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I have got three (3 !) #olympus #digital-camera (all 7 - 10 years old)
one doesn't work any more - the „tough model - haha !... I use it as a loading station for the batteries

always getting on my nerves that every single model has another #USB conection cable

after some 15 years the #EU at last decided some standarrdization of this cable mess
15 years - hurray !! (don't mentiion #transaktionssteuer #transaction-tax - perhaps in 1200 years ?)

now I wanted to reload these batteries (also especially designed flatt batteries for Olympus) via USB

didn' t work properly - not on the broken one nor on the other #camera s nor with other batteries
so trying to do it via my #laptop
BANG ... or just .... nothing - laptop dead/destroyed

by chance the laptop only served as „ersatz“ - I got my data back-upped from the pc... but anyway...
as some guys recommended me a cheap laptop due to the endless ... sorry .... shit installing cups in #linux
https://despora.de/posts/c81947b09f60013b806a543d7eeced27
I had one ordered.

so I put out the hard disk from the dead laptop and installed it in the HP Windows laptop

(funny: did t find the hard disk in the HP ... no 2,5 inch hard disk - just a tiny SSD one ... how small they are nowadays... I know: I am getting old ;)

after some trying in the BIOS I managed to get #Ubuntu started in the HP notebook in secure mode and could rescue my data...
I 'll install linux mint now (and buy another monitor from #lapstore (also broken...) - don't rely on #ixsoft any more...)

and what should I do with the cameras now ? did these old, flat Olympus batteries kill the mainboard or the USB cable

I only found pages on internet about a USB kill switch for #jornalists and #whistleblowers wjen the police storms ths house...
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/buskill-kill-cord-self-destruct-laptop/?guccounter=1
or was it a bad USB cable ? but I had three of them (every Olympus model another one LOL)
https://gizmodo.com/cheap-usb-c-cables-could-kill-your-phone-or-laptop-1757115350