Post 1534704 by feld@bikeshed.party
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 (DIR) Post #1533008 by spacerog@mastodon.social
       2018-11-27T15:10:43Z
       
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       Theory: If you have a failed/ing battery on your MacBook Pro the OS won’t tell you. Obviously the OS knows, there are tons of sensors in these batteries, but Apple doesn’t want to tell the user the battery is bad because it’s not supposed to be user serviceable. So instead it just lets the machine degrade and randomly crash to force the user to bring it in. Unless you are like me and take your laptop apart because you think the SSD is failing only to find a battery balloon.
       
 (DIR) Post #1533040 by feld@bikeshed.party
       2018-11-27T15:44:44.970919Z
       
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       @spacerog the battery does tell you if it's failingimage.png
       
 (DIR) Post #1533066 by feld@bikeshed.party
       2018-11-27T15:46:10.863605Z
       
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       @spacerog there's also this little guyimage.png
       
 (DIR) Post #1533442 by sikkdays@mastodon.social
       2018-11-27T16:01:42Z
       
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       @feld I'm with @spacerog on this. There are many stories of MacBooks with trackpad problems that have nothing to do with software or the trackpad and everything to do with the (bad) expanding battery underneath. The OS was not notifying people, if I recall. Now let's switch to a world where you do rely on the OS to know the battery needs replacing. Is it telling us there is a problem because there is or because Apple would like some more $?
       
 (DIR) Post #1533443 by feld@bikeshed.party
       2018-11-27T16:03:32.353935Z
       
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       @sikkdays @spacerog if the battery is providing correct and stable voltage how is it supposed to know it is expanding?
       
 (DIR) Post #1533795 by tmy@pleroma.nethole.us
       2018-11-27T16:24:23.022904Z
       
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       @spacerog Then you discover that Apple used superglue to to affix the battery to the palmrest, so you can't just swap out the battery without breaking out the acetone or replacing half of the laptop.
       
 (DIR) Post #1534703 by sikkdays@mastodon.social
       2018-11-27T16:47:54Z
       
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       @feld @spacerog Fair enough. I'm sorry if it seemed argumentative. I'm just all about right to repair and Apple is clearly is against that.
       
 (DIR) Post #1534704 by feld@bikeshed.party
       2018-11-27T17:12:51.562012Z
       
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       @sikkdays @spacerog no worries.