promitheas

I think it might be for the older models, I'll check the manual for it.

I tried updating the BIOS but you need a battery with at least 25% charge plugged in as well as the AC adapter for it to let you even begin the update process (actually an amazing safety feature). Since mine has 0% I cant do that xD

I assume you have tried the BIOS reset procedure? I think it’s holding FN + S + V while the system is powered off.

Is this the same as what @Evv1L@mastodon.ml mentioned?

Also there is a reset button in the bottom of the laptop near ThinkEngine controller: Power off the laptop, disconnect both batteries and CMOS and hold reset button for a minute.

If yes I'm going to try it now and get back to you

EDIT: I tried the Fn + S + V but wasn't sure if I need to do it while batteries are disconnected, or if I needed to hold it for the full 1 minute, so I held it down for about 20 seconds with the battery plugged in. Didn't seem to fix it.

As for the BIOS, some stuff I read in forum posts etc leads me to think that the the check isn't actually in the BIOS but in the EC chip, so replacing the BIOS wouldn't do much. Is this truly the case, or does a replacement BIOS also circumvent the EC check? Many thanks for your help.

@promitheas Never heard about battery whitelists. What BIOS version do you have?

$ dmidecode -s bios-version
N24ET72W (1.47 )

Also there is a reset button in the bottom of the laptop near ThinkEngine controller: Power off the laptop, disconnect both batteries and CMOS and hold reset button for a minute.

Will try this now and update this comment once I'm done

EDIT: I tried that but it doesn't seem to work. Note that I don't seem to have the internal battery, just its cover. After setting the date and time correctly in the BIOS it boots but still shows the message about the battery not being genuine.

I just tried it by commenting that line out in the config and running in a terminal the following:

bspc config -m HDMI-A-1 bottom_padding XX

where XX are different values I played around with. I tried 20, 1 and 3. They seem to get set correctly. 3 is the value I had in my config. I'm thinking it might be something like a race between bspwm restarting itself and running the command in the config file (config files are basically just commands to the WM). I'll try moving that part of the config further down in the config so hopefully it has a chance to set its default values on restart and after that set my values.

Ive tried commenting out those lines, but Ill give it a shot again and see what happens

I like how you assume they wouldn't be our overlords :D

I poked around in its settings and it seems to have that feature

I set it as my default search engine on my mobile, and will check it out for some time before committing to all my devices

Ill check startpage out! Also an interesting blog post regarding kagi. Ive never used it in the past, but now i definitely wouldnt ever even consider it.