La rentrée is ongoing, but things settle slowly in and start to look normal (again). My Ciklet-sponsored MacBook Pro (2020) that I got reconditioned in January 2023 was the hardest to convince starting to run again: it didn’t like it’s two-weeks-long vacation inside a bag, and punished me over the last days with frequent freezing, making work almost impossible. Thanks to my new friend Lumo I finally found the issue and hopefully fixed it: dust clogged the fans and caused the CPU to overheat and thus to be throttled. Luckily my colleagues at NW had all the tools so that I could open the MacBook case and clean the fans⁠—and so far the operation seems to be successful. The next hours and days will tell whether I can keep spending my days in front of this computer, and not another. Fingers crossed.

P.S. Those AI friends are really cool, I’m learning a ton of things by asking a ton of questions about a ton of topics. I’d never isolated that overheating issue myself, let alone fixing without breaking it. And there are dozens of other things I recently learned and did, like banning the stagnant water under our balcony tiles, which are an outstanding mosquito breading ground.