Today I tried turning Macbook on, and to my dismay, it didn’t work. The charger wouldn’t show any signs of life either. I probably shouldn’t have done this in the first place, but too late now. For some reason I had this naive hope that it’ll be fine today.
I went to the Apple Care+ place and brought the laptop in. They told me to come back a bit later, as I came too early, so I walked in the circles for some time.
The employee told me that they would send the Macbook somewhere, and motherboard would get replaced. All data would be lost. Entire process would take around 2 weeks.
None of this sounded good to me at all, and I refused the repair for now. I got torn now — either I give my Macbook to Apple Care+ and probably receive almost new laptop with all authorized components, but process would take a long time and lose all my data, or try going to the third-party repair shop, which could save my data, but potentially void the warranty.
As I haven’t ate anything and it was already 3 PM, I sat down and had a lunch. I was contemplating, contemplating… In the end, I’ve decided to go to the third-party service, which I’ve found earlier on the internet. It was surprisingly nearby, so I walked there immediately.
The woman told me that I shouldn’t have tried to turn it on or charge it, sigh. She told me that they will first examine the damage (1 day), then do ultra-sound cleaning on motherboard (2 days), and if it’s fixed from just that, it’ll be done in such short time. Otherwise they would have to individually fix the components, which could take up to a week, and of course, not guaranteed.
It still sounded much better than official shop to me, so I’ve agreed. I had to give out the password to Macbook to them, which was quite uncomfortable.
I tried cooking carbonara today. Surprisingly, it wasnt a complete fumble this time. I cooked pasta pretty much perfectly, salted it perfectly, but ended up with too much liquidy sauce. It didn’t look very good, but it actually tasted fine. That’s progress.
Given that thesis pre-defense is in 4 days, I don’t really have a choice to wait, so I looked into buying a new laptop. Even if Macbook gets fixed fast, it’ll be good to have a back up, in case something like this happens in future again. I was thinking for a while what to get, and ended up buying ASUS Zenbook 14. It seemed like it has the best specs for the price while not looking like an ugly gaming laptop. I’m generally quite sick of MacOS, so I’m kinda excited to go back to Windows for now.
As I have nothing to do without laptop, I have, for some reason, decided to read Cloud of Unknowing.
I saw the book cover, and it being unique, and the Swans song with the same name being one of my favorites, made it hard to resist reading it.
Given that it’s Christian text, it feels a bit blasphemous to read it, but the scenes my brain creates, despite the text telling me to do the exact opposite, are really beautiful. I enjoyed the concept space and the beautiful state of mind I had after reading the first 8 chapters.
Given how it talks about the possession of Power of Knowledge, and Power of Love, and how you must give up on your Power of Knowledge it made me feel like it was both opposing, and at same time supporting the views of Gnosticism. Despite gnosticism talking about knowledge, the knowledge it talks about is hardly in the intellectual sense.
I have listened to the rain as it fell, and felt at peace, despite my predicament.