Week 43 & 44: Broken but not forgotten

Aniruddha Rajguru
Nov 4 · 2 min read

This week, not one but 2 of my beloved possessions broke. My MacBook Pro which has been acting up a lot for the last 3 weeks finally gave up. The device wont even boot up now and I am left with a bricked device. Hopefully the apple store will be able to sort it out. I am back using my iPad full time again. Thankfully, the iPad Pro supports external display and Bluetooth mouse. It’s less painful to use the iPad as a full time device. Now that I am forced to use it all the time, I will find more hacks and tricks to overcome its limitations. Also, some apps like Amazon Prime video support external video playback. Which means, movies play with a video aspect ratio and there is no letter boxing at all. By next week, I will have a detailed follow-up on the iPad land.

Apart from the MacBook Pro, my boosted board seems to have broken too. Only after 5 months, the battery seems to have gone kaput. The battery refuses to charge nor is allowing me to turn on the board. Reddit is filled with posts that are showing the same issues. It seems to be a problem faced by many users with no fix. Hopefully, Boosted will be able to send a replacement battery since the board is still under warranty. Till then, I will be walking everywhere I guess.

PS: Time taken to write article: 20 mins

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