Nothing lasts forever, including laptop batteries. But how do you know when your laptop's battery is ripe for a replacement? Easy: install the acpi package (sudo apt install acpi on Ubuntu and Linux Mint), run the acpi -V command, and check the line that looks something like this:

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Over the last days I have found it interesting to follow the thread on Reddit regarding the direction Laravel is heading. I am not using Laravel a lot myself, so I follow it rather from the perspective of general software – or even company – development. Simply seeing the fact that a lot of long-term users slowly...

The steps in this guide have generated A$1,139,000 in salary (updated 25th September, 2026), measured as the sum of the highest annual salaries friends and readers have reached after following along, where they were willing to attribute their success actions in here. If it works for you, email me so I can bump the...

A blog post in which I talk about quitting big tech and finding alternatives while trying to avoid misinformation