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Offtopic but I couldn't help it... It looks like they're still running win xp! I suppose the pc is air gapped yeah..

The law that regulates elections in Greece is flawed (IMO). It assigns the percentages of small parties to the first one, to help it achieve majority in Parliament and be able to g…

So can anyone propose a sane way to check devices for vulnerability? Obviously one can disable NetUSB in the web interface, but that may not be enough. Nmaping port 20005 is not ac…

Why not run DD-WRT? It is frequently buggy (performance wise) but should be fixable.

Yes this is not real battery care-taking. Ubuntu does it by default like that (I guess linux kernel in general). Although the low and high thresholds (97 and 100% resp.) are adjust…

You're right. Someone should have done it in each OS. In linux it's just a matter of echo-ing a few numbers to the write "files". I just made a script to do it, see my other commen…

Sure, but do you know what cells these batteries use? They're usually cheap chinese ones, of less than half the rated capacity. A proper replacement will cost much more. I did go m…

Isn't battery warranties usually 1-year long? A device would have minimum 2-year warranty in Europe so you can find yourself in the middle...

They're not well tested but seem to work. Let me know if you have improvement suggestions that are easy to do. Chris

Wrote a small script to easily put my Thinkpad battery to storage mode (50-70% SOC) and back to full charge: https://gist.github.com/cmavr8/204132a008d4ebabce94 Also one (lame) for…