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  • Gorske claims that after getting his first car, the first place he went to was the McDonald’s on Military Road in his hometown of Fond du Lac on May 17, 1972.[4][5] He purchased and ate three Big Macs at lunchtime. He returned two more times to consume nine Big Macs the same day he discovered the burger. He further claims to have eaten 265 Big Macs the following month, an average of 8.5 Big Macs daily.

    Gorske had a single Burger King Whopper sandwich in 1984 and never ate one again. Gorske tried the Whopper after his friend bet him $5 to do so, later spending the winnings on Big Macs.

    That’s some brand loyalty.





  • tal@lemmy.todaytolinux4noobs@programming.devnew battery issues
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    Hmm. So the battery’s a factor then.

    I’m not specifically familiar with your specific hardware, but I’d try charging the laptop when it’s off.

    On PC laptops, my understanding is that normally, just the BIOS controls charging in that case, so that takes the OS out of the equation. If it’s not charging in that situation, then I doubt that the operating system is going to be able to change the situation; the battery management system (BMS) on your hardware doesn’t like the battery, for whatever reason. Dead, not actually the right model…shrugs Dunno.

    From a Linux standpoint, you can pull whatever information you can about the battery looking in the virtual files under /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0. If there’s no BAT entry, I’d guess that Linux can’t even see a battery, that the BMS is saying that there’s nothing there.

    EDIT: I was thinking that maybe if there was a ribbon cable connecting the battery to the rest of the system, maybe it wasn’t properly reconnected or something, but doing a really quick skim of this video replacing said battery:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DONdmtR6mug

    It looks like there is a ribbon cable, but it runs to a board containing the trackpad as well as the battery, and given that you haven’t said anything about the trackpad not working, I assume that it’s back in place.

    EDIT2: In that video, it looks like the old battery is glued to the battery board, and the guy has to use some “adhesive softener” to get it out. If you did the same, I assume that there is liable to be some goop floating around in there. I assume that there are some contacts between the battery connector and the battery board; mayhap it or something like that got on top of the battery contacts. You might consider trying to clean those if other things don’t work and the system can’t see the battery.

    EDIT3: Yeah, the top comment on that video is indeed someone who apparently didn’t get the ribbon cable all the way back in, and their keyboard wasn’t working.

    The first time I replaced the back cover and tried logging in I couldn’t type in my password. I followed Apple’s hints but they didn’t work so I took the cover back off again and refitted the flex cable. This time there was a satisfying little snap sound when I plugged it in at the logic board end and after that everything worked fine. Best to just put a couple of the screws back in the back cover and try logging in to make sure.

    If you’re not seeing that, I assume that the ribbon cable is properly connected.

    EDIT4: Oh, the batttery has a second cable that goes right to the battery. The other cable just had to come off because it obstructs removing the battery. Sorry, comes from just doing a quick skim. Might check that that cable is in all the way.


  • “It is indefensible that today that I’m canceling flights from Ireland to Italy, from Germany to Spain, from Portugal to Poland,” O’Leary said.

    The budget airline chief blamed the European Union, and specifically European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, for the situation.

    looks puzzled

    Is the European Commission responsible for mediating union disputes?

    The strike, which took place on Thursday and Friday, was over disputes between two unions and the French directorate general for civil aviation

    I mean, this sounds like it’s between the French government and French unions.










  • “It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!” Musk said Monday.

    If you just want a small-government party, there’s already the Libertarian Party.

    https://lp.org/platform-page/

    2.4 Government Finance and Spending

    Since all persons are entitled to keep the fruits of their labor, we oppose all government activity that consists of the forcible collection of money or goods from individuals in violation of their individual rights and strive for the eventual repeal of all taxation. To further that end, we call for the repeal of the income tax, the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service and all federal programs and services not required under the U.S. Constitution. We oppose forcing employers to serve as tax collectors. We support any initiative to reduce or abolish any tax, and oppose any increase on any tax for any reason. To the extent possible, we advocate that all public services be funded or allowed to be provided in a voluntary manner.

    2.5 Government Debt

    Government should not incur debt, which burdens future generations without their consent. We support the passage of a “Balanced Budget Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution, provided that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, and not by raising taxes.

    Don’t think they’d be onboard with your anti-trans thing, though.

    1.4 Personal Relationships

    Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government’s treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration, or military service laws. Government does not have the authority to define, promote, license, or restrict personal relationships, regardless of the number of participants. Consenting adults should be free to choose their own sexual practices and personal relationships. Until such time as the government stops its illegitimate practice of marriage licensing, such licenses must be granted to all consenting adults who apply.





  • If you can’t build a sufficiently-large coalition of voters internal to one of the Big Two parties, how is starting from scratch rather than doing internal realignments going to be any easier?

    The US electoral system will stabilize around two large, big-tent parties. If you start a new party, then you will need to convince enough people to join that party, which will kill off at least one existing Big Two party. The requirement to build the coalition of voters doesn’t go away. It’s just that now you’ve got extra tasks to deal with.

    Trump didn’t get his position by cleverly manipulating internal party mechanisms in the GOP. He got it by going out and selling voters on Trump. Someone else can do that too.