Anyone knows how to update the UEFI firmware of a Surface 2 (RT) when the Internal battery is already dead? Battery shows as "not installed" or "0%, not charging"

It's a known issue on UEFI firmwares prior to v4.22.500 that the battery will not charge if deeply discharged.

Problem is, to install the UEFI firmware update the battery has to be at least 40% charged.

I have tried all the "unplug, hold power button for 20 seconds, plug in" and "Go to Device Manager, Uninstall "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery" voodoo you read about on forums to no avail. The battery don't charge.

I was greeted with a large prompt in the Bitwarden browser extension to upgrade to Premium.

Here's the thing Bitwarden, for years *I paid for Premium*. I was happy to support a quality open source product. Then you took the VC money, the enshittification started, and I decided to vote with my wallet and stop paying for Premium.

You nerfed the information dense extension for something with 150% more whitespace, and ignored the community feedback asking for the old UI back.

You don't seem to understand that some local network devices don't even support HTTPS so "jUsT gEnErAtE aN aCmE cErTiFiCaTe ItS eAsY" doesn't apply.

To top it all off, you decided to replace QA with vibes, or something? The fact that this regression made it into a production release is just astounding.

$997 for an 8 year old quad core CPU?
$2249 for an 8 core embedded Xeon? That benchmarks at ~55% of an EPYC 3151 board you can buy for 60 Euros? I would compare it to Ryzen but then it's even more laughably obsolete (and Ryzen doesn't support Reg ECC). A Ryzen 5 5600 is over 4x faster than the C3758.

These boards are so ancient they don't even have USB 3.0!

Their Antsle one XD is even worse, shipping with a Xeon-D CPU from 2015.

Antsle, seriously? You're polishing e-waste at this point.

800W laptop chargers?! I am going to need some pictures of those bricks, for science.

I would love to see some references from the author of this piece on how they came to comparing 800W to charging a laptop (or a fridge, for that matter): https://grist.org/buildings/how-germany-outfitted-half-a-million-balconies-with-solar-panels/

These analogies are completely nonsensical.

@brave it appears that Google now considers Brave browser insecure and blocks logging in.

This is definitely not abuse of Google's market position. Nope.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7675428?hl=en

@hetzner Small error on your GEX server matrix [1]: GEX44 is listed as having 64GB DDR4 ECC (it doesn't).

On the GEX44 product details page [2], it is correctly specified as having 64GB non-ECC.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/de/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-gpu/

[2] https://www.hetzner.com/de/dedicated-rootserver/gex44/

Some countries understand the digital age, and then there's Germany.

I'm sorry, you wanted to collect your package today? Yes, we understand you are standing in front of the package locker, but first you must wait several days for us to mail you a piece of dead tree.

I also want to give a shout-out to WatchGuard for publishing actual hardware specifications for their devices instead of being like most vendors and just saying nebulous things like "supports up to 200 clients and up to 450Mbit VPN"

https://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/help-center/en-US/Content/en-US/Hardware-Guides/firebox-t20-hardware-guide.html

https://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/help-center/en-US/Content/en-US/Hardware-Guides/firebox-t40-hardware-guide.html

https://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/help-center/en-US/Content/en-US/Hardware-Guides/firebox-t80-hardware-guide.html