An almost perfect example of @pluralistic’s #Enshittification in action; financially-engineered holding companies with many “competing” brands inserting DRM into the batteries they make to give them an informational advantage in denying your warranty claim. And a missed opportunity to make the battery better by using that on-battery computing to rebalance the cells.
And if reverse engineering a fix wasn’t a felony in the US, this guy could publish a fix that helps consumers.