On 1/26/11, Danilo Bargen <gez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also thanks Antoni for your idea, looks interesting too. But I think I > just found another solution. As I'm using a Thinkpad laptop, I'll just > start flashing the Thinklight-LED[1]. Should be enough to draw my > attention to it :) The firmware on my Dell Vostro laptop flashes a battery-shaped icon with a lightning symbol red when I'm low on battery, and I've dried my battery almost nonetheless.
Now, I plug it into a renewable energy source, albeit indirectly, whenever I can and reserve my batteries for traveling. My firmware seems to continuously cycle electricity through a battery when plugged in, so I tend to store them on my elexhelf (below my entangled wire-forest).
