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❤️er of Platform Engineering, SRE, K8s, Golang, Observability and working with nice humans. Aussie living in the Netherlands.

  1. Setting the Critical Battery Action to 'Do Nothing' In Windows 7

    For some reason, Windows 7 does not allow setting the Critical Battery Action to Do Nothing. You may wish to use this if the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) in your laptop is reporting your battery charge level incorrectly. My poor old IBM ThinkPad T30 has this issue, so I want to force Windows not to power off the laptop when the battery is low. The tool we will be using that comes with...…