it really quick and find just how much time you waste on it and how deconstructive it can be at times.
 
I got a Wednesday - Tuesday once a year without using my PC, mainly because I'm drunk off my face camping at Download Festival.

Lots of emails and stuff to download when I get home
 
A day.
Sent my b1 revision off and was without it for a few days, was awful having to use a laptop all that time.
 
When I moved out, I lived without one for about 7 months, you do get used to it quite quickly, but I'd still rather have it lol
 
Replaced "sleep" with "PC".

I can tell you from experience what happens without a PC.

Day 1: Extreme fatigue, poor coordination, and low focus.

Day 2: Fatigue worsens, focus is almost nonexistant. Frequent hunger. Hot and cold flashes add to the misery.

Day 3: Fatigue is replaced by a nervous, almost manic energy. You feel that you can focus, but in reality cannot. Hunger worsens.

Day 4: Fatigue returns. Your body will feel like it is breaking down. I am no stranger to severe injury, but can honestly say, this is the closest I have ever felt to death. You can actually feel your body dying. That may not be the case, but I have no other word to describe the feeling. Most of your time spent in a disassociative fugue. Even without a PC, you will begin to lose track of large segments of time.

Day 5: This is when the hallucinations start. Large blocks of time gone missing, you'll go through entire classes at school, then look up, and realize you are in your room, and the classes never happened. Talk to people, freinds and family for hours, make plans, then look up, and its 10 minutes later in your room. I hear scratching on the walls, but no matter how fast I turn my head, the scratching will always be 90 degrees off center, just out of my sight. I hear gentle, and sometimes not so gentle knocking at my door, to open it and find no one there. Tapping at the window when you are not looking at it.

Day 5.5: about 12 hours into Day 5, the visual hallucinations begin. You will look at something, and small shadows will suddenly dart out of your peripheral vision. If you try to visually follow them, you can't, they're gone, but more will dart the other way out of the corner of the opposite eye. Sometimes, the room will suddenly darken, or slide out of focus. (Interestingly, the shadows running in the corners of your eyes do not).

Day 6: Things start to get really weird, but I'd rather not discuss it.

PC deprivation can be fatal, but it usually takes more than one week. I have heard estimates from 10 days to 3 months. Studies have proven that it can kill though. I do not recommend trying it, as any PC loss is very bad for your health. This is what I experienced, hope it helped.
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The only reason I go on PC is because theres nothing to do, all the programmes my parents watch downstairs are either crap or i've already watched.

I would be able to last forever aslong as I have my music with me :D.
 
Not sure! What else is there to do at home after work apart from work out! Everyone else watches TV and plays video games, I just do all that on my computer instead.

It's my complete all in one media centre, games, films, tv, internet, music.

However if I have something to do at home then I won't use my computer much. But I don't think I would last long without my music. I have to listen to music everyday otherwise I feel like I'm missing something haha.
 
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I miss my computer when its not on.... I need my daily fix of internetz and music otherwsie time starts to drag in and I get very bored :(
 
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