Why you should borrow me your spare computer for 2016?
UPDATE: This plea has officially been closed, I leave it here for historical purposes. For more information see this post
To be sure that this text is relevant to you, This is my GitHub account. I have been programming for a while, I maintain a Golang web framework , a couple of libraries and some interesting open source projects.
I would like to borrow that computer which lies unused in your basement. The main specification for it is it should be 64 bit and with at least 2 GB of ram, I will explain in great details why I need it and why you should consider to put it into good use( of course to be used by me)
My ticket out of poverty
I have only one way out of poverty, which is to code. I need to borrow your spare computer because I cant afford one. I am in deep shit of poverty, and I am fighting so hard to get away from it.
But there are a couple of good people who are willing to give me consulting gigs, the only obstacle now is my computer cant meet some of the requirements. For the record I am using a 32 bit dell with 2 GB of ram. It is enough to do some of the work but I want to be professional in 2016 and keep my standards of writing high quality software.
Your spare computer will save me and my family. I am very positive about 2016, and my guts tells me I will beat the hell out of poverty.
I will name my next project after you
With your spare computer I will build my next project, a fork of gogs, that I aim to bring the benefits of github back to my country. So that people like me will have a chance to be creative, to dream and to embrace who they are(programmers of course).
I guarantee I can do this, I have written thousand of lines of Go, I have read the source code of gogs like a novel. The only thing standing between me and this is my computer. I need to have the full power of docker, because I need the cheapest, most efficient means of setting everything up.
I will name this project after you, and In case your have a better name for it( your aunt or cat) I wont mind.
I will return it back
I believe If I work hard with the right tools in 2016 i will earn enough to afford to ship the computer back to you when you need it back. I have respect for you, and I will respect your decisions. It is just these are desperate times and I dont want to do something stupid thats why I asks for your help.
My sight will be gone one day
I am short sighted, I have seen every possible doctor in my country( Tanzania ) for the past 10 years. The last visit the doc said my eyes looks just fine maybe I had a trauma or shit like that, the thing is I cant see without zooming and other crazy hacks and the docs have no clue, possibly because they dont have equipments. So, If you lend me now, what will happen in the coming years wont matter coz I will have no regrets. I will code like crazy, all the ideas that are floating in my mind.
I know If I see good doctors they will fix this, but I dont know when that will happen. I plan to work very very hard to the best of my ability. To earn enough to pay for my treatment, but I cant do that right now. The only source of work is remote jobs, and heck I need to have a good computer for that.
I know exposing this might be a risk for me to get jobs in the future, but you deserve to know the truth , so let me worry about the future. Glory for a broken man is bullshit, I want to live and I will do my best to fix my problems.
There is no future, please let me try to create one
I have no future here, to begin with I have no luck too. After publishing utron I had a lot of people interested on my services. With poor internet and constant power blackouts, all the hype died. They gave up on me, like someone who is beyond saving. Now, I will have to create the future that I want to live in. I have so much going on in my head, like ways to help revamp industries in my country. But I need a starting point, I need to earn a living first and thats why I am asking you just to let me try, it is not about winning, rather its about not giving a shit and giving it a try.
Summing up
It might take a lifetime to put all the reasons into writing, some things are better left untold. I am not telling you to agree with me, I am just asking you to think about it.I do feel bad to beg for help(Im that kind of person who likes to be independent), but I dont have a choice. My last visit to the eye doctor( last week) messed me up, and I dont know what else to do rather than do one thing that I love to do before hell breaks loose.
My name is Geofrey Ernest, from Mwanza, Tanzania. On twitter I use @gernesti