![]() ![]() I didn't end up actually getting to write on it. Also the update took a full hour, and didn't change anything noteworthy. Then my project files randomly couldn't be downloaded to the laptop, and the window management in macOS is a horrid mess. There were no updates, then there were updates but they couldn't be installed, then they could be installed, then the download stalled, and hat to be un-paused for some reason. But generally it works pretty well.Īnd yesterday, in a bout of nostalgia, I opened my macOS laptop again and endeavored to write a bit on it. And it always wants to install some update, and just refuses to do it overnight as intended. It currently shows an error message every time it boots that I can't get rid of, has to be rebooted every few days to stay fast, and sometimes just won't react until restarted. I also use a Windows Surface tablet, which is a wonderful little device. Today, off the top of my head, Firefox crashed, Thunderbird couldn't display one folder, Zotero had to be re-installed, one monitor had to be power-cycled when waking the computer, and the laptop battery died way too quickly again. ![]() Things occasionally break, stuff sometimes doesn't work as intended, but I can generally work around these quirks, so they don't bother me too much. Nowadays I mostly use KDE Linux, which I can tolerate. I miss that, being able to love the elegance and power a machine. ![]() Never before, or since, have I loved a machine as I loved that MacBook Pro early 2011. They were elegant devices, beautiful to me, and powerful. There was a time, maybe from 2009 to 2011, when Apple computers were glorious. ![]()
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