A bit more.

diff --git a/blog/data/2015-09-24-laptop-battery.txt b/blog/data/2015-09-24-laptop-battery.txt
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@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ Title: The life and death of a laptop battery
 Tags: english, debian
 Date: 2015-09-24 20:00
 
-<p>When I get a new laptop, the battery life time of the lap top at
-the start is OK.  But this do not last.  I got a feeling that within a
-year, the life time is just a fraction of what it used to be, and it
-slowly become painful to use the laptop without power connected to it.
-Because of this, when I got a new Thinkpad X230 laptop almost two
-years ago, I decided to monitor its state to have more hard facts when
-the battery started to fail.</p>
+<p>When I get a new laptop, the battery life time at the start is OK.
+But this do not last.  The last few laptops gave me a feeling that
+within a year, the life time is just a fraction of what it used to be,
+and it slowly become painful to use the laptop without power connected
+all the time.  Because of this, when I got a new Thinkpad X230 laptop
+about two years ago, I decided to monitor its battery state to have
+more hard facts when the battery started to fail.</p>
 
 <img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-24-laptop-battery-graph.png"/>
 
@@ -109,9 +109,13 @@ like Tesla where rights to privacy is abandoned, but that is another
 story), which I guess is the option we should have for laptops on
 Linux too.</p>
 
-<p>Is there a way with Linux to tell the battery to stop charging at
-80%, unless requested to charge to 100% once in preparation for a
-longer trip?</p>
+<p>Is there a good and generic way with Linux to tell the battery to
+stop charging at 80%, unless requested to charge to 100% once in
+preparation for a longer trip?  I found
+<a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/34452/how-can-i-limit-battery-charging-to-80-capacity">one
+recipe on askubuntu for Ubuntu to limit charging on Thinkpad to
+80%</a>, but could not get it to work (kernel module refused to
+load).</p>
 
 <p>I wonder why the battery capacity was reported to be more than 100%
 at the start.  I also wonder why the "full capacity" increases some