Triela Tinkering

A bit ago, I remembered that I had stuffed a hard drive caddy for Triela into my wish list and decided to get it to increase the storage space on Triela (Windows needing it more than Manjaro though).

Not really too much to write about, though Triela was extremely confused when I had the SSD and her original drive, since both had a boot flag, so I had to use a different drive, though it gave me the entirety of 500GB, since I wouldn't be stuck with the original partition scheme.

She still gets a bit confused on boot, even though the storage drive doesn't have a boot flag, but it's usually remedied by a hard reset or two. I played with the boot order earlier today and found the other drive, so maybe that might help? Too early to tell, sadly.

I think it was a couple or so weeks ago when the stock battery died completely... I was just doing my thing, and all of a sudden, Triela turns off without any warning. I found the battery to be really hot, so I removed it and set it aside while I turned her back on.

I knew the battery wasn't doing well, since I had lost about 60% of the original capacity, but I guess the combination of things that I had done when I used her last was the nail in the coffin.

That time that I speak of is when I used Triela to print off some stationary with the old Scan/Fax/Copy machine that I was able to get my parents because it was supposedly broken (I found the problem and fixed it). Anyway, I spent a lot more time than I needed to while on battery because CUPS didn't have any Brother drivers, but I was still able to print just fine without Manjaro shutting Triela down because of a low battery.

It's not that I ran the battery somewhat close, it's the fact that I didn't bother to plug Triela in after that. For the amount of time that I left her unplugged before I used her again, I'm sure the battery was too deeply discharged to charge again, thus what happened.

As the battery cooled down in my room, it left a smell, so I knew it was shot. Luckily there's a recycle box at work, so I just took it with me the next morning and deposited it in there.

I used Triela for a few weeks until recently when I decided to order the cheaper of the replacement batteries I found.

Though I wasn't too consciously familiar with Triela's stock battery weight, I still noticed a slight difference, since the new battery has 6 cells while the original had 5 (I did a bit of calculating because a reviewer said taht the replacement battery holds a longer charge than their original... Duh!).

The new battery came with 60% charge and said to utilise the charge until 7% before putting it on the charger; doing this a couple times to "exercise" the battery. I booted Triela into Manjaro and was somewhat awestruck (for lack of a better word) that I had about an hour and fifteen minutes with 60% charge.

I used her again earlier today (as I  previously stated) to get into Windows for a log in event for the game I play, having to download about 600Mb of patches along with a new launcher (that failed to install correctly the first time...). I think I shut Triela down at about 20% battery, which isn't bad from what I'm used to.

From now on though, I'll definitely take better care of the battery instead of just utilising it when it's not convenient to stay plugged in. Unless I replace the storage drive with an SSD, there's really nothing more I can do to Triela to make her better.