I pulled up in my first tutorial this morning, retrieved my five plus-year–old MacBook Air, and opened Accordance (my biblical reference weapon of choice), only to see the screen display a series of pixel-wide lines along the left and bottom. I put it to sleep… and opened it again, and no joy. If anything, there might’ve been a few more lines. Restart? Same story. Shut down? Even more lines.
So, the screen, or the screen controller, has perished. New unit coming next week. Luckily, Apple devices can screen share in such a way that I can use my even older iPad as the screen of my laptop with only a little trouble. Till sometime Monday.