Shell scripts to get keyboard and battery values. Run it on a schedule somehow. I like a GUI so I use ‘Run Shell Script’ in Automator and schedule them with a daily ‘custom script’ event in iCal.
I was recently given a 2015 i7 Macbook Pro, 16GB ram/500GB SSD, with a huge LCD leak covering almost the entire screen. A replacement screen is about £500 and a risky repair which may or may not work, plus I don’t need another laptop, so I decided to give it a whirl as an HA…