I haven't heard from Og in well over 10 years. He found me in the Jalopnik comment section before that site enshittified.
I reached out to set up an Austin get together but he didn't respond.

Do you not post on GRM any more? Did you see a photo of your MR2 project made the magazine?

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It's a mid-2012 Macbook Pro, I just bought a new battery for it and replaced the optical drive with another SSD.

Granted, I don't do much heavy computing with it, just internetting and watching videos. The only time it really shows its age is when converting videos from my gopro.