since this battery update was forced on laptops originally released in 2020, this issue has also bricked hardware outside of the warranty window, when previously users could simply send in the laptop for a free repair.
I hope HP aren’t surprised when they get accosted with bricked laptops through their execs’ windshields at random intervals…
I bet Dread Pirate Roberts wishes he’d had one on hand that time in the library…
Physical destruction. It’s the only way to be 100% sure.
It resides on the MB itself in a separate chip, so no, although there are probably tools to make it possible.
I was once banned from some forums for being “too weird to fit in”. It was a forum for a forming WoW guild prior to its launch in 2004. I remember that it somehow crushed my quirky personality, and I became a bit of a drudge as a result.
Although I still game, and sometimes online, I’ve never since tried to actually fit in with any group, and have mostly stopped communicating when gaming at all. No voicechat, only chat, and even that very limited. I guess you could say the single experience changed my outlook and enjoyment of online gaming forever.
I can’t speak for others, but some people… just… don’t. I’m one of them. Perpetual impostor syndrome for almost a full decade at the same company.
I might simply genuinely be incompetent but too nice to fire, I dunno.
Ground News is a pretty good starting point for someone who wants to get into actuality, especially politics. The bias meter just explains for each article whether it’s from a right-, left- or center-leaning organisation, which usually comes with the attached strings you might expect.
By offering the articles from several different sources and clarifying where these sources lie on the left-right axis, you can easily see how some subjects in news are downright manipulated/being lied about by certain publications, just because they omit the most important data or skew it in a way to fit their narrative.
Oh I’m not dismissing your information, quite the opposite even! Just anecdotally mentioning that I don’t seem affected even after prolonged heavy use. Even though I’m decidedly a lightweight with a sensitive stomach. I’m not delusional enough to claim it can’t harm me. I just hope my body keeps coping well.
Been a daily smoker for over 20 years, never had any of these issues (so far). Then again, a warned man…
10 pound claw tornado… I’ll be stealing that :p
I don’t think parent poster meant to espouse nihilism. Rather just acceptance. You can still find meaning in living day to day if worrying about the future becomes debilitating.
I can’t even smoke weed anymore without having a near panic attack.
Funny, it’s the exact opposite for me. I get panic attacks when I run out.
At this point I genuinely don’t know whether to say he needs more or less drugs.
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Exactly. Being empathic is in my nature but it’s disincentivized at all possible turns…
Being nice and accommodating have gotten me in much more trouble than being distant and aloof. No thanks.
The wages of whistleblowers. It’s incredible anyone is still crazy enough to do it. Better shut up and take it in the ass, you live longer.
A few years ago, mid pandemic, I started collecting ancient coins. I was really passionate about it even thinking about finding ways to make it a small after-hours job or such, but I’ve since run into a few walls and have subsequently lost my drive. For example, I wanted to take very high resolution pictures of the coins and then compose a catalog of sorts, but while I have all the gear that I need (camera with a macro lens) my shots keep coming out wrong and I’ve since kind of given up on the idea altogether.
My entire life is one long succession of passionately started projects that got abandoned either midway or after heavy setbacks. If I ever find one that brings me lasting happiness, I’ll gladly share it, but for now I’m just as much on the lookout as you are.