Once we switched them to private school, they'd have lessons via Zoom or whatever. But "work" was done at home like regular homework.
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That's profoundly unfortunate. I'm 2 years out of high school, but I've heard my high school has started to become the same way, especially starting this school year.
I do and I had an appointment booked for tomorrow, but it would appear as though 2025 is year of luck for me. My Macbook screen has dried out completely, and has returned to normal. There is absolutely 0 issues with the display now, even the color uniformity is back to normal.. I cannot believe it. I think I just saved myself a $400 deductible by waiting to book the appointment - which wasn't even my choice btw - just too busy with work.
Wait so it was water damaged?! I would still err on the side of caution and recommend getting that MacBook checked out by a professional repair tech at the Apple Store - a Genius. You got to make use of AppleCare for water damage cases like these.
I do agree. I am actually an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician and used to work in repairs about five years ago. The only reason I rely on Apple now is that I can’t source authentic parts. I took apart the bottom case to inspect things, and thankfully, everything on the logic board looks fine, so I’m pretty confident the issue is just with the display. Normally, I’d say it’s worth double-checking, but since they want $400 for repairs, I think I’ll just hold off for now. If anything comes up later, I’m still covered with three years of warranty.
Glad you still hold your certificate as a ACMT. I really need to get one of these if I intend to work at an Apple Store as a Genius or at an AASP after I finish NASA internship. But I have industry certification in Autodesk Fusion, IC3 information technology, and Microsoft Office. Were you an Apple Store employee before? Also do Apple certificates need to be renewed?
It’s perfect that you still put your expertise into use when you suspect an issue is going on with your Mac, iPhone or iPad. You already know how to rule out the problem yourself, and I also like doing that when my friends or colleagues had issues with their iPhones. Around the forum i do ask questions about it and reply to y’all’s problems about your Apple products, and determine if an Apple Genius has to get it checked out or not. How long did you get AppleCare for your MacBook Pro 💻?
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Still have horrible jet lag. Been awake since 3:00 this morning. It’s now 6:00, my flight to WI (with a four hour layover) leaves at 2:00 this afternoon and doesn’t get in until 11:00 PM. No idea how I’ll make it. Not the most enjoyable experience.
Safe travels.
However, notwithstanding the (temporary) discomfort, I recommend that you acknowledge the convenience of modern air travel, where distance and time are compressed; just imagine taking - or, attempting to take - any of your recent journeys a century or two centuries ago?
Or, what about alternative means of transport even now?
Motor cars?
Or, public transport?
Are the trains sufficiently frequent, sufficiently reliable, sufficiently affordable, sufficiently safe, in your country (a country where the provision of frequent, affordable and safe public transport may not necessarily be a priority of public policy) for you to be able to travel by train from where you live, to where you study, in under two or three days?
At a time when I travelled regularly to central Asia (for work), crossing two continents - (almost all of Europe and much of Asia), I recall marvelling that a journey that took me not all that much over twenty four hours (including a few hours transiting through Istanbul) would have taken Marco Polo several years.
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A lot less risky these days too. I mean airline food gets a bad reputation, but you don’t hear of people getting scurvy too often these days!
My first 5 day week since early November is on my mind. Not looking forward to that!
Most of the little snow we had has disappeared (thankfully). Just wouldn’t mind a few extra degrees on the thermometer though.
Yes, flying is indeed fast and efficient. Not a fan of trains personally, but theoretically I could and it would take three days. Driving takes four.
You’d be driving wrong then! 😀
Planes make a lot more sense in the US. I rarely fly, but makes travel possible when wanting to see more of the world.
In that case, it is entirely possible that you may never have travelled by train in either Europe, or, in some parts of Asia.
I have (that is, I have travelled by train all over Europe - east and west, as well as in some parts of Asia).
While I love travelling - by car, bus, boat, train, plane - in an ideal world, nothing, but nothing, beats travelling by train in (on?) a good (and, by "good", I mean an affordable, frequent, safe, reliable, comfortable) railway network.
No idea. I feel sick right now probably because I’m so tired.
I've taken Amtrak (the rail system which is all over the US, especially in the major urban areas but also for traveling long distances between coasts, etc.). Once I went with a friend to Canada to visit other friends, and that was fun. Certainly more relaxing than the time we made the same trip but drove there. I've also taken Amtrak up to NYC a few times as well. Much easier to do that than to deal with driving in the Big Apple. No way I'd ever want to do that!
Once upon a (more distant) time, the rail network in the UK (which, bear in mind, was the very first in the world, and once upon that distant time, it was also the envy of the world - actually, I remember travelling on the legendary Stockton Darlington line - well, I was travelling from Darlington to Newcastle, but the line was in the proverbial footsteps, or rail sleepers, of the legendary first one ever built, and is now, modernised, naturally enough.... several years ago, with awestruck delight) was simply wonderful.
However, now, alas, well........what can one say?
Personally, I'd love to see it once again restored to what it once was.....
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Those days are gone I’m afraid. I rarely travel by train in the UK. It generally takes longer and costs more.
Flight 3484 still hasn’t left yet. That’s the earlier one. Mine is supposed to board in half an hour. Looking quite grim.
It might be a pain to have a delay, but better than have an issue on the runway. Just reading a story about someone in the UK stuck in the plane on the runway for the last 2 hours waiting to take off. That's got to be grim.
Anyway good luck with it.