Technology woes
Tuesday, 16 February 2021 14:19![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekGuh! My MacBook Air is so old, so so soooooo old......! It is still usable, but, things are starting to breakdown. The battery is shit (I can't use it as a portable laptop anymore, it HAS to be connected to a power source), and one of the USB ports is dead.
Because I know that the hard drive has reached a stage where... my phone has a larger storage than the laptop, I can't use it as a physical backup. Fine. Then, I've also stored all my music onto a storage drive. So if I ever want to sync some old music into my phone, I need to connect both the storage drive and the phone to the laptop in order to be able to sync it.
Well, now one of the USB ports is dead, I can't do it. So I bought a USB hub. I also know that just using the hub may not be enough, because the hub needs a larger power source to make some other items to work. Now, since this is a MacBook Air, it doesn't have a CD drive. Soooo. I bought a super drive way back then. I tried this new set up a few months ago (USB hub + extra power connection) and the CD Super drive works together with the external storage drive.
TODAY, I'm trying to rip some random CDs I saw my Sis has lying around... and the set up doesn't work anymore! The CD Super Drive says it needs more power... but it's exactly the same set up as a couple months ago, so I don't understand why it isn't going through.
I don't want to buy a new laptop, I hardly ever use it anymore, but I also want to be able to store music (I like to collect the album art for artists I really really like)... I also don't feel like splurging on Apple Music, because, why? Now, should I do something about home sharing and cloud storage? I don't trust that completely, but probably that's the way I have to start moving. But.... I'm lazy.
Because I know that the hard drive has reached a stage where... my phone has a larger storage than the laptop, I can't use it as a physical backup. Fine. Then, I've also stored all my music onto a storage drive. So if I ever want to sync some old music into my phone, I need to connect both the storage drive and the phone to the laptop in order to be able to sync it.
Well, now one of the USB ports is dead, I can't do it. So I bought a USB hub. I also know that just using the hub may not be enough, because the hub needs a larger power source to make some other items to work. Now, since this is a MacBook Air, it doesn't have a CD drive. Soooo. I bought a super drive way back then. I tried this new set up a few months ago (USB hub + extra power connection) and the CD Super drive works together with the external storage drive.
TODAY, I'm trying to rip some random CDs I saw my Sis has lying around... and the set up doesn't work anymore! The CD Super Drive says it needs more power... but it's exactly the same set up as a couple months ago, so I don't understand why it isn't going through.
I don't want to buy a new laptop, I hardly ever use it anymore, but I also want to be able to store music (I like to collect the album art for artists I really really like)... I also don't feel like splurging on Apple Music, because, why? Now, should I do something about home sharing and cloud storage? I don't trust that completely, but probably that's the way I have to start moving. But.... I'm lazy.
