I'm having no problems with donating to OSS projects, yet what always prevents me from doing so is when such projects are not transparent where my donation money actually goes.
Yet, the average donations we receive are around 100 euros per month. A sum that doesn’t even cover server costs or the resources we use.
Well, I see no linked explanation where this money goes or why the server costs are so high, which is immediately a red flag for me.
Well the website (and the guy maintaing it) is pretty old. I think the blog posts reach back till Windows Vista. The guy itself wrote some books about Win95 so he has some experience.
The site is quite popular in Germany and the information is usually good summarized and helpful IMHO.
Anyway as always I recommend an adblocker when using the internet.
AFAIK a new battery + entering the Bitlocker recovery key fixed the problems.
Usually these batteries hold for years.
I have a 15+ year old laptop where I had to replace the battery after ~10 years.
However the affected laptops are now a few years old, aren't designed properly (I heard weird stuff happening like adding additional RAM somehow causes the display to fail) and somehow just have a CR2016 battery installed, not a bigger CR2032.
And yes these are buisness-laptops designed for companies -.-
Yes, multiple of our Windows laptops today couldn't boot and displayed a BitLocker error message and all affected laptops somehow had an empty BIOS battery...
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I also found out a few other things that have changed:
They now use Torx T5 screws
The backcover and battery are now fixed with these screws
The battery uses a dedicated connector
Parts of the backcover now require a pick
SIM/SD now sit at the bottom in a dedicated slot and don't require the removal of the backcover.
The volume buttons got replaced by the "moments" button and are now on the left
IMHO this is kind of a downgrade in repairability as you now need custom tools (not everyone has a T5 screwdriver at home).
Moving the volume buttons to the other side is also kind of weird and unexpected as most (non Apple) phones have them on the right...
In order to make the device more affordable, we explored how we could best balance our spec choices with the least possible impact on user experience. Going from USB-3 to USB-2 was one of them.
You just guessed my job lol