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3·2 hours agoThe War Zone also has coverage:
https://www.twz.com/news-features/houthis-launch-first-red-sea-attack-on-shipping-since-december
3·3 hours agoThere’s a similar, open-source game, Luanti (until recently, known as Minetest). It doesn’t have as many mods in 2025 as Minecraft does, but you might also enjoy it.
3·3 hours agoGorske 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.
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.
Did the laptop charge when the old battery was present?
2·5 hours agoI remember Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor being some of the earliest commercial games with native Linux ports. Probably a lot harder to get the native port running on current Linux distros than the Windows release, unfortunately…
6·7 hours agoIIRC, silica gel beads enlarge when they absorb water.
3·8 hours agoThey apparently have some temporary desalination stuff in place now to bridge the gap, dunno what it’s using.
The planned permanent plant apparently uses reverse osmosis (which, at least last time I looked, was much more widely used than distillation).
https://greencape.co.za/library/paarden-eiland-desalination-plant/
Jun 1, 2025 The planned permanent Paarden Eiland plant will be a 70 Ml/day seawater desalination plant with a multi-barrier process that will include pre-screening, dissolved air flotation, rapid gravity sand filtration, reverse osmosis, a potential advanced oxidation process, a disinfection step, stabilisation of the water, and safe brine disposal.
6·10 hours agoContext: Water Temple theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
122·24 hours agoElon Musk owns “only” 20% of Tesla
I don’t think it’s that high.
kagis
12.8%.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/052616/top-4-tesla-shareholders-tsla.asp
CEO Elon Musk is the largest shareholder, with 12.8% of the company’s equity as of Feb. 28, 2025.
Yeah, isn’t loading at the moment here either.
hits archive.org
92·1 day ago“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.
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.
9·1 day agoMe neither, but that just provides us with an objective look at what’s clearly best, free of encumbering sentiment.
I like the Bermudian idea of using flora and fauna to capture a country’s distinctive identity. A shift like this would show that we’re not trapped in tradition.
Exactly. A spectral lion, dragon, and unicorn in the background. In the foreground, a bulldog wearing mirrored steampunk goggles on a surfboard doing an aerial off a cresting wave with a fancy caption beneath him reading “Britannia rules the waves!” The mirrored goggle lenses are where the shiny anti-counterfeiting hologram goes.
Also, get Jessica Borutski to do the draft. She did a Canada logo a while back.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/fe8755cc-eb0c-4f0d-9ead-8dee2cc5c33e.jpeg
Are you looking for specific values in some field in this table, or substrings in that field?
If specific values, I’d probably import the CSV file into a database with an column indexed on the value you care about.
Cape Town apparently decided to use desalination.
Permanent desalination is planned because seawater is available all the time, whether it rains or not, so it’s more reliable than any other water source. About 97% of water on Earth is in our oceans. We can make use of this huge resource through the process of desalination, which makes it drinkable and usable for us. Although desalination is the most expensive supply option and there are environmental issues that need to be well-managed (such as the salty ‘brine’ it produces as a waste product), it is an important part of the diversified water supply ‘mix’ going forward.
Says they start construction in 2026 and expect production starting in 2030.
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.
I don’t know, but this appears to be the floation product in question:
9·2 days agoBuild on two lots instead and add a multistory parking garage on the third?
kagis
https://docs.luanti.org/for-players/controls/