Ask HN: Personal hardware backup?

My laptop failed to wake up this morning, and it turns out it's a SSD failure. I take regular backups and do lots of server-side work, so nothing has been lost, but I'm now faced with a couple of days without my machine. This is slightly compounded by the fact that I live 60 miles from the nearest city.

Other than the obvious "have another computer on standby", what strategies do other HN-ers have for minimizing downtime when your personal hardware dies?