Showing posts with label Lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lifestyle. Show all posts

9/23/2023

6/07/2023

2012 MacBook Pro: The Journey and Untimely Demise

2012 MacBook Pro: The Journey and Untimely Demise
They say that time flies when you're having fun, but in the case of my trusty 2012 MacBook Pro, it felt like time stood still. For a good seven years, this loyal companion had been by my side through thick and thin, faithfully aiding me in all my digital endeavors. But alas, as with all good things, its time eventually came to an end. In this blog post, I'll take you through my journey with this remarkable machine, culminating in its untimely demise due to RAM slot issues that called for a complete motherboard replacement. Join me as I share my experiences and the difficult decision I faced: to repair or to replace?

The Water Incident - A Brush with Disaster
  • A Sticky Situation: Picture this - it was a typical day, just like any other, until my daughter decided to make a surprise visit to my home office. Innocently enough, she placed a glass of water on the desk, within arm's reach of my beloved MacBook Pro. You can probably guess what happened next. One misjudged movement, and disaster struck. The glass tipped over, spilling its contents perilously close to my laptop. Panic set in as I rushed to save my faithful machine from an untimely demise.
  • The Aftermath: I managed somehow to prevent the water from directly splashing onto the MacBook Pro's keyboard. However, a small but significant amount had managed to seep through the ventilation slots, causing concern. However, it wasn't long before the consequences of the water incident started to rear their ugly head.
A Tale of Repair and Resilience
  • The First Motherboard Replacement: As days turned into weeks, I noticed peculiar behavior from my once trusty companion. Random crashes, sluggish performance, and intermittent screen flickering became a part of my daily routine. It became clear that the water had caused damage that could not be ignored. Reluctantly, I took my MacBook Pro to third party service center, where they diagnosed the issue: a faulty motherboard.
  • The Costly Decision: After weighing the pros and cons in early 2016, I decided to go ahead with the repair. After all, the MacBook Pro had served me well, and I believed it had more life left in it. The repair was completed, and my trust in my resilient machine was reaffirmed.
  • The Final Blow: RAM Slot Issues: Fast forward to mid-May 2023. Once again, RAM slot issues reared their ugly head, rendering my beloved machine unresponsive and unwilling to start. This time, however, the prognosis was grim. The only solution was a complete motherboard replacement, a costly affair that left me at a crossroads.
The Difficult Decision: To Repair or to Replace?
  • Weighing the Options: The prospect of investing in yet another motherboard replacement was daunting. While my 2012 MacBook Pro had served me well over the years, I had to consider the inevitable march of technology. The advancements made since its release had resulted in sleeker, faster, and more capable machines.
  • Embracing the Future: The Purchase of a New MacBook Pro - After much contemplation, I made the difficult decision to bid farewell to my 2012 MacBook Pro and embrace the future. I knew that in order to keep up with the ever-evolving demands of modern computing, a new MacBook Pro was the logical choice. This time, I aimed to future-proof my purchase, ensuring that it would last me for the next six to seven years. It was an investment in productivity, creativity, and the seamless integration of technology into my life.
Final thoughts
From surviving a water incident to enduring a motherboard replacement, it had proven its resilience time and time again. However, all good things must come to an end, and the laptop's RAM slot issues ultimately sealed its fate. It was a difficult decision, but I chose to embrace the future by purchasing a new MacBook Pro, one that would carry me through the next chapter of my digital adventures. Farewell, old friend, and welcome, new companion.

