The clickity clack of my MacBook's keyboard is a common sound in my home as a professional writer. The sound has been accompanied by sighs and four-letter words.
I'm not trying to be dramatic but my spacebar is broken and this is terrible. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.
"Tim, how are you writing this post with a broken spacebar?" I'm writing it slowly, dear reader. I can give the spacebar a good, hard thwack every now and then, and I've got a few paragraphs of writing before my keyboard inevitably sticks again. I can press the spacebar with tremendous force if the thwack fails me, but it involves me punching my keyboard. I have to pry the key up if all else fails. My thumb is sore. That's fun.
It's stuck again.
Thwack.
You don't realize how hard it is to live online until you have a weird spacebar. It's not enjoyable.
A quick list of things I can't do on my laptop.
You can type this.
Send legible messages to my coworkers.
Get in touch with us. I like to use a social media platform. I'm a sick human who loves to communicate.
The life story and living relatives of Rasputin can be found on the internet.
Iremembe apologized about that and how I remember anything.
The simplest way to pause a video is on the video's website.
Get through a single day of work without using the phrase "This stupid fuck keyboard is going to kill me".
I am not alone in this struggle. The MacBook keyboards from this time period are terrible. You can find keyboard struggles when you search it. Keys falling off. This is my work computer. Guess what, my personal laptop is a MacBook. The T-key fell off last year. I've lived with that for a long time.
It's possible that Tweet has been deleted.
I am at my wits' end. MacBooks are expensive as all get out. inertia is a powerful force in our consumer decisions, and I generally like them, or at the very least I'm used to them. I know I'll get another MacBook because it will be easy to figure it out.
I can't imagine buying another MacBook. Apple can make an amazing chip, have a gorgeous screen, or improve performance until the cows come home. But do I really need that stuff? I write articles, I stream, and I use social media. I can do that from my phone.
If I can't hit the spacebar reliably, what the hell are we doing here? It feels like a miracle that I have gotten three straight paragraphs without my key sticking. I can't stress how stupid that is. When the laptop was announced in 2016 it was priced at $1,799. The keyboard is garbage. Its keyboard! Is it garbage?
I'm getting angry and that's silly. Being mad online is not good for anyone. It's a keyboard. I don't need to freak out. It's really not that bad when worse things happen.
Fuck.
