#my macbook

[aprillikesthings]

I know I'm The Worst at taking care of my devices okay

Discord: hey you need to update me and you can't until you update your macbook's OS. hey. hey.

Me: *ignores the little warning for a month*

Discord: fuck this. I'm not opening until you update your OS. >:(

Me: >:(

Daci: look just let me do it

My macbook: holy shit dude why did you wait so long this is gonna take like an HOUR, please plug me in

Me: FINE

Macbook: *updates, restarts*

Every single app on my macbook: holy shit wait hold on I have like four updates I gotta download, bitch you live like this????

Me, with two hundred thousand unread emails, a hundred open tabs, two hundred unread texts, and several thousand screenshots still languishing on my desktop: yes? what of it

Every single app on my macbook: hey I need permission to do the same thing I've been doing for eight years. hey did you know I've changed a bunch of stuff can I tell you about it

Me: UGGGHHHHHHH THIS IS WHY I HATE DOING THIS

[blood-generation]

ayo mutals i have some bad news

my macbook broke and i have to pay 12000 LIRAS for it to be repaired so

re-writing my mutals list teehehehe

IF ANY OF YALL ARENT IN THIS LIST REBLOG OR MSG ME

@theitsuki @randomkel @cloudxxiii @machathecat @personwholikespmtok @yourlocalmenacetm @minty-cheese @jjerk @pnkq @sugarfairysam @ocelotrootbeer264 @alex4735 @portalford-hasadeathray @blackplaaague @therealbamdyhere @the-who-when-you-ask-whos-there @enchantedzzz @a-random-mooshroom

[lazymcfail]

the inseparable bond between a woman and her 5+ year old MacBook Pro 🙏🏻💕

[skulltapz]

[webdiggerxxx]

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[h3avensangell]

salvatore

[dinomintz]

it's fall so let's all celebrate with Akane + her pumpkin jacket

[deedala]

Colorwheel Timestamp Roulette ⇆ 04x04: Strangers on a Train ↳Turquoise + 4 for @blue-disco-lights

[aeb-art]

loopsie daisy scribbles

separate pics under the cut

oh and references! i almost forgot that >.>

first pic: (link)

second pic: outfit is lady dimitrescu's from resident evil and the pose is from (link)

third pic: (link) i was looking at traditional costumes/dress from guadeloupe ;u; give loop a dress in a pattern from home

forth pic: well the pose i freehanded, but loop's blouse is from some rwby concept art for the shirt under ruby's corset in i think volume five? i don't remember, it's been awhile, but anyways! pic of that attached below vvv

[pinkeoni]

"Cool."

[aprillikesthings]

my laptop is a macbook air, a 2015 model that my dad got me a week after the 2016 election, which was the same day as my birthday (and I can't prove he bought it for me because he felt guilty about how he voted, but I'm still fairly sure that's why; anyway I can't ask him because he's dead)

I've had the logic board upgraded (in early 2019) and the battery replaced (in uhhh 2021? I think?)

Anyway for the last ....six months? longer maybe? one key or another will stop working at random. I can make it work by wiggling a paint brush under the key, though it sometimes takes a few attempts, and the "fix" lasts anywhere from 1 to infinite key presses. Sometimes it's fine for multiple weeks.

I have a specific paint brush set aside for this purpose which I now take with me everywhere I take the laptop.

It was my f key, then my s key.

It is now my e key. Y'know. The most common letter in the fucking English language. I am having to poke the inside of my keyboard with a paintbrush constantly. I have done it a dozen times on this post alone.

Needless to say, this makes it unpleasant to write on my laptop.

Which means I haven't worked on my fucking fic in like two weeks. >:(

(I know I should take it in to my local mac repair shop, but I worry they're going to tell me the whole keyboard needs replacing and/or it's not worth it and I should just buy a new macbook. *cries*)

[thisischeri]

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[emzshawty]

[freaky-flawless]

Headless Headmistress Bloodgood redesign!

