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Got two #dell precision 7510 laptops salvaged from destruction. They don't have batteries. Tried powering them with via PSU. The battery led flash amber and white, telling I am not using a genuine Dell PSU but the adapter is actually genuine. Anyone got an idea?

As part of this scramble, in February last year, the EU signed a $900 million deal with Rwanda “to nurture sustainable and resilient value chains for critical raw materials.” Ironically, Rwanda exports more minerals than it does from its own mines. The DRC, the United Nations, and international human rights groups say the bulk of minerals exported by Rwanda are plundered from eastern DRC. Coincidentally, in the immediate aftermath of this EU-Rwanda minerals supply deal, fighting resumed in eastern DRC, peaking in February this year when the Rwanda-backed M-23 rebel group seized control of vast swathes of the area in this mineral-rich part of the country. Rights groups say over 8,500 people have been killed in this attack. Even the EU Parliament has voted for the suspension of the minerals deal until Rwanda stops supporting the M-23 rebels, but the EU is not keen to do so, putting its own interests ahead of the rights of the citizens of the DRC, and human rights in general.
....DRC remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
english.almayadeen.net/article
#congo #drc #eu #europe #eupol #rwanda #apple #google #microsoft #Tesla #usa #imperialism #dell #HumanRights #sextrafficking #sexualabuse

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Now the best for last! The Arteck HB030B #Bluetooth #Keyboard.

This is a cheap keyboard that you can still find new. It has a chiclet design, is backlit & doesn’t compromise much on the layout other than messing a bit with the Alt, Ctrl and Windows key button arrangement.

Amazingly this Bluetooth 5.1 keyboard connects to all of my iPaqs (111, 210, HX2495, HX2795b) & my #Dell Axim X51V using Passkey 1234!

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This is the #Ipad Kensington Key Folio Pro K39357US.

This #Bluetooth chiclet #Keyboard is fantastic! It is sleek, responsive and feels modern. It also has a decent layout and doesn’t forget the right shift key like the previous Key Folio.

Once again it effortlessly connected to all of my iPaqs (111, 210, HX2495, HX2795b) and surprisingly also connected to my #Dell Axim X51V using Passkey 1234!

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First up is the Freedom Pro #Bluetooth #Keyboard.

This keyboard folds in half and has a slide out removable stand for your #PDA.

I didn’t like it. It was probably decent for the time but we can do much better these days.

Regardless, it easily connected to all of my iPaqs (111, 210, HX2495, HX2795b) and unfortunately refused to connect to any of my #Dell Axim X50 and X51 series.

After over a year since our move to Greece, we finally found back one of our laptops. This is a DELL Vostro V130, from 2010. The internal drive & the battery don't work anymore even if I replaced both 2 yrs ago (battery died again, while the hdd controller was actually dead).I was able to install Linux Mint 22.1 on an external USB stick, in BIOS mode. It works great. No reason to throw it away and create e-waste! It works just fine enough!

I've been having trouble with the display on my framework 13 laptop for the last couple of months so I decided today to give my nearly 8 year old Dell XPS 13 a go. If the battery life estimate is in anyway accurate I might end up sticking with it! Potentially an all-day battery machine.

this older #dell #xps 13 is absolutely stumping me

can boot to #uefi USB devices and install operating systems to disk no problem

cannot get it to ever boot from said disk, secure boot on or off, legacy boot on or off, nada. just endless "no bootable devices found." frustration grr.

Well thats a new on on me. My blogpost got obsoleted before I managed to finish writing it!

Last night I started writing a blogpost on how you get the #Broadcom 58200 fingerprint reader in a #Dell #Latitude 5450 working on #Ubuntu. Its taken me several hours over the last two weeks to piece this together at $DayJob, which has been very frustrating becaue it turns out the drivers are there, havng been uploaded to canonical's oem-maintainers launchpad (git.launchpad.net/libfprint-2-) in *June* last year, but never pacakged up. (And if you grab the source tree that was there, it didn't work without tweaking because several files are in the wrong place.)

This morning I go to finish the blog post off by grabbing the links to put at the bottom, and found that yesterday there was finally movement on that launchpad, and it looks like it will be packaged soon, *and* all the commits they've made prepping it broke all the instructions I had written. So boo. no blogpost for me.

On the plus side, the mailing list post about this finally got me the link I've been looking for to where Broadcom stage these drivers for Dell/Canonical; so rather than the full blog post, here are the instructions in five steps if you've got a Broadcom 58200, with usb ids of `0a5c:5864`, `0a5c:5865`, `0a5c:5866`, or `0a5c:5867` (And probably newer ones as well, as this package was last updated last week) and can't wait for the official packages!

1. `sudo apt install libfprint2-tod1`
2. Download and extract this, then cd into the extraction folder: packages.broadcom.com/artifact
3. run `sudo ./install.sh`
4. Try to run `fprintd-enroll`. It should hang, and then time out (this is it upgrading the firmware on the reader to the latest)
5. Leave it 5-10 mins so you're sure the firmware upgrade has completed, then run `fprind-enroll` again. It should this time successfully let you enroll your fingerprint.

(If you want to uninstall it, just run `sudo ./rm.sh from that same folder)

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