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   voxel (voxel@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 11:44:20 JST voxel

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   ifixit sent me an entire new replacement kit, with another battery. And once again the adhesive remover bottle is empty. Feels like a bad joke at this point. Do people huff this stuff, is someone stealing it? Is it evaporating while sitting in storage for years? Gah

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     voxel (voxel@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 11:44:23 JST voxel

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     replacement battery from ifixit got here really fast... so fast that the bottle of adhesive remover leaked all over the contents of the kit and now I've got no adhesive remover to unglue the previous battery, and a suspect replacement battery that might be chemically damaged (looks fine though) :sadlinux:

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     voxel (voxel@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 11:44:26 JST voxel

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     Ordered a battery, thank you council of ghosts who live in my mastodon feed

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     voxel (voxel@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 11:44:28 JST voxel

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     and I'm wondering if it's more wasteful of money and e-waste to enter a cycle of annual battery replacements than to try and find a new long-lasting laptop. It's not an option to always use the laptop tethered to mains power, so I do need a working battery ?

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     voxel (voxel@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 11:44:29 JST voxel

     Apple-taint aside, my 2012 MacbookProRetina is still mostly going strong. The monitor glass glue is slowly disintegrating and the built in SD card reader is toast. But the main issue is the battery, which randomly drops below minimum voltage and turns off the laptop. So I'm considering a replacement battery, but a lot of the reviews suggest the replacements are good for a year or two at best,