my macbook pro killed itself

My beloved 2018 MacBook Pro shit the bed this morning. It would cost almost $800 to repair it, or I could spend an additional $1,000, and get an iMac (I absolutely cannot drop $3,000 on a new MacBook Pro right now). However, it would have made zero sense to put $800 into a machine I already knew I had to replace within the next year or two.

So, I’m typi…