If you're still under warranty, I’d say just file a claim. OEM laptop batteries have always been pricey, and picking up a replacement for maybe $30 feels like one of those cheap fixes that might not actually last. Honestly, it feels more like a calibration issue on your end rather than what you described. Here’s how you can try calibrating the battery: https://www.howtogeek.com/172271/how...ife-estimates/
Jack Jones3 said:It’s sluggish regardless of whether it’s running in a VM or not. Do you actually think a full reinstall would be worth the effort?
Honestly, I’d rather just ditch that clunky version of Ubuntu and move to something else entirely. I jump between openSUSE, Fedora, and MX Linux, and my laptop with 8 GB of RAM and no swap partition handles everything just fine.
I'm not entirely sure if a thread like this already exists—one dedicated to black comedies, that specific subgenre where comedy, thriller, horror, and drama collide through farce and morbid humor. 😁
I figured I'd kick things off with an excellent film called The Perfect Host:
After robbing a bank of $300,000 to cover his partner's medical bills, John happens to cross paths with Warwick, a total psychopath, played by the brilliant David Hyde Pierce, who many of us remember as Niles from the series Frasier.
That’s easily the most intense scene in the whole movie, though it's a shame they didn't show what happened right after she took out the other two, especially given how little the second victim was wearing 😁:
I’d highly recommend Neven Kapun; he’s a true professional through and through. Even in private practice, you run into those bad ones like the folks at your Mercury clinic—for instance, that incredibly condescending woman over at Sunfory who couldn't care less about her patients.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1987), a spy thriller where American agent Kevin Costner goes head-to-head with a corrupt Gene Hackman over the murder of a mutual acquaintance:
Blowup (1966) is an erotic thriller where a photographer accidentally captures a murder on film, starring Dustin Hoffman, who we also know from his work in Deep Red. For its time, the movie was pretty scandalous with all the nudity 😁 (featuring Veruschka, Meryl Streep, and Audrey Hepburn) and the drug-fueled parties, all set to a hard rock soundtrack featuring Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, who end up smashing a broken speaker in a fit of rage 😬. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowup
I'm kicking things off with a 1965 classic, The Manchurian Candidate, which serves as the introduction to the series featuring James Bond, played by Al Pacino in five of the six films within this genre.