• JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone
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      9 months ago

      I don’t know how old your Mac was, but I think system info does record battery details. If not a serial, it definitely reads the cycle count, so it may have been possible to cross reference that if you knew the cycle count previously, but of course, I don’t blame you for not making backups of all that information and cross referencing it, you should never need to do that in the first place.

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      9 months ago

      That’s odd. That’s really dumb for those third-party technicians to take that, as (aside from the damage to their reputation and simply not being a good person), it would probably be a degraded battery anyway. Being constantly plugged in is very bad for a battery.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafe
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      9 months ago

      Sounds like that shop may have gone out of business for a reason.