Beware of D06!
Don't mess with the swollen battery!
I'm pretty sure the battery is 2 lithium polymer cells and one of the 2 cells has gone bad - it's a serious fire hazard! That advice to disassemble it is completely wrong! If the pouch gets punctured and exposed to oxygen it will go up in flames as well as spewing toxic smoke. You also shouldn't dispose of it in the regular garbage.
You need to figure out how to get rid of hazardous waste in your area.
Is there some kind of vendor that sells old batteries that don't have much power in them? I was hoping to spend about $20. Maybe some sort of recycler.
What part of Canada are you in?
There are organizations that "recycle" donated electronics by getting old devices working and selling them at relatively low cost. One of them might have an old battery. Most run locally, or work through other organizations to get the devices to people who need them.
You might be able to get a used chromebook off marketplace or craigslist for cheaper than buying a new battery. You might even be able to find a similar model to get the battery. Or you might be able to move the ssd/hard drive over to the new one.
I only need enough juice to survive being unplugged for a few minutes without shutting down abruptly.
The laptop will probably run without a battery at all. Do you really need it to run while unplugged?
Is it possible to bypass the battery as a power source when plugged in so that they don't get swollen in the future? I would rather just leave devices plugged in all the time.
Computers should already do this. When the battery is fully charged they stop charging it and run directly off the ac power - unless of course something goes wrong and (for example) the battery stops reporting when it is fully charged. There might be a BIOS setting to bypass the battery completely, but it likely wouldn't charge it either. As far as I know this is outside the control of the OS though.
Is there a way to make the USB power more securely attached so it doesn't disconnect at the slightest movement? Super glue?
The port can probably be replaced by someone who knows how to solder. However, have you tried different usb cables to determine if it's the cable or port that is the problem? If it is the port then you might be able to gently squeeze the female port with pliers to make it tighter. Don't over-do it or you'll fold it closed completely. I wouldn't use super glue. At best it will scrape off and fall out, at worst you'll get it all over the contacts and that will make everything worse.
which are apparently made of multiple 18650 cells
That would totally depend on the model. 18650's would only be used in a laptop with a thick base. It could be another ~~you're off feel~~ cell type or it could easily be a lithium polymer pouch and disassembling it could result in a fire.
I wouldn't recommend doing this without knowing what you're doing.
This is too deep for me to fathom right now.
Bicycling across the Marine Parkway Bridge is common, but is actually forbidden by the MTA, which asks riders to dismount and walk. But Brickman said it's generally safer to bike than walk because of the number of cyclists and the narrowness of the pedestrian path.
Uh-huh, sounds about right.
It's frustrating that you have to go public to get these companies to do the right thing.
The number of "abandoned" bags I see piled up at Pearson is atrocious. And now they're punishing us by charging for carry-ons when they can't properly handle checked bags.
Not a first responder, but it's called compassion fatigue: https://www.cma.ca/physician-wellness-hub/content/compassion-fatigue-signs-symptoms-and-how-cope
Sounds like a fun work environment!
Sounds bad, but really isn't that much worse than typical HR, who will rat you out to the CEO in a heartbeat.
Nothing says "classy" like flying that flag.
Good L🍁ck Trudeau! (But also, don't let the door hit you on the way out...)
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26623355
A woman from Dunfermline has spoken of her shock after an Apple voice-to-text service mistakenly inserted a reference to sex - and an apparent insult - into a message left by a garage.
~The is what Mrs Littlejohn saw on the voicemail screen in the Phone app on her iPhone after receiving a voicemail from the garage.~
Both can be discussed. In fact many levels of this can be discussed, from the effect on individuals and families involved in the crash, the effect on the owners of the buildings, the effect on the airport, the city, the airline, the country.
Just because they're talking about the effects of a disaster like this on Air India, it doesn't take away from what happened to the individuals. It shows the massive reverberations of an event like this.
The airline still has individuals working for it whose livelihood is potentially affected. There are people making the planes that the airline is purchasing. It's people who live in India who are in mourning over the individuals who died but also shocked at the impact to a symbol of national pride.
If you're not ready to think about the people beyond those directly affected, that's fine. (I'm not being facetious. Everyone processes things in a different way. It's really okay.) But a story like this is inevitably going to be bigger than those individuals and people will talk about different aspects of it. If it wasn't that big, we probably wouldn't be hearing or talking about it at all at this point.