11/23/2020

Horrible manager with iterative work every-day

After working fiercely for the past 10 days (about 1 and a half weeks) with my manager and with one of the most irritating onsite teams, I wanted to take a short break from work for a few days. However, with the Covid-19 pandemic situation across the globe and severe lockdown restrictions, I had no other choice but to connect back to work the next day post weekend work. Therefore, I was hoping that no new work was assigned by my manager and after a prolonged time, I can spend some quality time with my family. Even though I did not get any new work from the onsite team, my manager was bothering me once in a few minutes to check on my status and to gather a few insights from other account owners. Out of frustration, I used to log off from my office laptop and continue to work on my laptop, as my manager would ping me often for the status update. After completion of work, I used to send the updates to my manager at once and after a few minutes, my manager will call me again to further enhance the information with recent updates. To know how I tackled my manager, please feel free to check out the blog posts in "G R Team Sites"

3/13/2020

FastTrack work with delivery lead to complete ASAP

I have started work on the service request as soon as I logged into office, as usual, I have a habit of checking Twitter and YouTube for the latest news and trends happening in the market. After my browsing new topics, I wanted to close this service request as early as possible, because of my planned vacation coming up in the next few days and my instinct indicating that I will have to support this service request during my vacation. The delivery lead who was supposed to be providing guidance and support to close this service request was also working hard with me to close this work as early as possible. The main reason for this delivery person to work hard with me was to close this request before my vacation days, as he wants to take vacation the week after it and we both were irritated by the on-site team’s attitude and iterative changes. With extended hours, the delivery lead and I were able to complete the entire service request in almost two days and have sent the revised deck to the on-site team for their review. To know more about the on-site team’s feedback, please feel free to check out “G R Team Sites”

5/11/2019

Session went well and fell ill on the same day

I had to take session on Monday, a day before my long vacation and I was completely pissed about the entire process, as it had no impact to anyone, and the session was planned entirely to show that one of my team’s manager was proactively monitoring the team. The session went well, and I was stammering here and there, however was able to manage little bit and was explaining the concepts in most confident manner. While this manager was communicating to me, he told me that starting from me, everyone in the team would take session on every week to detail about their unique approach adopted and any other relevant topics to work. However, at end of session he was conveying to the team that this session was completely optional and can be opted by individual who wanted present some unique learnings to the team. I was pissed off even more and while taking the session I was feeling little bit uncomfortable and was down for few hours with headache & fever. To know more about my experiences, continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

3/17/2019

Short week with no work at office

After back from long vacation at office, for first two days literally I had no work and was just killing time by watching random videos and browsing internet and on third day while starting to office, I was particularly sure that I would be assigned with one new opportunity and with so much anticipation I enter the office and to my surprise my manager was on leave that day. How excited would an employee get when he or she knows her manager was off and they no work in hand for the entire day. I was too much excited and again started watch videos and now comes the most surprising element at work. One of my colleagues was pinging me in office communicator that whether we can play “Bingo” game, as she was feeling too bored and frustrated. I immediately replied yes and the entire team at my location was playing bingo game in the communicator. How better can the workplace be, but it’s not all and there was many stunning news in the team. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

9/27/2015

My View of Honour and Women

A very pertinent issue. Unfortunately, some people in our midst refuse to even acknowledge it an issue, but it is a huge problem, at least here in Pakistan.

You are right, somehow the onus of safeguarding the 'honour' of the family always falls on the women. I suppose somehow its the legacy of the age-old traditions we have had and the notion that the men know the society better( no pun intended). So they have got to guard the womenfolk and punish the few errant and rebellious ones who challenge this belief.

The problem here is that whenever a lady wants to have it her way against the wishes of her family, her family brand here as a stigma to the family- one who has 'dishonoured' them. Somehow i don't think its because of lack of education or social awareness. You would see cases of honour killing right across the social hierarchy. SamiaSarwar was a one such unlucky 'educated' lady who murdered in cold blood at the orders of her mother in the offices of her lawyer. This was the response from the ones in our NA. Condemnable to say the least.

And the role of religion? I think the issue had more of a 'social genesis' than a religious one. Religion has just become a pawn in the hands of the perpetrators.

The sad thing is that i don't think education will help in this regard, only proactive involvement by the common man. Check this VictimsOfLaw. Some incidents where the people did win.

So where do we go form here?

6/29/2015

View about Nationals

I don't think its the lack of laws enforcing Indianness. No country has even been great by enforcing nationalism on its own people. Had India tried to be strong and prosperous, its citizens would have had better unifying and diverse values.

