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It is Texas, turn off your Christmas decorations!
With the cold front we are currently undergoing, and the fact that it is supposed to continue for another two days, it is very much expected for the power grid to be under some very high demand for the next few days, but especially tonight. Considering that this is Texas, and the power grid can…
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Troubleshoot Surface pen tip and button not working, but Bluetooth and eraser work.
One of my Microsoft Surface pens (model 1710) started to exabit a strange behavior recently. It would connect fine to my Surface Book, and both the eraser and eraser button would work as intended, but both the tip and the side button would not provide any interactions. After doing some research, I was able to…
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New batteries for my laptops
This week I had to replace the batteries in two of my laptops. My MacBook battery was 8 years old, and my Surface Book battery was 7 years old. Both of them were swollen, especially the MacBook one. I bought the batteries from iFixit. Removing the MacBook battery was not too much trouble, because the…