28 Oct
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2024
Spent an age cleaning 8 years of grime from my laptop. Consisted of scraping as much of the gunk off as possible with a bit of plastic. Then repeated vigorous rubbing with as much soapy water as a I dared risk. Couldn’t call it good as new, but it’s much less shameful.
29 Oct
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2024
New laptop battery arrived this afternoon and installation seemed to go ok. Huge novelty in having a charge over 24%. I did the fully charged plus a few hours then discharge as instructed but no clue if the laptop firmware is in any way calibrated by this of its a myth perpetuated by manufacturers to mess with us.
30 Oct
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2024
Spent the evening (while Mrs Basil was watching the football) trying to get Readeck and FreshRSS installed on my Digital Ocean VM. It’s late and I took some shortcuts but it all seems to be working. Have been using my laptop heavily since 5pm, it’s now 1am and the battery is at 24%. Magic.