Well, Israel for instance has made military enrolment mandatory for at least a year or two. If implemented in India, this can serve as a powerful deterrent to internal terrorism. The idea behind Hindutva is still the same in this case, although not as explicitly spelled out to be "Hindutva". Inculcating pan-nationalistic sentiment among all its citizens would certainly eliminate a host of problems that the nation currently is suffering from. 

Another example being Uniform civil code opposition from minorities. Technically they aren't anywhere close to being a 'minority', it's political concocted term and used generously for political purposes.

6/13/2015

Information about Unity of India

At it's face value it might sound dictatorial, but in the hind-sight the lack of laws that enforce Indian-ness among all religious minorities (specially Muslims and Christians) has created problems.
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The Indian -ness that i know is about ''unity in diversity'', about humanity,kindness,love for all , multiculturalism , i did not know that i have to declare myself as a person having Hindu ancestry first and start reading the Gita in order to have that Indian -ness .India is hundreds of kingdoms united in 1947, and before that it wasn't a country. So there is no such thing as Indian-ness especially if you r comparing the far North-East to the far South and the far North-West there are immense cultural and racial differences and linguistic too. Most central Indians in Gujarat , Mumbai all act very similar though - and usually fit the cultural stereotypes of other Indians as depicted in Western Television. But obviously a Sikh Kashmiri guy is not going to act anything the same as a Tamil South Indian guy - they will look, talk and act completely different. India is just a very new country made 60 plus years ago - it's stupid saying all Indians are the same, because it is the same as saying if France, Italy, and Spain all joined and became one country - and culturally through languages, looks, and acting they are all different.

Indianess of the RSS is declaration that Hindus are the real Indians and the rest must live under their symp

Some Information about Hitler

In no way was i trying to justify his atrocities against Jews or policy of Nazism but his leadership had a positive side to it also..... If we were to keep what he did to the Jews aside then some of his policies specially his economic ones and his policy of national integration were very impressive..

Lets move on and forget about what he did to the 6 million jews ,there are positive things that we should appreciate too, we must appreciate the good work he did,why only talk negative ,it was not he who personally killed the jews,he didnt go out there and burn them ,it was basically anger at the injustice metted out to the majority population that finally culminated into this. We must forget and see the progress and development ,why nobody talks about the german women who were raped after world war 2 ,nobody talks about that .

He was a visionary and he changed the country,he brought it immense devlopment which helped everybody and we need more people like him.

4/20/2015

Hilter's Information

He believed in the supremacy of the Aryan tribe and hence send his people to the himalayas to measure the skull size,jaws,limbs of the inhabitants there [ who were percieved as Aryans] in order to derive a common parameter to identify the people of the aryan race.His ideology was that Aryan race were superior to all races and germans being aryans deserved to rule the world ,the jews and the gypsies were lower class lesser beings who migrated to germany to loot wealth and take advantage of the peaceful nature of the german population and to rape and molest their women and children.

Hitler also believed that there was no scope of anybody else but for nationalist in Germany ,people who questioned Hitlers type of nationalism were not patriots and deserved to be eliminated .

The NAZI's started changing history text books ,moral science and geography when hitler came to power ,jews were portrayed as evil and cunning people in school books who destroyed the german culture.They opened up thousands of military schools in which young boys were taught german nationalism , self protection, and things as crazy as ''how to recognize a jew '' .

Fundamental among the Nazi ideology was uniting all Nazi tribe under one country ,tribes which later formed different nations in europe.Nazism believed that inorder to save germany the jews should be taught a lesson however inhuman it maybe

General View

If by fascism he means a subjugation of non-hindus to the will of hindus, then its not much of a stretch.

There are only two courses open to the foreign elements, either to merge themselves in the national race and adopt its culture, or to live at its mercy so long as the national race may allow them to do so and to quit the country at the sweet will of the national race,”

I would love the former to happen, but making it an either or statement is fascism. There should be no need for merging myself to a race and culture in order to be Indian. This requirement, if forced, is disgustingly dictatorial.