u/Curious-Apartment379

context: i dual boot linux, but now my storage has run out for linux.

i was gonna use gparted to resize the partition but disk manager on windows isnt allowing me to shrink my disk size further than it is because my c drive has unmovable files. i looked it up and there is this tool called aomei that shrinks the partitions for you, but im hearing some mixed review on it for linux, so im not sure if its the best option rn.

and if im not supposed to go for aomei for something like this, then what else should i use, or is aomei just fine? other than that, if theres anything else i should look out for, then pls do tell, id really appreciate it.

i already tried defrag btw, it only gave me 2 more gb worth of space, idk why.

the battery stopped working. i had it plugged in, took it off for a bit and then it just turned off and wouldnt turn on even though it showed that the battery was full. last night while i turned if off for the night, the power daemon wouldnt shut down, so a stop j*b (lmaooo its banned here) ran for like 6 minutes. its happened before, multiple times so i didnt think much of it, usually happens when waybar gets buggy abt the battery percentage and its fixed by the time i reboot it or update. btw no such problem literally the previous day.

had claude help me out to figure out what was wrong, so i ran a couple commands in the terminal, like:

upower -i $(upower -e | grep BAT)

from which i got that got this info:

voltage-min-design:  11.58 V
voltage:              9.604 V

so with that we came to the conclusion that the battery was bad/dead and it had to be replaced. also looked at reddit and most ppl were saying the same thing. id been using it like a desktop for the entire day. then randomly i turned it off took the charger out and turned it on, and it turned on again. mind you, i tried this on multiple occasions throughout the day atp.

i ran the command again and got the voltage at 12v now.

theres been doing this thing for the past yr where it reports a certain percentage, but its not the actual percentage of the laptop, and when i take it off, the percentage rapidly goes down. my guess is that the battery is just degrading now. its also not a linux thing, cuz the same has happened to me on windows.

but nothing this bad. any help is greatly appreciated. laptop is 3 yrs old atp, if thats useful.

i dont have facebook, and ik ur acc needs to be at least 3 months old to joint PFC. none of my close family/friends use facebook either, so its rlly not a choice for me atm. feels like my options are kinda limited cuz of that, but there have to be others, anyone have any recommendations from where i can try stuff out?

new to this hobby, recently bought 2 decants from ohmyscents, but 2x2ml bottles cost me 1025 pkr. idk if thats expensive or nahh but i saw a discussion where ppl say they might be adding to their decants, so i wanna see if there's some better site/seller.