I've been wanting to redesign her for a while, in a way that would marry the aspects from each of her designs that I like. I'm pretty happy with how she turned out!

At some point I would like to design some more Monster High teachers and staff, because no matter what gen, that school is struggling.

[evilblvd]

[ms-demeanor]

Since some people might want a Mac, I'll offer a Mac equivalent of your laptop guide from the perspective of a Mac/Linux person.

Even the cheapest Macs cost more than Windows laptops, but part of that is Apple not making anything for the low end of the tech spectrum. There is no equivalent Mac to an Intel i3 with 4 gigabytes of RAM. This makes it a lot easier to find the laptop you need.

That said, it is possible to buy the wrong Mac for you, and the wrong Mac for you is the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. Get literally anything else. If it has an M2 chip in it, it's the most recent model and will serve you well for several years. Any new MacBook Air is a good pick.

(You could wait for new Macs with M3, but I wouldn't bother. If you are reading these guides the M3 isn't going to do anything you need done that a M2 couldn't.)

Macs now have integrated storage and memory, so you should be aware that whatever internal storage and RAM you get, you'll be stuck with. But if you would be willing to get a 256 gig SSD in a Windows laptop, the Mac laptop with 256 gigs of storage will be just as good, and if you'd be willing to get 8 gigs of RAM in a Windows laptop the Mac will perform slightly better with the same amount of memory.

Buy a small external hard drive and hook it up so Time Machine can make daily backups of your laptop. Turn on iCloud Drive so your documents are available anywhere you can use a web browser. And get AppleCare because it will almost certainly be a waste of money but wooooooow will you be glad it's there if you need it.

I get that you are trying to help and I am not trying to be mean to you specifically, but people shouldn't buy apple computers. That's why I didn't provide specs for them. Apple is a company that is absolutely terrible to its customers and its customers deserve better than what apple is willing to offer.

Apple charges $800 to upgrade the onboard storage from a 256GB SSD to a 2TB SSD.

A 2TB SSD costs between $75-100.

I maintain that any company that would charge you more than half the cost of a new device to install a $100 part on day one is a company making the wrong computer for you.

The point of being willing to tolerate a 256GB SSD or 8GB RAM in a Windows laptop is that you're deferring some of the cost to save money at the time of purchase so that you can spend a little bit in three years instead of having to replace the entire computer. Because, you see, many people cannot afford to pay $1000 for a computer and need to buy a computer that costs $650 and will add $200 worth of hardware at a later date.

My minimum specs recommendations for a mac would be to configure one with the max possible RAM and SSD, look at the cost, and choose to go buy three i7 windows laptops with the same storage and RAM for less than the sticker price of the macs.

So let's say you want to get a 14" Macbook pro with the lowest-level processor. That's $2000. Now let's bump that from 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD to 32GB and 2TB. That gets you to $3000. (The SSD is $200 less than on the lower model, and they'll let you put in an 8TB SSD for $1800 on this model; that's not available on the 13" because apple's product development team is entirely staffed by assholes who think you deserve a shitty computer if you can't afford to pay the cost of two 1991 Jeep Cherokee Laredos for a single laptop).

For $3000 you can get 3 Lenovo Workstation laptops with i7 processors, 32GB RAM, and a 2TB SSD.

And look, for just $200 more I could go up to 48GB RAM and get a 4TB SSD - it costs $600 to upgrade the 14" mac from a 2TB SSD to a 4TB SSD so you could still get three laptops with more ram and the same amount of storage for the cost of one macbook.

I get that some people need to use Final Cut and Logic Pro, but hoo boy they sure are charging you through the nose to use products that have become industry standard. The words "capture" and "monopoly" come to mind even though they don't quite apply here.

"Hostile" does, though, especially since Mac users end up locked into the ecosystem through software and cloud services and become uncertain how to leave it behind if they ever decide that a computer should cost less than a month's rent on a shitty studio apartment in LA.

There's a very good reason I didn't give mac advice and that's because my mac advice is "DON'T."