🔌 Hibernation at the End of Spring – Pipeaway Newsletter #210

Hi from Croatia!

If you follow this newsletter regularly, you might have noticed that, after an uninterrupted flow of many, many editions, I skipped a week.

I was working on my laptop when everything suddenly went black. I tried soft resets, hard resets, and every kind of online advice I could find, including AI support. My laptop’s screen wouldn’t wake up. Its time was up. Kaputt. Finito.

Being in my small Dalmatian village, in the middle of nowhere, and occupied with a hospitality job that fills most of my time, I couldn’t find technical support to fix the malfunction nearby.

In the end, I got into my car, drove to the closest town (twice! – the first time, I forgot to bring my wallet, which means I drove without a driver’s license), and bought the cheapest available monitor (€87.29), as the quickest/most efficient temporary solution.

I figured the full repair could cost much more, so before I purchase a new laptop to work on, I’ll use this one as a keyboard. With another monitor, my laptop effectively became a desktop.

It’s interesting how easily we can lose a connection with the world. It reminded me of my teenage years, when broken glasses (when I still had a high diopter) meant a couple of days of “blindness”. That’s how I felt without a laptop – blind and deaf.

Technology has become our mouth and our ears, the primary means of communication with the world. We don’t even see how much we rely on it until we lose it.

That precious moment when my work appeared on the screen again, following the famous Windows sound, felt like a resurrection.

Have a rebooted week,

Ivan Kralj    
Pipeaway.com

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Ivan Kralj

Editor

Award-winning journalist and editor from Croatia