I’ve never been a big macOS girl. I’ve always loved Linux and the older versions of Windows will always be special to me, but I wanted to try out the Mac ecosystem sometime around 2017. I had an iPhone, and I had started taking classes at tech school, so it felt like a good investment at the time.

I had a lot of fun with my MacBook for a few years. It served its purpose as a school machine, let me connect with my phone easily, and had great support for the stuff I cared about using at the time. But sometime around 2020 the battery started to give and I never really cared enough to replace it. I had dropped out, I wasn’t reliant on it, and it was already showing its age.