Henry <[email protected]> writes: > My battery has been overcharging and has begun to bloat. This is on > an HP Pavilion laptop 15au123cl running NetBSD 10.1.
First, you need to remove the battery from the laptop and the building, right now, and take it to recycling soon. That's dangerous. > Apparently there is a way to limit the battery charge level in > something called "Adaptive Battery Optimizer" in the "UEFI Firmware > Settings", but the only way I have found to access this is via > Windows, which I cannot go back to since I wiped the disk to put on > NetBSD. > > I would be grateful if someone has pointers on how to limit the > battery charge level on this laptop. That would be interesting to know about in order to protect your replacement battery....
